Increasing taxes on the rich and redistributing it to the lowest income earners is a leftwing program.
Eliminating red tape and shrinking bureaucracy by amalgamating different benefits into a single benefit sounds like a rightwing program. Or maybe the former part of that sentence is right and the latter is moderate.
Perhaps it could be some combination of the two approaches. Reducing government bureaucracy often means reducing staff, and while I support elimination of piecemeal programs in favor of a single, well-run program, this would have an effect on employment at both Federal and Provincial levels, and a fight with unions as well as conservatives. For that reason, I think whatever is coming is unlikely to be a true solution, but yet another ill-conceived plan that throws money at a problem rather than actually solve it.
This is not a swipe at Trudeau or leftists. Few governments of any ideology seem able to implement effective poverty reduction plans, as they're always torn between doing less to please some folks and doing more to please other folks.
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