• turnip@lemm.ee
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    A convenient excuse to not develop our resources, leading to massive losses in foreign investment into Canada. Why would anyone invest here when bureaucracy makes it impossible, why would they not invest in the US instead leaving them with higher wages and more economic growth as has been the case over the last 10 years?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKArGpqbXoA

    We are last in the OECD for growth, as we import people into a housing and doctor shortage to hide it. This video has the graph at 2:40 if you want proof of that.

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        Well do you want functioning hospitals, a social safety net, things like that? Those take actual money, current account balance, exports. You also happen to think healthcare should be a human right I would assume?

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                I just have to say, I really appreciate you on this forum and thank you for standing up to ignorant people like them as regularly as you do. It is refreshing to see. :)

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                    I showed we had the slowest growth in the OECD due to this same bureaucracy, you’re hurting those you think you are helping, these things fund our safety net.

                    When we hit a recession you won’t be able to blame greedy corporations for our ills, it will have been those putting up barricades for growth. We have food bank usage rising extremely quickly, people living in rest stops, and we haven’t even hit a recession yet.

                    By every metric Canada is not hurting as much as you want to pretend. We can do much better, but this narrative of a broken Canada is populist nonsense.

                    Use your brain and realize “Record food bank usage” isn’t ideal, but it is great to know that the safety net has provided food to those who needed it when they needed it.

                    This is happening globally and we do not need people like you stoking fires. If you want to shit on policy have your own alternatives to back it up or sit down and let the adults talk.