The first paragraph sets the tone of the article below, but unfortunately the author of the story doesn’t then develop the theme (perhaps the authors of the report don’t either). I think the point people should take home from this is that these problems are all symptoms.
The federal Liberals are obsessed with power and staying in power no matter what—at any cost—even if the cost is “Canada” itself. That, and the very liberal/left-wing ideology behind the Liberal Party, is the cause.
And the people seeing the problems and holding these notions aren’t limited to corporate executives. Canadians in all sorts of sectors—not the least of which are families, broadly speaking—see the fallout from this obsession every day as well.
Political ‘vacuum’ threatens nation’s standard of living
Canada’s most senior corporate leaders warn the country is a “nation adrift” and is “frittering away” the economic gains of the last decade because the federal Liberals are obsessed with polls as opposed to policy.
The warning is contained in a declaration by six powerful chief executives, to be released today, in an attempt to influence the political agenda and fill a policy vacuum—particularly on the economic front—that they say prevails in the nation’s capital.
This vacuum threatens Canadians’ standard of living in a changing global economy, they say.
‘‘As leaders of Canadian enterprise, we are concerned about the future of our country,’’ says the document, Canada First, prepared by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, and obtained by the National Post. ‘‘As a political entity, Canada is a nation adrift.’‘
[…] “There’s an old saying, ‘If you are not getting better, you are getting worse.’ And Canada has definitely stopped getting better,” Mr. Morgan said.
[…] The government has been under particular attack over the country’s abysmal record on productivity growth, or economic output per hour of work. It is a key measure of a country’s standard of living, and Canada’s growth in recent years is near the bottom of industrialized nations.
But government critics say skyrocketing government spending—up 20% on a per-capita basis over the past five years—has tied the government’s hand for the rest of the decade to take measures to boost productivity, such as tax cuts or spending on infrastructure.
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