Fix canada? Serve/Save your families. There is no freedom without financial freedom. Work with other like minded folks, and stop villifying helping your own. Everyone doing well now keeps it in the family so to speak.

Use locals markets like fb and kijiji in canada, spend here but dont make here, dont get paid in canadian currency.(if you can, explore avenues, you can figure this out if you really want to )

House sharing, renting rooms.

Divest from canada, start a business and run it through a website or free fb page and get paid in other currencies/or in other countries with a lower tax rate (hint almost any other country)

Its easier then ever to move money and benefit from the currency exchange ups and downs.

Educate yourself on finance and real estate, stop working for others and start looking after your family. Consider setting things up else where or further away from the handout horde. Should the checks not hit the bank accounts theyll be at your door.

If you can legally make less than 9000 you dont have to pay income tax, figure that out and youre leaps and bounds ahead of the rest