Canadian Federal Election

[Drybrain]

Cost of living has increased everywhere, including in the U.S, as has homelesness, food bank usage, bankruptcies, etc. These problems are not uniquely the fault of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, though of course it's fair to criticize some of the ways in which the government has fallen short of addressing them. It would be great if we could talk about the shortcomings of the current government (which are real and in some cases significant) without succumbing to the Trudeau-theory-of-everything, which holds that all bad things in Canada, real or imagined, can be directly traced to the PM and/or the Liberal Party.

Also, suicides aren't up. The number of suicides in Canada peaked in 2019 and has been considerably lower ever since; if you look at the population-adjusted rate it's declined slightly.