This is actually going to get much worse as other countries complete their vaccination efforts in the short term, get back to work, and start gobbling up all the of the relevant international markets, leaving nothing for Canadian businesses when they finally get their lockdowns lifted months later due to our slow vaccine rollouts.
Like it's not going to be a case of "Back to normal" when we get vaccinated and the lockdowns start ending in fucking September. By that time, there's going to be no business left for Canadian industries because every other country will have claimed the entire markets by then. Canadian businesses will be shut out. Right now it's a race for countries' industries to get running again and claim their shares of their respective global markets. And Canada is stuck at the start line because our government has no real plan to get us vaccinated and end the lockdowns. The entire global economic pecking order is being rearranged right now, and Trudeau making sure we end up at the bottom. And this will be permanent. Or at least until another global economic shakeup happens of this scale, which will likely be another hundred years.
We are seriously and permanently fucked economically. Your children and grandchildren are going to grow up in a Canada that's basically Mexico North because the idiots who currently inhabit this country were literally too stupid to understand why it's not a good idea to put a part time snowboard instructor in charge of the government.
When will Alberta give a giant FU to the feds and just stop paying equalization. What would happen? Honestly nothing, Canada can't lose Alberta. I've never understood why Alberta puts up with the crap???
Alberta doesn't control the money in the first place. Equalization is not an invoice sent to the legislature they could choose to refuse their treasury from letting the money out. Equalization is when you have the highest paid and the youngest workforce who require less federal services pay income tax, more income tax than comes back. So the ab government has no power to withhold the transfers.
We also let the CRA collect taxes for us then remit our portion back, we should do it the other way (perfectly legal option) where Alberta collects the taxes then remits Ottawa's share after.
Move north, get more seats in rural communities not touched by this virus, start businesses up north, slowly guide the country back to where it needs to be.
LOL, okay. Move north where everything costs 3x as much as it does 'down south' and your primary clientele is almost nearly entirely dependent on government largesse.
If everybody is failing they do feel better, because they don't have to give a shit, they're running entirely on their retirement.
And their retirement is entirely in safe securities that do not see much movement with the economy.
They're already pissed that their kids are making way more than them (because they don't understand inflation, and how they could afford a 20k$ house but "kids" have a hard time buying something with a 90k$ salary.)
And nothing pissed of a boomer more than a kid going "I made 500k$ with GME meme stocks" and the like. This is why they have to prevent everything like this.
Lottery they understand, and are ok with because they "know" "nobody wins". (And they do get mad when someone they know wins a big prize, and gets better off.)
Hilarious because before the alt left were hoping to cull people via a pandemic because there's too many people in the world. Now they want you to give up your job and stay home to save 80 year olds with HIV and cancer.
Canada isn't canada anymore we've lost. Justin sold the soul of the country and we're basically IndiaChina/hehimher which is a hilarious fusion because Islam doesn't mix with what these ultra communist are pushing.
You are 100% correct. Born in Canada myself, last 10 years there has been a sig decline in many things - from economy to freedoms. Though I doubt the UK is any better - in fact, based on what I read, it sounds like the UK is even more cucked? What would your assessment be?
A lot has changed in the last 10 years. In fact, this is something I comment on a lot. The entire PC woke culture exploded in the last 10 years. I graduated University just before it all began, sure there was some crap going around, but nothing compared to today. With the woke crap comes everything else. The brainwashing, death of real journalism, outright MSM propaganda, branding anyone against the narrative as a crazy conspiracy theorist, degradation of free speech, hated of whites and Christians etc. All of that has accelerated enormously in the last 10 years. Not to mention since Trudope, suffocating debt, destruction of Canadian business and industries, reliance on China and other countries, complete sell out of Canada to China. In the last 10 years my life HAS changed a lot in Canada - I no longer truly have free speech (I don't feel safe sharing my opinions to many, would be fired at work if I did - and they aren't crazy opinions, just counter narrative), sig higher taxes (carbon tax as well), sig higher cost of living, cancel culture, propaganda everywhere etc.
haha no one takes the left seriously anymore, just you and your charming legacy media no one watches. More people watch Steven Crowder than CNN at prime time lol. Enjoy your false perceptions. You may find yourself whining a hell of a lot more when you start to notice your freedoms stripping away or when the economy tanks give it a couple of years. Maybe you've never lived in a communist country, or don't have family who have. Try talking to someone who has, you'll learn a lot. Meanwhile I'll keep fighting the good fight against government overreach. (And btw I'm more libertarian than I am conservative, so don't really fall on any spectrum).
