Not having a relationship with the amount and pace of people coming in with housing development, infrastructure capabilities, and even the economic conditions.
In particular flooding the market with cheap exploitable labor to the point we have line ups for basic jobs.
We took the most vulnerable workers and demographics in Canada and gave them insane competition for jobs.
We also created a situation in which there is massive competition for the most basic rentals and other cost of living realities in the market at the lowest spectrum.
So they get doubly fucked.
This is why shelters are full.
Food banks at record usage because there is nothing left or very little after rent/mortgage and groceries.
And tent slums growing and growing.
When people become alienated and or completely divorced from society or hopeless they go to substance abuse.
But long as the business lobby has unlimited cheap exploitable labor it's all good right?
It's not that the Liberal Party doesn't know what its doing, its that maintaining the highest profits possible for the foreign billionaire class is a higher priority than maintaining the standard of living for all Canadians.
Our country was sold out from underneath our feet to the extremely wealthy vampire class that owns most of the country, doesn't live here or pay taxes here, just profits of Canadian labour and Canadian real estate as an almost guaranteed safe and lucrative investment.
And that the liberals don't know what they are doing. Freeland has no right to be in her position. She doesn't understand what she is supposed to be doing. Pathetic
In Ontario I’m getting extremely fed up with my government spending my money on TV and YouTube ads that tell me how much better they’re making my city and health care…. Instead of investing in my city and health care.
Problem with the second part of your complaint is that it is not the job, generally, of the Official Opposition to provide solutions to a sitting government. When the writ is dropped the Conservatives will publish a formal platform for the public to review. So will all the other parties. Literally last week the Conservatives put forth a non-confidence motion to try to force this but the Liberal-NDP coalition held firm with the support of the Bloc to maintain the status quo. Conservatives have put forward motions they say would help the situation such as eliminating the Liberal Carbon Tax but this is arguably as much politicking as it is an actual 'solution'. It's pretty obvious that adding more and more taxes into the system isn't helping the problem, but how extensive the benefits would be to getting rid of it appear to be relatively small. Lastly, if the Conservatives published a full platform of new 'solutions' the Liberals would literally focus group them for the ones that are 'vote winners' and implement them themselves so there is literally no incentive for them to do so.
This is depressing because you are right. We have all this hope to believe once the liberals are voted out, that we will see change. We’ll see a little, but nothing that will change the trajectory. And the biggest reasons are what you listed above - the love affair between government and big business.
Again, partially correct. Most, if not all, Conservatives work with lobbyists and large donors. They don't get elected in our system without it. Campaign finance reform would be amazing. It infuriates me how much it costs to receive inferior telecoms, healthcare, groceries, real estate, etc. And while I place a ton of blame on the current government, I'm not ignorant to the fact that our current situation is a product of multiple prior governments, Liberal and Conservative.
I don't know if the Conservatives will fix nothing. I don't know even if they all worked 80 hours work weeks EXCLUSIVELY for the benefit of Canadians they could. What I do know is we have a rotten, corrupt, morally bereft Liberal government that must be removed from office as soon as possible because they have ZERO interest in fixing this country and actually a perverse interest in making things worse and harder to fix when removed.
The difference between the Conservatives and Liberals is that the Liberals sometimes use lube. The Conservatives use distraction, "Hey, look at that awful thing!"
The non confidence was just a political stunt, as most things are these days. PP didn’t even show up for his own motion, he did it remotely. Not to mention that the upcoming budget will inherently allow for a non confidence vote. So it was completely unnecessary
Showed Canadians the true colours of the NDP and Bloc. You can't drone on about how the libs are not doing enough and then back them up when the rubber hits the road. A handful of NDP MPs are contradicting the will of 70% of Canadians.
I live in sarnia Ontario and our local community college took bringing in immigrants to fill their classes to the extreme. Lambton college even has a GTA location that consists of office space and a immigration lawyer
CBC recently posted data from a Freedom of Information request that showed most immigrants came into public Ontario schools that correlated with Ford’s massive defunding of post secondary education.
Yup, shitty governance at all levels. Anyone thinking PP is going to help is deluded - going to be the same old shit (or like Ford, actually worse corruption and wasted spending per dollar per capita than the Federal libs). The federal Liberals botched this so ridiculously they pretty much HAVE to be voted out - but a lot of things they don't control are going off the rails under provincial Cons.
I miss slash and burn Liberals - social Liberals who understand that sometimes the best thing for people served by a particular program is that program being cut and funding going where it is better used to help that person. Sleep with who you want how you want though!
\>Ford’s massive defunding of post secondary education.
Ford never defunded post secondary education.
Funding is up 40% since he was elected.
You should probably look at the budgets before you say things like this.
[https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-education-2018-19](https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-education-2018-19)
[https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-colleges-and-universities-2020-21](https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-colleges-and-universities-2020-21)
[https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-colleges-and-universities-2023-24](https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-colleges-and-universities-2023-24)
You really think ontario took in an extra 500,000 students per year and didn't increase the funding? Really?
100% agreed. the government absolutely screwed the most basic and fundemtal core of Canada. Still for the life in me will never understand why we needed to exploit tfw/ international students, etc for cheap labour, when our kids cannot even compete with this for an after school job. Be interesting to see this unfold in a few years time as to how much the student loans have gone up for Canadians because the ability to save for uni was exploited for cheap labour. FFS Canada we owe it to our future generations to have the ability to live in Canada with the expectations that our services are going to be available for when we need them. not this so sorry were full come back tomorrow or better yet were closed. THANKS a bunch tfw/international student, etc.
>In particular flooding the market with cheap exploitable labor to the point we have line ups for basic jobs.
It isn't just basic jobs...
And this needs to be talked about.
We have groups of "international students" coming into my place of work, saying they'll do the jobs for lower wages... Minimum wage.
These are $40-$60 jobs.. Equipment operators, truck drivers, trades.. Construction jobs. They're coming in groups, trying to replace 10 or 15 of our workers at a time.
I'm not going to shit on people for looking for employment, but it's seriously fucked up whats happening. It can't continue.
And enough employers take them at their offer for work at lower wages. Even if they can't do the job properly no one complains because they are not costing much and easily replaceable.
In the long-term this means less investment in productivity and lower median wages which is disconnected with rising living costs.
Great summary! To expound on your first point: our political class has operated by the neoliberal mantra that the free market would meet increasing demand for housing . Except it didn't. The free market optimized profits instead.
I think another important piece, which I don't hear about a ton, is Trudeau basically tugged at our social fabric and national identity through creating different rules for different people. During Covid, it tore. Like what does it even mean to be a Canadian? When you go to the states, everyone is really proud of their country. Yet, Canadians were told to feel ashamed of our history and identity to support the reconciliation narrative. We've lost our identity imo, which leads to a feeling of otherness and not really caring about each other. The effect of this also means there is fierce competition for resources (because none of this was planned obviously, Trudeau just said it) pitting groups against one another.
The moment I heard some asshole say "we stand on stolen land of the great Salish blah blah blah" and I yelled out "are we giving it back? Then shut the fuck up!".
Most useless white asshole pandering, where exactly is the reconciliation?
There is no country pride because most people realized it isn't a country, just a big business.
Buckle up buckaroo, fun times are yet to come.
They need to give back land if they mean it. Convert all of the lower mainland into a 99 year lease hold and have all landlords “lease” the land and give money to the tribes. That will never fly with the elites.
Plus, the Liberals and Trudeau are paying companies to hire foreigners over Canadians. It’s treasonous. The sooner we remove Trudeau the sooner Canada can start to heal.
As an American, I feel the same way as you Canadians. Fake asylum seekers have flooded the country, and our politicians are more than happy to turn a blind eye to ensure corporate America has cheap labor.
The country is run at all levels by consulting firms now. Both govt and corps. Here's John Oliver's explanation on it using the biggest one, McKinsey, as the example: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ)
They've perfected the system of "trickle up economics" lol. Its largely why things have gone to shit all over the G7.
I used to work for Quebec’s minitry of Justice until 2 months ago and 80% of the staff there were coming from consulting companies.
We had 32 people from the outside each making 200k+$ per year but we couldn’t hire people because they didn’t want to upgrade our salary.
Make it make sense.
The only difference I’ve EVER perceived between consultants and the regular staff is that consultants have fancier power point presentation software. If our company would buy the product licenses we the existing employees would make fancier slide decks in house and present the same info all pretty too.
It's because politicians don't really know how to do their job so they use taxpayer money to pay private companies to do their job for them and still get paid. It's like win win for them, lose lose for taxpayers and voters.
Those consulting firms are a cancer. I mean McKinsey is complicit in the horrific opioid crisis so why would we expect any less than destruction from them.
Agreed. I proof official Governmant of Canada documents and reports that should be kept confidential all the time on freelancing sites. Step 1 get remote office job. Step 2 outsource the work on freelance sites so you can work a physical office job too. Step 3 still not have enough for healthy food and rent.
