• turnip@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      A convenient excuse to not develop our resources, leading to massive losses in foreign investment into Canada. Why would anyone invest here when bureaucracy makes it impossible, why would they not invest in the US instead leaving them with higher wages and more economic growth as has been the case over the last 10 years?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKArGpqbXoA

      We are last in the OECD for growth, as we import people into a housing and doctor shortage to hide it. This video has the graph at 2:40 if you want proof of that.

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          2 months ago

          Well do you want functioning hospitals, a social safety net, things like that? Those take actual money, current account balance, exports. You also happen to think healthcare should be a human right I would assume?

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              2 months ago

              I think Canadian oil is landlocked and the greater good should prioritize, so we can fund things like health transfers. Because I care about Canadians in aggregate, not a tiny selection of them who want to maximize rent seeking.

              If it was a rich persons land who bought it off the indigenous would you be saying the same thing, would you respect land rights then if it meant denying a safety net for the poor?

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                  I just have to say, I really appreciate you on this forum and thank you for standing up to ignorant people like them as regularly as you do. It is refreshing to see. :)

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                    I showed we had the slowest growth in the OECD due to this same bureaucracy, you’re hurting those you think you are helping, these things fund our safety net.

                    When we hit a recession you won’t be able to blame greedy corporations for our ills, it will have been those putting up barricades for growth. We have food bank usage rising extremely quickly, people living in rest stops, and we haven’t even hit a recession yet.