They were being destroyed in the 1990's
And fair enough when it comes to government competency. As a former CAF guy who periodically worked with other departments, I can fully get behind your statement of governments just trying to survive until the next election.
We've both witnessed it and experienced it live.
This WEF phenomenon is different though...or I have a hunch it is, anyway...
Having our Deputy PM sit on their board of directors doesn't make me feel any better about it...
Introducing a carbon tax that everybody (even economists) was opposed to...on Canada Day? I don't feel that was an accidentally slip that was only noticed afterwards...
Invoking the Emergencies Act? Discussed at length elsewhere, I know...but standing down only a day before it was up for judicial review comes across like they knew it wouldn't pass muster...
The payment of hundreds of millions of dollars for various media outlets to bail them out? And their subsequent relative silence when important bills get pushed through, such as internet censorship legislation?
Their lack of in depth coverage of various local to Canada situations is scary...
The abuse of FINTRAC under the guise of the Emergencies Act to freeze people's bank accounts?
The PM reserving the right to pick the person who will investigate him? And...surprise...he did nothing wrong!!
Adding a trillion dollars to the national debt, essentially doubling it?
We are more taxed now than at any other time in recent memory, yet somehow the government blew through all of that money and
still had to borrow a
trillion dollars ontop of it...
What do we have to show for it as a country?
The recent hiring freeze of any new judges, at a time when crime is on the ride.
The introduction of MAID availability to people who aren't terminally ill...
Shutting down Parliamentary Committees specifically set up to look into questionable government decisions or practices?
Firing the Attorney General for doing her job and telling you not to break the law to help your buddies who broke the law...
Sure. Government tends to be incompetent.
And you are right, most of the time they are doing everything they can to avoid trouble and make it to the next election - no argument there
But the stuff I listed above is a fraction of what we've witnessed or experienced since Trudeau took office, that we didn't witness or experience before he took office...
And he's given me absolutely zero reason after 8 years of this nonsense to believe that he intends on cleaning up his act anytime soon
My 2 cents anyway