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Originally Posted by trueviking
This is an honest question not meant as an attack. What specifically do you think the government has done to screw things up in the first place? What is screwed up because of what they did? I hear this a lot but I’m never sure what it actually means. How is the country in a bad position because of current government decisions.
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With the understanding that the pandemic created difficult, complex situations for everybody involved, and knowing that it's difficult to view anything as a stand-alone situation, off the top of my head it would be these things mostly (and perhaps a few more if I took the time to think about it a little more deeply):
1) Not taking action on the emerging housing crisis that was happening before 2020. It wasn't country-wide at the time, but it was clear and obvious that prices were rising steeply in Vancouver and Toronto, and it appeared (to the layman at least) that foreign investment and money laundering had a hand in it, among other things. Perhaps if this had been identified as a major potential problem and action had been taken, things wouldn't have exploded into the major crisis that we are still dealing with, and perhaps anybody who hadn't been fortunate enough to get into the market pre-2015 wouldn't be shut out of it now.
2) The deep dive into identity politics. There was some good work to be done regarding diversity, inclusivity, indigenous reconcilliation, but what actually happened was over the top and misguided. IMHO. I recall many saying that it felt like we should be embarrassed to be Canadians, but in reality it's that the view through the looking glass was majorly skewed.
3) Post-pandemic recovery that involved the feds dragging their feet, investing heavily into poorly functioning software like ArriveCan, and then flooding our already-suffering population with more newcomers than we could ever deal with, and the fallout on our healthcare systems, and our housing situation. Nobody has ever seen as many tent cities filled with poor homeless people who are out of options and many of whom turned to hard drugs to deal with their hoplessness, and the proliferation of mental health emergencies that resulted from above... exacerbated by the lack of healthcare to help them deal with their crises.
4) Lack of investment in our military, even after Trump 1.0 pointed out that we weren't living up to our NATO committments. Rather than plan for increased investment, money was cut from military budgets.
5) Etc. I could go on, but you get the idea.
Note that none of this happens in a vacuum, and some was likely contiguous from previous governments, but blaming former governments when you've been in power for 10 years is not a valid excuse.
So, while it may seem like I was just parroting social media claptrap, I didn't arrive at my conclusion after listening to somebody's podcast or youtube video, I've lived much of it, or at least watched it happen around me. Having experienced Canada for decades, I can say without hesitation that the previous few years have felt like the worst time in my life to be a Canadian citizen, and I have to put at least part of the blame on the incumbent federal government.
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