💣The Fall of Canada under Liberals.
Here are major companies, retailers, manufacturers, and employers that shut down, left Canada, or dramatically downsized operations from 2015–2026 as taxes, regulation, crime, housing costs, energy policy, and economic stagnation worsened:
Target Canada Collapsed and exited Canada in 2015. 133 stores closed. 17,600 jobs lost.
Future Shop Shut down all remaining locations in 2015. Thousands of retail jobs disappeared.
Walmart Closed multiple Canadian locations in recent years amid restructuring and rising costs.
Hudson’s Bay Company Canada’s oldest retailer collapsed into liquidation in 2025. Over 8,300 employees terminated. A 355-year-old Canadian institution effectively wiped out.
Nordstrom Canada Exited Canada entirely in 2023. 13 stores closed. ~2,500 jobs lost.
Bed Bath & Beyond Canada Filed for insolvency in 2023. All Canadian stores shut down.
Lowes Canada Exited the Canadian market in 2023. Dozens of stores closed or rebranded.
Lynx Air Collapsed in 2024. 500 employees affected. Another Canadian airline gone.
Lion Electric Mass layoffs across Quebec operations in 2024 despite huge government subsidies for “green jobs.”
Shopify Ottawa-based tech giant conducted repeated rounds of layoffs after aggressive expansion during the Trudeau era tech bubble.
OpenText Cut roughly 1,200 jobs in 2024.
Lightspeed Commerce Hundreds of layoffs after massive valuation collapse.
Enbridge Cut 650 jobs in 2024 citing difficult business conditions and economic uncertainty.
Imperial Oil Announced major workforce reductions and plans to scale back Calgary operations.
ConocoPhillips Canada Began layoffs in Canadian operations in 2025 as energy investment uncertainty intensified.
Dow Chemical Closed major Canadian operations and reduced workforce dramatically over time.
Numerous oil & gas companies Thousands of layoffs across Alberta since 2015:
Cenovus, Husky, Nexen, ConocoPhillips, Talisman, and others cut massive portions of their workforce during Canada’s hostile energy investment climate.
Meanwhile:
Productivity collapsed Canada now ranks near the bottom of the OECD for productivity growth.
Business investment per worker stagnated for years.
Hundreds of billions in capital fled the Canadian energy sector.
Housing became among the most unaffordable in the world.
Toronto office towers and downtown retail cores hollowed out.
Canada once competed with the United States for investment.
Now companies increasingly see it as a high-tax, overregulated, low-growth economy.
They easily get a F grade in every area.
So what exactly are Canadian Voters thinking?🤷🏻♂️
🚨🇨🇦 Carney says “Canada thrives because we’re Canadian.” 😆
The IMF says otherwise.
📉 GDP per capita growth (2014–2024):
🇨🇦 0.5% - dead last
🇺🇸 20.7%
🇩🇰 18.9%
🇪🇸 17.8%
This isn’t patriotism vs pessimism.
It’s numbers vs slogans.
Someone is lying to Canadians @MarkJCarney and the chart isn’t.🙄
@MarcNixon24@MelissaLMRogers@JayGenXer@mario4thenorth
#cdnpoli #Canada #Economy #Carney
Sorry to break it to you, Mr. Carney: people can’t eat speeches.
They need affordable grocery prices—and Canada’s are rising the fastest in the G7, so you can’t blame it on global causes. End the hidden grocery taxes. Stop printing money.