The rules of national competitiveness keep changing. If the last few years were tough, the future looks even more confusing. Is Canada up to the challenges?…
On one level, the idea that Canada’s future is uncertain seems absurd. The country routinely places well in global comparisons. US News and Reports recently ranked Canada No. 1 in quality of life. Liberal partisans have tweeted out the results as if a single ranking can mask all the country’s faults and shortcomings.
But the competitive environment is also shifting. Certain nations — Japan, South Korea, Norway, Germany, and others — continue to do well. Russia, driven to the brink by its invasion of Ukraine, is on the skids, but is expanding its military presence in the Arctic and accelerating its resource developments. China’s economic growth may have slowed, but its diplomatic aggression continues, and its international entanglements are expanding.
But our greatest challenge is at home. One of the world’s most over-governed nations, Canada is on the verge of earning new stripes for ineffective governance. Many Canadians found a safe financial haven with CERB and other support payments during the early years of the pandemic. But the federal government workforce’s almost unchecked expansion has not been matched by higher quality services or improved attention to citizen’s needs.
Millions of Canadians are house poor or crippled by high interest rates and soaring inflation. The government’s fixation on climate change, despite the country’s negligible impact on the world’s climate, attacks two pillars of Western Canada’s economy: agriculture and energy. Many Canadians are profoundly unhappy or uncertain, bereft of courageous and innovative leadership.
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