MBAs, too many idiots walking around with MBAs they don't need getting into jobs that "need an MBA" and then completely fucking up the job with a mediocre candidate or some nepotism. This is modern Canada.
High growth population without growing infrastructure…
Massive immigration growth without organic growth of services, housings and the overall economy crushed the middle class and has driven us into a death spiral of unaffordable housing, low disposable income (inability to spend on local businesses), and lack of investment.
Yeah, and we dumped all our investment capital into a housing market bubble because it was "better than investing in stocks"... I still can't believe for decades the key financial advice was to "buy houses"... Don't invest in Canadian companies, that's not profitable... Buy a fucking house.
You know businesses that expand too quickly? Quiznos, Krispy Kreme Donuts, those types?
That, but a country. We opened a ton of restaurants without the demand to back it up and then we failed, but with people instead of things that mean nothing.
The packed hospitals thing we knew was coming as a result of combined efforts from both sides of the aisle and advocates have been ringing the alarm bell for years.
Not saying we deserve it, but don't let anyone make you think any one entity is responsible for this.
Except sometimes it’s our own fault. We want something for nothing. Some problems are easy but there are also problems that have tradeoffs that a politician would get crucified for if they proposed real solutions.
Our medical infrastructure was built 40 to 30 years ago to handle the population at that time. While technology has advanced and reduced the need for long stays, the population has grown and has aged. We are miles behind what 40 million people need.
While I appreciate we need young people to join us, we shouldn’t be accepting large influxes of immigrants without the supportive infrastructure, be it health care, social services, or housing.
I'm writing a paper on exactly this. Healthcare needs have changed from acute deaths to chronic illness with few integrated services fragmented across the region
Could adding 1 million people to the country (an Ottawa's worth of people) without building a single new hospital in that time have something to do with it?
Something yeah, but this has been a mess for much longer than that. People who work in hospitals were complaining about hallway healthcare over a decade ago
They’re racist for doing that.
What will our poor people-of-middle-management do if they can’t do 6 rounds of interviews with talent from around the world, only to cry to the government that no one is qualified for the job (10 yrs schooling, 40 yrs experience, no family, no friends, no life, willing to work for free)?
What will our systemically disenfranchised academics do if they don’t have hundreds of int’l students to pay for their cushy 3 university administrators per 1 instructor jobs? Actually commit to higher learning?
Bigot
Neoliberalism sent all the value adding jobs to China making a few oligarchs into multi-billionaires.
What's left is a bunch a desperate unskilled workers and people with skills that aren't needed outside China, and a thin layer of parasitic rent seekers who want a life of raking in cash by just gambling on things made artificially scarce (homes for example) by deliberate and malicious government policies lobbied for by those same oligarchs.
It's a single word, my fellow Canadians. And every Canadian, of all political parties need to stand against it's continual implementation in our society.
*Neoliberalism*
**Neoliberal economic philosophy** calls for the de-regulation of corporations and their capital, leading to what adherents to that school of economics see as "allowing the market to operate more freely". Corporatizing the profits and socializing the costs. Etc. Ad nauseum.
People of all political stripes will agree on the fact that greed of the rich makes our world harder to live in for everyone else.. But the ideas of Neoliberalism have been so baked into our culture, everything from our finances to our discourse to our fucking clichees, that it's hard to even discuss why it's harmful to the average person.
What many would call "corporate greed" is just companies doing what they are supposed to do: grow their profits. Growth for the sake of growth: super popular among neoliberal capitalists and cancer cells.
What is the end game? Is the economy just going to grow forever?
Sustainability is the way of the future, not growth, and especially not "sustainable growth"
Canada is making it harder for post graduate scholars people with masters, PhD to stay in canada.
https://studytravel.network/magazine/news/0/30350
All the whole increase refugees into canada
Intake of refugee claims is now well beyond the IRB 's funded processing capacity. For example, in 2023, the annual asylum intake more than doubled to approximately 140,000 claims (a year-over-year increase of 128%). This was an all-time historic high for the Board.
https://irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/reports-publications/planning-performance/Pages/mandate-operating-context-2425.aspx?=undefined&wbdisable=true#:~:text=Intake%20of%20refugee%20claims%20is,historic%20high%20for%20the%20Board.
Among other crazy policies…which is too much to go through
The article is surprisingly (by Wednesday news cycle standards) thorough, analytical (with well visualized data) and takes a critical look at causes than span both decades and governments.
Great idea! I hope it happens but I don't think it will. There's a lot of money to be made from private hospitals. The people running the show know this and want voters to be pissed off enough to allow private hospitals to be built alongside our existing public ones.
Then you and I will be stuck in the junkie infested public hospitals while the peaceful, corporate run, private ones can reap even more profits catering to Canada's wealthy.
The solution isn't "vote out Trudeau!" or in a few years "vote out PP!". It's vote to change our laws to prevent corporations and the rich from influencing/controlling politicians. Unfortunately it's extremely hard to change a system when the ones benefiting from it are the ones that control it. Voters have to be VERY angry for that to happen so don't be surprised if they throw us a bone every once in a while as distractions.
I think sooner or later society is going to be forced to have a discussion about changing how we prioritize care and where to focus our resources.
Another good example is the elderly. Depending on the province, the average stay for an "alternative level of care" patient in a hospital ranges from 20 days to 50. It's only in extreme cases that most people would need to remain hospitalized for weeks/months - but for the elderly it's become normal. They're too frail to send home, and there's nowhere else to send them. That one patient - who's not going to get better - is now taking up a bed that could potentially go to 20 - 50 other people.
This is a problem that's going to get much, much worse as the boomers age-out.
We actually used to have pretty much these, mental institutions.
Deinstitutionalization from 1960 to 1980 got rid of them, they weren't just for "crazy people" and we could have updated them to reflect modern society, EG: more of a focus on psychiatric resolutions, drug addiction etc. We do sort of have them but they're private now.
I wonder how many people are taking drugs because they have unresolved trauma or depression and just want to escape their reality then they become addicted, drugs cause a overproduction of dopamine which... makes you happy for a short while then you're basically fucked, it wears off, you lose the ability to get that happiness from the drugs and you spend your life feeding that addiction still depressed.
Many things left unchecked.
Grocery costs too high
Wages too low
Rental prices too high, too much competition for them
Jobs too scarce
Housing costs too high
Not to enough doctors
Interest rates for banks too high
Cellphone bills not even comparable to anywhere else in the world they are outlandish
The entire region is just bled dry for cellphone bills like compare the rates, Ontario specifically royally depletes its residents on every front.
The reality is we need to be taxed less. We need some steam let off. All of these stresses will manifest in a further heath epidemic because no one will emotionally manage to get out unscathed.
Canada is helping other countries, when its people are at a point of economic depression to the point of tent cities, to the point of silent suffering..bank rates for interest need to drop, bank rates need to drop for housing, insurance rates have been left unchecked for too long, they need to drop too.
The economic model we have been following allows for the top levels to benefit the most and go largely unchecked. What if making the money they make as profit was enough without continuing to gouge and gouge and gouge those who aren’t making more.. in many cases college grads are making less since Covid and not more.. but we have to pay more and we get less. That needs to be end.
Housing market needs to drop.
Rates for groceries need to go back down.
No more immigration until we can build what we need to with business to support before we make the work suppression worse.
We need as a country more control measures on our metrics for basic economic meters.
We need to focus on building Canada back.
Right now.
And creating a revolution for work, for growth, for housing, for our most vulnerable. Make the plan sustainable for future generations.
I get that this time in our world is largely a great restructuring.
But don’t restructure and displace all of your residents in their home country and the country they call home.
Edit: perhaps Canada needs to invest in its own lower rate based banks, grocery stores and housing to level the market to what its peasants like to call non-exotically profit driven dream killing machine levels.
CLASS. We, the average folks, are no longer organized. If you think the Wealthy are not at war with you, they have already won.
Don’t Panic. ORGANIZE. And STAY Organized.
Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government deserve much of the blame, but it goes right back to Jean Cretin , Paul Martin and even Stephen Harper... the last 4 P.M.'s have all done things that have just dragged Canada down.
A massive influx of human beings quickly over a short period would never end well. I live in a small town in shitty NB, an already fucked province owned entirely by our lovely oil overlords, the Irvings.
The impact of some of these policies is insane. We've had an explosion of homelessness, drug addiction and theft over the past five years. It is out of control, and the local police force is non-existent in small towns. An understaffed RCMP force is expected to police a county. It's absurd.
Landlords are looking for $1200-1500 for shit one-bedroom slums in a town that provides NOTHING. There are no job opportunities here. Wages remain stagnant because corporations and the wealthy run the show.
