postyX - November 11, 2025Maple Syrup & Mayhem 17： FATIGUE
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Summary
What began as post-war optimism and, you know, shared prosperity has descended stage by stage into a national exhaustion that now defines the country s collective psyche. And this is not merely economic tiredness or exhaustion, or political dysfunction. It is a systemic fatigue, a burnout that actually mirrors what an individual would feel like when they go through burnout.
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Burnout, fatigue, exhaustion, whatever you want to call it, Canadians have it in spades.
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And for the purpose of this video, the term Canadian is referring to heritage Canadians,
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not paper Canadians. So when you hear me say Canadian, I mean Canadians of the founding
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stock of this country, not people who just arrived. Let's just clear that up. Now I'm
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sure you have seen numerous videos on black fatigue, primarily from America.
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Bro, I don't give a f***ing shout out, you ugly f***ing.
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What are we trying to do? We're trying to get...
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Bro, let me get the f*** out. I don't want to be in this car.
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But that's really their cross to bear. But as much as black fatigue can be a real thing
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here in Canada, I think we have more of a multicultural fatigue, although it is swinging
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So societal fatigue is broke down into five stages, but we're really only going to discuss
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the first four because the fifth stage, which is recovery, we have not even got there yet.
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So there's really no source reference material on what that will look like.
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I have ideas in my head of what it could look like, but, you know, again, we don't have
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And, you know, this has been a kind of slow burn to the destruction of the country.
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So the four stages we're going to talk about is the honeymoon phase, the chronic stress
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phase, the stagnation and frustration craze, or stage rather, and the crisis and breakdown
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And this is where we are currently entering at a breakneck speed.
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Canada, long celebrated for its stability and middle-class promise, it has been quietly
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unraveling under the weight of the societal burnout for the last 75 years or so, three-quarters
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What began as post-war optimism and, you know, shared prosperity has descended stage by stage
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into a national exhaustion that now defines the country's collective psyche.
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And this is not merely economic, you know, tiredness or exhaustion or political dysfunction.
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It is a systemic fatigue, a burnout that it actually mirrors what an individual would feel like
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Drawing on historical patterns, economic data and social indicators.
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Canada's journey through the five stages, four, we're going to go through, of societal burnout
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from the euphoric recovery of the World War II in 1994 to the silent depletion of 2025,
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And I wanted to talk about this because, you know, it kind of ties into Remembrance Day in
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the sense that I don't know if there's any World War II vets left alive, maybe very few.
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But, you know, a lot of us may have a relative, a grandparent, a great-grandparent that fought.
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And I'm pretty sure they didn't fight for us to be here at stage four.
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And I'm sure, and yes, the boomers are the big cause of a lot of this stuff.
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But I guess you could go back to that whole honeymoon period and the optimism, right?
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So when you're in that kind of stage, I guess you feel like nothing could go wrong.
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So the honeymoon stage is being described as approximately from 1944 to 1960, the end of
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The veterans returned to a country that was eager to build.
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The government programs laid the foundation for, you know, a modern welfare state.
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Between 1945 and 1960, the GDP grew at an average of four to five percent annually.
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Unemployment hovered near two to three percent, which is a figure that is like unimaginable today.
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So they used to give, you know, cash payments to mothers.
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They started in 1945 and then followed by the Canadian Pension Plan and Medicare in 1960s,
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although now it's called universal health care.
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But I guess it was a form of Medicare in the 1960s.
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You know, a house in Toronto or the suburbs of Toronto would cost maybe $13,000.
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Actually, it did cost $13,000 in 1950, roughly $150,000 in today's dollars.
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Adjusted for inflation, but still within the reach of a single income family.
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This was the honeymoon phase, a time of high social trust, institutional legitimacy, and
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I hate that word progress because it's been bastardized into something subversive.
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The baby boom, 1945 to 64, was both symptom and symbol of, you know, Canada's golden age,
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The population grew from 12 million to nearly 18 million in 15 years.
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And remember, we did not have the open border immigration policy then that we do now.
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Prime Minister Louis Saint Laurent spoke of a golden age.
