Though Canada’s economy is not technically in a recession, economists say it “feels like one,” given the current economic circumstances, as high population growth prevented an economic contraction.
Canada used immigration as economic equivalent of taking methamphetamine and painkillers to get things done, instead of eating right, exercising well and seeing a doctor. Yes, it works in the short term, but it’s really only kicking a problem down the road and making it worse when it’s too big to ignore.
We got here because we decided it was more important to give tax cuts to the rich and mortgage the futures of the poor, and when we ran out of poor people to strip-mine, we imported more, and it looks like we’re going to continue to elect governments that will twist themselves into knots trying to not get the rich to pay their fair share.
If there’s any consolation, it’s that we’re not alone among western countries that have snorted the neoliberal line, but we are one of the most vulnerable because we have precious little that anyone wants, outside of oil, and when that wobbles all that we have left is selling houses to each other. At least the Americans and Europeans have industries.
Rich pay their fair share?? That’s so backwards. Canada was created to transfer value from natural and human resources TO the wealthy and powerful. That’s what colonialism is. This isn’t some new thing, this is how it has been since the beginning, and it’s never ever ever changed. Canada exists to exploit the vulnerable.
Canada used immigration as economic equivalent of taking methamphetamine and painkillers to get things done, instead of eating right, exercising well and seeing a doctor. Yes, it works in the short term, but it’s really only kicking a problem down the road and making it worse when it’s too big to ignore.
We got here because we decided it was more important to give tax cuts to the rich and mortgage the futures of the poor, and when we ran out of poor people to strip-mine, we imported more, and it looks like we’re going to continue to elect governments that will twist themselves into knots trying to not get the rich to pay their fair share.
If there’s any consolation, it’s that we’re not alone among western countries that have snorted the neoliberal line, but we are one of the most vulnerable because we have precious little that anyone wants, outside of oil, and when that wobbles all that we have left is selling houses to each other. At least the Americans and Europeans have industries.
Yes yes… The vilification of immigrants is different THIS time.
Rich pay their fair share?? That’s so backwards. Canada was created to transfer value from natural and human resources TO the wealthy and powerful. That’s what colonialism is. This isn’t some new thing, this is how it has been since the beginning, and it’s never ever ever changed. Canada exists to exploit the vulnerable.