Destroyed by the people least able or concerned to run it:
This year, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, and all of Atlantic Canada will receive a share of the $26.2 billion in equalization spending. Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan — calculated to have a higher-than-average ability to raise revenue — will not receive payments.
Of course, equalization has long been a contentious issue for contributing provinces, including Alberta. But the program also causes problems for recipient or “have not” provinces that may fall into a welfare trap. Again, according to the principle of equalization, as a province’s economic fortunes improve and its ability to raise revenues increases, its equalization payments should decline or even end.
Consequently, the program may disincentivize provinces from improving their economies. Take, for example, natural resource development. In addition to applying a hypothetical national average tax rate to different sources of provincial revenue, the equalization formula measures actual real world natural resource revenues. That means that what any provincial government receives in natural resource revenue (e.g. oil and hydro royalties) directly affects whether or not it will receive equalization — and how much it will receive.
According to a 2020 study, if a province receiving equalization chose to increase its natural resource revenues by 10%, up to 97% of that new revenue could be offset by reductions in equalization.
This has real implications. In 2018, for instance, the Quebec government banned shale gas fracking and tightened rules for oil and gas drilling, despite the existence of up to 36 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas in the Saint Lawrence Valley, with an estimated worth of between $68 billion and $186 billion. Then in 2022, the Quebec government banned new oil and gas development.
Because of course they did.
Why use your own resources when you can simply sponge off of a more productive province?
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If public sentiment is turning against the TFW system, it’s partially because of a greater awareness of the conditions under which employers are claiming they cannot find Canadians for their jobs.
Any hiring of a temporary foreign worker has to first be preceded by a “Labour Market Impact Assessment.” It’s effectively a job posting laying out the basic details of the position, and carrying the disclaimer “the employer could not find a Canadian worker for this job and applied for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to hire a temporary foreign worker.”
What’s made many of these LMIAs so controversial is that they often describe quite desirable jobs with minimal qualifications. There are also noticeably high numbers of them being submitted in cities with high unemployment.
Last year, a viral Reddit post featured a heat map of all the Toronto-area employers who had been approved for temporary foreign workers after claiming to find no Canadian applicants. More recently, the website JobWatchCanada has launched a searchable database of active LMIAs, complete with interactive maps and guides to which employers are the heaviest users.
As this story goes to press, there are more than 4,000 active LMIAs posted on an official Government of Canada Job Bank.
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In fact, although the Liberal government has long attempted to conceal its failures under the modern dictums of diversity and the tenets of “identity politics,” it is clear that the Liberal government’s hyper-liberal migration policies have forced the Canadian state to endure a precipitous national collapse.
Firstly, Canada’s economy has imploded, due to the fact that, for almost a decade, the Liberal government has refused to earnestly invest in Canada’s industries or cultivate the Canadian labour force and has, instead, vainly attempted to rely “on immigration to drive economic growth and plug labour gaps.”
For example, Canada’s GDP per capita has crumbled, and the Canadian state is currently mired in “the longest decline in individual living standards of the last 40 years” and “isn’t poised to stop declining for at least a generation.”
In addition, Canada’s unemployment rate has now “jump[ed] to nine-year high, outside the pandemic,” and youth unemployment has hit levels typically “seen during a recession,” as a result of Liberal initiatives such as the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW).
In fact, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) itself has confirmed that “between now and 2060, Canada [will] see per capita GDP growth of just 0.7% annually, making it the single worst performing economy of all 38 OECD members.”
Moreover, public safety and national security have collapsed throughout Canada, due to the fact that the Liberal government’s hyper-liberal migration policies and contingent inability to secure Canada’s borders have permitted countless illicit migrants and criminals to inundate the Canadian state.
For instance, since 2015, violent crime in Canada has increased by nearly 40%. Furthermore, Canada’s homicide rate recently hit a 30-year peak, and, in 2022, Canada’s Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI) eclipsed its highest point since 2007.
In fact, at the 2025 Calgary Stampede, the Calgary Police Service (CPS) actually issued an announcement in various foreign languages, such as Punjabi and Arabic, in an attempt to curb the outbreak of violent crime and pandemic of sexual assault that has emanated from various migrant communities in Canada and Alberta.
(Sidebar: oh, they were warned, were they?)
