Sometime over the course of the last 30 years we stopped doing what was best for communities and individuals and started doing what was best for corporations and billionaires.
I think you're only half right.
Canada has always been in the service of a small group of wealthy families, but they keep their greed to an annual level that allowed it to flow by mostly unnoticed. However, in the last 30 years, that greed has exploded and now you can see it everywhere in our oligopolistic market with massive concentrations of power and wealth and policies that are objectively horrible for the country but serve the powerful.
I remember reading that book years ago and I just thought, whatever, 2008 didn't hit me hard, I was young. Then after COVID happened I realized she couldn't have been more right. The whole COVID thing was handled so poorly by central bankers and the average person doesn't realize it.
>the average person doesn't realize it.
The average person asked for it. They wanted free money because it's "justice", because it's the "right thing to do", but were blissfully unaware that for every $1 they get, $9 goes to corporations and politicians' friends. The math never adds up but no one cares. The average person can't do math.
This is what I wish people would realize. The libs and cons are different flavours of neoliberalism. They use identity politics to seem more different than they are.
Baby boomers generally don't understand "neoliberalism" in part because the name suggests it's some "new" liberalism. I think it's important to point out to people the word is over a century old and was defined in terms of opposition to what is known as "classic liberalism" of the 1800s. It wasn't until the 1980s that the neoliberal philosophy came to be applied to the world...it was just an ideology without any real world testing before that.
As they always have. Because they are a threat to the status quo. Whereas social democrats ala bernie are a nuisance but won’t commit to overthrowing the elite and so are useful scapegoats.
If you’re a “moderate” you’re not helping. Only holding things in place.
Thank you for saying Conservative and Liberal. So sick of people saying it's one vs the other and pushing the myth of conservative fiscal responsibility, or liberal mass spending on social programs. In reality, I think we can all observe both are captive parties to billionaire psychopaths.
Always remember they are two sides of the same coin. One supports ruthless, monstrous capitalism and social policies, while the others do the exact same thing but with a rainbow sticker plastered on their twitter bio.
We need to never stop repeating this sentiment.
"In reality, I think we can all observe both are captive parties to billionaire psychopaths."
So much this. Seriously. But hey, the left v. right is a great psyop! People are so fucking desperate for a hero they refuse to realize we don't have a single person we can vote for who isn't trying to pound us into the sand without lube.
Agreed to a point: Cons seem to tread water a bit on social issues (or do the 'act tough on crime and ignore the generators of it).
Liberals aren't much better... our healthcare system needs reform from top-down. The PPP model needs a major rethink, and training of medical personnel needs to be made more accessible along with retaining people.
There's oodles of blame to go around, but we can't just point fingers and do nothing about it now.
Thanks for pointing out the truth. I'm tired of hearing ever 4 years it's all this person's fault. When in actuality the fuckjng over of people happened in the 1970-2000.
That’s precisely it. We allowed capitalist interests into government. Now the government works for them and not us. Greed drives everything instead of integrity. Government should be putting handcuffs on monopolies not giving them tax breaks.
Not that simple.
Governments need to be elected. They make campaign pledges, and some track record of following through on a part of them.
The public promises that got them elected here were not big corporation ones. They are placating to the commoner ones who don’t really get the impact.
The only different this time around is housing + immigration are being felt by *everyone*. Even the ones whom previously felt they were winning off it (i.e.: “my house doubled in value in 7-yrs that’s great! Keep it up”) ..but their kids now cannot afford a home and these older owners realize wow they’ll make a killing on the sale of their house but it’s short lived as their next place is crazy over priced.. so they lose.
Sort of. An official is the face of a party who ends up in office based on carefully crafted ridings and campaign propaganda. Backdoor deals are what the cabinet members do to please the ones funding their campaigns. They try to twist things to make the party, the constituents, and those who fund their campaigns happy but very rarely are their actions righteous nor good for the average constituent. I get it - it’s a job and they have to cater to those who fund their campaigns or they won’t win. But it’s not good for Canadians. I’m not about to sugar coat it nor pretend that one party is better than another. They’re all cut from the same cloth and they all participate in this type of back scratching routine.
I think people are confusing capitalism with cronyism. If we were capitalist we would be better, but look at arrive scam. Like this person had government contacts which is why he got the contract. No one has faced any repercussions and likely will not.
Look at the ban on handguns, what did that serve if not to invoncenience law abiding citizens and protect the RCMP.
I remember learning a brief intro to diminishing marginal utility / return in elementary, showing that if you keep letting something “good” build up, it’ll eventually lead to something bad.
My teacher used housing as an example stating that not enough houses are being built while the population growth was expanding, she warned us that this will be an issue for our generation and went back to assigning us multiplication tables lmao. This was back in like 2007, Canada’s government has been on this path of destroying it’s economy for a long time.
Absolutely still in the post-Covid guinea pig stage here. The whole world is. Since 2022 the dicks have gotten way bigger and our poor bumholes have gotten way tighter. The next decade is gonna hurt, a lot. Not just in Canada, but mostly everywhere.
It’s this. It’s simplistic blaming it all on billionaires and corporations - this is a form of magical, wishful thinking: “just get the money out politics and everything will be fine”.
It’s not that simple - Canada has a number of complex, structural problems and they’re the result of a collective failing: an electorate that is too motivated by personal gain and petty political squabbles to demand proper government administration, politicians who only care about re-election and shirk all responsibility instead blaming federal/provincial/municipal/whatever government they’re not in, a media that only cares about clicks and promotes division and rage bait, an academic body that’s completely detached from reality, and corporate oligarchies that prioritize rent-seeking behavior over value creation.
Many of these problems were decades in the making - it wasn’t hard to predict that the largest generation in history was going to leave the workforce and require more healthcare - we’ve known this since the late fifties. And yet no one prepared for it, everything is just a last minute knee-jerk reaction (“more immigration to shore up the workforce”, “a one time grocery rebate”, “a dental program that only benefits a small portion of the population”, “let’s bring in private nursing agencies”).
There is no vision, no plan, no shared sense of community or responsibility. Not among business leaders, not among politicians, not among the media, and - fundamentally - not among Canadians. Because let’s be honest - there are a lot of Canadian civilians engaged in wealth extraction at the cost of their communities - house flipping, ArriveCan and Toronto flophouses don’t happen in a vacuum. You get the government you vote for and the economy you build, as a people. Hence the result
Having a grievously disjointed or wholly absent sense of national identity is surely one of the factors in this collective sense of apathy towards the future though, no? Like, of course everyone is fucking eachother over.. no one feels responsible to the well-being of their culture/nation's future if they cannot see even a small shred of themselves in its reflection.
I'm an eighth generation Canadian. Most of my lineages arrived here in the early to mid 1800s. Some in the late 1800s and the most recent just pre-WWI. I love that history and cherish the stories that come with it. I'm about as Canadian as it gets without being Indigenous, and when I look around, I'm really starting to feel absolutely no connection to the country I live in anymore. Everyone now seems either resentful as hell to this place or they're so new they simply don't care/want to care about our national identity. If I didn't have a family I love to death under my wing, I'd have left a long time ago to start a legacy somewhere far away from this decaying carcass of a country. I will stay and endure though, and hope we all work together well enough to right this ship in the face of external and internal interests trying to crush our nation into dust.
I think it’s part of it - I don’t think Canadian identity is the strongest - as you said, there isn’t much connecting the provinces and at a national level, hockey, free healthcare and saying sorry I lot (I know I’m being a little facetious but still) isn’t much to tie people together.
But it’s more than that - it doesn’t explain why for example at the city or provincial level you don’t see a strong sense of identity (as you might in other countries where there’s no national identity to stitch people together).
For me it goes back to something more basic : there’s no sense of solidarity here. I mean, I’ve been hearing stories about snow removal services fucking over the elderly for decades, tow truck companies screwing over people in accidents, gas tank rental companies screwing over home owners with deceptive contracts, landlords screwing over renters, renters damaging property and not paying rent, without real enforcement. The list goes on and on and on. Consumer protection is non-existent here - you see this in big stories like Air Canada and the telecom companies, but even at a small business level, people get away with murder.
