Instead, the time was used to spend too much money in consumption and too little time in tackling reforms".
Journalists pressed him for details and timelines for implementing campaign promises, including launching an inquiry into Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women and tackling reforms to Canada's scandal-plagued Senate.
While frustrations grow about his ability to solve these issues, he spent his first year tackling reforms to fix the public school system and bringing more competition to the telecommunications industry.
Some argue that as a socialist, Mr. Zapatero is in a better position to tackle reform than are the conservatives.
Goran Svilanovic, foreign minister of Yugoslavia (which comprises both Serbia and tiny, disaffected Montenegro), laments that the government has been unable to tackle reform because it has been "overwhelmed" by unexpected problems.
Neither side seems ready to tackle reform of Italy's overgenerous pension system, which would be necessary to finance any big changes to tax and spending.On foreign policy, the tones of the two coalitions' views are certainly different, the content less so.
However, a new generation of UK activists are looking to Europe's grass-roots cannabis social clubs for ways to tackle reform at home.
However, a new generation of UK activists are looking to Europe's grassroots (har har) cannabis social clubs for ways to tackle reform at home.
It remains to be seen how aggressively, and how fast, the government tackles reforms.So far the signs are of caution.
On the other hand, if Washington would now move aggressively to claw back these ill-gotten bonuses, the public would also place increased trust in Washington to tackle reforms such as health care.