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And for once, the rhetoric, it actually matched the reality.
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So it wasn't like what they're doing now and telling us that things are wonderful and great
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and that it's just our imaginations that everything around us is going to shit.
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Even regional tensions, the French-English divide, the Quebec with the rest of the country,
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indigenous marginalization, they were all kind of muted beneath this sheen or this impression
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There were stressors, but they were like more growing pains, not existential threats.
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And I also just wanted to say, I think it's important, and I mentioned as regards to the
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GDP growing, this was primarily driven by industrial expansion and innovation, like steel and automobiles
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and resource booms, like the oil and stuff like that.
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So these are all things that we don't do anymore, or we do very little of.
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Now moving on to stage two, the chronic stress stage, which was from 1960 to 1980, approximately.
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They had the Quiet Revolution in Quebec from 1960 to 1966, and this upended the centuries
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of clerical and federal control, giving rise to a separatist sentiment.
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And the Front de Libération du Québec, I'm sure someone's going to kick my ass for pronouncing
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The 1965 auto pact tied Canada's industrial fate more tightly to the United States.
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It exposed vulnerabilities in the branch plant economy, however.
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Inflation, once negligible, climbed from one to two percent in the early 1960s to 7.5 percent
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In 1973, global energy prices quadrupled, triggering stagflation, double-digit inflation, and rising
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By 1975, Canada faced 12 percent inflation and 8 percent unemployment, numbers not seen since
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The federal government responded with wage and price controls, 1975 to 1978, and a blunt
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Or sorry, that was a blunt instrument that eroded the public trust.
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The debt to GDP doubled from 20 percent to nearly 50 percent.
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The strikes paralyzed public services, and then in Alberta, the energy boom masked deeper
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And I believe this was all pushed with the whole global homo, you know, green fucking initiatives
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that probably started coming out around that time.
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Now, this was chronic stress, not collapse, but it was, like I said, the slow grinding erosion,
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Society kind of adapted to it, and then, of course, they put in immigration reforms, the
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point system in 1967, cultural exports, Expo 67, and policy expansion.
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The treadmill of progress has begun to feel like a trap, or I guess you could say a rat
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And once the Multicultural Act came in, again, they opened up the doors to, you know, immigration
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And, of course, because there still was some sort of regulation then, and there was a cap
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on it, we didn't see the cracks in the foundation.
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They didn't really become apparent because it doesn't, it was unnoticed.
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Like I said, their whole plan to, anytime, not that I agree with immigration, okay, and
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I don't agree with immigration from incompatible countries.
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I believe that our immigration should be strictly from European countries.
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But besides that, if you wanted to go down that road, you can't integrate people when
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there are so many of them that they can create their own enclaves.
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And I know that Canada's whole thing was not necessarily to make them become Canadian.
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They wanted them to be able to, we were multicultural.
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They wanted them to be able to practice their own faith and their own religion and their own
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practices here, which was the biggest mistake, right?
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But that being said, even with language and stuff like that, when you, when you integrate
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a few people at a time, it's much easier to integrate and to adapt to the crowd of people
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as opposed to bringing in millions of people where they're now outnumbering the native population.
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So that was kind of the start of what is now our biggest issue, in my opinion, and the
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In 1980, Canada, Canada, typical Canada, typical Canadian, I can't even say it, Canada entered
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a long depression, I guess you could say, or sadness, malaise, whatever.
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The 1981 to 82 recession was the deepest since the 30s, and interest rates spiked to 21%.
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The free trade with the US, which was signed in 88, it became a lightning rod for national
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And this is where I think it cut that whole, we're not American attitude comes from.
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That's basically Canadians identity now is that, well, we're not American.
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The craziest thing is, no one hates Americans more than Canadians.
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It's wild to me, because I feel like Canadians act very similar to Americans, no?
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And interest payments consumed 35% of every tax dollar.
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The Chrétien government's program review slashed $29 billion from public spending, closing hospitals
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And socially, the country had fractured at this point.
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The Oka crisis in 1990, it kind of, you know, started up the whole Indigenous land rights
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The 1995 Quebec referendum saw almost half of them vote to secede, which is obviously was
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And it kind of shook the Canadian Confederation, I guess you could say.
