Skid Row Canada

You wo n’t love Canada, you wo n’t love it. You are concerned about this nation. — Robertson Davies, quoted in David Olive, Canada Inside Out

It is challenging to prevent a specific depression caused by our country’s terrible state. It is truly a sad scene. I recently came across a poem by Thomas Wolsey, past Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain during the reign of Henry VIII, in an effort to change the stream, so to speak, if only to reach a state of relative calmness by focusing on different issues and casting farther away. It is a poem in reward of the city of London, which is renowned for its natural beauty and growing prosperity, and, consequently, a tribute of devotion to England riding a influx of federal confidence. The song reads in element:

Strong get the walls that support thee below.

Wise get the people who reside within you,

Fresh be ye valley with its passionate strands,

Blythe be ye churches, also acting thine bells,

Rich get to your stores in quality…

No reassurance could be found in this instance. Currently, Canada would not be affected by even one line of this fragment, aside from humorous reverses. Our rooms are crumbling as legal and illegal immigrants enter the country with government support. A sensible people cannot be smart when they elected the Trudeau reason for a government three times in a row. Industrial wastewater, agricultural discharge, provincial sewage pollution, and increased toxic algal blooms in rivers and coastal waters are all contributing factors to our rivers and ecosystems. Not a single body has been exhumed despite the fact that over 100 temples have been burned to the ground under the pretense of indigenous children attending religious private schools. And our retailers are stumbling inescapably into hunger. &nbsp,

More and more Indians are moving overseas, so it should come as no surprise. As The Epoch Times reports ( June 6- 12, 2024 ) there are many causes for the growing pattern: The rising cost of living, outrageously high immigration surpassing economic sustainability and lowering the standard of living, uncontrolled prices, a shrinking home business, a stagnating economy and rising social conflicts. &nbsp,

The story is quite properly told in this summary. The Democrats and their NDP colonists have sternly financed the future by raising the cost of electricity, purposefully raising our levies, and raising the debts ceiling by another trillion dollars. No content with so absurd a moral movement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has, as of this quarter, raised the capital gains tax, an action which he claims will only change the wealthiest 0.13 percent of the population—another of Trudeau’s self- serving lies. This is a prime minister, after all, who &nbsp, routinely runs a record truth deficit.

The Fraser Institute explains: Trudeau’s gloss” creates a distorted view of who will pay these capital gains taxes. Many Canadians with modest annual incomes own businesses, second homes, or stocks, and may have to pay these higher taxes as a result of a one-time sale. In other words, the resultant income will be exaggerated because it will include a significant amount of capital gain rather than just regular income, which will result in a significant tax burden. According to a 2021 study,” 38.4 per cent of those who paid capital gains taxes in Canada earned less than$ 100, 000 per year, and 18.3 per cent earned less than$ 50, 000″. The Institute concludes that” Contrary to Prime Minister Trudeau’s claims, raising capital gains taxes will not improve fairness. It’s bad for investment, the economy and the living standards of Canadians”. In plain language, like his prohibitive and unnecessary carbon tax, it’s a disaster. &nbsp,

The lamentable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, is attempting to sway public anger away from the Liberals and toward productive Canadians, according to National Citizens Coalition journalist Spencer Fernando. Through the use of divisive and apocalyptic rhetoric, Freeland “deliberately seeks to incite Class Warfare in Canada.” Do you want to live in a country, she orates, “where those at the very top live lives of luxury]while] the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hot” ?&nbsp,

This, she pretends, is the reason the government has raised the capital gains tax. Her attempt to deflect blame rings hollow as Canadians come to realize that the new tax impacts not only the rich but, as we’ve seen, certain home owners, small businesses, and family- run farms. The Grain Gowers of Canada ( GGC ) makes the point that local operations will see a 30 % increase as a result of changes to the capital gains inclusion rate.

Nothing improves with this bunch. According to the Department of Social Development, 10 % of the population currently lives in poverty, or roughly 4 million. It blatantly asserts that “high inflation combined with lagging household incomes has led to affordability pressures among many households,” even though anecdotal evidence would significantly increase that figure. Vancouver, our nation’s capital, currently ranks as the third least affordable in the world. Remarkably, &nbsp, 175, 000 households face a 50 percent mortgage payment increase. Young couples are unable to start a family by purchasing a home. Federal moral accounting is at the top of the list, just like fiscal irresponsibility.

Additionally, recent evidence has been found that the Chinese Communists aided in a number of parliamentary elections by influencing the outcomes with candidate complicity. Only redacted documents from Trudeau’s Liberals have been made public despite legal requests from the Foreign Interference Commission, which raises the possibility that the government may have something unsavory to conceal. &nbsp,

What is happening here is not so much about “international interference,” as Terry Glavin writes in the National Post, as it is about “unseemly mutually beneficial collusions and collaborations between Canada’s politicians at all levels of government, in both “witting” and “unwitting” arrangements. Indeed,” Justin Trudeau has been a one- man Chinese influence operation for years”. One is hard pressed to define what it is if this is not treason. Glavin mischievously concludes that” This is exactly why the prime minister is not, strictly speaking, a traitor. By cooperating in foreign interference operations, reason dictates that the behavior be clandestine. With Trudeau, with only a few possible exceptions, it’s been in plain sight, brazen and in broad daylight”. The distinction appears to be vanishingly minor.

However, the issue of collusion with a foreign country while holding our elections, or the question of treason, continues to dominate parliament, which only raises the possibility that some people will view this as a form of national responsibility that is considered to be treasonable rather than merely a form of incompetence.

Cardinal Wolsey’s panegyric reveals a man proud of his country. There is hardly anything to be proud of for Canadians. Can one be proud of a nation that is on the verge of Chapter 11, a once wealthy and well-off place that is now a third-world nation whose leaders and representatives flirt with the threat of treason, and one that offers no hope for its younger generations’ futures? &nbsp,

Canada is currently on skid row, and Canadians are looking for second passports in unprecedented numbers. Who can blame them?

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