Canada’s enemies are already inside the gates

I was born in Canada over 60 years ago.  Being born in Canada 60 years ago meant you were lucky.  The country was still full of promise.  Sadly Canada has never lived up to that promise.  We should be so much more than we are.

Canada should be an economic powerhouse. With the second-largest land mass in the world, a small but educated population, and an abundance of natural resources, there’s no excuse for widespread hardship in this country.

Food banks can’t keep up. Housing costs are out of reach. The middle class is being hollowed out. Small businesses are barely surviving, and young Canadians are giving up on ever owning a home or getting ahead.

Canada is a mess.  This country that once held so much promise now can’t even house their citizens.

More than two-thirds of 25- to 29-year-olds in Toronto and Vancouver lived independently in 1981, the authors said. As of 2021, this statistic had dipped to slightly more than one-quarter in Toronto and roughly one-third in Vancouver.

The prevailing sentiment in Canada is that all of our problems are caused by a mean orange man south of our border but this is not true.  Donald trump did not flood Canada with immigrants Canada did not need.

On all sides of the aisle, Canada’s political class has started to acknowledge that immigration plays a role in this country’s housing woes.

Neither did he cancel pipelines or pass laws that make it all but impossible to build anything in Canada.  Trumps actions have done nothing other than expose the terrible job Canadian politicians have done.

The worst offender has been Justin Trudeau.  Pierre’s idiot son (Pierre’s words not mine) didn’t even view Canada as a country.

Where were the Liberals when Trudeau, shortly after winning the 2015 election that brought him to power, bizarrely boasted to the New York Times that, “there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada” making us “the first post-national state?”

Trudeau had no regard for Canadians because he did not even think Canada existed as a country let alone a nationality.  This moronic view of the country complete explains why he never considered what might be good for Canada when he made decisions.  Unfortunately for Canadians, lack of concern for Canada did not start with Justin Trudeau.  Trudeau is definitely the worst offender but he is far from being the only offender.  Canadian politicians have been failing Canadians for decades.

This didn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of nearly a decade of government policy that actively worked against growth, against investment, and against the industries that once made Canada prosperous.

In some ways Canada’s modern history is not that different from America’s.  For decades the US was also led by politicians who pursued their own interests rather than American’s interests.  That has changed though.  Our American cousins have elected a Maverick to root out the corruption.  Canadians have the same opportunity.  In a few weeks there will be an election.  Things could get better for Canadians if it were not for all those Canadian voters who love the downward spiral.  Instead of throwing out the most destructive group in our history Canadians are going to vote them back in.

A majority of Canadians now think that the best people to protect our economy and standard of living from the damage of US tariffs, are the same ones who brought our economic growth to a standstill, made housing inaccessible for millions, and caused our violent crime rate to skyrocket.

Repeating the same thing expecting different outcomes is a definition of insanity.  By that definition Canadians are insane.

How many times are we going to be a nation of Charlie Browns believing that this time the Lucy Liberals will hold the football for us so we can kick ourselves into prosperity via their campaign promises?

And that in a nut shell is the reason why Canada never has and never will live up to its potential.  You cannot fix a country full of Canadians.  Donald trump has nothing to do with the sorry state of our country.  Canadians are their own worst enemy.