
Our ruling party is beyond hope. Not only was it unnecessary to prorogue Parliament for three months to choose a new party leader who will not stick around if he loses the election, all they talk about are tariffs when the main issue with our economy is our own doing. What Canadians refuse to recognize is that Trump did not create our problems, but rather he has exposed our weaknesses brought on by our own government that the world has turned a cold shoulder to.
Even if it comes from a crazy billionaire who somehow became President of the U.S., why are we hating on someone for calling us out on our own failures? It was Canadians who voted for a government that put us in this position in the first place. We accepted a government for close to a decade that refused to acknowledge we are a resource economy, favoured a few provinces at the expense of the majority, and preferred to spend our tax dollars on issues that do not concern us rather than building up Canada. It was Canadians that sat silent while it all happened.
We failed to take this to heart and as a result we have allowed our government to enact policies that resulted in poor productivity growth, less disposable income, increased crime, failure to correct our over-reliance on a single market (that has existed for decades), having vast amounts of wealth allocated to non-productive home equity, an inadequate military, and more important, our inability to recognize that Canada is still fundamentally a resource extracting economy.
Rather than change, Ottawa wants to enact tariffs in return. Copying your enemy is stupid and destructive. Instead, we must get even over the long run. First, we do the easiest which would be remove all trade barriers across Canada. This should help to keep prices down and it makes it easier to buy Canadian goods at a competitive price. Once this occurs, the priority should be to organize a free trade agreement between the countries facing US tariffs that leaves the US out of the deal. This would hurt Trump and open new markets for Canadian businesses.
Trudeau could have very easily sold our natural gas to Europe and Asia. They did come begging for it after all, but he is too dense to see the “business case”. The fact they came to us proves these countries would prefer to deal with Canada rather than Trump and the Middle East. Why did Trudeau not take a quick visit to Greenland to offer support to develop their rare earth metals after Trump’s threats? It would create demand for many of our industrial goods and shipping.
It must be a Laurentian thing, but what do people see in Mark Carney? Contrary to the argument that Pierre Poilievre has not had a “real job” outside of politics, Carney has spent more years than him in the political realm. If anything, Pierre should get more respect because he had to be voted in during his career unlike Carney who was always appointed. What do people see in this man? I see a combination of Trudeau and our Environmental Extremist Minister in one.
Carney and Co. will be terrible for Canada. He is a trusted board member of the World Economic Forum which is responsible for the modern-day Climate Change movement that has hurt every economy that jumped onboard. He proudly coached these economic destroying policies to Trudeau. Like most of the Climate Clan, Carney is a hypocrite. He is against pipelines in Canada but encouraged them in Saudi Arabia and South America from his seat on the Board of Brookfield Renewable. He is one of those phony Greens who will stop any progress using Climate Change as the excuse if it brings him wealth.
Carney wants to replace the current Carbon tax with one placed on industry only. This will make no difference because the cost will still be handed down to the consumer. He also wants a “carbon border adjustment system” that will impose tariffs on imported goods coming into Canada “if the government decides the countries of origin aren’t doing enough to fight climate change”. Is there even a metric for this to govern by? The guy has admitted to being a globalist and elitist in a recent interview but added “that that is exactly what Canada needs”. The fact is we need the opposite.
Any serious improvement in lowering GHG’s will be achieved by the private sector being allowed to evolve in a timely and affordable manner under reasonable environmental laws. It is the profits from private industry that has made the largest strides in lowering a carbon footprint. Unfortunately, nothing will change until we replace the Liberals with a real government. We need to stop blaming Trump who exposed our weakness as a nation. We are our own worst enemies and must start working at correcting our mistakes. Step one is voting out the Liberals. If we do Canada could easily be the number one country to invest in. If not, there will be severe voter regret before Christmas.