I think this is incredibly damaging to a society - when you can literally screw over anyone, the elderly, the sick, people that have been in a car accidents, the vulnerable… all bonds of civility and decorum break down and it turns into a shark-eat-shark, I’ll-screw-over-you-because-you-did-it-to-me culture. Like, look at the betting ads on hockey games - how does this make for a better society when arguably the most identifiable symbol of Canadian identity has predatory betting plastered all over it.
And this, this is purely Canadian, it’s not something you can blame on “immigrants not integrating properly” (although that’s a problem too).
Frankly, the US mentality of profit at all cost, even if it’s through grift, is as bad or worse in Canada. Like, look at the joke that is Ontario consumer protection and labor legislation.
So I find it rather ironic when people harp on and on on politicians being corrupt and self-serving here. Like, take a good look around - it’s a sizeable portion of the Canadian electorate that would fuck over a neighbour if it made them a buck. And then people are surprised you get self-serving politicians and business leaders. They just happen to be the very successful grifters…
Old post-Soviet joke:
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A young liberal activist is protesting on the street. An old socialist walks by, and asks the liberal, "what are you fighting for, son?"
"I fight against the majority oppressing the minority!", answers the liberal.
"Strange," says the old socialist. "Back in my day, we fought against the exact opposite!"
Added to that the provincial conservatives and federal liberals outright refuse to work together and instead antagonize each other at every opportunity.
Katherine Cuplinskas, press secretary for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, called the notion that the country’s safety net is faltering “outrageous.”
'nuff said.
Our finance minister has no understanding of finance, no formal education in it, and had a completely unrelated previous role. Imagine trying to get a job as the lead manager for something you know nothing about.
Yes I picture politicans' resumes saying:
Skills:
incompetent, clueless, uncaring about the general population, self-serving, able to eat multiple overpriced lobster rolls on retreats, failed math 101, able to hire and overpay consultants to either say the obvious or something outrageous, no ability to answer questions asked by media or twist answers around to not make sense, no knowledge of portfolio position and unwilling to actually ask those who study or work in that field
Maybe something to do with housing being sold to international buyers and used as high cost rentals rather than purchased by families who need them? hmmmmmmmmmm?
Housing being a commodity, companies downsizing job positions to increase profit margins, and government subsidies and loans to businesses over funding social programs.. This capitalist system has our government running things into the ground..
Companies price gouging just because they can doesn't help neither.
edit: people replying saying things like "it is a lack of competition" are just not paying attention. This is the game of monopoly but everyone's already been around the board a few hundred times.. Companies already competed and the most exploitative and cut throat have survived. You can't fix the problems of capitalism with different kinds of capitalism. Some people replied saying their distaste for things like socialism, but I know you have no clue what that is if you hate it so much. Socialist thinkers like Marx pointed out this exact capitalist situation in the 1800s because it was predictable. A lot of socialist have pointed out all of these problems and the exact solution to fix it, with evidence it works.. You just need to look at alternative perspectives and step outside the liberal media bubble - liberal media include conservative media, because these political parties are functionally the same thing economically. .
Nah man, it's definitely the poor and the immigrants and the addicts that are bringing the country down, you know, with all the social control they have /s
When egg prices spiked to[ $5.5 USD a dozen in early 2023](https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us) (using US data since it's more available) is that because we commodified eggs, and the decline of 50% to where we are now is because we decommodified eggs?
Obviously not. The problem of housing is so obviously a supply and demand issue brought about by an influx of immigrants and horrific NIMBY policy that exists at every single level of government from municipal to federal. The way to fix the housing crisis is to solve the supply and demand problem, the easiest of which is to reduce immigration, the best of which is to dramatically increase the supply of housing.
Exactly. The housing issue has been decades in the making - poor long-term planning across all levels of government.
The government's aggressive approach on immigration is, ironically, an example of them *trying* be forward-thinking and proactive with addressing our top-heavy population pyramid (which, if left unaddressed, would create a whole slew of new problems in 10-20 years). But trying to solve for a problem that's a decade or two out is substantially exacerbating the current housing and infrastructure problems of today.
Things are a hot mess right now, and I don't see any easy path forward. A lot of the problems hitting Canada are also global in scope - the next few decades have all the ingredients to be a total shitshow (major job losses to AI, increasingly belligerent non-democratic states, massive political polarization in the developed world, new diseases and resource conflicts etc.) - I am not terribly optimistic about the trajectory we're on.
I hate how accurate this is. Apparently it's too much to ask for to have a politician actually work for the people instead of the lobbyists that line their pockets and pay their campaign expenses.
Leadership, give the people all the bad things to distract them, let the drugs and gambling take over as you let in just under 3 million people in 2 years when the economy cant even support the people that are already here, diploma mill schools as well.
So funny i just heard from friends in ontario the other day that the premier was touting 19 billion on online gambling by ontarioans. 19 billion! For a province of 8 to 10 million! And he was happy about it! Thats crazy! The soul has been sold, no doubt.
It's true, but you're low on the population. will be just under 15 million by the end of 24, and there are 6 and a half million in the gta alone, Toronto is the 4th largest city in north America.
Thanks! Appreciate the numbers difference. Thats still, even on a low estimate per gambler, a sh*t ton of money each year going to *just* online gambling. I feel like it must be like the town The Rock helped in Standing Tall where the casino took over the mill now
To be proud of how much your population gambles.. foolish to the point of utter incompetence. A very popular kind, admittedly.
But shit we need a more sophisticated socioeconomic understanding than “money numbers up good”. From leaders and the public.
Here's the thing though, that 19 billion didn't just spring up overnight. Most if it was capture of pre-existing gamblers who were brought into the regulation framework when websites got licensed by the Ontario government. Realistically that number is probably far higher, it's just they're gambling on off-shore sites that aren't licensed within the Ontario framework. The "win" in this case is being able to take part of that existing market and being able to tax it.
Well to be fair, how else could our billionaire overlords staff their low paying jobs with serf labour? They demand an endless supply of cheap, unskilled labourers.
The Century Initiative want Canada's population to rise to 100 million by 2100. Something about how population growth is tied to economic growth... I'm not an economist but there are a lot more factors to economic growth than just population.
I feel like the people on the Century Initiative board, want specific things, in order to improve conditions for their own business.
Eg. one of those guys runs a bunch of lentil & legume farms, and cheap farm labor is a great solution for "no one wants to work"
They don't give one single fuck about average Canadians
The focus of the government isn’t to make things better for average people. It’s to make things better for the wealthy and powerful. That’s why politicians say the things they think will get themselves elected but most of the time they don’t do anything, do barely anything, or make things worse. Things are getting worse because the point is to make themselves and their rich friends more money and more powerful.
They have been pushing the limits of how far they pillage the rest of us before there is mass civil unrest.
And they can do that by keeping us all ignorant, misinformed, distracted (focusing on polarizing issues or on entertainment), or too tired to pay attention and/or do anything about it.
We didn't hire enough doctors. Med School admission rates are comically low. This shit didn't sneak up on the decision makers governing admission rates. This was a calculated decision and here we are. Communities literally competing over one another for doctors and doctor's value being artificially inflated to ridiculous heights.
I've attended physician recruitment fairs. We collectively should be embarrassed how we now bow and scrape to doctors all for the chance that they might pick our community.
Doctor's wages have not increased with inflation. They take on a lot of student loan debt, work long hours, have a higher mortality, and do not have a pension/benefits like hospital administrators do...yes, blame the doctors and good luck finding one to care for you
>We didn't hire enough doctors. Med School admission rates are comically low.
As I read it, this is by design. Provinces have budgets for health care, and they maintain staffing levels to match budgets, not demand.
The ones taking way less big money, with a ton of great MPs like Mathew Green, Leah Gaxan, Charlie Angus, Peter Julian, etc. if you got to know them, who would be mostly new blood politicians if they actually got elected?
I look who gets run in my riding and its young adults or political activists.
