There’s a reason the establishment is desperate to have Charest or Brown become CPC Leader. They don’t want Canadians to have a real choice.
Canada is a big-government country under the Trudeau Liberals.
The state has a hand in everything, and more and more people and organizations feel they have a direct financial interest in keeping the taxpayer money flowing.
Of course, there is a fundamental divergence between money earned in the private sector and money made by having the government give it out.
For the private sector, success is a measure of having competed to provide a service or product, and success by definition means you provided value.
By contrast, the government first takes from those succeed in the private sector, and then uses that money to expand the state apparatus.
Government creates nothing that isn’t first taken from elsewhere.
And, while there are legitimate and necessary functions of government (soldiers being well paid, well-equipped, and well-taken care of for putting their lives on the line for our nation as an example), the scope and size of government has expanded far beyond the basics.
Much of the media – which should be solely funded private sector – is now financially dependent upon the government.
This creates a feedback loop wherein the media seeks to keep the Liberals in power to secure more taxpayer funding, which then incentivizes the government to give more of your money to the media, which then further incentivizes the media to keep the Liberals in power.
This has also fed into the idea that spending should never be cut, with the Liberals answering every problem by promising to spend more money.
Failure
Of course, there is one fundamental flaw with all of this:
The bigger the government becomes, and the more it takes from the private sector, the more life becomes unaffordable and the more inefficient the economy is.
We are seeing this in Canada today.
Inflation is surging, with wages not even close to keeping up.
Day by day, the value of our money is eroded, making us poorer.
The government has largely insulated itself, locking in pay raises and having so many taxpayer-funded benefits that they really can’t feel your pain.
And yet, despite the immense growth of government, the vast majority of Canadians still work in the private sector.
Big government policies have been good for the government and bad for the rest of us.
The question now is whether Canadians will look at all of this and decide to make a decisive change in the direction of our nation.
Trudeau & Jagmeet Singh will continue to endlessly double-down on their big government ideology.
Jean Charest & Patrick Brown represent the establishment trying to keep big government in place while changing the brand name to make people think something is different.
That’s why the establishment is pushing Brown & Charest so much, and why they are trying to take down Pierre Poilievre.
Poilievre is campaigning openly as someone who favours limited government, sound money, fiscal restraint, and lower taxes.
As the leader of the CPC, he would provide Canadians with a real choice.
Canadians could pick between a decisive break from the Trudeau-Singh big-government ideology that has failed, or stick with the status quo.
That’s what the establishment is desperate to stop from happening.
Their worry isn’t that Poilievre ‘can’t win,’ it’s that he can win, and that in doing so he would reverse the era of big government and restore power to individual Canadians and families.
Spencer Fernando
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