One of the things I stress when I teach about our government is that, if you look in the Constitution, you will find that the president doesn't have a whole lot of actual power. Any time a politician tells you what they're going to do when they get elected is, by its very nature, a bunch of B.S. - nobody has unilateral power to enact legislation. The only thing politicians have the power to do (regardless of party affiliation) is to make a bunch of promises that they don't have the ability to keep. I suspect the same is true in Canada and most places around the world.