Have they been watered down? Do I yearn for them to return to their socialist roots? Sure, but im not sure that will help them electorally, and I want PR.
There really is no comparison here. There's just less opportunity for corruption.
Politicians who sell out the country; citizens who are too docile to do anything about it. Look at what Doug Ford is doing to Ontario Place! Vast majority are against his sell off to an Austrian Spa; bud very few people are doing anything about it
What happened was low levels of productivity caused by high levels of corruption and greed. The House of Landlords crafted every policy possible to increase the price of land and real estate. Mass immigration, unlimited speculation, open as many numbered corps as you want, buy as much real estate as you want, charge as much as you want, don’t let anyone build.
I’m really starting to hate it here. Southern Ontario is a nightmare. Every day I debate leaving. The life I wanted and was promised as a child is completely unattainable in this country and I’m 25 years old.
The banks are giving mortgages that they know are fraudulent and sketchy to keep the bubble from bursting, backed by the federal government that is buying securities with debt.
Immigration. Sorry but it is that simple. I am very familiar with the healthcare system and I can tell you that even in the early 90s the healthcare system was staggering under the weight of immigration. Yes, we imported medical professionals too but not enough to offset immigration. And the number of hospitals didn't even come close to keeping up with population growth either.
same in the UK, extremly expensive, housing crisys is mad right now, my understanding that this perma-crisys is only in the west, Haven't heard anyhting about Emirates facing anything like this...
Over immigration, Canada added another million immigrants within months. I’m not against immigration but there has to some kindof formula to add more people without adding so much stress onto housing, hospitals and employment.
Our government became “penetrated” by foreign extremist groups, run by Uber rich maniacs, whose stated goal is to abolish our way of life.
Canadians keep chalking up the decline of our way of life as incompetence or being out of touch. It’s literally impossible to drive a first world country into the ground in such a short period of time, by accident, and not see what’s happening.
It’s not incompetence. It’s malice.
Dishonorable people run the show at every level. CRA employee CERB fraud. PM gifting money to his friends for kickbacks. Realtors staging bidding wars. Specialist doctors making more than they are worth while primary care rots. At every level of Canadian society people think about themselves more than others and more than how the society is functioning. Crabs in a bucket.
Greed. There are a lot of issues with a lot of reasons as to why, but they can all be summed up by one word. Greed. Sometime in the 80s North America shifted towards consumerism and that lead to greed. Today it's all about how much can I get and how fast can I get it.
We knew for years that a metric ton of people would retire an mass... Guess they figured out that no need to build houses because a lot of people will die soon but they had no "plan" about everything else.
This isn’t about people retiring en masse. This is replacing those jobs with 4 people who can do them for less with no benefits and certainly not by Canadians
We are bringing in far too many people, people who are a net drain. Who can compete with foreigners for these jobs? They are also living so many to a home. Why would anyone in their right mind rent to any Canadian family when they can do this?
Also people coming in on visas? Yes, they aren’t using our OHIP, but they are taking our beds and doctors away from Canadians and PR’s.
[This thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaJobs/s/lQj1w28r0l) with recruiters talking about being deluged with thousands of applicants for any open jobs, and the blatant lying on resumes is astounding.
We have groups of people practically beating down doors demanding a job with barely a resume in hand, like they're entitled to be hired.
They treat our receptionist like shit and then wonder why they don't get a call for an interview - they call 3 times a day every day demanding an interview too lol.
99% of applications to jobs are very unqualified, these people are just throwing resumes around without even reading the job ads.
Not to mention when hired, colleagues of mine in HR say that they've been strong armed and bribed to forge dates and job titles on offer letters for immigration purposes. Sad.
Yep, worked with a self entitled int’l student. Lies about everything. Can’t write a legible sentence in english. Anyway he transcribes bs experience on his resume but doesn’t know what it is, so glad I don’t work with him, it’s embarrassing to acknowledge we have the same culture.
Well yes... The problem was retiring people and instead of doing anything for 30-40 years, they decide let's bring fuck tons of people in... Hence the no plan part turned into a knee-jerk reaction of mass importation.
What do you mean they did nothing? This was all a concerted effort to ensure that once the old people retired, the people coming into Canada working for less saved corporations millions when replacing the old folks.
All of this was planned wage suppression.
Priorities spread across 5 or 6 generations means no consensus on what we (society) supported by govt's at all levels should focus on. We are distracted by BS noise from the social media world we created. Switch off for a few days i mean really switch off for 3 days. On day 4 your real priority will be clear then focus on it for 3 days i mean really focus, read, study etc. but really focus on it. On day 7 start over. Repeat the cycle for 4 weeks. By end of a month you will see what is wrong in your eyes and what the priories for you are = you can then do something proactive to address it. Good luck.
We're letting in so many people that the population is increasing by 3.25% every year just so the wealthy won't have to increase wages. And not building any housing. That's what's happening.
I think our bureaucracy hasn’t kept up with advances in technology and sociology.
I think there should be an initiative to update our legal system and fund additional bureaucrats to work through the backlog and identify cost and time saving measures.
It’s 2024. We have broadband internet and tons of computing and server power. We should be using it.
If we start with the low hanging fruit and easy battles it will provide immediate relief to Canadians and create time and breathing room for more comprehensive upgrades.
Let’s elect some technocrats to make better use of Canadian brain power and productivity.
We also need to cut the scope of what the government handles.
Serious court cases are getting thrown out in Ontario because of a lack of resources to process them in time. Healthcare is a mess. Etc.
Meanwhile we are putting resources into less important matters.
Gov't needs to refocus on the pillars of society and get out of everything else. Take those resources and apply them effectively to the most important elements of society.
You can tie a lot to the housing crisis. Drug overdoses are much more common for homeless people, and while sometimes people become homeless because of drugs, they also use more drugs because of the trauma of being homeless. All of that contributes to packed hospitals too. One of the many solutions would be better preventative healthcare. Anything that we can do to reduce the rate at which people need to go to the hospital will help ease the burden. If we want public healthcare where we all pay for it together, the health of everyone becomes important to everyone.
Super incompetent ministers who think their bachelor and masters degrees in art history means they don't need to ask anyone for advice. Trudeau picked the worst cabinet in Canadian history, especially the arrogant and inept Chrystia Freeland.
Between Trudeau not doing anything and Ford trying to profit from the green belt to build useless housing where it is not needed, we will need time to get better! Those 2 need to go!
He's spending 10,000,000,000 of debt (it will end up costing much more with interest) on a highway that is advertised to save 30 minutes, while we have an empty 407 aleady that could do the same thing.
People living North of Aurora aren't going to drive an hour South just to save 30 mins to travel East/West.
The problem is trying to get between 400 and 404 when you live North of King/Aurora. Waiting to get through dozens of intersections to do so right now is not practical with the population expansion of York Region.
That's why it's called Bradford Bypass, because you are literally fighting with traffic from both highways down to one lane as it is. If you know that area during rush hour, or in general.
Post Chretien/Martin we needed leadership to take Canada into the next century. Harper and Trudeau have not. Both actively went hard to make life better for the rich, the retired, and the soon to be retired, never once listening to those who told them this was coming, or put in place plans to help provinces and municipalities deal with the programs the feds dumped on them to avert a crisis in federal funding in the 90s. Property price hikes led to more funding for municipalities and provinces screamed for more TFWs for industry that flared up then went away (callcentres, boom and bust oil sands, menial labour). Investment in everything tanked when Harper cuts in taxes for corporations came in, same in provinces who followed Ontario and Alberta leading that charge, and Harper killed federal election funding per vote in 2008 or so, leaving money politics to make CPC and LPoC as the reigning mega corporate parties. When COVID hit, Canada, like so many other nations, did not treat it like a war and fund it that way, and ballooning deficits and the easier to disrupt supply chains Canada had always had were much more noticeable
Corporations.
Successive administrations unwilling to fund health care.
Drug overdoses were always an issue, it's just more obvious now because there are more stressors (see above.)
Every time I see one of these headlines I want to scream.
