Zeitgeist

I agree with you about immigration. I think that going after people’s cottages and investment properties or investments in general is ultimately lowering our living standards and productivity. People and free markets and opportunity create wealth for all. Increasing taxes in order to create more government programs for some people but not others is redistribution of income from those who made that money to those who didn’t. Well, some of that is necessary, but our rapid growth in government workers and government programs at the expense of those best equipped to leave Canada and invest elsewhere isn’t a sustainable plan.

So you think it’s more efficient and cost effective, and better for the wealth creation of citizens, to let governments run and own all rental housing? Ah!!!!! That’s why we left the Soviet Union.

In a big country like Canada, with the right regulations and a healthy economy, every Canadian middle class family should be able to afford a modest cottage and even an investment property. That’s what we used to have and many middle class Americans have. Instead our shrinking middle class is living in small homes on small lots. Increasingly these are rented. Young people aren’t having kids because they can’t afford them and many aren’t even considering owning a home, let alone an investment property. Get the damn commies out of office, slash government programs, government bureaucracy, regulations, and taxes. Restore the Canadian Dream.

Good opinion letter in Calgary Sun: “Didn’t think it through My wife and I are not wealthy, we live off CPP and OAS. Hearing the NDP want to tax the rich, I thought, OK, Canada needs the money. Until I read reports including an insightful one from Bloomberg News. Past socialist governments in France initiated a wealth and capital gains tax. It cost the French government almost twice as much as yielded by the wealth taxes. Many charities lost donations, causing some to demand taxpayer support. Many students lost bursaries. Donations were reduced to hospitals, colleges and universities. Over 10,000 wealthy people left France. When these individuals left, France lost their wealth tax revenue, their income taxes, and their local spending. The idea was scrapped in 2020. These tax increases may sound good but be careful what you ask for. They may cost us more in the end. Young people are supposed to be happy with increased national debt. What a legacy the Liberals have left them. TOM BURNS”

The challenge for Poilievre will be undoing the structural mess this radical left government has enshrined. How will they cut the 40% additional bureaucracy created under Trudeau? How will they eliminate programs geared to the least productive people?

The writing is on the wall for Canada if we continue on the current course of stupid priorities and overspending on government fluff: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-nadir-of-our-once-great-nation

You don’t come across as “normal”; you come across as in denial or willfully ignorant. Your attitude is that of the bystander at a crime scene who “doesn’t want any trouble” and takes off to make it home for dinner because justice is hard and you don’t want to answer questions from police. The fact that you don’t see any of the questions I’ve raised as pressing or important really takes you out of the equation for recognition, because if you’re not interested in ensuring honesty and fairness in your country, I’m not interested in following you.

Man, you really don’t want to know what’s up. Ignorance is bliss. I actually get it. Most people have too much going on to think much beyond today, including me.

Bury your head in the sand and listen to lullabies on earbuds until you shed this mortal coil.

Um…no. There are too many unanswered questions. Here are just a few little gems: Why were Chinese scientists working on gain of function viruses at a Canadian bio lab, bringing the research and viruses to Wuhan, and sharing information with members of the Communist Party of China? Why was countervailing evidence on vaccines actively suppressed by media at government behest? When the counter evidence seemed to be true, the language government and media used to describe it changed from misinformation to malinformation, basically information they didn’t like or that disagreed with official narratives. Why were vaccines mandated, especially during the Omicron spread when it was clear that getting Omicron was about as safe and effective against getting further Covid as getting the vaccine? Why are governments able to redact information from being shared with the public when it’s clear that it was government actions that were the greatest threat to national security? Why was the bio lab Covid leak origin of Covid-19 idea actively suppressed? What exactly was being created in our bio labs? Clearly it’s not a secret to our foreign adversaries, so Canadians deserve to know. Why weren’t the non-Covid impacts of lockdowns, mandates and restrictions taken into greater account? Why was the Emergencies Act imposed on peaceful protests? Why were bank accounts frozen? Why does Canada sign onto pandemic and other treaties with international bodies without parliamentary debate or accountability? Damn right we have questions. I don’t want to re-live that nightmare. It wouldn’t take long to come up with a lot more questions, but if even these ones could be satisfactorily answered I would take my bat home.

Yes. The measures seemed like a great test of just how far governments could go to control human behaviour on a mass scale. That aspect of the pandemic was more worrying to me than getting Covid. I always knew that it had to go through the population and the vulnerable had to be extra cautious. The vaccines provided hope and extra protection, but that protection proved to be minor later in the pandemic, and there were side effects for some people. We didn’t know the long term effects.

The measures were blunt instruments that didn’t need to be imposed on most people. They should’ve been highly recommended for people of certain ages, weights, and health profiles, certainly after the vaccines became available. In the end the disease had to run through the entire population and the vaccine had only minor impact. Early on I understand that we didn’t know what we were dealing with. People always had access to available information and could take measures to protect themselves. The excuse of not overwhelming the healthcare system said more about the weakness of our healthcare system than anything else. Were some measures necessary? Of course, but measures should be measured and often the health and other impacts of these measures weren’t properly taken into account. Many people came away feeling that the government was overbearing and extreme. It exposed the carelessness, slowness, and self-preservation of the authorities. Half the population went along and accepted it all. Half questioned the measures any were publicly denigrated for it. The Emergencies Act really looked bad on the federal government. I think the Trudeau government has done more damage to Canada than any government I’ve learned about in Canadian history. Nevertheless, they influenced enough opinion through media and the bureaucracy to keep half the country on-side, or they did. I think most Canadians want them gone now. What the pandemic taught me is that the Canadian state is too controlling and its constitutional protections are weak. Government should be minimized and stay in its lane of responsibilities. Our government redistributes money from earners and uses it to have a government program for everything, like it or not. They prop up media, threatening the ability to have a free press. They’ve become beholden to radical left special interest groups that favour some groups over others. It’s really damaged Canada’s brand. Even many US Democrats see it.

The impacts of the lockdowns, mandates, and privations are still with us. We didn’t need all this. The vaccines are probably only helpful to a small segment of the population at this point. If you want them, they’re there. Enjoy.

Canada is becoming this gross leftist groupthink where the entire bureaucracy, mainstream media, courts, Governor General, and the protected monopolies all sing from the same woke song sheet. Many of them don’t like it and know it’s fake but it keeps them employed like little apparatchiks in the faceless hive. No questioning or diversity of thought. Anyone who questions is labeled “alt right.” Eww

Go back to your favourite gulag.