Well, I like to follow the policies of other countries, like Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It’s important for me to see what the secular left is doing in countries that are a little further along with their socialism. On Monday, Canada is going to go to the polls to vote on their federal government. Will they give the Trudeau Liberal party a fourth term in office?
Here’s the latest poll reported in the Ottawa Sun:
The Liberals were in the lead with all age cohorts except for 35 to 54 year olds, where the Conservatives led by a 44 to 38 margin.
Eight in 10 respondents said their choice was final or they’d already voted at the advance polls.
Forty per cent said that Carney would make the best prime minister of any party leader, giving him a nine-point edge over Poilievre.
Carney beat Poilievre across all age groups, eclipsing him by 20 points among respondents 55 and older.
The current average home price in Canada is about $700,000 CAD, which is about $520,000 USD. Young people can’t afford it, but old people largely don’t care. They just want to keep the good times rolling for themselves, and pass the bill onto other people’s children.
You might be wondering why this happened, and the answer is that Donald Trump had a lot to do with it. The tariffs and talk of “51st state” did a lot to take away the Conservative supermajority that was being predicted by polls prior to his comments.
Here’s what the Liberal party did over the last 10 years, courtesy of the Fraser Institute:
After first being elected in 2015, Trudeau promised to balance the budget by 2019—then ran nine consecutive deficits including an astonishing $61.9 billion deficit for the 2023/24 fiscal year, the largest deficit of any year outside of COVID.
From 2020 to 2023, the government racked up the four highest years of total federal debt per person (inflation-adjusted) in Canadian history. Compared to 2014/15 (the last full year under Prime Minister Harper), federal debt per person had increased by $14,127 (as of 2023/24).
Mark Carney, the new Liberal party leader, will be worse than Trudeau – his own budget shows why:
Today, Carney released the Liberal Party’s “fiscal and costing plan.” Carney’s plan projects the debt to increase consistently.
Here is the breakdown of Carney’s annual budget deficits:
- 2025-26: $62 billion
- 2026-27: $60 billion
- 2027-28: $55 billion
- 2028-29: $48 billion
Over the next four years, Carney plans to add an extra $225 billion to the debt. For comparison, the Trudeau government planned on increasing the debt by $131 billion over those years, according to the most recent Fall Economic Statement.
So how are things going up north?
Well, this article from the Toronto Sun, about the most populous province of Ontario, caught my eye. It mentions “OHIP”, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, which is responsible for Ontario’s system of government-run health care.
It says:
Behold your tax dollars at work. OHIP has been ordered, for the third time, to pay for an out-of-country surgery for an Ontario trans, nonbinary patient who wants to keep the P while she gets the V.
[…]Called penile-preserving vaginoplasty, the procedure creates a fully functional vagina without surgically removing the penis.
According to the decision, K.S., who’s sex assigned at birth was male, is female dominant and “suffered physical, mental, and economic hardships to transition her gender expression to align with her gender identity.”
In May 2022, her doctor submitted the required request for prior funding approval to OHIP for a vaginoplasty — but without the usually accompanying removal of her penis. “(K.S.) identifies as transfeminine but not completely on the ‘feminine’ end of the spectrum and for this reason it’s important for her to have a vagina while maintaining her penis,” the doctor explained.
Since that wasn’t offered anywhere in Ontario, K.S. was asking for OHIP to fund the novel “bottom surgery” at the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin, Texas.
So, Ontario taxpayers will be footing the bill for an out-of-country transgender surgery, paid for in U.S. Dollars.
The author of the article notes:
“K.S. is pleased with the Court of Appeal’s decision, which is now the third unanimous ruling confirming that her gender affirming surgery is covered under Ontario’s Health Insurance Act and its regulations,” her lawyer John McIntyre wrote in an email to the Toronto Sun.
According to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, an intervenor in the case, “the Court of Appeal for Ontario is a victory for equitable and non-discriminatory healthcare funding for trans, non-binary and gender diverse people in Ontario.”
OHIP was also ordered to pay K.S.’s legal costs of $23,500 — on top of the $20,000 in costs they had to pay for their appeal to the Divisional Court.But really, that’s out of our pockets, of course, including the thousands of (American) dollars it will cost for this out-of-country niche and experimental surgery.
The Monday election was a chance to stop the runaway deficits and the DOUBLING of the national debt, under Trudeau. But as you see, as long as there is money to steal, and virtue to signal, Canada is going to continue down the road to serfdom. We should learn from their mistakes.