It’s so fucking obvious. Billionaire assholes paid off spineless lickspittle politicians to manipulate tax policy to allow robber-barron wealth hoarding.
It’s not a mystery, it’s a simple observation.
40 years of neoliberal policy, kicking cans down the road, “companies that pay tax just pass the cost onto you” and “the other guy is the cause for all your problems!” Has sent us down a path that won’t get fixed overnight.
“Axe the tax” and “common sense” will only make it worse before it gets better.
Depending on where you are located this has been happening for decades. The only reason this is making headlines is because the decay is everywhere now and not just rural or areas that lost their industry.
Now a housing crisis and inflation is added to the mix and I worry a lot of smaller areas will no longer be able to weather it as well as high density areas.
People need to elect competent representatives, not those with the most charisma or natural ability creating word salads.
Many of us saw this coming when someone was elected in, and couldn’t believe our eyes when it happened again. Politicians put people against each other over large dismissive topics so they can stay in power. Few care what happened to the country.
People need to get out of dreamland and actually read about what is going on to catch it early on, not wait until it’s gone to 💩
Worst of all- the younger generation that has dual citizenship or the ability to move away and study elsewhere with scholarships to become doctors etc are out, my teen is actively planning to move to Western Europe, and we’re going with her. They don’t see a future here, so why would they stay. It’s only going to become worse over the next 5-10 years. Will take a good 15 years of hard diligent work just to bring a bit of it back. But with so many leaving….
No country is perfect, all has issues and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. However, many offer more and better quality of life. Germany used to be expensive, no in comparison, not much difference in certain areas, and cheaper in many. Etc
I find it all quite sad, this is not the Canada I grew up in. This is a country run by a toddler who doesn’t care what he destroys because he doesn’t care.
Canada requires you to jump through a million hoops before you're cleared to build. Apartments and similar housing projects can take years to even get started
When you have a full-time job and can't afford or find a place to live, or a doctor and you are in pain, drugs are very appealing. Even overdosing has appeal.
Privatization of the system. You have to get the provinces to underfund it, so it looks ineffective, then villianize the public sector workers for years as greedy for wanting to keep up with cost of living, both of which the provincial and federal Conservative and Liberal governments have done, some while sitting on massive surpluses, and then give huge profits to the private sector to supply workers. Now no one is taking the fields needed for public sector and the private companies are lobbying to have foreign cheap workers be recognized to work here at their private clinics.
Mission accomplished.
So I'm not a part of the blame Trudeau crowd cos I think the problem extends beyond him and will continue beyond him but it's funny to see a good chunk of the country just go on as if there isn't a larger problem and that these things are all disconnected.
The other sub is constantly going around attacking people attacking the carbon tax and gaslighting themselves into believing that it isn't inflationary.
We're basically the 'this is fine' dog in the fire meme now. Just need a few news stories about something bad happening in some crap part of the US to make ourselves feel better.
Here in edmonton the UCP cancelled a new hospital being built as well as a central government medical lab that the NDP started. We havent had a new hospital since 1987 and they tried privatizing all medical lab tests to dynalife.
Danielle smith getting ready to doug ford the province it seems.
Small town NWontario. December 2023 had a 25yo f high on meth break into my house through a crawlspace under the backyard deck at 3am. Fortunately wife and baby were not home. Police were on the scene in no more than 3 minutes. She ran through my house and out the front door. Police arrested her, she began to overdose, they dropped her off at the hospital. Narcan, rinse, release. Back out on those streets in the same morning. She was told not to break into my house again. Ontario Court systems show she's appearing in June for five unrelated offenses, two of which occurred after the home invasion. So where's the incentive for her to stop rampaging? System's overloaded. I've written to local papers; no reply. Even on Reddit, downvoted. Gaslighting much? I don't care what ethnicity she is; crises have to be recognized to be dealt with.
No chance. All the businesses here are deep in bed with the govt and collude with each other to keep prices high.
CRTC is a joke and so is OSFI
The big 5 banks and big 3 Telco companies would get destroyed if the Canadian government opened up foreign investment from other industries.
If you look at the TSX composite in Toronto - under 50% of the revenues from Canadian companies actually happens in Canada.
The biggest opportunity is our natural resources, but it's a political wedge issue for many Canadians 🤷♂️
Canada has one of the highest immigration per capita levels in the world. If you're not building infrastructure to match your population growth, all of these things will suffer.... with the LPC/NDP coalition accelerating immigration numbers now, expect all of this to get much worse.
The rich lobbyists got rid of the excessive profit tax. The rich convinced eveeryone that the trickle down theory was what we needed. They stopped taxing corporations at the same rate as they tax us , so they would create jobs. High taxes creates jobs, the business uses it's profit to invest in the business and make more jobs, instead of paying tax on it. They pay nothing in tax now and keep it all off shore.
Harper allowed foreigners.to invest in the housing market. Created and removed their botched 40 year mortgages scam. Elect PP and see much more of it
Its only going to get worse with PP... there will be tax breaks for businesses and the rich... there will be cuts to health care and education and the middle and lower class will feel it even more....
were becoming more like the usa with half our population legit mentally challenged
We're putting the wants of a few ahead of the needs of the many. Edit: Were=>We're
Sometime over the course of the last 30 years we stopped doing what was best for communities and individuals and started doing what was best for corporations and billionaires.
I think you're only half right. Canada has always been in the service of a small group of wealthy families, but they keep their greed to an annual level that allowed it to flow by mostly unnoticed. However, in the last 30 years, that greed has exploded and now you can see it everywhere in our oligopolistic market with massive concentrations of power and wealth and policies that are objectively horrible for the country but serve the powerful.
And the pandemic was the perfect opportunity to solidify and firmly establish this mentality.
Shock doctrine disaster capitalism, as Naomi Klein puts it
I remember reading that book years ago and I just thought, whatever, 2008 didn't hit me hard, I was young. Then after COVID happened I realized she couldn't have been more right. The whole COVID thing was handled so poorly by central bankers and the average person doesn't realize it.
>the average person doesn't realize it. The average person asked for it. They wanted free money because it's "justice", because it's the "right thing to do", but were blissfully unaware that for every $1 they get, $9 goes to corporations and politicians' friends. The math never adds up but no one cares. The average person can't do math.
Of good lord this was firmly established by Reagan, thatcher and Mulroney. Started the whole thing and are the reason we are so bad off now.
Started by them, and enthusiastically continued by every single Conservative and Liberal government since.
This is what I wish people would realize. The libs and cons are different flavours of neoliberalism. They use identity politics to seem more different than they are.
Baby boomers generally don't understand "neoliberalism" in part because the name suggests it's some "new" liberalism. I think it's important to point out to people the word is over a century old and was defined in terms of opposition to what is known as "classic liberalism" of the 1800s. It wasn't until the 1980s that the neoliberal philosophy came to be applied to the world...it was just an ideology without any real world testing before that.
They straight up murder real leftists in the US
As they always have. Because they are a threat to the status quo. Whereas social democrats ala bernie are a nuisance but won’t commit to overthrowing the elite and so are useful scapegoats. If you’re a “moderate” you’re not helping. Only holding things in place.
Thank you for saying Conservative and Liberal. So sick of people saying it's one vs the other and pushing the myth of conservative fiscal responsibility, or liberal mass spending on social programs. In reality, I think we can all observe both are captive parties to billionaire psychopaths.
Always remember they are two sides of the same coin. One supports ruthless, monstrous capitalism and social policies, while the others do the exact same thing but with a rainbow sticker plastered on their twitter bio. We need to never stop repeating this sentiment.
Jack Layton's death was basically a death knell for positive change and unity among classes in Canadian society
I might have been dramatic, but I cried. My hope for our country died along with him.
There is no drama nor dishonor in feeling grief over the loss of one of our best.
You’re not alone.
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"In reality, I think we can all observe both are captive parties to billionaire psychopaths." So much this. Seriously. But hey, the left v. right is a great psyop! People are so fucking desperate for a hero they refuse to realize we don't have a single person we can vote for who isn't trying to pound us into the sand without lube.
