Top Five Issues Facing Canada
And A "Green" Solution: A Blend of Authoritarian and Libertarian Politics. The True Political Centre.
An Abacus poll identified the most important Canadian issues: the rising cost of living, access to and the affordability of housing, healthcare, the economy, and the environment.
In that order.
Cost of living
Housing
Healthcare
Economy
Environment
These top five issues are basically the same issue: political mismanagement.
For example, governments have bankers. Just like us. But these guys are special “central” bankers. These pricks can debit the accounts of their clients — the big chartered banks — without crediting their own accounts.
In simpler terms, they print money.
And printing money devalues its purchasing power for everyone else. Money is a community thing and these assholes are playing end-game Monopoly with it.
Inflation is one of the oldest scams in the book. The Romans used to shave their gold and silver coins. It’s why modern coins have notches around the edge of them. A call back to when this feature was useful.
So that’s problem number one. There’s such a thing called a central bank. It has the power to devalue the legal tender Canadians are forced to pay their taxes with.
You know what raises the cost of living? Creating more dollars than last year and the year before that (ad infinitum). Inflation is the increase of the money supply. Higher prices result from “open market operations” via the Bank of Canada.
Among other ways.
No central bank, no inflation, no rising cost of living.
Issue number two: housing.
Now, I could go into a tirade about the central bank again. An explanation of interest rates and why they matter. The last twenty-five years of who’s who. But instead, let’s recall the covid times.
Remember demonizing the “unvaccinated”? Pepperidge Farm remembers. If there’s one lesson history can teach us, whether during covid or times of war, it’s that propaganda still has significant sway over the masses.
Thank you, public schools and mass media.
But if you’re morally inclined, why not use this tool for a purpose? The housing crisis shares its plight with climate change and the environment.
Are we really destroying more green space to build cookie-cutter homes?
Pave more roads for cars that spew greenhouse gases?
Destroying the planet’s topsoil and our health with industrial farming and livestock?
Perhaps mass persuasion should be used to:
Encourage local regenerative farming investment, production, and consumption.
Encourage baby boomers to give up their large homes and relocate to smaller apartments.
Encourage less consumption and more local engagement (e.g. fewer shopping trips and more volunteer nights. You wanna solve homelessness, right?)
And, of course, by “encourage” I mean mass shaming and persuasion. Like we did during covid.
In a previous post, I mentioned taking over the Green Party. This may be this blog’s viewpoint going forward. It’s too good of an idea to dismiss outright.
A nice blend of authoritarian and libertarian politics. The true political centre.
A captured Green Party, so to speak, could promote hard money, lower taxes, market-based solutions, family, and less government intrusion into everyday life.
But at the same time, through its mass propaganda channels and control of at least some public schooling from a young age, encourages, well, hippie shit.
It’s more than just buying hemp clothing and riding your bike to work. It’s a philosophy of anti-consumerism, anti-materialism, and anti-egoism. A secular buddhism. One with nature.
Hold your neighbour’s hand and sing Kumba-fucking-ya while you compete over who has the lowest carbon footprint.
And horses. When you don’t want to ride your bike, ride a horse. Why destroy the environment further by mining lithium to supply electric cars?
Ride a horse. They’re more natural. Horses don’t spew greenhouse gases. Their manure can be captured to generate emissions-free electricity.
And you can ride them when you’re drunk.
Eat bison. North America’s natural ruminant animal. They eat grass. We can chase them through the prairies on our horses. And then we can exchange in real, hard money. Like gold, silver, seashells.
That’s Canada’s top five issues summed in a few easy steps.
Let’s recap.
Problem: Rising cost of living?
Solution: Dismantle the Bank of Canada and end the chartered bank oligopoly.
Direct the Royal Mint to issue a series of smaller denominations of gold and silver coins that we pay our very small tax burden with. (And by very small, we’re talkin’ no more than one-gram-o-gold-per-year. Tops.)
Also, legalize currency competition. No reason why everyone should be using just government-issued gold and silver coins. Monopoly spells trouble.
These proposals stop the bleeding of our money. Hard money retains its value. It’s money that grows over the generations.
Problem: Access to housing? Affordability of housing?
Solution: Not just the boomers, but anyone living in a house too big for them can be publicly shamed. We can turn the culture against excess displays of wealth.
Or, we can abandon the cities. These pollution-stamping relics of late-stage capitalism.
The Green Party of Canada can encourage people to move north and build off-the-grid earthship homes.
Cochrane, Ontario sells plots of land for $10. Encourage other northern towns to do this. Federal and provincial governments can open up crown land.
Encourage the exodus North.
Rebuild Canadian society as an ecovillage. When the older generations die off so can their ways.
Problem: Healthcare.
Solution: Solved by two major changes.
First, a healthier diet. Prevention is the key to healthcare. Encourage Canadians to eat locally-produced meat and whole foods and not much else.
Shame and ridicule those who eat ultra-processed foods imported from abroad. Declare some of them to be mentally ill and “addicted” to sugar. Put them in “recovery.”
Two, freer markets within universal healthcare.
As in, we—the Green Party feds— give the masses back their purchasing power and a lot of local power. But we expect you to follow some conditions so long as we’re providing coast-to-coast national defence.
After all, we’d still be a central authoritarian political authority spewing propaganda and taking part in at least a few years of youth indoctrination.
Canada’s Green government would strongly suggest every autonomous Canadian community find ways to ensure everyone under their domain has healthcare no matter the income.
There are no egoists here. Individualism has its limits. Canada is a diverse set of communities that can govern themselves. But there’s an underlying thread uniting the nations.
And that’s the solution to the problem of the environment and the economy and everything else.
Provided we don’t get sucked into WW3 first.
And as far as foreign policy is concerned: if we’re going to start a third war, should it not be over China’s use of coal or Brazil’s deforestation of the Amazon?
The Canadian government should gut taxes massively but put what remains into the country’s military budget.
Defend the Arctic from the Russians. Pressure the garbage-burning countries to smarten the fuck up.
Play world police with America.
But this time, in the name of eco-colonialism.