What department in Canada is not broken...

[August1991]

23 hours ago, Army Guy said:

Is there a fully functioning department in the Federal government ? Why is everything in such disrepair ?...where is the funding that these departments should have? And how do we fix it all of that with our current level of debt ? and why has the left not noticed this situation....

 

 

Ottawa?

Imagine Washington.

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Years ago, I understood that glaciers created our Great Lakes. Ordinary people created dams, we get along. Imagine taking a small portion - for others.

[BeaverFever]

On 12/7/2023 at 10:53 PM, CdnFox said:

You are patently insane if you feel there's been any 'austerity' over the last 30-40 years. Martin and chretien downloaded some costs onto the provinces but very little actually got cut.  If anything there's  been more and more spending per capita.

Chretien and Martin massively cut budgets and downloaded to provinces, and  provinces did the same and downloaded to municipalities. Many provincial leaders like Mike Harris and Ralph Klein were even worse. Canada’s crumbling infrastructure, healthcare, mushrooming class room sizes etc have been constant news stories for decades.

Most services have been severely underfunded for long periods  Trudeaus spending increases have been largely on new programs not shoring up the critically underfunded ones which will take decades and multiple prime ministers to fix  

 

Edited December 9, 2023 by BeaverFever

[CdnFox]

Just now, BeaverFever said:

Chretien and Martin massively cut budgets and downloaded to provinces, and  provinces did the same and downloaded to municipalities.

That's not austerity.  That's just downloading to the provinces.  They also took 70 billion dollars out of the UI fund, but that's not austerity either. 

Gov't services were still pretty strong during those periods.

34 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

Most services have been severely underfunded for long periods

That's not even a little bit true.  It's what people on the left tell themeslves to justify feeling miserable and their self pity.

If anything we've done fairly well.  But - what we have done for sure is drive business and investment away from canada and that severely impacts our quality of life - we need to attract it back and be more competative, which leads to things like higher wages, and more tax dollars,  and more homes being built etc etc. You don't get there by gov't spending primarily.