Soldiers of Odin, Jason Kenney, the hurting oil sector and over-regulation changing the face of Canada – April 3, 2019,
Although social justice seems like something new, it’s actually been around since politics and democracy began, one group, using force via the democratic process make another group do the heavy lifting while the privileged group engages in never-ending bureaucracy. When a nation is rich, this system at least in its early stages works, but eventually even the once privileged class, that called for regulations in one form or another eventually becomes the victim of the same system they once supported.
Ask why my focus is on economic freedom? Because in the end, it’s the economy stupid! Canada probably has the least racial tension in any country in the world its size. But hat Canada does have is a lot of economic protectionisms. We convince ourselves that these protectionist measures exist to prevent the United States from buying up Canada, but the truth is, it all revolves around greed and laziness. The Loonie is primarily because we’ve made the choice that we’d like to keep our social and public programs, in order to do this the Loonie has to be low. This low Loonie makes the cost of living higher, adding to our lower loonie are tariffs, so consumers pay more for imported goods, this of course detours Canadians from daring to purchase particular goods and service from the U.S. thereby limiting our purchasing options.
Now, when there’s an abundance of jobs and prosperity, higher costs go relatively unnoticed, however, once there’s a slowdown in the economy and even jobs start to become scarce, hardworking people become more aware of what’s happening in politics. In Justice Trudeau’s hope to make Canada go further left, even attempting to change the tax code, he inadvertently opened pandora’s box, because he doesn’t appear to understand economic history, he forgets that Paul Martin’s Liberals basically prolonged the inevitable economic collapse that would have resulted from his father’s Federal policies.
Under Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, the Canadian economy grew because of corruption, I give them credit because it worked, temporarily, Stephen Harper made the Canadian economy work better while at the same time cutting taxes, however, Stephen Harper never confronted protectionism and this is why I view Soldiers of Odin, Jason Kenney and what’s going on in the oil patch as signals of change. where I see things differently from Soldiers of Odin and Jason Kenney is that, they’d be wise to push Canada to have a freer market.
I’m actually fearful of an Andrew Scheer government, for the same reason I was fearful of Stephen Harper’s government. Picking winners and losers are picking winners and losers, free societies aren’t only based on unions wages and protecting groups, free societies are based on entrepreneurs, LIBERTIES and equal justice under the law. Equalization shouldn’t be changed it should be abolished, price controls should be changed they should be abolished, keeping the loonie low to serve businesses shouldn’t be changed it should be abolished, a growing public sector should be challenged and check for efficiency.
There’s always this missing piece that I see when I listen to the Political Left and the Political Right. The Left wants a few people at the top pulling the strings of the economy, the political Right wants a few people at the top pulling the strings of the economy, the Left calls the Right racists, the Right calls the left totalitarian globalists.
In the middle, you have people like me who say end welfare, let charities and the private sector solve poverty. The poverty that exists in Canada, for the most part when you remove unnecessary government intervention is for the most part mental health poverty. We used to make a lot of things in this country and if you know anything about humans, once they lose purpose they tend to lose their way. One of the reasons I’ve always been against minimum wages is that a lot of people have an excuse to not to work.
Now, why I don’t subscribe to Conservative Party logic is that I’ve heard said hundreds of times that we need to keep wages high? or we need to raise minimum wages to prevent foreigners from lowering wages? Why? Oh I know why it’s because most Conservatives would rather not be entrepreneurs and would rather instead force companies to pay them a wage, they deem as acceptable. So, a lot of Conservatives in Canada are anti-free market. So, if you ever wonder why it seems like I’m excusing Liberal behavior, well, similar to when Justin Trudeau ran against Stephen Harper, Canadian voters said to themselves why should I have Liberal Light in Stephen Harper when I can have the full-blown Liberal experience under Justin Trudeau.
Regarding social issues, I’ve seen Conservatives do the exact same thing, supply management, price and wage controls, tariffs, opposing Trump because it’s in our national interests, we have to protect Canadian jobs? Huh? Conservatives, conserving protectionism, if a person is a novice in politics and was brought up in a public school did little research, how would they know the difference between a Conservative and Liberal? Conservatives have no moral compass as do the Liberals and this, of course, is why groups like Soldiers of Odin have been pushed to the forefront. Are the Soldiers of Odin a hate group? I don’t think so, but I do have a concern with immigration, that differs from theirs. Firstly, I’m of the opinion that immigrants are coming to Canada mainly for welfare, so my stance is ending welfare or shrinking the welfare state.
With that said even if Canada had zero welfare, this doesn’t mean that there wouldn’t be people who’d migrate here to violate property rights, however, in my opinion, our immigration system is pretty damn good as is. So, I’m of the opinion that we should keep our immigration system as is and cut ties to international, globalist immigration pacts. But you see, this would change perceptions about how people view Canada, doing this could also be viewed as cold and inhumane. But I think it’s in our national interests to do it, so I can’t call the Soldiers of Odin a radical group because of I have ideas of my own. The difference being is that my ideas are rooted in economic freedom for Canadians.
We’ve destroyed our manufacturing base for Fiat money, I could really care less if people ignore people fighting for economic Liberty, however, what I do want is a National voice. Because personally, I don’t like the Liberals, the Conservatives or the NDP. Sure I like some of the things the Conservative Party does, but I find that most of it is in vain and actually helps push the Liberal and Leftist agenda because for the most part voters are still clueless. Look how easily the Soldiers of Odin are being portrayed as a hate group? Have they killed anyone in Canada? Have they done any acts of terror?
Although many would prefer to only blame Liberals and Leftists for Labeling any person(s) that disagree with them as hate groups, what I think would be more effective are people of economic freedom having an actual voice in politics. People need real debates, ideas need to be challenged, if a government program like CMHC is leading to unaffordable housing, why can’t it be dissolved or sold off to the private sector? Why do we blindly accept government failures? Do you know why I think we pick the lesser of two evils?
It’s because the truth hurts and facing the free-market as INDIVIDUALS would be devastating to most of our own egos, and actually having the heart to demand our own economic worth would make the average man or women turn to the state to do their bartering for them. Prostitution is one of the old professions, meaning that women historically have always had more Free-market heart than a lot of you so-called Conservative men demanding the government keep wages high, LMAO!
Being that many of you aren’t ready to man up, consider reading the articles below, that will give you glimpse into what the Leftist media has in store in the event Andrew Scheer becomes Canada’s next prime minister. I’ll be voting for Maxime Bernier.
Interesting times ahead.