By William Corden
Remember , Canadian voters.
You are not voting for a new regime, you are voting for the figurehead of an entrenched Liberal administrative system that has reduced the wealth of the second largest country on earth to survival mode.
It’s a system that’s embedded in every level of Government.
It takes a special level of ineptitude to bring a rich country to the point where its everyday citizens have no hope of buying a decent home or struggle to maintain a modest lifestyle.
All at the altar of woke policies.
We, as a country, don’t do anything anymore, we’re too scared of offending the 3% that make up our special interest groups.
Let’s look at a few examples of incompetence or sloth or corruption. (Although to be fair, we don’t have a culture of large scale corruption.)
The shipbuilding industry for example.
Here we are with an abundance of natural harbours, engineering expertise and a storied maritime history and yet we don’t have any of the international shipbuilding market.
Look at the cruise ships that have been built over the past decades. Did we even get one of them?
No, even though we have shipyards sitting here waiting. All we do in the meantime is let the cruise ships tie up at our tourist docks
Our own publicly owned Ferry corporation has its new ships built in Europe, when we’re perfectly capable of building them here (we built the superferries!) It’s a Provincial responsibility but the Federal Government controls the funding.
For our military we’ve purchased used submarines on which we’ve spent billions of dollars in repair (and still they’re out of date.)
On the energy front we have fabulous amounts of oil and gas , enough to be self sufficient and export the surplus. It’s all either locked in the ground or it’s taxed on Canadians to the point where overseas buyers get it cheaper than we do.
Overseas buyers don’t pay green taxes like we are forced to do, and when they burn it the greenhouse gases get blown back our way
Carney, who was one of the architects and advocates of the ridiculous carbon tax, has now changed tack and tells us that he’s in favour of releasing our energy but you can bet your life that it won’t make the cost of living any cheaper for resident Canadians.
We need a wholesale gutting of the senior levels of Public Service and their “expert” advisors … Don’t get taken in again by these impractical dreamers.
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4 Responses
Very polite, Mr. Corden, but perhaps too much so.
One has to address the level of taxation which is a feature of Canadian life; approximately 50% of our incomes are taxed at some level… Now figure out why we have become a country that makes next to nothing industrially speaking. And consequently figure out why unemployment is basically ignored, such as it is: Those who are not producing are swiftly inducted into the Civil Service at some level… and we all pay their wages (and incredible retirement benefits) from our taxes.
Let me put it this way from a personal standpoint. This is not the Canada I came to when I immigrated from Scotland over 50 years ago. At that time, everyone here knew where he/she stood in all respects. One could call the country at that time “somewhat primitive” in some respects, but the high energy level was obvious, as was the abundance of working talent.
Since then we have been regulated into utter passivity…
Hello Keelie.
I came here in 1974 so I guess we arrived at just about the same time.
I came straight to Vancouver from Jersey in the Channel Islands and it was booming at the time (even with an NDP Government)
Macmillan Bloedel was the big guy in town and everywhere you went there were logging trucks, every beach was piled up with driftwood logs and debris and the downtown area was throbbing with industry. If you had some sort of trade you didn’t have any problem getting a job … and it was ” start tomorrow”
The fishing fleet was enormous too and you got a real sense that this was a place of opportunity.
Banks were hiring, trading companies were hiring and the future was as rosy as can be.
From East to West we were a country with a hard working ethic and we had a great reputation as a place to live a comfortable and safe life. My salary when I arrived was double what it was back home.
Then the environmentalists/liberals started to put their stamp on everything and the Wokesters started to tell us what we could and couldn’t say.
Industry died but affluent cities still grew because wealthy people started to immigrate and the country lapsed into passivity.
We stopped producing.
We are now a nation of socialist administrators.
The people in power have no one to stop them, so they impose tax after tax without regard for the hardship it causes, all to fulfill their carbon phobia agenda and pay guilt taxes for the dispossessed.
Communications from City Hall tell me that I live on unceded lands, so I don’t even own the property I paid for.
Each communication is signed off with a clarification as to what gender the employee wants to be recognised as…. and these people are invariably on salaries around $75/80,000 a year plus benefits.
Now you don’t need to leave your house to get your welfare cheque. Now it’s $160 to get a passport, now it’s $50 a month for a Community Center pass ( it used to be $5) My property taxes have doubled in the past 5 years and yet services have been cut back.
There’s no limit as to what they can impose in fees and taxes and no way to stop them.
Well, there is a way… kick them out and ferret out the policy advisors.
We’ve got a long way to go to get this place back on the straight and narrow.. it’s still better than living in the old country but we’re heading back to that level pretty quick.
“Now it’s $160 to get a passport,…..”
That’s around $115 U.S. – you got off easy – I just paid $160.00 in America for a passport book and card.
It just goes to show…. nowhere’s immune. We used to go to the US for bargain shopping but those days are gone.
No matter who you vote for.. the Government gets in😊