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I really can’t understand what the end game is here for Canada. The entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. Resources from the land, resources

I really can’t understand what the end game is here for Canada. The entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. Resources from the land, resources from existing dwellings and municipalities, resources from income, borrowing resources from the youth. Nobody just comes out and says “heres the problem and heres the plan”. We just get these absurd solutions to problems 99.999 of the population don’t have. With a few exceptions, almost nothing stands on its own merit. Sure, Drake, Beiber, and Schitts Creek were good. Just make better things. Write better content. Build sustainable businesses. Look to the future. Set a vision in place. Something.

goalieca 3y ago
> I really can’t understand what the end game is here for Canada This is the liberal party of Canada. They are, ironically, not very liberal on most projects of law and do like to regulate and control many things. For whatever reason they rushed through these bills.
- voisin 3y ago
  Do you honestly think the issues OP outlines are limited to periods of liberal party rule? I am no fan of Trudeau, but I think the issues presented are cultural. We aren’t risk takers, we’re rent seekers, and it is found at the heart of every government policy and corporate consolidation. We’ve become a nation of snowflakes that don’t know how to push ourselves to do anything but pat ourselves on the back for not being American.
  - goalieca 3y ago
    > Do you honestly think the issues OP outlines are limited to periods of liberal party rule? Yes I do. This is a highly federalist party that has a strong history of trying to shape culture through policy and regulation.
TMWNN 3y ago
>The entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. I've heard Canada described as three mining companies standing on each other wearing an overcoat.
snapplebobapple 3y ago
I don't agree that the entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. I would say it definitely should be, since that's the obvious thing to do when you have a crap load of resources and highly overpriced/under productive labor pool that can't compete effectively at any of the high skill international jobs for any sustainable length of time. It's more like some of the country has a mindset of doing the obvious thing to improve its wellbeing (i.e. prairies) with the rest of it eyeing ways to extract a living from those places doing the right thing without having to get their own hands dirty (i.e. keeping banking in Toronto, along with head offices for various other oligopolies, or directly through unjust tax transfers). This dichotomy is present inter provincially but also increasingly in the provinces split between city and rural.

goalieca 3y ago

> I really can’t understand what the end game is here for Canada This is the liberal party of Canada. They are, ironically, not very liberal on most projects of law and do like to regulate and control many things. For whatever reason they rushed through these bills.

voisin 3y ago
Do you honestly think the issues OP outlines are limited to periods of liberal party rule? I am no fan of Trudeau, but I think the issues presented are cultural. We aren’t risk takers, we’re rent seekers, and it is found at the heart of every government policy and corporate consolidation. We’ve become a nation of snowflakes that don’t know how to push ourselves to do anything but pat ourselves on the back for not being American.
- goalieca 3y ago
  > Do you honestly think the issues OP outlines are limited to periods of liberal party rule? Yes I do. This is a highly federalist party that has a strong history of trying to shape culture through policy and regulation.

TMWNN 3y ago

>The entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. I've heard Canada described as three mining companies standing on each other wearing an overcoat.

snapplebobapple 3y ago

I don't agree that the entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. I would say it definitely should be, since that's the obvious thing to do when you have a crap load of resources and highly overpriced/under productive labor pool that can't compete effectively at any of the high skill international jobs for any sustainable length of time. It's more like some of the country has a mindset of doing the obvious thing to improve its wellbeing (i.e. prairies) with the rest of it eyeing ways to extract a living from those places doing the right thing without having to get their own hands dirty (i.e. keeping banking in Toronto, along with head offices for various other oligopolies, or directly through unjust tax transfers). This dichotomy is present inter provincially but also increasingly in the provinces split between city and rural.