Is Canada heading for a systemic crisis?

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On one hand, rising costs, not in the least, skyrocketing housing, are squeezing the middle class to "working poor". In the cities, one needs to be making close to 50K living single or double that with a family only to get by.

Decades of creeping rises (the managing bureaucracies know no other way to keep up but to chink percent on percent rises) have resulted in pretty much the fact that post-secondary education is no longer affordable, without either help or going into debt. In addition, the education system is rigid and not reflecting the needs of a dynamic contemporary economy. Need another degree or what to try another occupation? Take a year or two off and try to figure it out but! here's $10K from (your own) pension savings. Could you even afford them, pension savings? See above. That creates rigid and entrenched employment environment, people worry about uncertainty, avoid trying new directions. So, suffers productivity and innovation.

Municipal and social services are creeping up at never stopping pace. License sticker, child program, swimming in a pool, public transit municipal tax chink, chink, 2% here, 3% there year upon year and so on. Do you have an automatic annual rise? MP has, for her it's not a problem. The bureaucracy knows no other way to keep itself up but with automatic annual rises. Ever rising costs (and I didn't even mention healthcare) put pressure on public budgets. Of course it pays itself first, how else; then goes up the tuition; then fewer programs for the working poor; so more working poor.

Sure for a while it can be ignored and swept under the rug, borrowed (scratch that, because never returned - taken) from the future generations of taxpayers and paid for with royalties for the last cut and sold overseas old forest (yes ad mare, used to be) and what can you do, extract and pump all kind of fossil whatever the science warns mouths (and the bureaucracy) must be fed.

Surely this is not all and can be continued. But what's on the other, positive side? Where are the good and hopeful trends? How will the country look in another generation? What will the tuition be? Are we heading in the right direction?

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And when the budgets (see above) are under pressure, where would the relief come? What do you think? Will the bureaucracy invent magical ways to raise productivity and competitiveness and salaries? Or, would it cut its own paycheck? Think again (Ontario is cutting CPAP coverage). Yes, this is is the only way: you pay ever more (remember annual 2% clink and dink) for ever less (MP and GG get automatic annual raise, not a problem) and yes it has to be called "steadily rising prosperity of Canadians", according to some sources.