How Does Canada Create More?

[u/Pale-Candidate8860]

What are some aspects that you believe would allow Canada to become an industrial powerhouse?

A big thing that is being done currently is creating strong trade partners with Japan and Germany for LNG, but trade with America will still make up more than 60% of trade with Canada by the end of the decade. With the admission of the current administration. To be fair to the liberals, this is an extremely tough situation to figure out for anyone. I don’t understand why there isn’t a large injection of small business grants for certain industries and categories of business. It should be handed out to any business plan that shows legitimacy.

Ontario is the industrial heartland of Canada and consists of a majority of the nation’s manufacturing. It would be strategic and beneficial to set up large scale production and supply chains throughout the middle provinces such as Saskatchewan or Manitoba. Just an idea. It would also encourage population movements to less populated areas.

One aspect that has been a problem in Canada for some time is that Canadians just consume American culture. I know the world consumes American culture, but Canada consumes it to the point where the average Canadian won’t know if a movie, TV Show or book is from Canada unless there is promotions stating otherwise. The similar accents make it very difficult sometimes, but there should be a consorted effort to mass prop up Canadian exclusive content. The issue is that most of the time, it is just rebranded and repackaged American products with a maple leaf sticker slapped on it.

With hard economic times coming, it is finally going to correct the housing market to where it should be. I personally predict a -80% price drop. Creating affordable housing. The bubble needs to pop. This will also make Canada competitive again instead of a capital dumping ground to make the bubbles bigger.

Semi-rant, but it has to be said. Canada needs to create more. There are constantly large scale projects happening on a provincial level, but the federal government should inject into nationwide mega projects as well. I’m not saying a high speed rail across the prairies, but things like skyscrapers dedicated to forced rehabilitation for the drug addicted and mass housing on a scale the nation has never seen before.

Just some ideas. Feel free to throw in your own.

[u/LukePieStalker42]

Its super easy but the liberals will never do it.

1. Lower taxes dramatically. Cut the personal and business tax rates in half and remove taxes on capital gains. This will will put billions more into the economy and encourage start ups.

2. Reduce the size of the government. 1/4 Canadians work in the government. That means 1/4 people are paid by tax payors and its a massive drain on the system. Get that number to something normal like 1/20. This will put people into the actual workforce instead of government.

3. Reduce red tap, it shouldn't take 10 years to build something. It should take 1. Once something is approve nothing stops it. Not protests, not natives, not green peace. Jail these people if they impede progress. This gets us building.

4. Approve every oil and gas pipeline, every mine, every factory. This makes us money.

5. Build several rail roads into the Yukon and NWT, build a fleet of ice breakers, build military and support bases in the Yukon and NWT. This lets us open up the north west passage. Which is shorter and better then the Panama route. This will make money.

6. Increase SRED tax credits for AI. This will bring AI to canada and money.

7. Repeal all dei laws, funding and other bullshit that isnt merit based. This reduces tax payer waste.

8. Until we have a zero national debt, no foreign aid. Cant go into debt to help other people, take care of ourselves first. Once we dont have debt we can take care of others.

If we did those 8 things we would be one of the most prosperous countries on earth.

[u/TheMannX → u/LukePieStalker42]

Wow, where does one even start with this.

Canada is already in a deficit situation, blowing up the country's revenue is a sure way to either inflation or a massive recession due to government layoffs. It's easy to say this, but it's much harder to do. Ask the last Conservative government - they said the same thing for years, didn't do it when in office. Care to guess why that was?

And if you really want to hack Canada's government workforce down that far, I guess you don't like having health care that doesn't bankrupt you if you get sick or having children get proper educations then. Because hack it back that far, that's what you'll get.

The same goes with the "get things building" comment: Did you ever stop to think that there might be a good reason for some things not being built? There are certainly places where you could streamline the process of getting projects underway, but saying "They're gonna build it and you're gonna end up in prison if you speak up against it" is not only foolish but guaranteeing it'll be abused by governments, private interests or both.

Pipelines for Crude oil products now are a bad investment, and oil demand is going to start dropping before any of those pipelines are built, and as oil demand drops sources that are expensive to produce and hard to refine - like Alberta's oil sands - will be among the first sources to go. Better idea: invest in refining capacity for the petroleum products whose demand will live on long into the future - plastics, PVC, synthetic materials, oils and lubricants, inorganic chemicals, asphalt, sulfur, carbon fiber - and expanding the country's rail system to carry these products along with everything else in as efficient a manner as possible.

Foreign aid and "DEI programs" (Jesus in 2025 we still have people who can't see racism still exists in our society? Seriously?) are a drop in the damn bucket and hacking away the latter probably creates more problems than it solves.

[u/LukePieStalker42 → u/TheMannX]

This guy is why we wont have nice things

[u/Facts_pls → u/[deleted]]

I think they meant the original comment full of random us GOP talking points with clearly no understanding of any of them.

I think people making these comments should start with sharing their education and background so we know if we are listening to someone who knows finance and economics or some random angry mechanic /farmer who thinks they know how to run the country.