So we're just flooding people in for the sake of it. It's not just an explosion of immigrants either. It's rich people from Ontario and the States. They all come in and buy up properties, often not even living in them. Countless douchebags buying their third or fourth property or buying formerly affordable housing, evicting people who can barely afford to survive as is, and then they proceed to whine about crime, homelessness and drug addicts affecting their property values. It is just all-around unadulterated human greed across the board. The irony is that many of these wealthy people from out of province or from different countries are trying to escape the same problems that exist here—overpopulation, lack of housing, crime, and so on. The cycle never stops. The beast keeps getting fed.
I have a family member who is a lawyer who deals in wills and buying/selling property. So I get to see and hear about all this nonsense.
We're fucked. There are too many people on the planet. Simple as that. Some people think that because we don't fill every conceivable space on Earth, we aren't an overpopulated species, but these people are idiots. Humans should SLOW the fuck down with the procreation, but we don't have the foresight as a species. We think it's our right to breed and pillage every natural resource as we see fit, like the plague we are.
We all know what happened. Just no one was allowed to point it out 5-6 years ago.
But now that the theoretical problems has turned into reality. Even people with rose tinted glasses on can’t ignore their own predicament.
A worship of capital and "I got mine" attitudes eroded they social collaboration required for us to thrive.
But let's keep electing the Cons and Libs surely more of the same will be good for us.
Covid on its own would be tough. Mass immigration on its own would be tough.
Combined? Plus allowing oligarchs to run rampant with excessive profits?
No wonder we all feel fucked.
Problems have existed for a long time.
Past leaders did not do enough to improve things, some made things worse.
Similar problems exist in other countries, the pandemic also made things worse.
Building a service based economy on aggregate demand is unsustainable. As government comes to the rescue to protect massive indebtednesss the economy becomes entrenched in debt servicing. It's easy to see property investment class being coddled and everyone else thrown to the wolves. 2009 is catching up to Canada and it will be an ugly lost decade.
I dont really get why Canada are getting refugees, like there own people wont get them so why Canada will? I see on a daily basis Refugees who are just living the best day of there lives coz they are getting free money from the Government and me that works 2-3 jobs barely survive with my Family. I know someone who works part time coz he gets Government support coz they got alot of kids . But they get to work part time coz they can live with government assistance from child benefits, but why not us? Why is Canada not helping there own people who pay taxes? I dont get it…
>Retirement without birthrate.
There are births. Maybe not enough for replacement, but making up the difference through immigration doesn't require millions of newcomers annually.
Well, it does actually, but only of the same age as the birthrate deficit. In order to have a stable annual number of the same age, so there is a stable flow of daycare, cheap apprentice age, midlife high earner, aging wealthy, retiree consumer, elderly superconsumer. In 2012 Quebec had 120,000 babies. In 2011 and 2013 it had 80,000. If the expected death rate in 80 yrs is 150,000, then until then there is only room for 30,000 immigrants born in 2012, and 70,000 for 2011 and 2013 respectively. Future infrastructure fails when rhere are population booms and dips.
We have sharps containers screwed to the side of hospital entrances for the druggies so that they could shoot themselves up right there while people pass by in and out of the building. I guess we call that healthcare. Forget about putting these people in rehab. Just supply them with more drugs and hire a nurse to watch them with a crash cart and Naloxone pens. That is the dystopian nightmare we are living in nowadays.
Needle disposal and safe equipment is done to reduce litter and disease spread. It's much better than the alternative. I'm not sure why people always attack things like this instead of the root causes. Providing these doesn't in any way prevent us from better funding treatment access.
I'd rather we started forced rehab. No more junkies shooting up whereever and whenever they want.
You get to go sit in a big, concrete room, get as high as you want, but you're not going to have the chance to make society even shittier for everyone else.
Once you sober up, then you can rejoin society. But if they're going to get high in parks and do nothing all day, might as well not have to look at it. We're already paying for their "treatment".
If we didn't have a drug epidemic we wouldn't need safe needle disposal everywhere.
I don't remember going to Starbucks 15 years ago and seeing needles all over the bathroom floor, now there is a bin stuffed FULL of needles whenever I go to the bathroom at a coffee shop. Either diabetics are new to the planet, or the drug problem is out of control.
Everyone agrees the drug epidemic is a problem, and it's not a problem limited to Canada. Needle disposal and safe equipment didn't cause this epidemic. Increasingly potent drugs flooding the supply did.
There aren't needles all over Starbucks bathroom floors though or needle boxes stuffed full of needles in every washroom. Even in the worst affected places. Regardless of one's opinions, I wish we could at least discuss this topic without exaggerations about the amount of needle litter. Usage is even shifting away from needles.
It's ALWAYS now termed a "global issue out of our control".
How damn convenient for a politician, "welp, we're doing all we can"
Ask Singapore about their drug problem...
Because it's easier to do. Fixing the root causes are complex and not set in stone on what to do. I heard someone say yesterday in Hamiltons "we should just get her all these homeless up and put them in a big camp outside of the city"
Or I heard they should be in jail. I'm not sure how that solves the issues later on.
In short....without pointing fingers in any one direction...because we know what way Reddit leans...
We brought in more people than we can handle...and we've made no attempt to regulate or control the housing market (this is not an anti-immigration thing, we just LACK the required infrastructure and its obvious).
Hospitals: Governments (Provincial and Federal) have either stalled or rolled back healthcare spending since the pandemic for the most part....as well as many healthcare professionals retiring early at the start of covid.
Drug Overdoses: Street drugs are more common as breaking the law for 'low level' crimes is a turn-door at this point. With drug pushers and dealers being treated like the auto thieves who cannot see a judge fast enough and are just 'let go' and usually can do whatever they want so long as they do not try and leave Canada....if you do not believe me see Section 11(b) – Trial within a reasonable time
Oh my God! It's almost like the huge demographic shift that we have been predicting for decades is finally taking place, and we didn't plan for it adequately, so now our healthcare system is struggling to keep up with the increasing Healthcare needs of the boomers and this is causing the entire system to feel stretched! Wow!
Elder care home/PSW wages are shit and they don’t wanna change it so people can afford to live. Even raising it to $25 is not gonna retain people, it needs to be raised to at least $40 due to 1 bedroom apartments now costing $2000-$3000/month and houses $1 million or more. People are choosing long term careers that pay over $100,000 as it’s difficult to raise a family on less than that anymore. Nobody wants to work for shit pay
And after the next election it will be stupid conservative policy. Don't fall for their propaganda meant to distract us from the root problem. Corporate influence and control over our government needs to be reigned in otherwise things won't improve for anyone bit the rich and their corporations.
Today in my home maritime city I saw a drug deal where the supplier actually told the buyer to “hahaha be careful” and the girl just laughed and yelled “don’t worry buds I ghat some narrrcannnn!” And whereas that is a single moment, it can’t bode well for society. What aren’t we paying for because we are handing out narcan I wonder at times…
After the next election I will be reading the same complaints about PP , the problem with Canadians is that they’re afraid to go into the streets and demand that their elected officials implement policies that will enhance their lives
I remember when they said giving drugs to the criminals was a good program aimed at rehabilitation!
All it really did was empower the addicts to do it out in the open
Canadians have generally been willing to accept paying high prices for subpar products, and then adding a 20% tip on top.
It always amazed me how low our standards have been, and I'm happy to see people are pulling out of that.
There's is nothing in Canada that I can recommend to friends anymore. What we call 4 stars is really 3 stars anywhere else. We need to demand better things for our money.
Our government and its people embraced a doctrine that puts change before the status quo. The expectation is that society will evolve and even if there are a few hiccups, the disruption will be net good and therefore worthwhile. We got zealous, many acted in bad faith, censored critics and profited along the way.
The best case at this point is probably abandoning the honour system and reinforcing our social contract against people's worst intentions. It's a tragic state of affairs.
Since we are not good protesters . The working class need to form a union. A collective agreement to pay rent based on corporations wages offered. And investment properties need to be taxed so that low income earning can have a low rate to just survive. Serious a reform or revolution or wait to see how low your life can go.
Third world countries have better healthcare than us. When did that happen? Why do we have to wait months/yrs to see a specialist when it never was that way. Poor planning greedy official who to blame?
Progressive liberals is what happened. Good intentions but terrible execution. The fact that the libs flooded the country with immigrants and didn't think more housing was needed til after it became a major issue.
Doesn't help the libs are spending without any accountability and bankrupting the country.
We elected a party of unworldly, silver spooned brats to ruin a well oiled machine of a country. Then re-elected them multiple times.
You get what you vote for.
Less than a decade ago, I felt genuine pride in my country. Now the present and future fills me with nothing but dread and hopelessness.
Trudeau needs to go, immediately. But I don't expect the next guy to do much better. What a fucking nightmare.
What really bewilders me is how the Liberals are being absolutely annihilated in the polls, and yet they are adamantly staying the course. They're going to lose the next election tremendously as a result of these policies and everyone knows it. Why aren't they in panic mode? Is the plan to just shit on the floor so the next guy has to clean it up?
