Tom Mulcair: Team Trudeau is getting set for a spring election From gun control to languages, the Liberals have been checking the boxes on unfulfilled promises and making new ones on the pandemic front. Author of the article: Tom Mulcair • Special to Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Feb 23, 2021 • February 23, 2021 • 3 minute read • Economic Development and Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly looks on as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Friday, October 2, 2020. The policy paper on official languages that Joly presented last week "had a little something for everyone," Tom Mulcair writes. Photo by Adrian Wyld /The Canadian Press