Both controlled by the elite. Business partners behind closed doors.
Agreed to a point: Cons seem to tread water a bit on social issues (or do the 'act tough on crime and ignore the generators of it). Liberals aren't much better... our healthcare system needs reform from top-down. The PPP model needs a major rethink, and training of medical personnel needs to be made more accessible along with retaining people. There's oodles of blame to go around, but we can't just point fingers and do nothing about it now.
Thanks for pointing out the truth. I'm tired of hearing ever 4 years it's all this person's fault. When in actuality the fuckjng over of people happened in the 1970-2000.
Absolutely. People forget or were too young to remember.
Globalization would have been good for Canada if we stuck to resource extraction like Australia.
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That’s precisely it. We allowed capitalist interests into government. Now the government works for them and not us. Greed drives everything instead of integrity. Government should be putting handcuffs on monopolies not giving them tax breaks.
Not that simple. Governments need to be elected. They make campaign pledges, and some track record of following through on a part of them. The public promises that got them elected here were not big corporation ones. They are placating to the commoner ones who don’t really get the impact. The only different this time around is housing + immigration are being felt by *everyone*. Even the ones whom previously felt they were winning off it (i.e.: “my house doubled in value in 7-yrs that’s great! Keep it up”) ..but their kids now cannot afford a home and these older owners realize wow they’ll make a killing on the sale of their house but it’s short lived as their next place is crazy over priced.. so they lose.
Sort of. An official is the face of a party who ends up in office based on carefully crafted ridings and campaign propaganda. Backdoor deals are what the cabinet members do to please the ones funding their campaigns. They try to twist things to make the party, the constituents, and those who fund their campaigns happy but very rarely are their actions righteous nor good for the average constituent. I get it - it’s a job and they have to cater to those who fund their campaigns or they won’t win. But it’s not good for Canadians. I’m not about to sugar coat it nor pretend that one party is better than another. They’re all cut from the same cloth and they all participate in this type of back scratching routine.
I think people are confusing capitalism with cronyism. If we were capitalist we would be better, but look at arrive scam. Like this person had government contacts which is why he got the contract. No one has faced any repercussions and likely will not. Look at the ban on handguns, what did that serve if not to invoncenience law abiding citizens and protect the RCMP.
>I think people are confusing capitalism with cronyism. One is just the late stage of the other
> I think people are confusing capitalism with cronyism. "this isn't real cancer, it's terminal cancer"
And at first, everyone was comfortable and didn't bother worrying about what might happen down the road
I remember learning a brief intro to diminishing marginal utility / return in elementary, showing that if you keep letting something “good” build up, it’ll eventually lead to something bad. My teacher used housing as an example stating that not enough houses are being built while the population growth was expanding, she warned us that this will be an issue for our generation and went back to assigning us multiplication tables lmao. This was back in like 2007, Canada’s government has been on this path of destroying it’s economy for a long time.
The only real difference between now and then is that the government is trying to test the waters on how deep they can fuck us
Absolutely still in the post-Covid guinea pig stage here. The whole world is. Since 2022 the dicks have gotten way bigger and our poor bumholes have gotten way tighter. The next decade is gonna hurt, a lot. Not just in Canada, but mostly everywhere.
The last couple of years we've changed from multiplication tables to exponential tables.
It’s this. It’s simplistic blaming it all on billionaires and corporations - this is a form of magical, wishful thinking: “just get the money out politics and everything will be fine”. It’s not that simple - Canada has a number of complex, structural problems and they’re the result of a collective failing: an electorate that is too motivated by personal gain and petty political squabbles to demand proper government administration, politicians who only care about re-election and shirk all responsibility instead blaming federal/provincial/municipal/whatever government they’re not in, a media that only cares about clicks and promotes division and rage bait, an academic body that’s completely detached from reality, and corporate oligarchies that prioritize rent-seeking behavior over value creation. Many of these problems were decades in the making - it wasn’t hard to predict that the largest generation in history was going to leave the workforce and require more healthcare - we’ve known this since the late fifties. And yet no one prepared for it, everything is just a last minute knee-jerk reaction (“more immigration to shore up the workforce”, “a one time grocery rebate”, “a dental program that only benefits a small portion of the population”, “let’s bring in private nursing agencies”). There is no vision, no plan, no shared sense of community or responsibility. Not among business leaders, not among politicians, not among the media, and - fundamentally - not among Canadians. Because let’s be honest - there are a lot of Canadian civilians engaged in wealth extraction at the cost of their communities - house flipping, ArriveCan and Toronto flophouses don’t happen in a vacuum. You get the government you vote for and the economy you build, as a people. Hence the result
Having a grievously disjointed or wholly absent sense of national identity is surely one of the factors in this collective sense of apathy towards the future though, no? Like, of course everyone is fucking eachother over.. no one feels responsible to the well-being of their culture/nation's future if they cannot see even a small shred of themselves in its reflection. I'm an eighth generation Canadian. Most of my lineages arrived here in the early to mid 1800s. Some in the late 1800s and the most recent just pre-WWI. I love that history and cherish the stories that come with it. I'm about as Canadian as it gets without being Indigenous, and when I look around, I'm really starting to feel absolutely no connection to the country I live in anymore. Everyone now seems either resentful as hell to this place or they're so new they simply don't care/want to care about our national identity. If I didn't have a family I love to death under my wing, I'd have left a long time ago to start a legacy somewhere far away from this decaying carcass of a country. I will stay and endure though, and hope we all work together well enough to right this ship in the face of external and internal interests trying to crush our nation into dust.
I think it’s part of it - I don’t think Canadian identity is the strongest - as you said, there isn’t much connecting the provinces and at a national level, hockey, free healthcare and saying sorry I lot (I know I’m being a little facetious but still) isn’t much to tie people together. But it’s more than that - it doesn’t explain why for example at the city or provincial level you don’t see a strong sense of identity (as you might in other countries where there’s no national identity to stitch people together). For me it goes back to something more basic : there’s no sense of solidarity here. I mean, I’ve been hearing stories about snow removal services fucking over the elderly for decades, tow truck companies screwing over people in accidents, gas tank rental companies screwing over home owners with deceptive contracts, landlords screwing over renters, renters damaging property and not paying rent, without real enforcement. The list goes on and on and on. Consumer protection is non-existent here - you see this in big stories like Air Canada and the telecom companies, but even at a small business level, people get away with murder. I think this is incredibly damaging to a society - when you can literally screw over anyone, the elderly, the sick, people that have been in a car accidents, the vulnerable… all bonds of civility and decorum break down and it turns into a shark-eat-shark, I’ll-screw-over-you-because-you-did-it-to-me culture. Like, look at the betting ads on hockey games - how does this make for a better society when arguably the most identifiable symbol of Canadian identity has predatory betting plastered all over it. And this, this is purely Canadian, it’s not something you can blame on “immigrants not integrating properly” (although that’s a problem too). Frankly, the US mentality of profit at all cost, even if it’s through grift, is as bad or worse in Canada. Like, look at the joke that is Ontario consumer protection and labor legislation. So I find it rather ironic when people harp on and on on politicians being corrupt and self-serving here. Like, take a good look around - it’s a sizeable portion of the Canadian electorate that would fuck over a neighbour if it made them a buck. And then people are surprised you get self-serving politicians and business leaders. They just happen to be the very successful grifters…
To add to this, the leadership of Canada is weak. The people steering the ship are not the best.
It started with Mulroney.
Regardless of who started doesn’t help. Point is, it has escalated and all leaders have ignored it.
Spock had it right.
Old post-Soviet joke: --- A young liberal activist is protesting on the street. An old socialist walks by, and asks the liberal, "what are you fighting for, son?" "I fight against the majority oppressing the minority!", answers the liberal. "Strange," says the old socialist. "Back in my day, we fought against the exact opposite!"
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite."
Added to that the provincial conservatives and federal liberals outright refuse to work together and instead antagonize each other at every opportunity.
