It would be an easy fix to most of our problems.
During a recent appearance on the Marc Patrone Show, we talked about how the one thing the government in Canada – and in many Western countries – refuses to do is to just leave people the hell alone.
And this is really worth considering.
We live in a time when most of the problems we face are government-caused.
Look at the damage that lockdowns, mandates, and restrictions have done to our economy, and how our country has been divided.
Look at the impact of rampant deficits and money printing, now causing massive inflation.
Look at the impact of the carbon tax, which discourages investment and further drives up the cost-of-living.
Look at the damage done to the energy sector because of anti-pipeline, anti-energy policies.
Look at the impending attack on Canadian farmers, through fertilizer restrictions that will make food more expensive and potentially put many farmers out of business.
Look at the attack on freedom of speech, and how that will damage the creativity and innovative spirit that is essential to success in the modern economy, while also making Canada more and more authoritarian.
Look at the chaos caused by the ArriveCAN app.
What do all of those things have in common?
They are all government-created issues, and could all be solved simply by the government deciding to leave people alone.
Literally, 90% of the problems in Canada could be fixed or significantly improved if the government just stepped back and did nothing.
So why don’t they?
Well, do you get the feeling that those in power – like Justin Trudeau – see their job as purposely holding us back?
That certainly seems to be the case.
At every step of the way, government is imposing itself in our lives, setting up roadblocks, taking our money, eroding our freedoms, and making our country poorer.
Where once government was seen as a force that should be limited to a few core tasks – national infrastructure, national defense – it is now an ever-expanding behemoth.
Those in charge of the behemoth have a statist, authoritarian ideology, where they believe that people must be ‘guided’ and ‘coerced’ into making the ‘correct’ decisions.
It’s an inherently anti-freedom ideology, because those who value freedom would want government to be small.
The Liberals and NDP and other statists can’t step back, because if they did then many Canadians would realize how this country could flourish without the state interfering in everything.
That’s why the next federal election will be so important, because it is our chance as Canadians to elect a government that will finally step back and leave us the hell alone for a change, allowing the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of Canadians to lift our country back onto the path of prosperity and freedom.
Spencer Fernando
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