Finally, Canada’s social fabric has been rent asunder, due to the fact that the Liberal government’s grossly inadequate migration policies have permitted various extremist ideologies to penetrate within the Canadian state and re-entrench themselves within Canadian society.
For example, since 2015, radical Islamic ideology has become increasingly prevalent in Canada, and countless people with intimate connections to Islamic terrorist organizations have been permitted to inhabit the Canadian state and promote their own hellish ideology. Furthermore, Khalistani extremists have become superfluous throughout Canada over the course of the past decade, and a wide variety of radical left-wing ideology and extremism has also been permitted to flourish within Canada during the Liberal era.
As a result, since 2023, “nearly a dozen terrorism-related incidents [have occurred] in Canada or abroad involving Canadians,” and, according to the RCMP, “terrorism charges laid in Canada jumped 488% last year.” Astonishingly, the RCMP has even recently revealed that “Canadian police have foiled six terrorist plots in the last 12 months alone, with arrests spanning from Edmonton to Ottawa.”
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The program has created a power imbalance that is anathema to Canadian notions of fairness. Employers gain access to a pool of labourers who are paid at or near minimum wage, are highly controllable because their immigration status is tied to employment, and are often more pliant than Canadian workers. This arrangement allows businesses to avoid the market signal that would otherwise force them to raise wages to attract local talent or invest in productivity-enhancing technology. Why buy a new piece of equipment when the government colludes to provide an endless supply of cheap labour?
This is, in effect, a corporate subsidy. It has distorted the workings of the market to the advantage of businesses at the direct disadvantage of workers. For the past 40 years, the demographic weight of the baby boomers created a labour supply dynamic that preferred business. As those workers retire, the power dynamic was supposed to rebalance in favour of labour, finally allowing workers to capture more of the value they create. Instead, big business, with the government’s help, has used this program to artificially change those dynamics.
The political response from the Liberal establishment has been telling. When questioned, Prime Minister Mark Carney framed the issue from the perspective of the C-suite, noting that business leaders he speaks to list high levels of temporary foreign workers as a top concern—implicitly defending the program. It was a clumsy moment that revealed a deep-seated establishmentarianism, an alignment with Laurentian capitalism that suggests the country is run for the benefit of cartel-like companies, protected from competition and now, de facto, from wage inflation.
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It's not about stopping pollution.
It's all ideological:
Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising millions more in biofuel subsidies on warnings the industry is struggling. Canadian producers could not supply ethanol and biodiesel needed to meet climate regulations, according to a federal briefing note: ‘Many projects have been paused or cancelled.’
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Cabinet’s reversal on electric vehicle mandates comes three months after government caucus members boasted Canada was “at the head of the pack” on climate change. The mandate was to take effect with 2026 model vehicles: “This is about my children, my grandchildren, everybody’s children.”
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"We don't believe there's been proper recognition of extensive impacts on the rest of the canola value chain," Chris Davison said on Rosemary Barton Live. "We have exporters and processors who have assets, facilities and infrastructure that is under duress right now."
He added: "And there was nothing specifically that was speaking to that."
This China:
Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department issued an advisory that described Chinese money launderers as “vital” to cartel fentanyl trafficking, saying that from 2020 to 2024 US$312 billion was found to be linked to such activities.
Although the advisory makes no specific mention of Canada, RCMP and Canadian Armed Forces intelligence veteran Scott McGregor says it’s clear that Canada’s lax laws and enforcement when it comes to such issues make it a “permissive financial junction” enabling the transnational illegal activities.
“Chinese underground bankers provide the circulatory system and our weak anti-money laundering posture supplies the oxygen,” McGregor said in an interview.
“The Chinese and the cartels all conduct operations together, also by themselves and with other entities,” he said, adding that Iranian groups also play a role in the fentanyl trafficking network.
He describes Canada as the “centre of gravity” for transnational organized crime in North America, where major criminal networks, including Chinese regime-backed money laundering groups, concentrate their operations by exploiting loopholes in the country’s legal and judicial systems.
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But I thought that we were all in this together.
The Department of Health scrapped half the costly Covid ventilators it bought under $1.1 billion contracts with sole-sourced suppliers, Access To Information records show. Then-Minister Jean-Yves Duclos approved the sale of brand new medical devices as scrap metal in a 2022 memo never disclosed to Parliament: “Lessons learned.”
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