I think we need to change the mood a little. It’s been a lot of doom and gloom lately. 😅
Hey @grok, if you had to make a movie about the current Carney Liberal government, what would you call it?
Most unhinged answer only. 🍿😂
Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation
Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.
Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”
For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.
The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.
To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!
If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.
PM Carney says 24 Sussex Drive must be restored because Canada’s history, traditions, and institutions matter.
OK. Then apply the principle consistently.
If our history matters at 24 Sussex, does it also matter when statues of John A. Macdonald are removed, hidden, or vandalized?
If our traditions matter, does that include names like Dundas, Laurier, and other figures who helped shape the country, even if their records are complicated?
If our institutions matter, then preserving history should mean adding context, not erasing every name that fails a modern political purity test.
Canada’s past is not simple. No serious person claims it is. But a mature country does not tear down its memory every time activists find a flaw in a dead man.
Restore 24 Sussex? OK.
Now restore the same respect for the rest of Canada’s history.