Western Standard - March 07, 2024


Economic catastrophe by Trudeau’s weak government


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

206.8683

Word Count

1,010

Sentence Count

72

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

The economic canary in the coal mine in Canada has been dead for years. The warnings were clear. Canada was on a path to economic catastrophe. But the Trudeau government ignored the warning signs and charged ahead with their agenda of mass spending and mass immigration.


Transcript

00:00:00.400 2021, Prime Minister Trudeau infamously said,
00:00:03.140 you'll forgive me if I don't think about monetary policy.
00:00:06.240 Unfortunately, Trudeau in that case was actually being absolutely honest.
00:00:09.460 He doesn't think about monetary policies,
00:00:11.100 and the cost for his willful ignorance is going to be borne for generations.
00:00:16.060 And no, we shouldn't bloody well forgive him.
00:00:18.200 We should be trying to find a way to get that incompetent,
00:00:20.360 unprincipled boob out of office as soon as possible.
00:00:23.360 The economic canary in the coal mine in Canada has been dead for years.
00:00:27.360 The warnings were clear.
00:00:28.560 Canada was on a path to economic catastrophe,
00:00:31.260 but the Trudeau government ignored the signs
00:00:32.960 and charged ahead with their agenda of mass spending coupled with mass immigration.
00:00:38.140 I mean, this is a government on the ropes.
00:00:40.020 Their popularity levels are rivaling the end of the Mulroney government
00:00:43.800 when they ended up getting wiped out down to two seats under Kim Campbell.
00:00:47.520 And instead of reevaluating what they're doing,
00:00:49.280 they're doubling down with what they've already been doing,
00:00:51.820 and it's making it worse.
00:00:53.540 So, I mean, as the government continued with its policy of borrowing money
00:00:57.060 and pouring it into the economy, guess what?
00:00:58.560 Inflation followed.
00:00:59.840 That's economics 101.
00:01:00.980 But remember, Trudeau doesn't think about monetary policy.
00:01:04.040 So, action, reaction to try and counter the inflation problems.
00:01:07.860 The Bank of Canada has been cranking up interest rates.
00:01:10.800 And yeah, that does slow inflation, but that's because it slows the entire economy.
00:01:14.540 As businesses defer capital investment and housing starts slow down.
00:01:17.540 I mean, to counter the economic slowdown and the risk of recession that comes with that,
00:01:22.980 the government then has opened the floodgates to mass immigration.
00:01:26.660 Sure, new immigrants bring skills and resources that do, in the short term, spur the economy.
00:01:31.500 But they also consume resources.
00:01:33.000 The influx of new Canadians has led to a housing crisis.
00:01:36.720 Of course, with the interest rates rising and housing prices going through the roof,
00:01:40.840 mortgage delinquency rates are soaring.
00:01:43.040 In Ontario alone, they've shot up 135%.
00:01:46.120 These are people about to lose the homes they put their lifetime of savings and investment into.
00:01:50.840 Younger people, they can't even consider buying a home with current prices.
00:01:53.760 They're forced to rent.
00:01:55.000 And that's not a solution.
00:01:56.000 Rents have been rising as fast as the home prices.
00:01:58.640 People are being forced to bunk up or move back in with their parents.
00:02:02.000 Between the skyrocketing cost of living and the addiction epidemic,
00:02:04.820 homelessness is chronic now and it's growing.
00:02:07.260 In every province in the country as well, the healthcare systems are overwhelmed.
00:02:10.980 Waiting times for hospitals and procedures are reaching new highs with every month.
00:02:15.060 Schools, no different.
00:02:16.040 They're under pressure as immigrants pour into the system faster than the system can expand
00:02:19.640 and to accommodate them.
00:02:21.400 And let's look at the business world.
00:02:22.880 In January of this year, just a couple of months ago,
00:02:24.980 business insolvencies in Canada went up 129% over the January period of 2023.
00:02:32.380 The taxes, regulations, interest rates, and anti-business climate in Canada is crushing our enterprises.
00:02:38.280 Canada is becoming an investment pariah.
00:02:39.860 While the Prime Minister might have no idea what he's going to do,
00:02:43.120 you know, and what he is doing to the economy, business leaders do.
00:02:46.440 They won't put funding into the economic basket case of Canada.
00:02:49.640 It's a global market and we're being left behind.
00:02:51.440 It's not just bad monetary policies that are keeping investment out of Canada.
00:02:54.700 It's the environment and attacks on businesses themselves.
00:02:58.280 I mean, grocers and oil companies, executives,
00:03:00.620 they've been dragged before parliamentary committees
00:03:02.660 where they've been questioned on their business decisions.
00:03:05.160 It's kind of Soviet-like and feel,
00:03:06.760 but that's not surprising considering Trudeau partnered with a socialist to try and remain in power.
00:03:11.520 How could any business leader want to come to Canada and set up shop in that sort of environment?
00:03:15.440 Having the government constantly attacking and shutting down proposed resource development certainly isn't helping either.
00:03:20.440 It doesn't matter if the nation sits on massive natural resource reserves if the government won't allow it to be developed.
00:03:25.960 The most frightening indicator, though, of just how far up the economic creek Canada has gone is the GDP per capita ratio.
00:03:32.320 To put it in lay terms, add up all of the economic output in Canada and divide it by the population.
00:03:38.160 That's the ratio, and that ratio has dropped steadily for the last six quarters.
00:03:42.320 You know, the banks are calling it out, economists are calling it out.
00:03:44.340 The only ones who seem unconcerned about it are the morons in government under Justin Trudeau.
00:03:48.660 Let's look at the comparison.
00:03:49.820 The GDP per capita in the USA is about $70,000 American dollars.
00:03:53.960 In Canada, it's $52,000 American dollars and falling.
00:03:57.620 The entire nation is becoming poorer and quickly.
00:04:00.800 Trudeau has been on a mass hiring binge of civil servants, but that only helps the unemployment figures.
00:04:05.000 Civil servants don't contribute to the economy.
00:04:06.700 They drain from it.
00:04:08.160 I mean, Canada has faced depressions and recessions before.
00:04:10.440 Hard times have come and gone, but what's happening right now is different.
00:04:13.400 Canada's economy is being dismantled and destroyed by the most incompetent and ideologically driven government we have ever seen.
00:04:18.780 The only question we have now is how long are we going to let this go before somehow finding a way to pressure that administration out of power?
00:04:25.560 I mean, in other countries, people will be out in the streets by now, but in Canada, we seem to be still stuck on watching reality TV.
00:04:31.360 Trudeau might not like to think about economic policies, but I guess he's not alone.
00:04:34.860 Canadian citizens don't like watching it either, but it's going to catch up with you.
00:04:38.280 So guys, all I can say is it's going bad.
00:04:41.900 It's going bad fast.
00:04:43.020 Start paying attention.
00:04:44.280 Let's get that boob out of office sooner rather than later because it's going to take generations to clean up the mess he is creating.
00:04:50.940 And some of it's our own fault.
00:04:52.280 We've got to change it.