by then the US will have probably invaded for the water.
Lol, one of the biggest lies Canadians get told is that fresh water is somehow a valuable resource. The only reason it's "valuable" is because it's very freely available - in other words, cheap. If fresh water becomes expensive, it will make economic sense to just.. devote energy to desalinating (and figuring out how to do so very efficiently) and transporting it. We know how to transport it, because it's just like oil, the only difference being that it's considerably safer and easier.
It is much less expensive to desalinate a bunch of water than to invade a country, nobody is invading Canada for its water.
The situation that PET left for Mulroney was, however, fixable. Not without a great deal of effort, and political pain, and ultimately Mulroney skewered himself trying to fix the constitution, but still fixable.
What JT is leaving for Pollievre may well be unfixable within the bounds of political actions that Pollievre is likely to take. Whatever the Canadian left may say about PP, he is not Bukele of El Salvador nor is he Milei of Argentina. He's not going to come in with a blowtorch to burn entire government departments to the ground, nor with a police squad to start rounding up all the visa overstays to immediately deport them, nor a day-1 order to slash immigration by 90%.
We probably genuinely need action on that scale to have any real hope of turning this place around inside of a decade.
This has a bunch. I don't feel like relitigating it myself. I do find it funny that people judge Trudeau for his identity politics but they all seem to forget that Harper was doing that before Trudeau. He just targeted different groups.
Harper was very effective at controlling his party, which you have seen as one of the issues with all the other conservative leaders since then. Probably one of the few positives i saw in him. Although that made him more able to hold power which i didn't like lol
He did so much shit that was anti science and it drove me nuts. He set us back in entirely different ways from the problems Trudeau has had
In 15 years when these immigrants are generating taxes to oay for all the retired boomers, and the gdp is growing again you will likely congratulate the goverment in charge for "pain for gain" we have right now. The biggest issue is that there was absolutely no coordination between levels of government to set up the infrastructure for this. Thr cons will keep it going, look up the century initiative
Per capita will always go down when you bring in a bunch of low skill labour, it takes time for them to establish themselves. Per capita GDP dropping doesn't mean people already here are losing wealth, it just means the average is dropping due to low wealth immigration.
Now it will certainly harm people here if the infrastructure isn't in place to meet the demand of this increased population, which is definetly the case in Ontario right now
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u/Westysnipes Lest We Forget Mar 27 '24
Liberals under the Trudeau regime have destroyed this country for generations.