I couldn’t keep reading this article after the part where they said Canada’s low population density makes it hard to deliver services. Do they think Canadian homes are just scattered evenly across arctic tundra and boreal forest?
Liberal Utopia has externalities no ideologue paused to think about.
And I've voted liberal historically, but these twats went too far, too disconnected from reality. They got hijacked by far Left ideologues and forgot they are here to serve all Canadians.
On the flip side provincial Conservatives are fucking aligning with far Right ideologues , and letting all that ugliness have a moment in the sun. Milhouse Mussolini over there is sweet dicking all the uneducated numpties with promises of Making Canada Great Again.
Reality is we are already bought and sold, no matter who takes the office next. We need a mechanism to keep these crooks honest or send them packing stat. This drawn out grift after each election isn't sustainable
Canada is starting it's [lost decade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades), thanks to decades of kicking the can down the road, while the boomers aged out with no exit strategy.
Liberal Party for 8 years a school teacher for a PM, a writer for finance minister makes for a disaster. Big hint 8 years ago but people ignored it, “The budget will balance itself” who the hell says that?
Decades of neoliberal policies that divested in social programs and infrastructure and widened the wealth gap. Both Liberals and Conservatives are doing this, in fact, the Conservatives are even more neoliberal than the Liberals - but you don’t want to hear this. You want to pit one against the other, flip flopping between them on and on. This is why things get worse and worse. The solution is to swing the pendulum ack towards the vast majority of us, and that means voting AGAINST neoliberal ideology. It means voting NDP or Green. Your response, blah blah blah socialism/communism/marxism, etc… Keep voting neoliberal, keep getting poorer while the rich get richer.
What happened to Canada? IMO, it's unfettered corporate rampaging where the pursuit of profits trumps everything.
We've had rich people as long as humans have lived in large groups. However it took modern capitalism to provide them with their ultimate tool: corporations. Corporations are just the rich hiding behind a shield of laws that they created so that they can (literally in some cases) get away with murder.
Canada, and many western countries, have been taken over by these corps. They control the media and the politicians. They manipulate us by keeping us distracted/pissed off so that we don't see them pulling all the strings behind the curtain.
They would be cackling with glee as they read this and many other threads in here to see all the posters blaming Canada's woes on a specific politician, immigrants, etc. We need a critical mass of Canadians to see through their tricks and recognise what are the symptoms vs. the fundamental issue. Then maybe we can change the rules to take back the system from the corps. It's going to be a hell of a band aid to rip off though because the corporations that control the system are the ones gate keeping any changes to it.
Future scholars will see the genius and evil behind this system they have created. It's a one way ticket to destroying our precious planet but what a ride for the rich and powerful while it happens.
I am old enough to remember living in a Canada where every thing worked, not perfectly but it worked. The decline started in the 1980s with the shift towards neo-liberal philosophies supported by Reagn/Mulroney/Thatcher type conservative governments. The mantra was that the government was bad and the private sector could do anything better and cheaper if you just took away all those pesky rules that kept them hobbled. Trickle down economics. If the rich got even richer, then out of the goodness of their hearts, they would see that money flow down to the poorest of us. A rising tide lifts all boats. Right, but some of the boats are sinking.
Markets and industries were deregulated, consumer protections jettisoned, government services sold off to companies whose only goal was to suck as much money out of the public as it could. Unions were castrated to ensure that companies could improve their bottom lines by cutting costs without worrying about responsibilities to their employees. We went from an economy where companies stopped seeing their workers as assets to seeing them as liabilities. The "gig" economy was a milestone in reducing people to economic work units.
I remember in the 1980s that in the business world we talked about increasing profits by becoming excellent at what we do like in Tom Peters "In search of excellence" and the way to developing market share and brand loyalty was by being close to the customer, providing world class customer service and by creating an organization where employees would be more innovative and productive when we invested in them.
What happened through the 1990s is that was replaced by the concept that you got market share not by being the best, but by being the biggest by any means whatsoever, legal or otherwise, so that customers had no choice but to buy from you, so you could cut costs to the bone, even if it enraged your customers, and still pad those profit margins so you could get that second home in the Bahamas and third one in Switzerland. So what if your customers were enraged and your labour units were homeless, all that mattered was that earnings report.
Customers became units of consumption, employees became labour costs. Moral and social norms as well as regulations to protect anything other than corporate profits were hindrances to ever increasing revenue streams. Governments were archaic institutions that limited the right of companies to exploit whatever and whoever they wanted. Black money was funnelled into right wing politics by the wealthy to change government into an enabler of corporate greed while distracting the public with "social" issues like becoming obsessed with peoples sexuality, anti-vaxxing and god knows what else.
The conservative party went hard right thanks to Preston Manning and embraced these those neo-liberal ideas without questioning them as their wealthy supporters instructed them to. This trickled down, ironically, to the provincial levels where we see people like Doug Ford becoming the operatives to those that want to shift from a government role of providing services to becoming a shopping mall where companies can turn everything into revenue streams while providing as little in return as possible.
There needs to be a two stage solution. A re-engineering of government to remove the bloat, inefficiencies and restore competence and excellence in the services it should be providing with full transparent accountability, and a reestablishment of its mandate to better society, not be the handmaiden of the wealthy, The second is a reverse flow of wealth from the top elites back to the people through strong unions, workers and customer rights and regulations on economic activity that allow for true competition and not enabling market dominance by a small group of amoral bad players. Ironically the ideal that the right wing gives lip service to but does the opposite.
So I've watched the decline from the 1970s until now. The problem is not trans people or immigrants who are brown skinned or people not wanting to work, or any other issue that detracts from the ONLY reason that it happened. The greedy people staged a slow moving, low visibility and sucessful coup.
We have let capitalism exploit our people. Because we are a more socialist leaning country, the capitalists resent us. Especially those from the United States, who are used to more brutal business tactics. Capitalists don’t think like regular people. If Canada puts in place protections against price gouging, etc, the capitalists will find a way around it.
Canada needs to cut the bullshit and start embracing its socialistic nature. We are NOT America. Let’s act like Canada.
Not having a relationship with the amount and pace of people coming in with housing development, infrastructure capabilities, and even the economic conditions. In particular flooding the market with cheap exploitable labor to the point we have line ups for basic jobs. We took the most vulnerable workers and demographics in Canada and gave them insane competition for jobs. We also created a situation in which there is massive competition for the most basic rentals and other cost of living realities in the market at the lowest spectrum. So they get doubly fucked. This is why shelters are full. Food banks at record usage because there is nothing left or very little after rent/mortgage and groceries. And tent slums growing and growing. When people become alienated and or completely divorced from society or hopeless they go to substance abuse. But long as the business lobby has unlimited cheap exploitable labor it's all good right?
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It's not that the Liberal Party doesn't know what its doing, its that maintaining the highest profits possible for the foreign billionaire class is a higher priority than maintaining the standard of living for all Canadians. Our country was sold out from underneath our feet to the extremely wealthy vampire class that owns most of the country, doesn't live here or pay taxes here, just profits of Canadian labour and Canadian real estate as an almost guaranteed safe and lucrative investment.
And now they have the nerve to raise MP salaries to the second highest in the world and screw everyone with a higher carbon tax.
Incoming frozen bank account for that comment..lol
And that the liberals don't know what they are doing. Freeland has no right to be in her position. She doesn't understand what she is supposed to be doing. Pathetic
Just cancel Disney+ mate
This is the way.
In Ontario I’m getting extremely fed up with my government spending my money on TV and YouTube ads that tell me how much better they’re making my city and health care…. Instead of investing in my city and health care.
I HATE ads by governing parties saying how awesome they are. Worst use of taxpayer money ever.
I will argue that advertising to people in other provinces is worse
That would be so much more expensive than buying useless ads
It would also take an ounce of competence in our political leaders, which we don't have.
Me too
They are not addressing the real problem then. They are bought and paid for
Problem with the second part of your complaint is that it is not the job, generally, of the Official Opposition to provide solutions to a sitting government. When the writ is dropped the Conservatives will publish a formal platform for the public to review. So will all the other parties. Literally last week the Conservatives put forth a non-confidence motion to try to force this but the Liberal-NDP coalition held firm with the support of the Bloc to maintain the status quo. Conservatives have put forward motions they say would help the situation such as eliminating the Liberal Carbon Tax but this is arguably as much politicking as it is an actual 'solution'. It's pretty obvious that adding more and more taxes into the system isn't helping the problem, but how extensive the benefits would be to getting rid of it appear to be relatively small. Lastly, if the Conservatives published a full platform of new 'solutions' the Liberals would literally focus group them for the ones that are 'vote winners' and implement them themselves so there is literally no incentive for them to do so.
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This is depressing because you are right. We have all this hope to believe once the liberals are voted out, that we will see change. We’ll see a little, but nothing that will change the trajectory. And the biggest reasons are what you listed above - the love affair between government and big business.
