The Fundamental Question, again
Just how bad is it?
This post is a surprise to me too! But when I discovered that there is something important in the political landscape that I was ignorant of and that speaks to the momentous election choice tomorrow—well, I just had to write this.
Apparently, the Privy Council has under its jurisdiction a government body called Policy Horizons Canada. We have government employees who try to look into the future, like Astrologers of old, you could say. On their website, they tell us that Canada’s future, frankly, sucks. But they are here to help:
Policy Horizons Canada uses foresight to help the federal government build stronger policies and programs in the face of an uncertain future. We empower the Government of Canda to…blah blah blah
It’s worth your time to read the entire document if only because you paid for it. The money quote is the part I have highlighted below. It imagines our future in 2040 and I invite you to expand on these ideas and imagine your future life, due in only 15 years, courtesy of the Illiberal Party of Canada.
3.4 People might find alternative ways to meet their basic needs
Housing, food, childcare, and healthcare co-operatives may become more common. This could ease burdens on social services but also challenge market-based businesses
Forms of person-to-person exchange of goods and services could become even more popular, reducing tax revenues and consumer safety
People may start to hunt, fish, and forage on public lands and waterways without reference to regulations. Small-scale agriculture could increase
Governments may come to seem irrelevant if they cannot enforce basic regulations or if people increasingly rely on grass-roots solutions to meeting basic needs
It was that quote that got Poilievre’s attention and he immediately used it, quite effectively, as a smoking gun about how badly the government has been administering the state, especially the economy. A government that is already seeing the future that darkly does not deserve to be re-elected, he thought.
But he should have gone much further. Because in some rather disturbing ways, this is not the future, it’s the present that our government is describing. Especially the part about people losing hope and losing faith in the ‘Canadian Project’, the inability to find suitable housing or just to advance on the social ladder. The social and economic ills that the document describes are making life in Canada hard, right now, driving inequality and lack of opportunities. Funny how government can be so right and so wrong at the same time.
The illiberal Liberal government of Canada, brainchild of the WEF trained Justin who always, but always, listened to the good advice of his buddy Mark Carney, has spoken the truth.
Everyone going to the polls tomorrow might want to consider this unusual situation. And then vote like someone who isn’t afraid of you know who, and refuses to be manipulated. Someone who can read, think and act independently. If there are enough people like that in Canada who make their weary way to the polls, then all is not lost. And we will, at long last, throw the bums out. For what I hope will be at least a decade during which we can rebuild, reconstruct and re-imagine this country called Canada.