"Mr. Trudeau surely meant every word of his platform".
Hopefully, the author was being sarcastic. The budget/deficits promise was a blatant lie.  FPTP was also a lie. You can't look at either either of them any other way and they were both the most important underpinnings of his campaign. On the environment - he maintained the Harper emission targets - targets that he said were embarrassing to Canada on the world stage. That's at least a fib - but one that we should be happy with. And it goes on and on. I've been around a long time and I've never - NEVER - seen a government break or neglect so many promises.  As Andrew Coyne said - it's not the LIberals fault for breaking their promises - it's yours for ever believing them!