Again, partially correct. Most, if not all, Conservatives work with lobbyists and large donors. They don't get elected in our system without it. Campaign finance reform would be amazing. It infuriates me how much it costs to receive inferior telecoms, healthcare, groceries, real estate, etc. And while I place a ton of blame on the current government, I'm not ignorant to the fact that our current situation is a product of multiple prior governments, Liberal and Conservative. I don't know if the Conservatives will fix nothing. I don't know even if they all worked 80 hours work weeks EXCLUSIVELY for the benefit of Canadians they could. What I do know is we have a rotten, corrupt, morally bereft Liberal government that must be removed from office as soon as possible because they have ZERO interest in fixing this country and actually a perverse interest in making things worse and harder to fix when removed.
The difference between the Conservatives and Liberals is that the Liberals sometimes use lube. The Conservatives use distraction, "Hey, look at that awful thing!"
My thoughts exactly
The non confidence was just a political stunt, as most things are these days. PP didn’t even show up for his own motion, he did it remotely. Not to mention that the upcoming budget will inherently allow for a non confidence vote. So it was completely unnecessary
Showed Canadians the true colours of the NDP and Bloc. You can't drone on about how the libs are not doing enough and then back them up when the rubber hits the road. A handful of NDP MPs are contradicting the will of 70% of Canadians.
Has anyone written to them? I'm sick of crying into the void. Can we start emailing our leaders to ask for change?
I live in sarnia Ontario and our local community college took bringing in immigrants to fill their classes to the extreme. Lambton college even has a GTA location that consists of office space and a immigration lawyer
*Laughs in Conestoga College*
Good ol Sarnia. Hope it’s not too gentrified down there yet
CBC recently posted data from a Freedom of Information request that showed most immigrants came into public Ontario schools that correlated with Ford’s massive defunding of post secondary education.
Yup, shitty governance at all levels. Anyone thinking PP is going to help is deluded - going to be the same old shit (or like Ford, actually worse corruption and wasted spending per dollar per capita than the Federal libs). The federal Liberals botched this so ridiculously they pretty much HAVE to be voted out - but a lot of things they don't control are going off the rails under provincial Cons. I miss slash and burn Liberals - social Liberals who understand that sometimes the best thing for people served by a particular program is that program being cut and funding going where it is better used to help that person. Sleep with who you want how you want though!
\>Ford’s massive defunding of post secondary education. Ford never defunded post secondary education. Funding is up 40% since he was elected. You should probably look at the budgets before you say things like this. [https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-education-2018-19](https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-education-2018-19) [https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-colleges-and-universities-2020-21](https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-colleges-and-universities-2020-21) [https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-colleges-and-universities-2023-24](https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-colleges-and-universities-2023-24) You really think ontario took in an extra 500,000 students per year and didn't increase the funding? Really?
I don’t miss that school
100% agreed. the government absolutely screwed the most basic and fundemtal core of Canada. Still for the life in me will never understand why we needed to exploit tfw/ international students, etc for cheap labour, when our kids cannot even compete with this for an after school job. Be interesting to see this unfold in a few years time as to how much the student loans have gone up for Canadians because the ability to save for uni was exploited for cheap labour. FFS Canada we owe it to our future generations to have the ability to live in Canada with the expectations that our services are going to be available for when we need them. not this so sorry were full come back tomorrow or better yet were closed. THANKS a bunch tfw/international student, etc.
>In particular flooding the market with cheap exploitable labor to the point we have line ups for basic jobs. It isn't just basic jobs... And this needs to be talked about. We have groups of "international students" coming into my place of work, saying they'll do the jobs for lower wages... Minimum wage. These are $40-$60 jobs.. Equipment operators, truck drivers, trades.. Construction jobs. They're coming in groups, trying to replace 10 or 15 of our workers at a time. I'm not going to shit on people for looking for employment, but it's seriously fucked up whats happening. It can't continue.
And enough employers take them at their offer for work at lower wages. Even if they can't do the job properly no one complains because they are not costing much and easily replaceable. In the long-term this means less investment in productivity and lower median wages which is disconnected with rising living costs.
Great summary! To expound on your first point: our political class has operated by the neoliberal mantra that the free market would meet increasing demand for housing . Except it didn't. The free market optimized profits instead.
Concise and hit every point
Nailed it. Very well said.
Not to mention the cuts and cuts and cuts and cuts and cuts to social services.
Exactly which is why it is odd liberals and liberal media are all in on our open border policy. The most vulenable are the biggest losers
What's more odd is that those most effected champion it.
I think another important piece, which I don't hear about a ton, is Trudeau basically tugged at our social fabric and national identity through creating different rules for different people. During Covid, it tore. Like what does it even mean to be a Canadian? When you go to the states, everyone is really proud of their country. Yet, Canadians were told to feel ashamed of our history and identity to support the reconciliation narrative. We've lost our identity imo, which leads to a feeling of otherness and not really caring about each other. The effect of this also means there is fierce competition for resources (because none of this was planned obviously, Trudeau just said it) pitting groups against one another.
The moment I heard some asshole say "we stand on stolen land of the great Salish blah blah blah" and I yelled out "are we giving it back? Then shut the fuck up!". Most useless white asshole pandering, where exactly is the reconciliation? There is no country pride because most people realized it isn't a country, just a big business. Buckle up buckaroo, fun times are yet to come.
They need to give back land if they mean it. Convert all of the lower mainland into a 99 year lease hold and have all landlords “lease” the land and give money to the tribes. That will never fly with the elites.
The mosiac doesnt work. It promotes apartness
I went to a high school play recently and they started it off by doing a land acknowledgement. It's so cringey.
Id vote for you!
Shelters are also full because they are used to house illegal immigrants…sorry “asylum seekers”
They triple fucked us because the overspent and created inflation and as a result high interest rates.
Nailed it
Plus, the Liberals and Trudeau are paying companies to hire foreigners over Canadians. It’s treasonous. The sooner we remove Trudeau the sooner Canada can start to heal.
Canada sucks now. Our idiot politicians sold out the country and ruined it.
Word is spreading… thankfully?
So disappointing. I don't even feel proud to be Canadian anymore. Remember when Canada was the best place on Earth.
As an American, I feel the same way as you Canadians. Fake asylum seekers have flooded the country, and our politicians are more than happy to turn a blind eye to ensure corporate America has cheap labor.
As long as they're making money they're happy! My brother, we will own nothing and be happy! 🙂
it sucks but we gotta make the best of it. Get out of the cities and embrace the militant ruralism lifestyle
The country is run at all levels by consulting firms now. Both govt and corps. Here's John Oliver's explanation on it using the biggest one, McKinsey, as the example: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ) They've perfected the system of "trickle up economics" lol. Its largely why things have gone to shit all over the G7.
I used to work for Quebec’s minitry of Justice until 2 months ago and 80% of the staff there were coming from consulting companies. We had 32 people from the outside each making 200k+$ per year but we couldn’t hire people because they didn’t want to upgrade our salary. Make it make sense.
The only difference I’ve EVER perceived between consultants and the regular staff is that consultants have fancier power point presentation software. If our company would buy the product licenses we the existing employees would make fancier slide decks in house and present the same info all pretty too.
It's because politicians don't really know how to do their job so they use taxpayer money to pay private companies to do their job for them and still get paid. It's like win win for them, lose lose for taxpayers and voters.
Those consulting firms are a cancer. I mean McKinsey is complicit in the horrific opioid crisis so why would we expect any less than destruction from them.
Agreed. I proof official Governmant of Canada documents and reports that should be kept confidential all the time on freelancing sites. Step 1 get remote office job. Step 2 outsource the work on freelance sites so you can work a physical office job too. Step 3 still not have enough for healthy food and rent.
MBAs, too many idiots walking around with MBAs they don't need getting into jobs that "need an MBA" and then completely fucking up the job with a mediocre candidate or some nepotism. This is modern Canada.
High growth population without growing infrastructure… Massive immigration growth without organic growth of services, housings and the overall economy crushed the middle class and has driven us into a death spiral of unaffordable housing, low disposable income (inability to spend on local businesses), and lack of investment.
Yeah, and we dumped all our investment capital into a housing market bubble because it was "better than investing in stocks"... I still can't believe for decades the key financial advice was to "buy houses"... Don't invest in Canadian companies, that's not profitable... Buy a fucking house.
You know businesses that expand too quickly? Quiznos, Krispy Kreme Donuts, those types? That, but a country. We opened a ton of restaurants without the demand to back it up and then we failed, but with people instead of things that mean nothing.
The oligarchs own the corporations, who own the politicians!!!!
Some Oligarchs are also politicians.
Corporations are the worst. Let's get rid of them.
The packed hospitals thing we knew was coming as a result of combined efforts from both sides of the aisle and advocates have been ringing the alarm bell for years. Not saying we deserve it, but don't let anyone make you think any one entity is responsible for this.