Bull fucking shit. I got a job doing IT shit for canadian tired in 2000. Paying 15 bucks an hour which was good money for my age. Now I work in construction and I see job listings for "skilled" carpenters offering 25 bucks an hour. 20 YEARS later. Raises barely exists anymore, better off just getting a new job. No benefits, no overtime, get fucked.
Only 10 years ago? This country has been in long steady decline for over 50 years. The pace of decline accelerated in the early 1990s. It's just been getting worse and worse.
My parents bought a house for $80k in the early 80's, with a 10 year mortgage that they paid off early. The same house is now approaching $1 million in value.
This has gotten so out-of-control you'd think the government would step in and stop the mass migration. But no, they want their own citizens priced out of the housing market to make room for those Chinese millionaires and their empty houses.
The decline has definitely accelerated since Cucknada took that turn for the worst in the early 1990s. It feels like we're living in one of the shitholes the immigrants flee from.
Fake news, nobody lost their job, they all work for the government now lol
This is actually going to get much worse as other countries complete their vaccination efforts in the short term, get back to work, and start gobbling up all the of the relevant international markets, leaving nothing for Canadian businesses when they finally get their lockdowns lifted months later due to our slow vaccine rollouts.
Like it's not going to be a case of "Back to normal" when we get vaccinated and the lockdowns start ending in fucking September. By that time, there's going to be no business left for Canadian industries because every other country will have claimed the entire markets by then. Canadian businesses will be shut out. Right now it's a race for countries' industries to get running again and claim their shares of their respective global markets. And Canada is stuck at the start line because our government has no real plan to get us vaccinated and end the lockdowns. The entire global economic pecking order is being rearranged right now, and Trudeau making sure we end up at the bottom. And this will be permanent. Or at least until another global economic shakeup happens of this scale, which will likely be another hundred years.
We are seriously and permanently fucked economically. Your children and grandchildren are going to grow up in a Canada that's basically Mexico North because the idiots who currently inhabit this country were literally too stupid to understand why it's not a good idea to put a part time snowboard instructor in charge of the government.
Maybe we should try more of these lockdowns. They seem to work perfectly.
You know what that means. More equalization payments for Quebec and the Altantics.
When will Alberta give a giant FU to the feds and just stop paying equalization. What would happen? Honestly nothing, Canada can't lose Alberta. I've never understood why Alberta puts up with the crap???
Alberta doesn't control the money in the first place. Equalization is not an invoice sent to the legislature they could choose to refuse their treasury from letting the money out. Equalization is when you have the highest paid and the youngest workforce who require less federal services pay income tax, more income tax than comes back. So the ab government has no power to withhold the transfers.
We also let the CRA collect taxes for us then remit our portion back, we should do it the other way (perfectly legal option) where Alberta collects the taxes then remits Ottawa's share after.
Erin O'toole can fix it. In Erin we trust.
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BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
It's great.news depending on your perspective.
For some, everything is going according to plan.
Move north, get more seats in rural communities not touched by this virus, start businesses up north, slowly guide the country back to where it needs to be.
LOL, okay. Move north where everything costs 3x as much as it does 'down south' and your primary clientele is almost nearly entirely dependent on government largesse.
damn dude, don't go all the way to Nunavut
The Ontario lockdown reached far into the north as well. We were only supposed to be 2 weeks but the made us do 1.5 months like the rest of you.
We didnt lose jobs. They were killed and the people that did it have names and government jobs.