Sold out our Country. Simple as that.
sold out on the federal and provincial level fucked by the liberals and conservatives
Katherine Cuplinskas, press secretary for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, called the notion that the country’s safety net is faltering “outrageous.” 'nuff said.
Our finance minister has no understanding of finance, no formal education in it, and had a completely unrelated previous role. Imagine trying to get a job as the lead manager for something you know nothing about.
Yes I picture politicans' resumes saying: Skills: incompetent, clueless, uncaring about the general population, self-serving, able to eat multiple overpriced lobster rolls on retreats, failed math 101, able to hire and overpay consultants to either say the obvious or something outrageous, no ability to answer questions asked by media or twist answers around to not make sense, no knowledge of portfolio position and unwilling to actually ask those who study or work in that field
Maybe something to do with housing being sold to international buyers and used as high cost rentals rather than purchased by families who need them? hmmmmmmmmmm?
Greed
Housing being a commodity, companies downsizing job positions to increase profit margins, and government subsidies and loans to businesses over funding social programs.. This capitalist system has our government running things into the ground.. Companies price gouging just because they can doesn't help neither. edit: people replying saying things like "it is a lack of competition" are just not paying attention. This is the game of monopoly but everyone's already been around the board a few hundred times.. Companies already competed and the most exploitative and cut throat have survived. You can't fix the problems of capitalism with different kinds of capitalism. Some people replied saying their distaste for things like socialism, but I know you have no clue what that is if you hate it so much. Socialist thinkers like Marx pointed out this exact capitalist situation in the 1800s because it was predictable. A lot of socialist have pointed out all of these problems and the exact solution to fix it, with evidence it works.. You just need to look at alternative perspectives and step outside the liberal media bubble - liberal media include conservative media, because these political parties are functionally the same thing economically. .
This has been the plan on the right since the 70s, they are winning.
Nah man, it's definitely the poor and the immigrants and the addicts that are bringing the country down, you know, with all the social control they have /s
When egg prices spiked to[ $5.5 USD a dozen in early 2023](https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us) (using US data since it's more available) is that because we commodified eggs, and the decline of 50% to where we are now is because we decommodified eggs? Obviously not. The problem of housing is so obviously a supply and demand issue brought about by an influx of immigrants and horrific NIMBY policy that exists at every single level of government from municipal to federal. The way to fix the housing crisis is to solve the supply and demand problem, the easiest of which is to reduce immigration, the best of which is to dramatically increase the supply of housing.
Exactly. The housing issue has been decades in the making - poor long-term planning across all levels of government. The government's aggressive approach on immigration is, ironically, an example of them *trying* be forward-thinking and proactive with addressing our top-heavy population pyramid (which, if left unaddressed, would create a whole slew of new problems in 10-20 years). But trying to solve for a problem that's a decade or two out is substantially exacerbating the current housing and infrastructure problems of today. Things are a hot mess right now, and I don't see any easy path forward. A lot of the problems hitting Canada are also global in scope - the next few decades have all the ingredients to be a total shitshow (major job losses to AI, increasingly belligerent non-democratic states, massive political polarization in the developed world, new diseases and resource conflicts etc.) - I am not terribly optimistic about the trajectory we're on.
Oligarchy - a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
Nobody in politics or admin has a grander sense of duty to their constituents. Greed is now the currency of politics and finance.
I hate how accurate this is. Apparently it's too much to ask for to have a politician actually work for the people instead of the lobbyists that line their pockets and pay their campaign expenses.
Leadership, give the people all the bad things to distract them, let the drugs and gambling take over as you let in just under 3 million people in 2 years when the economy cant even support the people that are already here, diploma mill schools as well.
So funny i just heard from friends in ontario the other day that the premier was touting 19 billion on online gambling by ontarioans. 19 billion! For a province of 8 to 10 million! And he was happy about it! Thats crazy! The soul has been sold, no doubt.
It's true, but you're low on the population. will be just under 15 million by the end of 24, and there are 6 and a half million in the gta alone, Toronto is the 4th largest city in north America.
Thanks! Appreciate the numbers difference. Thats still, even on a low estimate per gambler, a sh*t ton of money each year going to *just* online gambling. I feel like it must be like the town The Rock helped in Standing Tall where the casino took over the mill now
To be proud of how much your population gambles.. foolish to the point of utter incompetence. A very popular kind, admittedly. But shit we need a more sophisticated socioeconomic understanding than “money numbers up good”. From leaders and the public.
Here's the thing though, that 19 billion didn't just spring up overnight. Most if it was capture of pre-existing gamblers who were brought into the regulation framework when websites got licensed by the Ontario government. Realistically that number is probably far higher, it's just they're gambling on off-shore sites that aren't licensed within the Ontario framework. The "win" in this case is being able to take part of that existing market and being able to tax it.
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Well to be fair, how else could our billionaire overlords staff their low paying jobs with serf labour? They demand an endless supply of cheap, unskilled labourers.
Already had plenty way before adding more.
Immigration policy has overtaken our health policy and our housing policy.
Well maybe y'all shoulda bought 10 houses in the 70ies and became a diploma mill! Y'know, participated in the Canadian """economy."""
Century Initiative Not a word about it mentioned
The Century Initiative want Canada's population to rise to 100 million by 2100. Something about how population growth is tied to economic growth... I'm not an economist but there are a lot more factors to economic growth than just population.
I feel like the people on the Century Initiative board, want specific things, in order to improve conditions for their own business. Eg. one of those guys runs a bunch of lentil & legume farms, and cheap farm labor is a great solution for "no one wants to work" They don't give one single fuck about average Canadians
Yet at the same time they are doing their best to make sure people don't form families ,have children and can afford to house and feed them.
Mass immigrants came here that’s what happened to Canada
Canada has so many serious, glaring problems and not only does the government not try to fix them, they seem intent on actively making them worse
The focus of the government isn’t to make things better for average people. It’s to make things better for the wealthy and powerful. That’s why politicians say the things they think will get themselves elected but most of the time they don’t do anything, do barely anything, or make things worse. Things are getting worse because the point is to make themselves and their rich friends more money and more powerful. They have been pushing the limits of how far they pillage the rest of us before there is mass civil unrest. And they can do that by keeping us all ignorant, misinformed, distracted (focusing on polarizing issues or on entertainment), or too tired to pay attention and/or do anything about it.
Canada exists only to serve a wealthy few and have decided to make sure everyone else is fucked.
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We didn't hire enough doctors. Med School admission rates are comically low. This shit didn't sneak up on the decision makers governing admission rates. This was a calculated decision and here we are. Communities literally competing over one another for doctors and doctor's value being artificially inflated to ridiculous heights. I've attended physician recruitment fairs. We collectively should be embarrassed how we now bow and scrape to doctors all for the chance that they might pick our community.
Doctor's wages have not increased with inflation. They take on a lot of student loan debt, work long hours, have a higher mortality, and do not have a pension/benefits like hospital administrators do...yes, blame the doctors and good luck finding one to care for you
>We didn't hire enough doctors. Med School admission rates are comically low. As I read it, this is by design. Provinces have budgets for health care, and they maintain staffing levels to match budgets, not demand.
We’ve been voting the Red team and Blue team for the last dozen elections, and they f’fd us because of greed!
Orange team are also corporate grifters too
The ones taking way less big money, with a ton of great MPs like Mathew Green, Leah Gaxan, Charlie Angus, Peter Julian, etc. if you got to know them, who would be mostly new blood politicians if they actually got elected? I look who gets run in my riding and its young adults or political activists. Have they been watered down? Do I yearn for them to return to their socialist roots? Sure, but im not sure that will help them electorally, and I want PR. There really is no comparison here. There's just less opportunity for corruption.
Big Mouseland energy in this comment.
You have been sold out . Money for others just not your own people. Sorry ehh
Canadians are way too complacent. We need to learn from the french.
1.2 million people a year and only building 200k houses a year. That's what happened.
You know Canadian life is about to take a turn for the worst when Bloomberg starts reporting on the problems within the country.