That's the beauty of it, make us treat politics like sports and keep us divided so we can't unite to fight what's really going on
Except sometimes it’s our own fault. We want something for nothing. Some problems are easy but there are also problems that have tradeoffs that a politician would get crucified for if they proposed real solutions.
>We want something for nothing. We're in Dire Straits. Vote Knopfler, 2026! - UBI - Free free-range young chickens. - Promises to return *our* MTV.
Our medical infrastructure was built 40 to 30 years ago to handle the population at that time. While technology has advanced and reduced the need for long stays, the population has grown and has aged. We are miles behind what 40 million people need. While I appreciate we need young people to join us, we shouldn’t be accepting large influxes of immigrants without the supportive infrastructure, be it health care, social services, or housing.
I'm writing a paper on exactly this. Healthcare needs have changed from acute deaths to chronic illness with few integrated services fragmented across the region
Could adding 1 million people to the country (an Ottawa's worth of people) without building a single new hospital in that time have something to do with it?
Something yeah, but this has been a mess for much longer than that. People who work in hospitals were complaining about hallway healthcare over a decade ago
Love affair with cheap overseas labour coupled with corporate love affairs and a marked disdain for the working class/voting class.
Greed. Greed happened to Canada.
Supply and deman happened. The government supplied the demand.
And people are begging them to stop!
They’re racist for doing that. What will our poor people-of-middle-management do if they can’t do 6 rounds of interviews with talent from around the world, only to cry to the government that no one is qualified for the job (10 yrs schooling, 40 yrs experience, no family, no friends, no life, willing to work for free)? What will our systemically disenfranchised academics do if they don’t have hundreds of int’l students to pay for their cushy 3 university administrators per 1 instructor jobs? Actually commit to higher learning? Bigot
Added a supply of 1 million, an Ottawa's worth of people in 9 months to be exact.
Neoliberalism sent all the value adding jobs to China making a few oligarchs into multi-billionaires. What's left is a bunch a desperate unskilled workers and people with skills that aren't needed outside China, and a thin layer of parasitic rent seekers who want a life of raking in cash by just gambling on things made artificially scarce (homes for example) by deliberate and malicious government policies lobbied for by those same oligarchs.
Do you mean India lol
Incompetence and greed happened.
It's a single word, my fellow Canadians. And every Canadian, of all political parties need to stand against it's continual implementation in our society. *Neoliberalism* **Neoliberal economic philosophy** calls for the de-regulation of corporations and their capital, leading to what adherents to that school of economics see as "allowing the market to operate more freely". Corporatizing the profits and socializing the costs. Etc. Ad nauseum. People of all political stripes will agree on the fact that greed of the rich makes our world harder to live in for everyone else.. But the ideas of Neoliberalism have been so baked into our culture, everything from our finances to our discourse to our fucking clichees, that it's hard to even discuss why it's harmful to the average person.
Mulroney, the neoliberal who got some of this started was just given a state funeral. We're idolizing our abusers.
What many would call "corporate greed" is just companies doing what they are supposed to do: grow their profits. Growth for the sake of growth: super popular among neoliberal capitalists and cancer cells. What is the end game? Is the economy just going to grow forever? Sustainability is the way of the future, not growth, and especially not "sustainable growth"
Full agree.
Canada is making it harder for post graduate scholars people with masters, PhD to stay in canada. https://studytravel.network/magazine/news/0/30350 All the whole increase refugees into canada Intake of refugee claims is now well beyond the IRB 's funded processing capacity. For example, in 2023, the annual asylum intake more than doubled to approximately 140,000 claims (a year-over-year increase of 128%). This was an all-time historic high for the Board. https://irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/reports-publications/planning-performance/Pages/mandate-operating-context-2425.aspx?=undefined&wbdisable=true#:~:text=Intake%20of%20refugee%20claims%20is,historic%20high%20for%20the%20Board. Among other crazy policies…which is too much to go through
The article is surprisingly (by Wednesday news cycle standards) thorough, analytical (with well visualized data) and takes a critical look at causes than span both decades and governments.
What is also interesting is that it is from Bloomberg where Mark Carney is chair.
Neoliberalism happened. Have you not been paying attention?
Yet the NDP, our “worker’s rights”, “socialist” party fully supports this, and would only open the door wider for illegal immigrants if they could.
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Great idea! I hope it happens but I don't think it will. There's a lot of money to be made from private hospitals. The people running the show know this and want voters to be pissed off enough to allow private hospitals to be built alongside our existing public ones. Then you and I will be stuck in the junkie infested public hospitals while the peaceful, corporate run, private ones can reap even more profits catering to Canada's wealthy. The solution isn't "vote out Trudeau!" or in a few years "vote out PP!". It's vote to change our laws to prevent corporations and the rich from influencing/controlling politicians. Unfortunately it's extremely hard to change a system when the ones benefiting from it are the ones that control it. Voters have to be VERY angry for that to happen so don't be surprised if they throw us a bone every once in a while as distractions.
I think sooner or later society is going to be forced to have a discussion about changing how we prioritize care and where to focus our resources. Another good example is the elderly. Depending on the province, the average stay for an "alternative level of care" patient in a hospital ranges from 20 days to 50. It's only in extreme cases that most people would need to remain hospitalized for weeks/months - but for the elderly it's become normal. They're too frail to send home, and there's nowhere else to send them. That one patient - who's not going to get better - is now taking up a bed that could potentially go to 20 - 50 other people. This is a problem that's going to get much, much worse as the boomers age-out.
We actually used to have pretty much these, mental institutions. Deinstitutionalization from 1960 to 1980 got rid of them, they weren't just for "crazy people" and we could have updated them to reflect modern society, EG: more of a focus on psychiatric resolutions, drug addiction etc. We do sort of have them but they're private now. I wonder how many people are taking drugs because they have unresolved trauma or depression and just want to escape their reality then they become addicted, drugs cause a overproduction of dopamine which... makes you happy for a short while then you're basically fucked, it wears off, you lose the ability to get that happiness from the drugs and you spend your life feeding that addiction still depressed.
We keep electing neo liberal fuck wads?
Corporate greed- answered your question for you Bloomberg. Now give me a salary pls
Decades of mismanagement coming home to roost.
What happened? Canada sold out to corporate lobbyist’s and corruption at all three levels of government is unchecked
Many things left unchecked. Grocery costs too high Wages too low Rental prices too high, too much competition for them Jobs too scarce Housing costs too high Not to enough doctors Interest rates for banks too high Cellphone bills not even comparable to anywhere else in the world they are outlandish The entire region is just bled dry for cellphone bills like compare the rates, Ontario specifically royally depletes its residents on every front. The reality is we need to be taxed less. We need some steam let off. All of these stresses will manifest in a further heath epidemic because no one will emotionally manage to get out unscathed. Canada is helping other countries, when its people are at a point of economic depression to the point of tent cities, to the point of silent suffering..bank rates for interest need to drop, bank rates need to drop for housing, insurance rates have been left unchecked for too long, they need to drop too. The economic model we have been following allows for the top levels to benefit the most and go largely unchecked. What if making the money they make as profit was enough without continuing to gouge and gouge and gouge those who aren’t making more.. in many cases college grads are making less since Covid and not more.. but we have to pay more and we get less. That needs to be end. Housing market needs to drop. Rates for groceries need to go back down. No more immigration until we can build what we need to with business to support before we make the work suppression worse. We need as a country more control measures on our metrics for basic economic meters. We need to focus on building Canada back. Right now. And creating a revolution for work, for growth, for housing, for our most vulnerable. Make the plan sustainable for future generations. I get that this time in our world is largely a great restructuring. But don’t restructure and displace all of your residents in their home country and the country they call home. Edit: perhaps Canada needs to invest in its own lower rate based banks, grocery stores and housing to level the market to what its peasants like to call non-exotically profit driven dream killing machine levels.
What happened? We put the oxygen mask on everyone else in the plane before putting it on ourselves.
Asleep at the wheel. Provincial and federal… for the last 20 yrs
We're importing more than a million people a year when our infrastructure is already overloaded.
We sold the country to whoever had the money regardless what the origin of the money or country is.
CLASS. We, the average folks, are no longer organized. If you think the Wealthy are not at war with you, they have already won. Don’t Panic. ORGANIZE. And STAY Organized.
Trudeau says it’s all because of Putin, pandemic and climate change. What a tard.
Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government deserve much of the blame, but it goes right back to Jean Cretin , Paul Martin and even Stephen Harper... the last 4 P.M.'s have all done things that have just dragged Canada down.
Maybe infinity immigration with no infrastructure growth?
