The "Combatting Hate Act" will do in Canada what it has done in the UK with respect to stifling free speech. Police in the UK probably spend more time investigating social media posts than investigating and arresting clear crimes like theft and sexual harrassment. As a Canadian living in the UK, I would say that one of the key elements of the UK's economic decline has been the zealous commitment to net zero by both major parties -- Labour and Conservative. On the relentless illegal immigration, again, both major parties have done nothing to stop it, and when ideas are put forward to address the situation the courts say no. Voters are frustrated and feel like it's a "uni-party" and have turned to Reform in the hope they will actually do what the voters want them to do. Canada's situation is somewhat similar but proximity to the US may offer an outlet for real change that the UK doesn't have.
Canada is fortunate to be living off a legacy of hydrocarbon energy development along with "prior" easy access to the US markets. The UK, instead, and not mentioned by Mr Star has jumped into the deep end of unreliable energy with energy poverty and deindustrialization resulting from the highest electrical costs in Europe. Carney's values could mesh well with all of Starmer's pathologies. Canadian economic development (related to actual areas of competitive advantage as opposed to Jacobin whim) are increasingly shaken down by SCOC enabled indigenous expectations of title to all Crown land and thus all land which could lead to the type of civil unrest that the UK is seeing. I equate the general decline to the end-stage transition of all democracies to tyrannies described by Alexander Tytler's thesis on how all democracies die.
Not circling the same drain as the UK? Maybe not yet, but Marx Carnage and his cabinet of incompetents and his caucus of cupidity are working very hard to make that happen.
The "Combatting Hate Act" will do in Canada what it has done in the UK with respect to stifling free speech. Police in the UK probably spend more time investigating social media posts than investigating and arresting clear crimes like theft and sexual harrassment. As a Canadian living in the UK, I would say that one of the key elements of the UK's economic decline has been the zealous commitment to net zero by both major parties -- Labour and Conservative. On the relentless illegal immigration, again, both major parties have done nothing to stop it, and when ideas are put forward to address the situation the courts say no. Voters are frustrated and feel like it's a "uni-party" and have turned to Reform in the hope they will actually do what the voters want them to do. Canada's situation is somewhat similar but proximity to the US may offer an outlet for real change that the UK doesn't have.
"my tentative conclusion that Canada isn’t necessarily circling the same drain as the UK"
Maybe not circling the drain, but we're floating to the wrong end of the bathtub.
Canada is fortunate to be living off a legacy of hydrocarbon energy development along with "prior" easy access to the US markets. The UK, instead, and not mentioned by Mr Star has jumped into the deep end of unreliable energy with energy poverty and deindustrialization resulting from the highest electrical costs in Europe. Carney's values could mesh well with all of Starmer's pathologies. Canadian economic development (related to actual areas of competitive advantage as opposed to Jacobin whim) are increasingly shaken down by SCOC enabled indigenous expectations of title to all Crown land and thus all land which could lead to the type of civil unrest that the UK is seeing. I equate the general decline to the end-stage transition of all democracies to tyrannies described by Alexander Tytler's thesis on how all democracies die.
Not circling the same drain as the UK? Maybe not yet, but Marx Carnage and his cabinet of incompetents and his caucus of cupidity are working very hard to make that happen.