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So, voter turnout started plummeting from 75% in 1980 to 61% in 1997.
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Probably because the choices started getting, you know, like, it got to the point where demoralization
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had begun, is what I'm trying to say, all that kind of stuff.
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So, people felt like it didn't matter who they voted for, they were going to get the same
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So, this is kind of the first glimpses at what is now the Uniparty, basically.
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Generation X, that's me, I'm a young Generation X, almost a millennial, entered adulthood in
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a world of temporary jobs, flat wages, and rising tuition.
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And also, I'd like to add that they were also pushed to go to post-secondary education and
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pushed to take things that really had no value in the real world.
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So, like, you know, again, social studies degrees and, you know, feminist degrees and
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indigenous rights degrees and, you know, all this other shit that's really not going to
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get you, or it's not going to put you any further ahead than anybody else with any other degree.
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And again, there's still people that have had to get multiple different degrees because
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The mood was not quite despair, but resignation.
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And that's actually a good word, is the resignation.
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People just were apathetic, rather, to what was going on, which obviously was indicated in the
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Everybody was feeling, I guess, like they're just kind of stuck, right?
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So, that was, you know, right before we started getting into the, where we are now,
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the breakdown, and we have arrived at stage four, crisis and breakdown, and that is from
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We haven't gotten into the 2020 to 25 and beyond yet, because like I said, we're just starting
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to see the, you know, outcome of that and how it's going to play out.
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But up until 2020, you know, this is what we were going through, the crisis and the breakdown.
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The tipping point came in 2008, and that was the global financial crisis.
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Of course, it spared Canada's banks, but not really the people.
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And how it spared the banks is basically just, they kicked the can down the road, the government.
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They did buyouts and bailouts and whatever else you want to call it.
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But 1.6 million jobs vanished in about a year and a half, 18 months.
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One in six Canadians was neat, not in education or employment or training.
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And then 2013, housing prices in Toronto and Vancouver detached from reality, rising about
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The Vancouver one, actually, I think it's probably in both cities, but it was all foreign
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ownership that drove the housing in combination with slow building and stuff like that.
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But it was, I believe, primarily allowing foreign ownership to buy up all these homes.
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And either they stayed empty because they were, I think a lot of people from China, especially,
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were trying to hide money and assets from the CCP.
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So, you know, they bought foreign properties and those properties may have sat empty.
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But a lot of times I knew a lot of people who were going to university and they were from other
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And their parents literally brought a home, bought a home for them to live in part time
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And I think that's a law, a big driving cause of the housing issues.
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And of course, the shocks then accelerated from 2014 to 2016.
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In 2016, BC declared an opioid crisis, a public health emergency.
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The 2020 also saw the COVID lockdowns, the CERB dependency, which I'm sure did not help
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inflation at all, and a 50% surge in youth suicide attempts.
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And I'm sure that had nothing to do with locking them up and not allowing them to socialize,
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And basically telling them that they're going to kill grandma.
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And of course, on the heels of what was the Convid scam, institutional trust collapsed by
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Only 43% of Canadians trusted the federal government, down from 60% in 2008.
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And I'm sure if you ask people now, it would be even less.
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The fertility rate hit 1.4, the lowest in recorded history.
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Again, not because people, you know, they've been pushing this, you know, anti-man, feminist
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girl boss movement, I'm sure had nothing to do with it.
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And it's not the people that we want to leave either.
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Protests, the Wet'suwet'en blockades, the Freedom Convoy, shout out to the Freedom Convoy,
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The system held, but of course, the social contract did not if we even had one.
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And we also suffer, and I want to say this is from 2021 to 2025, they kind of categorize
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this as stage five, or it falls into stage five when I was doing the research on this
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But I kind of think it still is within the whole crisis stage, if you want to call it
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But current times, Canada lives in what is called a depletion.
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I don't know if you've seen recently, but there was some doctors speaking to the federal
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government in Parliament and saying that the healthcare crisis is in part due to lack of
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planning and bringing in these immigrants and where they're going to settle.