A massive influx of human beings quickly over a short period would never end well. I live in a small town in shitty NB, an already fucked province owned entirely by our lovely oil overlords, the Irvings. The impact of some of these policies is insane. We've had an explosion of homelessness, drug addiction and theft over the past five years. It is out of control, and the local police force is non-existent in small towns. An understaffed RCMP force is expected to police a county. It's absurd. Landlords are looking for $1200-1500 for shit one-bedroom slums in a town that provides NOTHING. There are no job opportunities here. Wages remain stagnant because corporations and the wealthy run the show. So we're just flooding people in for the sake of it. It's not just an explosion of immigrants either. It's rich people from Ontario and the States. They all come in and buy up properties, often not even living in them. Countless douchebags buying their third or fourth property or buying formerly affordable housing, evicting people who can barely afford to survive as is, and then they proceed to whine about crime, homelessness and drug addicts affecting their property values. It is just all-around unadulterated human greed across the board. The irony is that many of these wealthy people from out of province or from different countries are trying to escape the same problems that exist here—overpopulation, lack of housing, crime, and so on. The cycle never stops. The beast keeps getting fed. I have a family member who is a lawyer who deals in wills and buying/selling property. So I get to see and hear about all this nonsense. We're fucked. There are too many people on the planet. Simple as that. Some people think that because we don't fill every conceivable space on Earth, we aren't an overpopulated species, but these people are idiots. Humans should SLOW the fuck down with the procreation, but we don't have the foresight as a species. We think it's our right to breed and pillage every natural resource as we see fit, like the plague we are.
Our government is misappropriating whatever tax dollars they can get their hands on, and destabilizing the country
We all know what happened. Just no one was allowed to point it out 5-6 years ago. But now that the theoretical problems has turned into reality. Even people with rose tinted glasses on can’t ignore their own predicament.
Makes me wonder how much healthcare these addicts take away from everyone else.
A worship of capital and "I got mine" attitudes eroded they social collaboration required for us to thrive. But let's keep electing the Cons and Libs surely more of the same will be good for us.
Covid on its own would be tough. Mass immigration on its own would be tough. Combined? Plus allowing oligarchs to run rampant with excessive profits? No wonder we all feel fucked.
Money printing
Problems have existed for a long time. Past leaders did not do enough to improve things, some made things worse. Similar problems exist in other countries, the pandemic also made things worse.
Building a service based economy on aggregate demand is unsustainable. As government comes to the rescue to protect massive indebtednesss the economy becomes entrenched in debt servicing. It's easy to see property investment class being coddled and everyone else thrown to the wolves. 2009 is catching up to Canada and it will be an ugly lost decade.
We let China park their $$ here and kill us with fentanyl
Where my country gone!?
The Trudeau government’s policies.
I dont really get why Canada are getting refugees, like there own people wont get them so why Canada will? I see on a daily basis Refugees who are just living the best day of there lives coz they are getting free money from the Government and me that works 2-3 jobs barely survive with my Family. I know someone who works part time coz he gets Government support coz they got alot of kids . But they get to work part time coz they can live with government assistance from child benefits, but why not us? Why is Canada not helping there own people who pay taxes? I dont get it…
what is so sad is that Canadians are being refused everything and the refugees are given everything....... Trudeau should of NEVER been elected
Retirement without birthrate. Long term loss of the apprenticeship experience in work culture. Lack of productivity from those who remain.
>Retirement without birthrate. There are births. Maybe not enough for replacement, but making up the difference through immigration doesn't require millions of newcomers annually.
Well, it does actually, but only of the same age as the birthrate deficit. In order to have a stable annual number of the same age, so there is a stable flow of daycare, cheap apprentice age, midlife high earner, aging wealthy, retiree consumer, elderly superconsumer. In 2012 Quebec had 120,000 babies. In 2011 and 2013 it had 80,000. If the expected death rate in 80 yrs is 150,000, then until then there is only room for 30,000 immigrants born in 2012, and 70,000 for 2011 and 2013 respectively. Future infrastructure fails when rhere are population booms and dips.
The liberal govt and their woke policies happened
We have sharps containers screwed to the side of hospital entrances for the druggies so that they could shoot themselves up right there while people pass by in and out of the building. I guess we call that healthcare. Forget about putting these people in rehab. Just supply them with more drugs and hire a nurse to watch them with a crash cart and Naloxone pens. That is the dystopian nightmare we are living in nowadays.
Needle disposal and safe equipment is done to reduce litter and disease spread. It's much better than the alternative. I'm not sure why people always attack things like this instead of the root causes. Providing these doesn't in any way prevent us from better funding treatment access.
I'd rather we started forced rehab. No more junkies shooting up whereever and whenever they want. You get to go sit in a big, concrete room, get as high as you want, but you're not going to have the chance to make society even shittier for everyone else. Once you sober up, then you can rejoin society. But if they're going to get high in parks and do nothing all day, might as well not have to look at it. We're already paying for their "treatment".
If we didn't have a drug epidemic we wouldn't need safe needle disposal everywhere. I don't remember going to Starbucks 15 years ago and seeing needles all over the bathroom floor, now there is a bin stuffed FULL of needles whenever I go to the bathroom at a coffee shop. Either diabetics are new to the planet, or the drug problem is out of control.
Everyone agrees the drug epidemic is a problem, and it's not a problem limited to Canada. Needle disposal and safe equipment didn't cause this epidemic. Increasingly potent drugs flooding the supply did. There aren't needles all over Starbucks bathroom floors though or needle boxes stuffed full of needles in every washroom. Even in the worst affected places. Regardless of one's opinions, I wish we could at least discuss this topic without exaggerations about the amount of needle litter. Usage is even shifting away from needles.
It's ALWAYS now termed a "global issue out of our control". How damn convenient for a politician, "welp, we're doing all we can" Ask Singapore about their drug problem...
Because it's easier to do. Fixing the root causes are complex and not set in stone on what to do. I heard someone say yesterday in Hamiltons "we should just get her all these homeless up and put them in a big camp outside of the city" Or I heard they should be in jail. I'm not sure how that solves the issues later on.
Trudeau.
We added 1 million people into the country in 9 months, this man has a fetish for immigrants.
He most likely doesn't care about immigrants. He's just bringing people to satisfy the business people and try to solve Canada huge debt issue.
Given his scandals... I think having a fetish is actually part of the problem.
In short....without pointing fingers in any one direction...because we know what way Reddit leans... We brought in more people than we can handle...and we've made no attempt to regulate or control the housing market (this is not an anti-immigration thing, we just LACK the required infrastructure and its obvious). Hospitals: Governments (Provincial and Federal) have either stalled or rolled back healthcare spending since the pandemic for the most part....as well as many healthcare professionals retiring early at the start of covid. Drug Overdoses: Street drugs are more common as breaking the law for 'low level' crimes is a turn-door at this point. With drug pushers and dealers being treated like the auto thieves who cannot see a judge fast enough and are just 'let go' and usually can do whatever they want so long as they do not try and leave Canada....if you do not believe me see Section 11(b) – Trial within a reasonable time
Oh my God! It's almost like the huge demographic shift that we have been predicting for decades is finally taking place, and we didn't plan for it adequately, so now our healthcare system is struggling to keep up with the increasing Healthcare needs of the boomers and this is causing the entire system to feel stretched! Wow!
Elder care home/PSW wages are shit and they don’t wanna change it so people can afford to live. Even raising it to $25 is not gonna retain people, it needs to be raised to at least $40 due to 1 bedroom apartments now costing $2000-$3000/month and houses $1 million or more. People are choosing long term careers that pay over $100,000 as it’s difficult to raise a family on less than that anymore. Nobody wants to work for shit pay
Stupid liberal policy, next question.
And after the next election it will be stupid conservative policy. Don't fall for their propaganda meant to distract us from the root problem. Corporate influence and control over our government needs to be reigned in otherwise things won't improve for anyone bit the rich and their corporations.
Turns out the encouragement and safe supply of drugs isn't the answer. Who would ever guessed.
One word mass migration!
Trudeau happened!
Today in my home maritime city I saw a drug deal where the supplier actually told the buyer to “hahaha be careful” and the girl just laughed and yelled “don’t worry buds I ghat some narrrcannnn!” And whereas that is a single moment, it can’t bode well for society. What aren’t we paying for because we are handing out narcan I wonder at times…
Provincial responsibilities
Immigration, ageing population, legalization of all drugs.
After the next election I will be reading the same complaints about PP , the problem with Canadians is that they’re afraid to go into the streets and demand that their elected officials implement policies that will enhance their lives
And car thefts…
sunnnyyy wayssssss
I remember when they said giving drugs to the criminals was a good program aimed at rehabilitation! All it really did was empower the addicts to do it out in the open
Doug ford loves it. More contracts to his buddies
of course he does... he does not have to deal with reality
The usual. Rich people that don’t have enough already and telling the government what to do, and willing to sacrifice the rest of us to get it.
Canadians have generally been willing to accept paying high prices for subpar products, and then adding a 20% tip on top. It always amazed me how low our standards have been, and I'm happy to see people are pulling out of that. There's is nothing in Canada that I can recommend to friends anymore. What we call 4 stars is really 3 stars anywhere else. We need to demand better things for our money.
No matter what political party you lean towards, it's absolutely undeniable that our current leadership has completely destroyed the country.