Just want to add that I live in Toronto, and ridership on the TTC during rush hour is down at least 75%, by my estimate.
THE NEWSPAPERS ARE LYING! EVERYONE HAS LOST THEIR JOBS!!
Holy moose tracks. What did I just discover ?
Just when you think the boomers where done fucking everyone over, they get used for a final fuck you to everyone on their way out.
If everybody is failing they do feel better, because they don't have to give a shit, they're running entirely on their retirement.
And their retirement is entirely in safe securities that do not see much movement with the economy.
They're already pissed that their kids are making way more than them (because they don't understand inflation, and how they could afford a 20k$ house but "kids" have a hard time buying something with a 90k$ salary.)
And nothing pissed of a boomer more than a kid going "I made 500k$ with GME meme stocks" and the like. This is why they have to prevent everything like this.
Lottery they understand, and are ok with because they "know" "nobody wins". (And they do get mad when someone they know wins a big prize, and gets better off.)
Hilarious because before the alt left were hoping to cull people via a pandemic because there's too many people in the world. Now they want you to give up your job and stay home to save 80 year olds with HIV and cancer.
Canada isn't canada anymore we've lost. Justin sold the soul of the country and we're basically IndiaChina/hehimher which is a hilarious fusion because Islam doesn't mix with what these ultra communist are pushing.
You are 100% correct. Born in Canada myself, last 10 years there has been a sig decline in many things - from economy to freedoms. Though I doubt the UK is any better - in fact, based on what I read, it sounds like the UK is even more cucked? What would your assessment be?
Canada will default on their debts in my lifetime.
Stash as much as you can in equities, USD and Bitcoin.
A lot has changed in the last 10 years. In fact, this is something I comment on a lot. The entire PC woke culture exploded in the last 10 years. I graduated University just before it all began, sure there was some crap going around, but nothing compared to today. With the woke crap comes everything else. The brainwashing, death of real journalism, outright MSM propaganda, branding anyone against the narrative as a crazy conspiracy theorist, degradation of free speech, hated of whites and Christians etc. All of that has accelerated enormously in the last 10 years. Not to mention since Trudope, suffocating debt, destruction of Canadian business and industries, reliance on China and other countries, complete sell out of Canada to China. In the last 10 years my life HAS changed a lot in Canada - I no longer truly have free speech (I don't feel safe sharing my opinions to many, would be fired at work if I did - and they aren't crazy opinions, just counter narrative), sig higher taxes (carbon tax as well), sig higher cost of living, cancel culture, propaganda everywhere etc.
haha no one takes the left seriously anymore, just you and your charming legacy media no one watches. More people watch Steven Crowder than CNN at prime time lol. Enjoy your false perceptions. You may find yourself whining a hell of a lot more when you start to notice your freedoms stripping away or when the economy tanks give it a couple of years. Maybe you've never lived in a communist country, or don't have family who have. Try talking to someone who has, you'll learn a lot. Meanwhile I'll keep fighting the good fight against government overreach. (And btw I'm more libertarian than I am conservative, so don't really fall on any spectrum).
Bull fucking shit. I got a job doing IT shit for canadian tired in 2000. Paying 15 bucks an hour which was good money for my age. Now I work in construction and I see job listings for "skilled" carpenters offering 25 bucks an hour. 20 YEARS later. Raises barely exists anymore, better off just getting a new job. No benefits, no overtime, get fucked.
Only 10 years ago? This country has been in long steady decline for over 50 years. The pace of decline accelerated in the early 1990s. It's just been getting worse and worse.
My parents bought a house for $80k in the early 80's, with a 10 year mortgage that they paid off early. The same house is now approaching $1 million in value.
This has gotten so out-of-control you'd think the government would step in and stop the mass migration. But no, they want their own citizens priced out of the housing market to make room for those Chinese millionaires and their empty houses.
The decline has definitely accelerated since Cucknada took that turn for the worst in the early 1990s. It feels like we're living in one of the shitholes the immigrants flee from.