Dear Friends,
It seems to me, with the upcoming Canadian election, Canadians need to consider the future of their nation. There are really only two options offered. One is to become a 1984 style despotic state, where the people are guinea pigs for the elite’s experiments. The other is a possible return to limited, responsive and virtuous government. Pierre Poilievre is the only candidate advocating for limited government and free markets, plus he’s a patriot… the rest are WEF penetrators. They’re traitors, intent on accelerating Canada’s fall to the totalitarian globalist oligarchs. Sadly, there are no free market advocates among that crew, only unlimited government types. They’re banking on the courtesy culture in Canada, and Canadian’s deferment to the State in all things, to keep Poilievre out.
One way to tell if a nation is captured by an idea is if they continue following it even after it’s been proven a failure. The Canadian socialist healthcare system is just such a failure. Waiting lists, suicide assistance, and the political favor that’s required to get good service, characterize all single payer systems, and Canada’s is no exception. While the doctors themselves in many cases are exceptional, any top down system will be one where bureaucrats decide what medicine can be practiced… not doctors. During the Covid swindle, Canadians suffered the worst of it. The government went to extremes that boggle the mind, like locking children in their rooms while they cry for affection, as part of Trudeau’s draconian lock down restrictions.
Canada is a nation rich in natural resources. From timber to rare earth elements, Canada has it all. If only the government allowed access to it. Most people think the stranglehold is “just” in Alberta, with the oil resources, but they would be wrong. The choke hold Ottawa has over resource extraction is a garrote. In Quebec, there are proven extractable rare earth minerals, but the government has made getting them uneconomic. Even timber is both restricted and subsidized. Moreover, Canada could pay its health care costs by selling water to the US and across the world, but refuses to. All these restrictions cost jobs. Plus, the taxes required for the subsidies to offset the regulations further lowers the worker’s standard of living. Which is why Canada needs to parasitize off the US with tariffs.
People who feel they need the government to do for them aren’t mature self-actuating agents, they’re children in adult bodies. Dependency isn’t an organic mindset for a grown man or woman. It’s an artifact of the culture. Moreover, the culture is the aggregate effect of the cultural leaders leading by example. There is of course Edward Bernays’ propaganda that moves the minds of the masses, which is very effective. Especially since the propaganda is pumped into Canadian’s homes every night by the state funded CBC. In the western provinces like Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, the NW territories and the Yukon, there’s a strong independent ethos. Because in such places one dies without it. Their sparse population however limits their political power. Canada is ruled by the cities.
Canada has to decide what the people want to bequeath to their children and grandchildren. Right now the future looks like the next generation of Canadians will be Winston in Orwell’s 1984. The biggest obstacle to Canadian success, is the culture of dependency and the tendency of deferring to the state. These cultural attitudes make many Canadians think they need the state to do for them. Giving up their agency to the almighty experts. Experts who have nearly unlimited power to limit Canadians. Suppressing the vast wealth that’s right under their feet, all around them and in their own hands. Canada could have twice the real GDP per person of the US, were it not for their unlimited globalist government. When offered shackles, it’s best not to put them on, even out of courtesy.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
