Juno News - April 25, 2025


Is Canada too broken to fix or can it be saved？

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Carney expected to balloon the federal budget while Canadians demand cuts Canada’s quality of life ranking has plunged from 5th to 29th under a decade of Liberal rule

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17

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In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and former co-worker, John Rocha, to talk about the current state of Canada and what we can do to turn it around. We talk about what's going on with our economy, how we can fix it, and whether or not it's too late for us to fix it.

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00:00:00.000 I wonder, just from like a businessman, like entrepreneurial perspective, like, do you share my pessimism about Canada?
00:00:08.100 Do you think it's broken? Do you think that there's hope?
00:00:10.080 Like, is Canada on this trajectory of decline that no matter who's in charge, it's sort of too late for us?
00:00:16.940 Or do you think that there are a set of policies that can turn Canada into like can give this new generation of 20 year olds today the same kind of opportunities that were available for previous generations?
00:00:29.020 Can Canada get itself back up in that comparison so that our average GDP per capita is in line with the Americans?
00:00:38.560 Or do you think that it's sort of like too late?
00:00:40.680 What do you think?
00:00:41.940 There are several conversations that erupt here.
00:00:44.240 One, I am not going to be participating actively and trying to have Alberta removed from Canada.
00:00:51.120 I have no interest in Alberta being associated as call it the 51st state.
00:00:56.720 Now, do we need to do things differently?
00:00:58.480 yeah. I mean, the confusion of letting the liberals grow our economy when they've destroyed
00:01:05.800 it for 10 years is palpable. And the idea of building infrastructure and getting our natural
00:01:11.200 resources to a global market makes sense. We need to manage our immigration. We need to manage 1.00
00:01:17.720 our bureaucracy. And that's where, again, the Department of Government Efficiency
00:01:21.580 should drive down costs in a dramatic fashion. The fact that we've doubled our bureaucratic
00:01:26.800 headcount in the last 10 years doubled? No, none of that makes any sense. So again, I get really
00:01:34.280 apprehensive about a liberal, even a liberal minority government, with the swing being either
00:01:41.940 Block, who I don't think should be running as a federal party, but that's a separate issue,
00:01:46.140 or the NDP, who don't offer anything. They get sold. They're buying votes. They're buying
00:01:53.120 alignment. Again, ignore the NDP. But no, I'm apprehensive. I'm extremely apprehensive
00:01:58.920 about what's going to happen next week.