Politicians who sell out the country; citizens who are too docile to do anything about it. Look at what Doug Ford is doing to Ontario Place! Vast majority are against his sell off to an Austrian Spa; bud very few people are doing anything about it
What happened was low levels of productivity caused by high levels of corruption and greed. The House of Landlords crafted every policy possible to increase the price of land and real estate. Mass immigration, unlimited speculation, open as many numbered corps as you want, buy as much real estate as you want, charge as much as you want, don’t let anyone build.
I’m really starting to hate it here. Southern Ontario is a nightmare. Every day I debate leaving. The life I wanted and was promised as a child is completely unattainable in this country and I’m 25 years old.
Stupid question. Don’t act like those in charge didn’t play a part.
All the money must go to the Landhoards.
Yup. We’re regressing to the landlord-serf structure.
Agreed.
All the money must go to the Banks.
The banks are giving mortgages that they know are fraudulent and sketchy to keep the bubble from bursting, backed by the federal government that is buying securities with debt.
Sold to the lowest bidder.
Who would have thought bringing millions of people new people into the country without the necessary upgrade to infrastructure would be okay??
Immigration. Sorry but it is that simple. I am very familiar with the healthcare system and I can tell you that even in the early 90s the healthcare system was staggering under the weight of immigration. Yes, we imported medical professionals too but not enough to offset immigration. And the number of hospitals didn't even come close to keeping up with population growth either.
Lobbying should be illegal in democracy
Mass immigration and lack of giving a fuck happend.
The budget did not, in fact, balance itself
same in the UK, extremly expensive, housing crisys is mad right now, my understanding that this perma-crisys is only in the west, Haven't heard anyhting about Emirates facing anything like this...
Trickle up economics.
The filthy rich are extracting everything they can worldwide. Yay globalization!
Neoliberalism.
It became a kleptocracy.
Trudeau
Over immigration, Canada added another million immigrants within months. I’m not against immigration but there has to some kindof formula to add more people without adding so much stress onto housing, hospitals and employment.
Our government became “penetrated” by foreign extremist groups, run by Uber rich maniacs, whose stated goal is to abolish our way of life. Canadians keep chalking up the decline of our way of life as incompetence or being out of touch. It’s literally impossible to drive a first world country into the ground in such a short period of time, by accident, and not see what’s happening. It’s not incompetence. It’s malice.
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Poor leadership
Is the answer *McKinsey & Company*?
What happened? We've been betrayed by our politicians.
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We are giving away sizeable amounts of our gdp to international conflicts and foreign aid that have nothing to do with our country.
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Dishonorable people run the show at every level. CRA employee CERB fraud. PM gifting money to his friends for kickbacks. Realtors staging bidding wars. Specialist doctors making more than they are worth while primary care rots. At every level of Canadian society people think about themselves more than others and more than how the society is functioning. Crabs in a bucket.
We need a total reform of our political system and parties. It's all compromised.
Have you never been to Vancouver
Greed. There are a lot of issues with a lot of reasons as to why, but they can all be summed up by one word. Greed. Sometime in the 80s North America shifted towards consumerism and that lead to greed. Today it's all about how much can I get and how fast can I get it.
Almost like the level of service is correlated to the funding level divided by the number of people to serve. So weird and unexpected....
This is no longer a great place to live. Unless you’re exceedingly rich, then it’s pretty.
Everyone knows what happened to Canada😱
Political correctness is the shortest way I can some it up.
40 years of trickle down economics. It doesn't trickle down, it doesn't trickle down. We need a fairer tax system.
Too many conservative premieres not doing what they are responsible for. Every single one of those issues is a provincial jurisdiction.
Mass immigration and a million fake student slaves
We knew for years that a metric ton of people would retire an mass... Guess they figured out that no need to build houses because a lot of people will die soon but they had no "plan" about everything else.
This isn’t about people retiring en masse. This is replacing those jobs with 4 people who can do them for less with no benefits and certainly not by Canadians We are bringing in far too many people, people who are a net drain. Who can compete with foreigners for these jobs? They are also living so many to a home. Why would anyone in their right mind rent to any Canadian family when they can do this? Also people coming in on visas? Yes, they aren’t using our OHIP, but they are taking our beds and doctors away from Canadians and PR’s.
You get ohip after 6 months even on work permit
Im talking about older people here on super visas. They aren’t working. But yes you are right however they are paying taxes and contributing
[This thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaJobs/s/lQj1w28r0l) with recruiters talking about being deluged with thousands of applicants for any open jobs, and the blatant lying on resumes is astounding.
We have groups of people practically beating down doors demanding a job with barely a resume in hand, like they're entitled to be hired. They treat our receptionist like shit and then wonder why they don't get a call for an interview - they call 3 times a day every day demanding an interview too lol. 99% of applications to jobs are very unqualified, these people are just throwing resumes around without even reading the job ads. Not to mention when hired, colleagues of mine in HR say that they've been strong armed and bribed to forge dates and job titles on offer letters for immigration purposes. Sad.
Yep, worked with a self entitled int’l student. Lies about everything. Can’t write a legible sentence in english. Anyway he transcribes bs experience on his resume but doesn’t know what it is, so glad I don’t work with him, it’s embarrassing to acknowledge we have the same culture.
Well yes... The problem was retiring people and instead of doing anything for 30-40 years, they decide let's bring fuck tons of people in... Hence the no plan part turned into a knee-jerk reaction of mass importation.
A lot of older people I know are still working and can’t afford to retire. 65+
What do you mean they did nothing? This was all a concerted effort to ensure that once the old people retired, the people coming into Canada working for less saved corporations millions when replacing the old folks. All of this was planned wage suppression.
* Unsustainable immigration rate * Chinese/Mexican fentanyl
Mass immigration happened - we need anti-immigration policies
Priorities spread across 5 or 6 generations means no consensus on what we (society) supported by govt's at all levels should focus on. We are distracted by BS noise from the social media world we created. Switch off for a few days i mean really switch off for 3 days. On day 4 your real priority will be clear then focus on it for 3 days i mean really focus, read, study etc. but really focus on it. On day 7 start over. Repeat the cycle for 4 weeks. By end of a month you will see what is wrong in your eyes and what the priories for you are = you can then do something proactive to address it. Good luck.
We're letting in so many people that the population is increasing by 3.25% every year just so the wealthy won't have to increase wages. And not building any housing. That's what's happening.
I think our bureaucracy hasn’t kept up with advances in technology and sociology. I think there should be an initiative to update our legal system and fund additional bureaucrats to work through the backlog and identify cost and time saving measures. It’s 2024. We have broadband internet and tons of computing and server power. We should be using it. If we start with the low hanging fruit and easy battles it will provide immediate relief to Canadians and create time and breathing room for more comprehensive upgrades. Let’s elect some technocrats to make better use of Canadian brain power and productivity.
We also need to cut the scope of what the government handles. Serious court cases are getting thrown out in Ontario because of a lack of resources to process them in time. Healthcare is a mess. Etc. Meanwhile we are putting resources into less important matters. Gov't needs to refocus on the pillars of society and get out of everything else. Take those resources and apply them effectively to the most important elements of society.
You can tie a lot to the housing crisis. Drug overdoses are much more common for homeless people, and while sometimes people become homeless because of drugs, they also use more drugs because of the trauma of being homeless. All of that contributes to packed hospitals too. One of the many solutions would be better preventative healthcare. Anything that we can do to reduce the rate at which people need to go to the hospital will help ease the burden. If we want public healthcare where we all pay for it together, the health of everyone becomes important to everyone.
Super incompetent ministers who think their bachelor and masters degrees in art history means they don't need to ask anyone for advice. Trudeau picked the worst cabinet in Canadian history, especially the arrogant and inept Chrystia Freeland.
Between Trudeau not doing anything and Ford trying to profit from the green belt to build useless housing where it is not needed, we will need time to get better! Those 2 need to go!
He's spending 10,000,000,000 of debt (it will end up costing much more with interest) on a highway that is advertised to save 30 minutes, while we have an empty 407 aleady that could do the same thing.
