Average Canadians find it increasingly difficult to just to put food on the table. Pictured: Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Photo Credit: Chrystia Freeland/X.
In recent months there have been many questions raised by average Canadians on social media, in the mainstream media and elsewhere asking if Canada is irreparably lost. People are understandably dismayed by the depressing economic news that shows our GDP per capita – an accurate gauge of our standard of living – has been declining for years under the Trudeau government’s destructive economic policies. Other economic indicators – labour force data, productivity numbers, foreign and domestic investment, divisive government policies that pit one group of Canadians against another for partisan purposes and a deliberate out-of-control immigration policy by the federal Liberal government that is destabilizing our society in a number of ways, among other things, are not encouraging.
Our health-care system, something Canadians were rightly proud of for decades, has become a sad joke despite it costing us some of the highest per capita rates in the world while delivering poor results, with Canadians literally dying while they wait for care. The MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) regime created by the Trudeau government has run amok, with medical professionals recommending to sick, disabled and sometimes just economically-challenged Canadians that they might want to consider killing themselves instead of pursuing the health care they are justified to expect. International publications are increasingly expressing their amazement that Canada, once much admired by the world for its moderate policies, decent citizens, successful immigration policies and positive international contributions, could have fallen so far. Canadians can be forgiven for feeling frustrated and enraged, and that the deterioration of their beloved country seems out of their control.
Corruption in our nation’s capital fills the headlines every day. The Liberal government continues to spend most of its energy concealing what it is doing from Canadians, as the Liberals know what they are doing would be absolutely appalling to the vast majority of citizens. Incident after incident demonstrating the misspending of billions of our tax dollars has become a regular occurrence at a time when Canadians are grossly overtaxed and struggling financially. The federal government continues to grow in numbers and cost while delivering ever more inferior services to Canadians.
In their apparent delusional state – or at least in their hope of deluding the rest of us – federal Ministers continue to claim that everything is great! People like Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland regularly tout how wonderful our economy is, when all facts indicate the contrary. Our dollar continues to decline against most currencies, including the all-important (to Canada) U.S. dollar, which is in itself an indictment of our government’s path.
Apart from economic indicators and academic jargon, average Canadians find it increasingly difficult to put food on the table, see their ability to make mortgage payments decline, observe housing costs out of reach, find emergency room wait times reach absurd levels and witness growing lines at food banks, if they have not already joined them. As George Orwell famously said in his dystopian novel 1984, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” It seems that according to the federal Liberals who are saying everything is great, they are commanding Canadians to reject the evidence of their own eyes and ears.
Things were bad in Canada prior to the U.S. election, but the fact Donald Trump will now be the next U.S. President increases the urgency of the need for a massive economic policy reversal in Canada. Trump’s plans to decrease corporate taxes, reduce foolish ideologically-driven subsidies to money-losing “green” industries such as electric vehicles, impose tariffs and other restrictions on imports will have serious impacts on our economy. If our federal government were to react sensibly to change our policies to conform with the expected U.S. changes, it would represent a complete reversal of pretty much everything the Trudeau government has done to date. So that won’t be likely to happen, and Canada will suffer significantly as a result.
In a country less placid than Canada, it would not be hard to imagine citizens in the streets protesting what has been done to our country by the current Liberal government. Instead, the impotence of our governments at all levels means that instead we have to witness hate-filled mobs occupying our cities to protest against our democratic ally Israel, disrupting average people going about their business and incurring costs for taxpayers to increase police resources to seemingly coddle terrorist sympathizers. The lunatics have taken over the asylum, something that most Canadians thought they would never see. The good news is this can be fixed. Bad policies can be reversed. Canada’s many economic advantages can be capitalized upon, not penalized. What we clearly need is a new federal government. Pronto.
She has published numerous articles in journals, magazines & other media on issues such as free trade, finance, entrepreneurship & women business owners. Ms. Swift is a past President of the Empire Club of Canada, a former Director of the CD Howe Institute, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation, SOS Children’s Villages, past President of the International Small Business Congress and current Director of the Fraser Institute. She was cited in 2003 & 2012 as one of the most powerful women in Canada by the Women’s Executive Network & is a recipient of the Queen’s Silver & Gold Jubilee medals.
