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But there are some fundamental strengths too.
“If you were drawing up a country from scratch, a well-educated, well-resourced, not overpopulated country would be what you would want, right? So, I think Canada has all those things, all those features,” he said.
“I think we just have to unlock them.”
I mean, based on my current observation were definitely in a difficult place but it could be a lot worse. The question is how fast we can adapt without breaking ourselves in the process.
Our nation is a plantation for like 30 people who own all of the duolopolies here, which themselves set all of the regulations here in Canada to make it too expensive or impossible to compete with these established rent seekers.
There’s no will to change from the capitalists that effectively own this country. Anything else is moot since they own both the means and the medium for debating whether change should happen and what it should look like.
5 banks
2 railroads
2 grocery store parent companies (80% goes to presidents choice. I still think it’s hilarious the word choice is in their name when that’s their business model… The illusion of choice)
4 meat Packers
2 food distributors (mostly Sysco)
General Mills, J&J, and maybe 4 other parent companies (all American) own and manufacture 80% of what’s in your supermarket or drugstore.
3 vehicle parent companies that own every brand imaginable.
3 guys own all of our main stream media, print, and radio.
I could go on and on…
Everything is merged and consolidated into these gigantic duolopolies. The same people own both of the companies, but it technically skirts our anti-trust laws because it’s two separate entities.
While I don’t dispute anything you’re saying what’s your proposal to change this that is grounded in geopolitical reality?
An NDP/Green majority will never happen in our lifetime. What do we do instead? We will never be a socialist state. How do we be more responsible capitalists?
It’s not your choice to be presiential, it is the president’s choice what the store carries and you take it or get nothing.
I have no name, and I must buy
The whole economy is supported by a housing bubble that’s too big to burst and oil and gas that’s about to be phased out within a decade for renewable energy. Until we bring back our manufacturing sector back up, we ain’t got shit.
According to the stats in that article, we’re middle of the pack amongst the G7 (except for household debt, in which case we’re number one).
The article highlights how younger and poorer Canadians are bearing the brunt of the housing/affordability crisis.
With the damage the Orange Turd president to the south of us is trying to inflict, we aren’t doing as well as we’d like, but we are managing.
The Americans hate Carney, but Carney as Prime Minister of Canada, is the right man for the job, very diplomatic, and extremely smart, crafty with his wording. The Orange Turd on the other hand is an imbecile, and Carney knows it, and is dealing with accordingly. We aren’t doing making inroads in de tangling our economies, which is of prime importance.