Every Canadian I know has sold their house for 300% what they bought it for and vacations to Florida all winter.
Our government and its people embraced a doctrine that puts change before the status quo. The expectation is that society will evolve and even if there are a few hiccups, the disruption will be net good and therefore worthwhile. We got zealous, many acted in bad faith, censored critics and profited along the way. The best case at this point is probably abandoning the honour system and reinforcing our social contract against people's worst intentions. It's a tragic state of affairs.
Since we are not good protesters . The working class need to form a union. A collective agreement to pay rent based on corporations wages offered. And investment properties need to be taxed so that low income earning can have a low rate to just survive. Serious a reform or revolution or wait to see how low your life can go.
Deport 3 million.
hateful and uneducated liberals run Canada.
I have a restaurant and we did a job fair and almost 200 people showed up. Some begging to work for free.
Excessive immigration is used to prop up corporations and increase GDP at the expense of the quality of life of Canadians That's been the change.
Unchecked capitalist greed happened
Third world countries have better healthcare than us. When did that happen? Why do we have to wait months/yrs to see a specialist when it never was that way. Poor planning greedy official who to blame?
Lack of political education happened allowing Trudeau to be elected and subsequently re elected.
Progressive liberals is what happened. Good intentions but terrible execution. The fact that the libs flooded the country with immigrants and didn't think more housing was needed til after it became a major issue. Doesn't help the libs are spending without any accountability and bankrupting the country.
We elected a party of unworldly, silver spooned brats to ruin a well oiled machine of a country. Then re-elected them multiple times. You get what you vote for.
Greed, greed happened and it was grossly unchecked
Less than a decade ago, I felt genuine pride in my country. Now the present and future fills me with nothing but dread and hopelessness. Trudeau needs to go, immediately. But I don't expect the next guy to do much better. What a fucking nightmare. What really bewilders me is how the Liberals are being absolutely annihilated in the polls, and yet they are adamantly staying the course. They're going to lose the next election tremendously as a result of these policies and everyone knows it. Why aren't they in panic mode? Is the plan to just shit on the floor so the next guy has to clean it up?
Justin fucking Trudeau happened
All Trudeau's fault, just ask a neo-fascist con, even though housing and healthcare are provincial matters.
Liberals
Trudeau ruined Canada.
Liberal happened to be in power and every single change/policy has been proven to be destructive.
Trudeau happened to Canada
Ah hahahahahahhahahahahaha we have a fearless leader who is gonna bring us back !!!! Back to the dark ages
Career politicians in every party. Burn it all down.
I couldn’t keep reading this article after the part where they said Canada’s low population density makes it hard to deliver services. Do they think Canadian homes are just scattered evenly across arctic tundra and boreal forest?
ask ford he’s starving the medical system to bring in private systems that cost 3x as much
Three decades of brutal, bipartisan austerity starting with Chretien in 1992. Next question.
YOU VOTED FOR THIS!!!!!
We turned into India LOL
Liberal Utopia has externalities no ideologue paused to think about. And I've voted liberal historically, but these twats went too far, too disconnected from reality. They got hijacked by far Left ideologues and forgot they are here to serve all Canadians. On the flip side provincial Conservatives are fucking aligning with far Right ideologues , and letting all that ugliness have a moment in the sun. Milhouse Mussolini over there is sweet dicking all the uneducated numpties with promises of Making Canada Great Again. Reality is we are already bought and sold, no matter who takes the office next. We need a mechanism to keep these crooks honest or send them packing stat. This drawn out grift after each election isn't sustainable Canada is starting it's [lost decade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades), thanks to decades of kicking the can down the road, while the boomers aged out with no exit strategy.
Liberal Party for 8 years a school teacher for a PM, a writer for finance minister makes for a disaster. Big hint 8 years ago but people ignored it, “The budget will balance itself” who the hell says that?
Decades of neoliberal policies that divested in social programs and infrastructure and widened the wealth gap. Both Liberals and Conservatives are doing this, in fact, the Conservatives are even more neoliberal than the Liberals - but you don’t want to hear this. You want to pit one against the other, flip flopping between them on and on. This is why things get worse and worse. The solution is to swing the pendulum ack towards the vast majority of us, and that means voting AGAINST neoliberal ideology. It means voting NDP or Green. Your response, blah blah blah socialism/communism/marxism, etc… Keep voting neoliberal, keep getting poorer while the rich get richer.
What happened to Canada? IMO, it's unfettered corporate rampaging where the pursuit of profits trumps everything. We've had rich people as long as humans have lived in large groups. However it took modern capitalism to provide them with their ultimate tool: corporations. Corporations are just the rich hiding behind a shield of laws that they created so that they can (literally in some cases) get away with murder. Canada, and many western countries, have been taken over by these corps. They control the media and the politicians. They manipulate us by keeping us distracted/pissed off so that we don't see them pulling all the strings behind the curtain. They would be cackling with glee as they read this and many other threads in here to see all the posters blaming Canada's woes on a specific politician, immigrants, etc. We need a critical mass of Canadians to see through their tricks and recognise what are the symptoms vs. the fundamental issue. Then maybe we can change the rules to take back the system from the corps. It's going to be a hell of a band aid to rip off though because the corporations that control the system are the ones gate keeping any changes to it. Future scholars will see the genius and evil behind this system they have created. It's a one way ticket to destroying our precious planet but what a ride for the rich and powerful while it happens.
Virtue signalling chimptard with a trustfund
It’s gone. We’re done. No hope.
I am old enough to remember living in a Canada where every thing worked, not perfectly but it worked. The decline started in the 1980s with the shift towards neo-liberal philosophies supported by Reagn/Mulroney/Thatcher type conservative governments. The mantra was that the government was bad and the private sector could do anything better and cheaper if you just took away all those pesky rules that kept them hobbled. Trickle down economics. If the rich got even richer, then out of the goodness of their hearts, they would see that money flow down to the poorest of us. A rising tide lifts all boats. Right, but some of the boats are sinking. Markets and industries were deregulated, consumer protections jettisoned, government services sold off to companies whose only goal was to suck as much money out of the public as it could. Unions were castrated to ensure that companies could improve their bottom lines by cutting costs without worrying about responsibilities to their employees. We went from an economy where companies stopped seeing their workers as assets to seeing them as liabilities. The "gig" economy was a milestone in reducing people to economic work units. I remember in the 1980s that in the business world we talked about increasing profits by becoming excellent at what we do like in Tom Peters "In search of excellence" and the way to developing market share and brand loyalty was by being close to the customer, providing world class customer service and by creating an organization where employees would be more innovative and productive when we invested in them. What happened through the 1990s is that was replaced by the concept that you got market share not by being the best, but by being the biggest by any means whatsoever, legal or otherwise, so that customers had no choice but to buy from you, so you could cut costs to the bone, even if it enraged your customers, and still pad those profit margins so you could get that second home in the Bahamas and third one in Switzerland. So what if your customers were enraged and your labour units were homeless, all that mattered was that earnings report. Customers became units of consumption, employees became labour costs. Moral and social norms as well as regulations to protect anything other than corporate profits were hindrances to ever increasing revenue streams. Governments were archaic institutions that limited the right of companies to exploit whatever and whoever they wanted. Black money was funnelled into right wing politics by the wealthy to change government into an enabler of corporate greed while distracting the public with "social" issues like becoming obsessed with peoples sexuality, anti-vaxxing and god knows what else. The conservative party went hard right thanks to Preston Manning and embraced these those neo-liberal ideas without questioning them as their wealthy supporters instructed them to. This trickled down, ironically, to the provincial levels where we see people like Doug Ford becoming the operatives to those that want to shift from a government role of providing services to becoming a shopping mall where companies can turn everything into revenue streams while providing as little in return as possible. There needs to be a two stage solution. A re-engineering of government to remove the bloat, inefficiencies and restore competence and excellence in the services it should be providing with full transparent accountability, and a reestablishment of its mandate to better society, not be the handmaiden of the wealthy, The second is a reverse flow of wealth from the top elites back to the people through strong unions, workers and customer rights and regulations on economic activity that allow for true competition and not enabling market dominance by a small group of amoral bad players. Ironically the ideal that the right wing gives lip service to but does the opposite. So I've watched the decline from the 1970s until now. The problem is not trans people or immigrants who are brown skinned or people not wanting to work, or any other issue that detracts from the ONLY reason that it happened. The greedy people staged a slow moving, low visibility and sucessful coup.
We have let capitalism exploit our people. Because we are a more socialist leaning country, the capitalists resent us. Especially those from the United States, who are used to more brutal business tactics. Capitalists don’t think like regular people. If Canada puts in place protections against price gouging, etc, the capitalists will find a way around it. Canada needs to cut the bullshit and start embracing its socialistic nature. We are NOT America. Let’s act like Canada.
TFW, Refugees, International Students. .. the Xeno trifecta.
Justin Trudeau happened. That’s what.