Canada IS broken, but I have to respectfully but violently disagree with you on who's fault it is.
It is 100% the Liberal's fault. (In my opinion, anyway...)
I'm of two schools of thought.
First one is Canada isn't broken, because Canada is still one of the best countries on the planet and people of all backgrounds want to come here.
Second school of though it maybe Canada is facing enough problems to be considered broken, but in that case, which G7, G20 nation isn't broken?
France has a ballooning debt and a deadlocked parliament, the UK is stuck in a zero growth cycle that is struggling in a post Brexit world, Italy has a massive debt burden and shirking population with an exodus of young people, German economic model is getting slammed by higher energy costs due to cheap Russian oil a gas exiting their system, Japan is politically unstable with a massively older population, rock bottom birth rates, and a debt burden that makes Canada look like a rock star and then you have the USA, the bastion of chaos as it undergoes yet another political realignment, while suffering from ever increasing debt burdens that neither party cares to deal with.
So either Canada is broken and everyone is broken, or Canada isn't broken.
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The Liberal government has been at the helm for the past 10 years. I have a hard time blaming anybody but them for our current troubles - although I will lump the NDP in with them.
I feel like Canada has been struggling from before 2015.
Getting rid of a points based and merit based immigration system in favour of mass unvetted immigration was their idea. The citizenry certainly didn't get a say.
We still have the points and merit based immigration system. It was all the other sources of immigration that went haywire. But again, and I find this hilarious, Trudeau accused Harper of drastically increasing the levels of TFW and Trudeau was right. He just went and increased it more. Both parties seem beholden of corporate interests. How many articles do we see come out every time the government throttles down immigration? I see many. Corporate news media does not side with ordinary Canadians and for every article we see that comes out begging for more TFW, there are probably 10 lobbyists behind the scenes begging for the same thing.
They've made it near impossible for kids born in Canada to get entry level jobs in Canada because a lot of those businesses prefer to hire temporary foreign workers for less money instead. The citizenry certainly weren't asked if they wanted their immigration policies changed.
Absolutely agree. But if you think that's a LPC thing only, check what provincial conservative governments are up to.
They promised the most transparent government in Canadian history, and then became anything but once in power.
Agreed. It's almost as if politicians lie.
They even prorogued Parliament because the House of Commons was ground to a halt until the Liberals handed over documents to the RCMP - which they were so reluctant to do they actually chose to prorogue parliament instead.
(I know Lumber explained the whole thing, twice - and Lumber I absolutely DO believe that the general bsckgrounder to what you said was probably accurate. But the RCMP wouldn't have been involved and requesting documents if there was nothing to see there, especially if those funds go out annually.)
I believe the RCMP were not asking. It was parliament that voted to give it to the RCMP.
There was some kind of fishy business going on there, the police wouldn't have gotten involved if there wasn't.
Police investigations rarely need parliament butting in and hijacking their investigations.
And if there truly wasn't anything fishy happening, a simple explanation from the responsible Cabinet member or senior beaurucrat probably would have sufficed & it wouldn't have hit the news in the first place.
(That's what my gut tells me anyway, maybe I'm wrong...)
I think the LPC tried to explain this multiple times, but they were so unpopular that nobody cared.
Anyways moving on...
They've corrupted the corporate media with their media subsidies to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Without subsides corporate media in this country was on the fast track to bankruptcy. Is that any better? Because if the government didn't subsidize the media...the only media left would be the CBC.
How critical is the media really going to be when it's the government essentially paying them their paycheques & their bonuses?)
What would your alternative to corporate media going bankrupt be?
(Don't even get me started on the CBC and their bulls**t...)
Ironically, the only media that would be left around if the government didn't bail out the media industry.
They've doubled the national debt to the point where our interest payments on our debt are now larger than provincial health transfers.
Absolutely. I do feel like COVID had something to do with that however.
And the scary thing is they are spending
even more now than they did under Trudeau...
And on what, exactly?
Defense spending for one. Are we complaining about that?
Whatever it is they are spending all this money on, is it worth having interest payments larger than our provincial health transfers?
If it's on defense spending? Ya. Absolutely.
When does the line on the government spending graph start to move downwards? Or does it ever?
Even when Trudeau did this, people didn't care.
When does that line intersect with the 'not sustainable' line on the graph?
We should ask France...or Italy...or Japan...
(At this rate, it can't even start to go downwards until there is a fundamental shift in government. The government can't treat a capitalist economy as if it's a socialist economy & expect great results. They also can't expect to tax the hell out of Canadians forever if they do everything they can to limit & destroy Canadian industries/jobs)
Probably why Carney was elected and Trudeau stepped down.
41k job losses JUST IN JULY ALONE...
Employment fell by 41,000 (-0.2%) in July and the employment rate declined 0.2 percentage points to 60.7%. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.9%.
www150.statcan.gc.ca
80k+ jobs created the month before though. Were you praising the government then? Fact is, month per month job numbers will fluctuate, better to look at quarterly to try to see the big picture
I could literally go on with another half dozen examples just off the top of my head, and that's without really even thinking about it.
The subsidy-funded going on & on because the US has put tariffs on the whopping 6% of our trade with them that isn't covered under CUSMA (NAFTA 2.0) while totally ignoring the very justified reason for those tariffs is another example of how the LPC has broken Canada.
Which reason? Fentanyl flooding across the border? Illegal immigration? Both proven to be non issues? Those reasons?
Or should we take a deal like the EU and allow 15 percent tariffs across the board as opposed to 0 on CUSMA compliant trade and 35 on non CUSMA compliant trade. Or a 10 percent across the board like the UK?
Under the current no deal environment we have the SECOND smallest tariffs numbers in the entire world versus the USA. I think we get beaten by Mexico. Why sign a deal like the UK or EU when we can just continue to use CUSMA?
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$10 a day daycare? $10 a day daycare at the same time they are allowing mass unvetted immigration into the country? I mean come on people...
I fail to see a correlation. Can you elaborate?
How about free or partially covered dental care for all? (Well, only for those of you peasants who make less than 6-figures a year...which is the vast majority of us)
And for those without a plan provided by their employer.
Believe me, I need some serious dental work these days. I got kicked in the jaw a while back which cracked a few teeth, that have subsequently & painfully since come out. I'm working on it. My point here is I could absolutely use the free dental care if I didn't have a plan through work - but even if I didn't, I wouldn't want the country to go into even more debt to pay for it. Especially at a time when the country is broke
I'm sorry to hear that. Sounds painful.
I lump dental care under healthcare. Most countries provide some sort of pharmacare or dental care. People shouldn't need to decide between food and dental work.
Sorry Halifax!! The above rant isn't aimed at you!!
All that just to say "I respectfully disagree..."
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I suppose I also respectfully disagree.
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