Does Canada Exist?

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“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” —Sun Tsu

Major Russ Cooper, CEO of Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms, puts the question succinctly. “How could it be that the country that once called itself ‘strong and free’ could have fallen so far from grace? The fact that it has done so is evidenced by a plethora of instances that have put a new national coarseness and vacuity on display.”

Canadians have had their disagreements and scandals aplenty over the years, but nothing so tragically destructive and corrupt as we have experienced since the election of Justin Trudeau. “Canada is back,” was Trudeau’s slogan, but he got it wrong. “Canada is backward,” is closer to the truth, falling year by year into the slough of third-world primitiveness and stagnation. It may be more appropriate to say, as we will note further on, that Canada no longer exists.

Consider the nation’s fiscal health. According to the prestigious C.D. Howe Institute, “Comparing investment in Canada to that in the United States and other OECD countries reveals that, before 2015, Canadian businesses had been closing a long-standing gap between investment per available worker in Canada and abroad. Since 2015, however, the gap has become a chasm. Business investment and productivity are closely related…Having investment per worker much lower in Canada than abroad… prefigures weaker growth in Canadian earnings and living standards than in other OECD countries.”

Why is 2015 the critical year when the national downturn began? It was the year Justin Trudeau was elected, announcing his intention to bring “sunny ways” to Canada, and in his Open Letter to Canadians, pledging “to invest in growing our economy” and promising to lead “an open, honest government that is accountable to Canadians, lives up to the highest ethical standards… and applies the utmost care and prudence in the handling of public funds.”

It didn’t work out that way, not by a long shot. As noted, business investment has slipped badly since Trudeau assumed power and future productivity will continue to decline. Canada’s debt is now $2.18 trillion and its deficit is $46.5 billion in a nation that, as of 2021, counted only 28.1 million tax filers. This, among a spate of disasters, is Justin Trudeau’s legacy…