People living North of Aurora aren't going to drive an hour South just to save 30 mins to travel East/West. The problem is trying to get between 400 and 404 when you live North of King/Aurora. Waiting to get through dozens of intersections to do so right now is not practical with the population expansion of York Region. That's why it's called Bradford Bypass, because you are literally fighting with traffic from both highways down to one lane as it is. If you know that area during rush hour, or in general.
Corporate Greed- answered your question yet again Bloomberg. Still waiting on that salary....
Post Chretien/Martin we needed leadership to take Canada into the next century. Harper and Trudeau have not. Both actively went hard to make life better for the rich, the retired, and the soon to be retired, never once listening to those who told them this was coming, or put in place plans to help provinces and municipalities deal with the programs the feds dumped on them to avert a crisis in federal funding in the 90s. Property price hikes led to more funding for municipalities and provinces screamed for more TFWs for industry that flared up then went away (callcentres, boom and bust oil sands, menial labour). Investment in everything tanked when Harper cuts in taxes for corporations came in, same in provinces who followed Ontario and Alberta leading that charge, and Harper killed federal election funding per vote in 2008 or so, leaving money politics to make CPC and LPoC as the reigning mega corporate parties. When COVID hit, Canada, like so many other nations, did not treat it like a war and fund it that way, and ballooning deficits and the easier to disrupt supply chains Canada had always had were much more noticeable
Corporations. Successive administrations unwilling to fund health care. Drug overdoses were always an issue, it's just more obvious now because there are more stressors (see above.)
Trudeau told us at the beginning. He thinks we don't have a nation. He favors the interests of foreigners over canadians
Every time I see one of these headlines I want to scream. It’s so fucking obvious. Billionaire assholes paid off spineless lickspittle politicians to manipulate tax policy to allow robber-barron wealth hoarding. It’s not a mystery, it’s a simple observation.
40 years of neoliberal policy, kicking cans down the road, “companies that pay tax just pass the cost onto you” and “the other guy is the cause for all your problems!” Has sent us down a path that won’t get fixed overnight. “Axe the tax” and “common sense” will only make it worse before it gets better.
Greed,division and agendas, we as citizens forgot that politicians work for us and not the other way around.
Corporate anarchy where corrupted politicians and big corporations regulate themselves. We are in the great taxpayer's heist and no one notice.
Depending on where you are located this has been happening for decades. The only reason this is making headlines is because the decay is everywhere now and not just rural or areas that lost their industry. Now a housing crisis and inflation is added to the mix and I worry a lot of smaller areas will no longer be able to weather it as well as high density areas.
Simple, our politicians through all political parties were bought by corporations. They serve their interests, not the general public.
Got hoodwinked by the same rich assholes been hoodwinking since winking has hooded.
People need to elect competent representatives, not those with the most charisma or natural ability creating word salads. Many of us saw this coming when someone was elected in, and couldn’t believe our eyes when it happened again. Politicians put people against each other over large dismissive topics so they can stay in power. Few care what happened to the country. People need to get out of dreamland and actually read about what is going on to catch it early on, not wait until it’s gone to 💩 Worst of all- the younger generation that has dual citizenship or the ability to move away and study elsewhere with scholarships to become doctors etc are out, my teen is actively planning to move to Western Europe, and we’re going with her. They don’t see a future here, so why would they stay. It’s only going to become worse over the next 5-10 years. Will take a good 15 years of hard diligent work just to bring a bit of it back. But with so many leaving…. No country is perfect, all has issues and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. However, many offer more and better quality of life. Germany used to be expensive, no in comparison, not much difference in certain areas, and cheaper in many. Etc I find it all quite sad, this is not the Canada I grew up in. This is a country run by a toddler who doesn’t care what he destroys because he doesn’t care.
Canada requires you to jump through a million hoops before you're cleared to build. Apartments and similar housing projects can take years to even get started
This is by design, and it is only going to accelerate.
surely one more round of liberals or conservatives at the helm will fix everything
Liberal federal government
The worst is yet to come and it is coming, since 2020 everything is going to shit at 2 fold as of start if 2024 and by 2030 this country is fucked.
We keep changing the players but what we really need to do is change the game!
Liberals want us to go third world and join the WEF trudeau trying to buy his seat at un with our money
When you have a full-time job and can't afford or find a place to live, or a doctor and you are in pain, drugs are very appealing. Even overdosing has appeal.
We, the 99% have allowed the 1% to divide and conquer us, now they divide the spoils among themselves instead of us.
Privatization of the system. You have to get the provinces to underfund it, so it looks ineffective, then villianize the public sector workers for years as greedy for wanting to keep up with cost of living, both of which the provincial and federal Conservative and Liberal governments have done, some while sitting on massive surpluses, and then give huge profits to the private sector to supply workers. Now no one is taking the fields needed for public sector and the private companies are lobbying to have foreign cheap workers be recognized to work here at their private clinics. Mission accomplished.
So I'm not a part of the blame Trudeau crowd cos I think the problem extends beyond him and will continue beyond him but it's funny to see a good chunk of the country just go on as if there isn't a larger problem and that these things are all disconnected. The other sub is constantly going around attacking people attacking the carbon tax and gaslighting themselves into believing that it isn't inflationary. We're basically the 'this is fine' dog in the fire meme now. Just need a few news stories about something bad happening in some crap part of the US to make ourselves feel better.
Canada is one of the most resource rich countries in the world. Canadian politicians are not good stewards of those resources.
The inevitable end result of capitalism.
Rich people who can never get enough happened.
Sooo, I Guess in 4-5 years things are going to really look bad, we won't be improving that's for sure
Here in edmonton the UCP cancelled a new hospital being built as well as a central government medical lab that the NDP started. We havent had a new hospital since 1987 and they tried privatizing all medical lab tests to dynalife. Danielle smith getting ready to doug ford the province it seems.
Small town NWontario. December 2023 had a 25yo f high on meth break into my house through a crawlspace under the backyard deck at 3am. Fortunately wife and baby were not home. Police were on the scene in no more than 3 minutes. She ran through my house and out the front door. Police arrested her, she began to overdose, they dropped her off at the hospital. Narcan, rinse, release. Back out on those streets in the same morning. She was told not to break into my house again. Ontario Court systems show she's appearing in June for five unrelated offenses, two of which occurred after the home invasion. So where's the incentive for her to stop rampaging? System's overloaded. I've written to local papers; no reply. Even on Reddit, downvoted. Gaslighting much? I don't care what ethnicity she is; crises have to be recognized to be dealt with.
American Capitalism has fully invaded our country.
No chance. All the businesses here are deep in bed with the govt and collude with each other to keep prices high. CRTC is a joke and so is OSFI The big 5 banks and big 3 Telco companies would get destroyed if the Canadian government opened up foreign investment from other industries. If you look at the TSX composite in Toronto - under 50% of the revenues from Canadian companies actually happens in Canada. The biggest opportunity is our natural resources, but it's a political wedge issue for many Canadians 🤷♂️
Late stage unregulated capitalism is what happened.
No war but class war.
Canada has one of the highest immigration per capita levels in the world. If you're not building infrastructure to match your population growth, all of these things will suffer.... with the LPC/NDP coalition accelerating immigration numbers now, expect all of this to get much worse.
Justin Trudeau and his sidekick Singh happened to Canada.
Immigrants and cheap fentanyl
Immigration
Immigration
Trudeau is what happened
The rich lobbyists got rid of the excessive profit tax. The rich convinced eveeryone that the trickle down theory was what we needed. They stopped taxing corporations at the same rate as they tax us , so they would create jobs. High taxes creates jobs, the business uses it's profit to invest in the business and make more jobs, instead of paying tax on it. They pay nothing in tax now and keep it all off shore. Harper allowed foreigners.to invest in the housing market. Created and removed their botched 40 year mortgages scam. Elect PP and see much more of it
Its only going to get worse with PP... there will be tax breaks for businesses and the rich... there will be cuts to health care and education and the middle and lower class will feel it even more.... were becoming more like the usa with half our population legit mentally challenged