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And because healthcare is provincial in this country, so there was no communication, which
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should be no surprise to anybody, between the federal government and the provincial governments
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My name is Dr. Sandra Rao, and I am a full-time emergency physician practicing in a very ethnically
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diverse urban setting in the greater Toronto area.
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Today, I am here representing myself to provide testimony on the impact of population growth on
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In my practice, I see a wide variety of patients from different backgrounds, citizens who were
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born in Canada, first-generation immigrants who have been here for decades.
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I also see a substantial number of patients who are newcomers who have only come in the
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last few years, as well as international students and refugee claimants through the Interim
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According to Stats Canada, in 2023, the vast majority, around 97.6% of Canada's population
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growth came from international migration, both permanent and temporary, and the remaining
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Ontario, specifically its population growth since 2021, has been unprecedented, driven almost entirely
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by international migration, and had the highest growth in 2023 of 3.1% of any single year
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since 1972, and more than double the average population growth of 1.3% over the last 50 years.
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However, our health care infrastructure, particularly acute care beds, emergency departments, and
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family physician supply, has not expanded proportionately.
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Though health care is delivered provincially, federal immigration policies impact our health
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In Ontario, the number of acute care beds have decreased since COVID levels and have remained
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At my centre, our ED volumes have increased by at least 11% year-over-year since the pandemic.
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Visits by refugee claimants have increased by almost 490% since 2021.
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The rate of admission among these ED visits has remained the same, thus the total number of
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The provincial governments have not and cannot afford to increase the health care resources,
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and the federal government is just dumping people in.
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And of course, there's no kind of penalty or waiting period here, or not a long one anyways,
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So unfortunately, with chain migration and family migration, people are bringing in their
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elderly, sick parents with complex medical issues that are now using the free, taxpayer-funded
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And of course, because of that, emergency wait times have doubled.
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Immigration, the biggest, hottest topic of the day, over one million newcomers per year.
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So now, like I've said this a million times, it props up the overall GDP, but it masks the
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domestic disengagement and the per capita GDP, which means how people are actually doing,
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Young people speak of lying flat, quiet quitting, and a vibe session.
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Those are words other than quiet quitting that I've never really heard before.
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But again, I'm not a gen, what are they called?
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77% of Canadian workers report burnout, higher than the global average.
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Now, obviously, the workplace, due to diversity and massive immigration,
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a lot of people's workplaces have gotten, especially in the health care sector or any
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kind of service sector, have gotten infinitely worse.
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Homeownership among those under 35 has fallen from 36 to 28% in a decade.
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The Canadian dream, if you ever had one, was, you know, once being able to have a modest
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And now that feels like that is something that existed in a different time, which you would
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But I mean, it feels like it's so far out of reach for most people that it almost is like
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Now, history does give us the benefit of precedent.
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The Great Depression birthed the welfare state.
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However, many people forget that the welfare state was created by people, the people, for
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So when you say it was created for by Canadians, for Canadians, it wasn't created by Canadians
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So this is the problem, right with the welfare state, it perpetuates helplessness, and it attracts
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It was never intended to support millions of low skilled and low IQ immigrants.
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The welfare state in the current environment, it will absolutely fail, it cannot succeed.
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You need taxpayer funds to fund the welfare state.
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And with high unemployment rate for these low skilled migrants, unless you're working at
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Sing Hortons because your relative owns the place, you're not being able to find a job.
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There will be less money to fund more dependents on the system.
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The wealthy elite will only take so much taxation before they decide to relocate, which we've seen
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There's a reason that the big business doesn't want to operate in Canada, and high tax rates
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So as of November 2025, the country stands at a fork, there's like a fork in the road.
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One path leads to universal socialism and not national socialism, which is what I believe in.
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Socialism has kind of been bastardized, again, like many words.
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So it's going to lead us to universal socialism, which means Canada takes care of the rest of the world.
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Cooperative housing and universal basic services reimagined social contract, which will never succeed.
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It's going to be a long road, but it requires the dismantling of the current uniparty system
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and something more in line with what our ancestors had created initially and wanted for their future generations.