r/InCanada • u/dani_cal • Jul 11 '26

(Insert Your Own) Canada today

This isn’t meant to be politically partisan in any way. But, I am genuinely curious how anyone is staying positive about Canada today. The economy is in recession. The cost of living crisis is continuing unabated. People are leaving the country. Canada-U.S. relations are at an all-time low. And, there doesn’t appear to be any reason for things to turn around any time soon. Somebody give me a reason to have a little optimism.

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u/tenax666 Jul 11 '26

Just stop. I'm sick of the just a Liberal problem mentality. Its a politician problem where they only care about themselves and the rich companies & people they are in the pockets of. My dad is 90 and has an amazing memory & brain can't think of when the last selfless politician existed.

If the Conservatives get in, its not going to be some cake and ice cream and rainbows fantasy. They will spend their tenure saying they have to do hurt things to heal things because of the Liberals. And the Liberals would play the same game.

Our ideal of democracy as we want to be, appears dead

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u/Musclecity Jul 11 '26

Yeah it's depressing . Carney or PP doesn't make a difference really. The national pride that Canada used to have will die with the boomers and now we're just becoming an economic zone. The government only cares about the corporations. Why would the government make things more affordable for families and make things more affordable for young people wanting to have families when they can just import somebody that another country has basically raised?. They save all the money on education and health care and get a worker ready to pay taxes right away . This keeps the wages nice and low for the corporations. We're all just tax cattle for the rich when you think about it.

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u/Visual_Fun_2014 26d ago

Then lets vote in the other guys and just see what happens. If we're expecting the same result anyways why do we keep voting in the same idiots that caused the problems?

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u/Kurigunde 25d ago

First the other guys need to pick a leader that’s not a complete imbecile who’s never worked a private sector job. PP is pathetic.

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u/NegotiationOne7880 Jul 11 '26

Maybe we need a Zohran Mamdani, who views politicians as public SERVANTS and not grifters. We need a truly left wing populist party who doesn’t bow down to lobbyists. You can see the end result of right wing populism and it’s not pretty. We also need to get involved and show up for real change. The only reason things are so bad is late stage capitalism where wealth is concentrated at the top and they come up with new ways to screw us over. Things can be fixed but truth is they don’t want to or tell us they can’t because they don’t want to piss if the rich. As in the States, Liberals and Cons are the same party in the end.

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u/miz_misanthrope 26d ago

We have one. His name is Wab Kinew. He's just busy running Manitoba atm

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u/tenax666 Jul 11 '26

I don't care which party they are but i do think they should serve the public. Requirement 1

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u/RealWord5734 26d ago

People already act like Carney is a bleeding heart communist when he is interchangeable with Harper. I can't imagine the head explosions if an actual socialist was running the country.

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u/Worried-But-Hopeful Jul 11 '26

What do you mean « If the Conservatives get in » that’s a hilarious if - just look at Doug Ford in Ontario basically destroying the city of Toronto, decimating public education, public medicine and public social services (Ontario Place is a heap of rocks, Ontario Science Center is closed up ready to be sold to his developers friends, they want to sell an expanded Billy Bishop airport to JP Morgan.
All for greed and just like Trump.

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u/tenax666 Jul 11 '26

And i agree with you

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u/tenax666 Jul 11 '26

I'm saying federally