How does Trudeau stay in power despite most Canadians hating him?

09/12/2023

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As a Canadian he ruined Canada, he keeps bringing people to Canada but there’s no houses for them and asks everyone else to pay more taxes to pay for all the social services he promised them. – Pierre Poilievre. Leader of the Official Opposition of Canada.

We live in a very complicated world, where politics are playing a larger and larger role in our everyday lives. While there has always been a strong divide between the left and right, liberal and conservative, this divide seems to be growing more and more in recent years. A lot of this has to do with morality, or rather, the application of morality to your politics. There has been a purposeful vilification of the “other side” and the harsh truth of this is that liberals have been better at this weaponization than conservatives.

Nowadays, people do not choose their political party based on their foreign policy, or economic policy, or any real position the party may hold. No, young people today are choosing their political affiliation based solely on who is the “better” person. Now, we could argue all day long who the “better” person actually is, but that’s not what we are seeing, we are actually seeing the more popular person elected. This is highlighted in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s continued support.

Prime Minister Trudeuau has, to put it lightly, done a number on the canadian economy, and many people are asking the question, why? Under him, economic growth has ground to a stand still, while taxes have continued to climb. Government spending has risen faster than taxes, requiring more borrowing that further slows the economic growth of the country. How did this happen?

The harsh truth of this is that when you are choosing the most “popular” person, you are not always choosing the best person for the job. Let’s take a look at a different example, two men are applying for a job as an accountant at a firm. The first man is very soft spoken, wears a reserved coloured suit every single day, is very focused on his job and has five years of experience. The second applicant is fresh out of college, he’s very personable, dresses in bright suits, makes friends easily and has many new ideas, also his degree is not in accounting, but business.

Who is the best candidate for this job? Well on paper, the first man would be the best, he has the experience to do the job. But, the second applicant is cool, he is someone who would be fun at the office, and he’s got big ideas, and big ideas can mean good things in the future. This is further complicated as each man doesn’t sit for his interview alone, but instead they debate in front of the board.

What happens when the board makes an emotional decision, and selects the second applicant? Well, he doesn’t know what he’s doing, his ideas may cost money, they may fail, they may sound good when spoken aloud, but not be realistic in the real world. That is what happened with Justin Trudeau, he looked good on stage, spoke well, and was elected due to the morals attached to being a liberal. But, he’s got a degree in literature, and has no idea how to run a country. His ideas cost a lot of money, are not feasible and end up hurting more people than they are helping.

Let’s take a look at an example, Trudeau’s three percent surcharge on Canada’s largest financial institutions. What was the goal of this surcharge? Well, in part it was to combat the rising price of homes in Canada, which are quickly pricing locals out of the market, allowing foreign investors to come in and buy the properties up. How was this supposed to work? I don’t know and I’ve never seen someone able to explain how it was going to work.

But, most importantly, what happened in the long run? First, these financial institutions were demotivated to make more money, why would they invest more, stimulate the economy, just to pay the government more? This surcharge had a direct slowing of the banking industry.

Worse, it’s important to live in the real world, and by that I mean that every single business is designed to make money. Whether it be the local mom and pop bakery up to the largest, international corporations have one goal, and that is to make profit. This is true when it comes to all the things like virtue signalling. At the end of the day, they are saying what they think will generate the most money for their company. This isn’t because they are bad, or evil, but because that is their goal.

When a company faces an increased cost from an outside source, like a tax, it threatens to cut into their profit. This is something that most people in the business world know and understand. They also understand that these outside fees are not going to be absorbed by the corporation, but instead passed onto someone else, in this case, the bank’s customers are seeing their rates rise by more than three percent to cover that surcharge.

I don’t know Justin Trudeau as a man, and it would be unfair of me to judge him as such. But maybe it’s best if we stopped choosing the people who are going to lead our countries, by how cool they are, by their presumed morals based on a few things that they say in front of the TV. When we look at the world and history, the worst leaders, even if they had good intentions, are those that are chosen for the wrong reason. So let’s start choosing the person who is right for the job, who knows how foreign policy works, who has experience in economics and how to grow and make things better. Instead of well, he said this that I agree with, we are better than that.