Commentary
Our nation is undergoing unprecedented social and economic transformation.
Many Canadians are suffering while our elected representatives remain silent. During the COVID crisis, the rights and freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution were suspended while our institutions and members of Parliament quietly approved the mandates.
In communities across the country, young people can’t hope to own a home—there has been a population growth of
over 1.25 million in the past 12 months—and they are being priced out of the rental market due to a flood of migrants and rising competition for apartments.
Inflation on housing keeps rising relentlessly and averages over 1.5 percent a month in many areas of the country. The average cost of a
one-bedroom unit in October was $1,906, up 14 percent from the previous year. Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive city for renters, is out of control with the average one-bedroom unit listed at $2,872 and a two-bedroom at $3,777. Toronto has reached $2,607 for a one-bedroom and $3,424 for a two-bedroom.
Seniors are watching their savings being eroded by the highest levels of inflation experienced in 50 years. Seniors can no longer
afford to rent in a major Canadian city, with half earning under $33,100 income.
Who is responsible? We have all played a part but some bear more responsibility than others. The people we have elected at all levels of government—federally, provincially, and municipally—have failed us.
In October 2015, Justin Trudeau stated that Canada would be the “
first post-national state.” “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” he said. Essentially, Canada would become a global, post-national, open-border state willing to bend a knee to the globalist agenda. Upon hearing this statement, Canadians failed to grasp the severe threat our country was under. Since then, several initiatives have been implemented to formalize this plan.
Since the end of the 20th century, our sovereignty has come under constant attack by a self-appointed globalist deep state that has slowly, quietly, but insidiously taken over our institutions, universities, mainstream media, government bureaucracies and, in combination with oligopoly corporations, has undermined democracy. Beginning in the 1990s with Brian Mulroney, who signed over Canada’s sovereignty to the interest of international organizations, successive governments have gone along with this. In 2018, Justin Trudeau’s government signed Canada onto the
U.N. migration pact, which has allowed over
430,000 immigrants to arrive in the last three months of 2023, more than any previous year in Canada’s history.
Now, as we enter 2024, the harm caused to our communities, institutions, and economy by the actions of our federal government is overwhelmingly apparent.
The globalist actions of decades of federal governments have left the country nearly
bankrupt. Current interest spending on the federal accumulated debt ($44 billion) is more than all of
the program spending of the four Atlantic provinces combined ($36.1 billion). Much of that interest is revenue for foreign interests and Canadian government employee pensions.
According to a
Fraser Institute study, federal and provincial government debt has nearly doubled (on an inflation-adjusted basis) from $1.1 trillion in 2007/08 to $2.1 trillion in 2022/23.
Wide sectors of Canada are collapsing, which will be rapidly accelerated by the government’s huge planned
immigration numbers: 485,000 in 2024, 500,000 in 2025, and 500,000 in 2026. Mass immigration is growing now at an exponential pace, and social trends that start growing rapidly are very hard to stop.
Today we are witnessing the erosion of our culture, traditions, and heritage, including the right to live and travel freely, the right to freedom and peace, free expression, free assembly, personal agency over medical procedures, protection against all forms of discrimination, the family, religious practices, the right to privacy and data collection, the right to education, and the right to property. We have become second-class members of our own communities while politicians raise
taxes to exorbitant levels in order to subsidize a nonsensical immigration policy.
What can we do to halt our country’s slide?
While trust is low that the government or politicians will defend the values and principles upon which this country was founded, Canadians are now rising from coast to coast, demanding responsible actions by our elected representatives who have been complicit in their deafening silence.
Elected representatives have a duty to act in the general interest of the country and their constituents. Failure to speak out is causing irreparable harm and placing people at risk.
Canadians need to start sending their elected representatives at all levels a very clear message. Send an email, phone them, or better yet arrange a sit-down one-on-one and let them know that as trustees they have a duty to safeguard the interests of all citizens and the country. Accountability is not an option, it is a duty. Citizens must rise and take action.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
