If we write off the US what does that do to our standard of living?

Assuming pipelines are obviously orders of magnitude more efficient than shipping by tanker. It also then still requires a pipeline to the east coast as a first step, which we cant get built due to Quebec, who ironically import all their energy from the US. All these costs and we then have to compete with countries on that continent who can build pipelines to Europe.

Given our small population we are the 4th largest exporter of oil and our loonie essentially tracks oil prices, hence it makes up such a large component of our standard of living. This idea we can pivot seems silly at first glance, but I’d like a differing opinions if one exists.

My opinion is anyone but the Liberals, in order to create real world consequences for doing population driven QE. It should be a warning to all that it is a way to lose elections, since it dramatically hurts the poor and causes shortages without creating real prosperity.

We essentially inverted the phillips curve, which BoC publications say the labor shortage is a natural phenomenon after QE in order to restore the created wealth inequality from asset price inflation, so we shouldnt be trying to fill the temporal labor shortage before the Bank of Canada raises rates to cool the job market and asset prices.

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Central banks dont recognize it themselves given the huge amount of money being ploughed into housing, to attain the rampant speculation their low interest policies created. There was an article I saw today that there isnt even a housing shortage, just dimwitted people bidding up home values much like the US prior to 2008.

https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-shortage-overstated-condos-wont-fix-costs-bmo/

Housing obviously acts as a liquidity sponge for debt to increase the wealth effect, but surely there is a reckoning like the US had at the end of all of this.

Mark Miller was the one who said it. He said immigration helped us avoid a recession, which means GDP would have shrunk without them.

Sorry, median I meant. Obviously averages are a poor measurement for salaries.

Which Canadians cannot afford. Because we are poorer than the poorest US state, and our productivity investment is at alarm levels according to our own BoC.

This is the tradgedy of the commons right here, we had a lost decade of per capita GDP growth, lowest in the OECD; but the average person wants to continue running up debt to “help” all those people who are now suffering. Most of our problems seem to be own goals, from housing to stagnant wages, as we pushed mass immigration to artificially boost GDP to hide our poor economic record, and we wonder why we now have doctor shortages.

For those that are stuck with these lunatics that want 4 more years of this, just invest in XAW.TO to stay afloat. Its low fee and globally diverse minus Canada. Though if they become a green energy superpower, by shipping their intermittent wind and solar power to the US, you’ll miss out on all those gains /s.

Median I meant. Its also significantly cheaper for housing in mississippi. Taxes are definitely cheaper there, where given your dollars value more of your taxes fall under a lower tax bracket, and if I’m not mistaken Mississippi just cut their income tax entirely.

Again this is the worst US state we are comparing to, I’m not trying to pump them up as something amazing.

Ah sorry, it was median wages I was meant. Obviously averages are misleading and should generally be avoided when it comes to talking about net worth and salaries.

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Well do you want functioning hospitals, a social safety net, things like that? Those take actual money, current account balance, exports. You also happen to think healthcare should be a human right I would assume?

A convenient excuse to not develop our resources, leading to massive losses in foreign investment into Canada. Why would anyone invest here when bureaucracy makes it impossible, why would they not invest in the US instead leaving them with higher wages and more economic growth as has been the case over the last 10 years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKArGpqbXoA

We are last in the OECD for growth, as we import people into a housing and doctor shortage to hide it. This video has the graph at 2:40 if you want proof of that.

Ban new nuclear development and direct federal investment exclusively to proven, cost-effective renewable energy solutions

Banning the most green solution while pushing wind and solar, which require expensive investments into backup power like coal to deal with brownouts, is a foolish idea. That makes me rank you a 0.

Why should the poor fund the rich to replace their 3 year old Lexus with an EV, surely funding mass transit makes far more sense?

Why do we even want to push car centric urban sprawl in the first place during a massive housing shortage where everything should be being rezoned for density, or the fact we are borrowing public money that we then pay perpetual interest on to gift to for-profit corporations. This whole thing is messed up, and its no wonder Canada has so many problems when our politicians are this corrupt.

Bullshit its Trump, people are fed up as they stood by as the Liberals did mass immigration, breaking up unions, and ignoring the growing cost of living as Jagmeet attempted to attain his pension while stomping on Canadians throats.

This disgusting incarnation of the NDP pushed UN defined modern slaves to work at Tim Hortons, this is Jagmeets faux socialist party, something designed by a self-proclaimed lawyer in a rolex and BMW:

https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-critic-immigration-calls-out-conservative-leader-harmful-policies

A 500$ dental plan funded with debt and future austerity doesnt make up for everyones rents doubling and wages being stagnant when a hamburger now costs 21$. Tiny pittances here and there is a joke and its clear that the NDP has been co-opted by the rich to depress salaries.

We have had stagnant GDP growth for a decade, exploding housing prices, doctor shortage, food bank usage is skyrocketing, people are living in rest stops, on average we are poorer than the poorest state as they attempt to plaster over falling GDP using mass immigration. That is why Liberals are bad and why economic growth is important, part of that is dropping taxes so we can accrue investment, as the Bank of Canada literally raises the alarm bells for a lack of productive investment into Canada.

When you hurt poor people this badly for a decade usually you’d recognize the reality around you. If you’re going to tax people it also needs to be spent on something productive, not consumption but mass transit, why we still dont have high speed rail spanning from every major city while spending this much is a joke.

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We have a lower average median wage than the poorest state, and house prices that rival the US most expensive cities. Trump might be right when he says we cant govern ourselves, at least when people keep voting for the same cabinet that got us here, there might be something in the water at this point that requires urgent investigation.

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