Static economy due to meddling by Big Government

When you consider that Big Government and its meddling leftist bureaucrats have taken control of Canada's economy once again, it is small wonder that our great nation is becoming a non-productive, social democracy similar to European states like Sweden, Norway and Holland. I blame my "peace and love generation" of the 60s and early 70s for adhering to and spreading the flawed leftist thinking that has piloted our country into an economic spiral from which it may never recover. For example, in the late 60s, flower child icon Pierre Trudeau led us to believe that it was possible to "spend yourself rich." For a purportedly intelligent man, Trudeau's grasp of economics was, to say the least, fuzzy, and his borrowing scheme nearly bankrupted the country.

Big Government's newest limitations will further hamstring private entrepreneurs who believe in capitalism and real democracy

If not for fiscally responsible Conservative governments (Cretin used higher taxes in a failed attempt to erase Trudeau's disastrous fiscal legacy) that followed Trudeau's irresponsible reign, Canada may well have been internationally disgraced by pleading for a bailout from, say, Cuba. Today, we have Justin Trudeau in control of our nation. Not surprisingly, his intention to borrow $30 billion to ostensibly "upgrade Canada's infrastructure" is just as risible as his late father's spend yourself rich economic strategy. What Trudeau Jr. does not seem to understand, or is deliberately ignoring, is the fact that most of the borrowed money will be spent on enlarging an already over bloated federal government. Why? Because many more government departments will be created to place niggling restrictions on real work projects--the kind where you get your hands and clothes dirty. Big Government's newest limitations will further hamstring private entrepreneurs who believe in capitalism and real democracy i.e., citizens control the government not vice-versa.

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Trudeau Jr.'s social democracy eschews capitalist ventures

The point is that Trudeau Jr.'s social democracy eschews capitalist (the very word terrifies lefties) ventures because such endeavors create wealth, leading to the ascension of private citizens with the money and the political clout to question and even vote out of office those who believe in leftist rule by Big Government. As some Canadians are aware, Trudeau Jr. favours bureaucrats, lawyers, accountants, money managers and a host of other elites who do not invent, build or sell any products that create wealth. As noted, individual wealth generated by capitalists is dangerous to the tax, spend and build nothing but bigger government tenet that underlies Trudeau Jr.'s type of social democracy (autocracy?) In his recent book, After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, Mark Steyn observes that the American economy has remained static for years because the energetic citizens, inventors and entrepreneurs who built the once great nation have been enervated by Big Government policies that restrict or make capitalist ventures impossible.

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It's not surprising then that China, the country to which Canada and the U.S. send raw materials to be manufactured into anything from silly trinkets to prefab buildings, has become the world's economic locomotive. According to financial gurus, Canada is presently in debt to the tune of $1 to $1.5 trillion; U.S. debt is almost $19 trillion. How can we expect to pay down this crippling debt when we can barely afford to meet the interest payments on it, and Trudeau Jr. is planning to increase the debt by $30 billion? The answer is that there is a dim but steady beacon of hope emanating from a tenacious, freedom loving city in southern Manitoba. Consider the positive economic statistics generated by the innovative citizens of Winkler, Manitoba, located about 100 km southwest of Winnipeg. At the end of the 1980s, Winkler was an unknown hamlet dependent on an agrarian economy to survive. But that changed in 1990 when local entrepreneurs decided to grow their business manufacturing sector. (Some of the enterprises began in garages.) "The main obstacle to economic growth was that skilled workers were not available in Manitoba or, for that matter, anywhere in Canada," said present Mayor Martin Harder, who grew up in Winkler. Indeed, to this day, privileged Canadian youth who believe they are entitled to a six-figure starting salary still look down their long, pointy noses at tradesmen and menial factory jobs. Some youth, who aren't living at home in their mid-thirties, muster enough energy to find well-paying government jobs, cushy academic appointments or not-to-stressful positions in the economic and money management "professions." But overall, hard physical work is avoided at all cost by entitled Canadian youth, including a commitment to learn a skilled trade that requires more mental input than most of the non-productive jobs created by Big Government. Winkler solved the skilled labour shortage by sending business-savvy scouts to Europe who carefully vetted candidates who wanted to work in the town's burgeoning manufacturing centre. "Most of the skilled labourers hired were from Germany, former East Germany and areas of Russia," said Harder. The first hiring initiative was successful and since that time Winkler's industrial economy has grown beyond expectations. Moreover, spinoffs including big real estate developments, more schools, larger food and retail stores, lower taxes and new sports facilities have combined to earn Winkler the designation as one of the "fastest growing cities in Canada," according to the 2011 Census. The city's manufacturing sector now employs people from 56 nations throughout the world. "The workforce of [one industry] consists of 80 percent migrant employees," said Harder. The diversified manufacturing base includes a company that builds Tundra Buggies for outfitters in Churchill, Manitoba, who use them for polar bear viewing excursions. Another business builds high-tech fracking equipment that is sold to oilfields in Texas. Winkler Affordable Housing Inc. recently made a shrewd business decision by purchasing 66 housing units from Big Government, which was mismanaging the units. So far, the carefully vetted skilled labourers who have moved to Winkler have become well integrated Canadian citizens, respectful of the laws of the land and appreciative of the freedoms guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Unfortunately, Big Government managed to slink into Winkler in 2016 in the guise of Private Sponsorship Programs for Syrian Muslim "refugees." Let's hope that a bastion of democracy and successful capitalism like Winkler will not become a no-go zone like Malmo, Sweden, Gronland, Norway or Maassluis, Holland.