“Free” stuff is the most expensive thing you will ever receive from Government

On social media if you ask what the Federal liberals have accomplished you will get a list of new social programs like dental care and $10 dollar day care.  While these programs are popular with some they are far from accomplishments.  Any idiot can spend someone else’s money.  Justin Trudeau proved that repeatedly for a decade.

Not only are these programs not accomplishments, they aren’t even desirable.  It is an odd thing to say but the average Canadian does not understand that there is no free lunch.  Free stuff is not free.  It is far from free.  In fact it is hideously expensive.

Wealth inequality is rising. Children are already less upwardly mobile than their parentsFootnote1. Policy Horizons has explored some of these changes in Future Lives (2022) and Basic needs at risk (2023). More recently, the Disruptions on the Horizons: 2024 report, suggests that downward social mobility might become the norm in the future.

That quote did not come from some “right wing” think tank that the media can marginalize and ignore.  That is pulled from a report that was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office.  Their language is stark.  Canada is headed for a very dark future if we continue down the path we are on.

What awaits us? A land divided between the haves and the have-nots; a nation where a university education and home ownership are only for the wealthy; a country with a mental health crisis; a state where people hunt and forage in order to feed themselves — a Canada at war with itself.

The path we are on is the path of “free stuff”.  Canadians are going to learn a very hard lesson on the real-world cost of free stuff from government.

This report has been leaked at a very good time.  We have an election on Monday.  Canadians have a chance to turn this around and chose a different path.  Sadly, that is beyond the intellectual capacity of the average Canadian voter.  For far too many Canadians this is a one issue election: “Orange man bad”.  You cannot help people who refuse to help themselves.  Canada is not just broken it is doomed.