The Pictou Dilemma and Venezuela: Save paper mill jobs or protect waters from toxic waste – March 10, 2019,
Allow me to point out that the solutions to a lot of the worlds pollution problems already exist, why these solutions can’t be harnessed and used in the real world revolve primarily around price inflation. What’s why solution? the free market, Nova Scotia and many parts of eastern Canada typically vote Left and is, for the most part, have an attitude provincially to kick the economic can down the road. Certain industries became essential to a city or town primarily because it’s not affordable for other businesses to locate there.
Being that a lot of jobs are tied to Northern Pulp if the environmentalist in this instance have their way the entire town will suffer. Attitudes are very important to an economy when investors invest in a particular region sophisticated investors typically take a long look at demographics and political history. Because if let’s say an area of Canada is known to vote in a Liberal or an NDP candidate automatically certain businesses won’t go or invest there. I’ve often listened to old stock Canadians argue against first nations people often coming from the opinion that the First Nations should be thankful that the old stock Canadians are having their taxes extracted to pay for First Nation treaties.
Well, I come from the place of leading by example, if you read the story below
Friction in Pictou: Save pulp mill jobs or protect waters from toxic waste – CBC
As you’ll learn the arguments being made by the environmentalists revolve around the Provincial governments breaking promises? Hmmm, government breaking promises? Could it be that the government is incompetent at not only micro-managing the economy but also on environmental issues too? You don’t say? So then why would people want a bigger government? These types of issues were actually common in Venezuela prior to their economy crashing in the manner in which it did.
We in Canada obviously assume that there’s no way we in Canada could have a toilet paper shortage as an example, but please understand that economic destruction happens gradually until one day a town, a city, a province, a Country wakes up morning to realize that they’re extremely reliant on imports and a strong currency, when the market realizes the economic buffoonery of that now socialist, government-heavy anti-free market society, the market will then price its own number into our currency, which is of course where real inflation comes from.
In the real world, people are supposed to work together, if as an example your city or town is reliant on Northern Pulp, instead of the people sitting around and complaining about pollution, why don’t they instead work together to find a solution? They don’t do this of course because both the Forst Nations people and the Old Stock Canadians both turn to the government for a solution. Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a government office before, I don’t if you’ve ever been around government people before, but most of them are ideologues.
Most politicians will say what’s necessary to win and worry about the specifics later. Leftists, especially Liberals love to outsource problems at an inflated cost. Most liberals are career politicians, sure some have spent some time in the free market, but they did so with the intention to build their political careers. Let’s be honest and say, the same goes for the NDP, The Greens, and the Conservatives, but the Liberals have been the dominant political Party in Canada especially since Pierre Trudeau and most of the economic problems in Canada exist primarily because Leftist Liberals prefer giving Canadians easy government answers to problems the free market would have fixed, because typically when humans backs are against the wall and they don’t lean on the government to solve them, problems often get solved faster.
Because it’s not like Northern Pulp is only Kraft pulp manufacturer in the world. But when the people are solely reliant on a government fixture to the problem, basically solving a problem like that gets sent to the backburner. Because let’s be honest here, if the barrier to entry based on current environmental regulatory laws weren’t so high, a lot of companies would gladly pick up the slack. The problem you get with Leftist is that their regulatory framework along with the personalities of the people that reside in many of these communities spook the market and spook investment.
Environmentalists are very demanding people, it’s very hard to please environmentalists, which is why most business people avoid certain industries, making matters worse in Canada and I’ve written about this plenty of times is our lower Loonie, in the modern day where the European Union is a real thing, where the Euro and the Greenback a far more desirable than the Loonie, we are turning away investment everywhere. Venezuela, their government assumed that a service sector economy was the way to go because they had a lot of oil, then one day the price of oil dropped, because of regulations the Venezuelan government had turned away businesses that could have held their economy together in the event their number 1 export lost value, nope they put all their eggs in one basket and in time they paid for it. Venezuela needed toilet paper to be imported into their country when their currency dropped they couldn’t even import that.
Sure, Canada hasn’t abandoned the free market entirely, but we’re losing manufacturing jobs at an alarming rate, I understand some people think saving the environment is most important, I think we can do both, but honest conversations about how the free market works have got to make it into the public space. I’m of the belief that a large number of Canadians can’t even comprehend Austrian economics which is scary, because even if you’re a Keynesian or a Marxist you should at the very least understand the value of a free market system. I hope Pictou can find a solution.
Interesting times ahead.