Take our Country - Canada - for example.
We have different laws for our 9 provinces and 3 territories than we do for one of our provinces - Quebec. Well in fact, we have no federal laws applying to that province. Similarly, we have different laws for the average citizen than we do for our natives - indeed, like Quebec, neither federal nor even provincial laws appear to apply to them.
We now have a significant portion of our economy seriously being damaged due to Indian rail blockades. Our provincial police were shown recently approaching one such blockage with a peace offering - maple syrup. Only in Canada you say.
In addition to lack of law enforcement, Religion too is in steep decline. The Christian / Judaic Principles that built our land are long gone despite the fact that these very values were the reason millions of the world's poor, weary and huddled masses came to our shores seeking and finding a much better life.
Given this, it comes as no surprise that the culture of death is extending its tentacles into our society's most vulnerable. Death once had meaning...today it is becoming just an inconvenience.
A former Prime Minister famously said 'our Members of Parliament became nobodies when they traveled but 50 feet from our Parliament'. Today, our Members are nobodies even when they attend that self-same Parliament...Government is run by the Prime Minister, The Head of the Civil Service and their personal coterie of advisors in 'short pants'.
But dear reader, there is even a greater threat to our democracies and that is the Courts. When I went to Law School I was taught that our Laws were made by politicians and administered by the Courts. Today, the Court has assumed responsibility for actually making the laws despite the fact that its membership is neither elected nor accountable to the public.
Capitalism is also under attack. Polling shows that societies' young vastly favour Socialism over Capitalism and all of our Parties are simply various shades of Progressivism. No wonder then, a septuagenarian leads the race for the Democratic Candidate for President - socialist Bernie Sanders.
The Environment has become our new religion - our new economic underpinning. Significant construction projects take years to navigate the cumbersome reviews and then, most likely, are turned down. Indeed the McKenzie River Project took over 40 years to study and finally, ended in failure. At the other extreme we see dictatorships, like China build an entire 1,000 bed hospital in but 10 days. Better start taking Chinese language lessons folks
And last but not least is the issue of Debt and Deficits. Progressives' love them. Everything they could possibly want - their little hands are thrust out to receive. Forget about the American tradition of earning your own way and Margaret Thatcher's apt warning - Socialism works only until progressives run out of other peoples' money to spend. Just like your chargex bills at home - the day will come when the balance is due...and what then.
It doesn't work for you at home and it won't work for your government. Here in Canada we have a master spender of hard-earned taxpayer dollars... our one and only Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. When he ran for office in 2015 he promised a modest deficit of $10 billion - modest to him - large to you and I. But that soon proved to be chump change for him. The debt then at the national level was $628 Billion. Today it has morphed to $699 Billion while the deficit has increased to $20 billion annually and is predicted to rise even more. These numbers do not even include the dismal figures at our provincial level. In the USA it is even worse. When Trump came into power the national debt stood at $20 Trillion...today it is $3 Trillion more...some businessman he. This number exceeds that country's annual GDP. He is adding to the debt at a rate of $1 Trillion per year - the same high number experienced by his predecessor Barrack Obama.
When does it end ...as it surely will. And do not forget, America's Banker is now China.
You might have noticed that I have not mentioned Europe in my above analysis. I did not do so - since those countries are in worse shape than us.
So what is the solution. That's easy ...citizens of western democracies need to take back power from the elites and the small but vocal interest groups. I can be done but time is running out ...for us all.
As I See It...
K.D. Bell
