25 Replies to “Gradually, Then Suddenly”

  1. A majority of the Canadian electorate couldn’t tell you what is meant by public sector, let alone explain the effect that a bloated public sector exerts on a nation’s economy.

    1. Bingo Jamie … it bothers me to no end that the innumerate, the ignorant and just plain stupid are allowed to vote and of course they always vote for “free stuff”.
      The unwashed don’t even know they are commie-lite socialists!

      1. Public service workers actually think they pay taxes.
        You can’t explain it to them either, such is their delusion.

  2. L – “Also for the next 9%(roughly the 91-99th percentiles) the implied share is 30-50 percent).”

    The economic decline plan by regime of Liberal/W.E.F./C.C.P. puppet of Justin Trudeau. It continues apace under the same economic advisor, that was running the show for 10 years.
    Pierre Polievre has the data to tie the decline to Carney. But only The Bureau and Kelsi Sheren are pointing out that the C.C.P. has been allowed to infiltrate both parties.

  3. Carney must know better, but he’s power-mad.
    Another beta male driving the Liberal bus after the lithping catastrophe means it’ll only get worse.
    And the Forever Government doesn’t care.
    It is what it is.

  4. I’m nowhere close to being a liberal shill. Hell, not even Canadian.

    But that 40% thing is bogus. I went to the Bank of Canada site, looked thru their docs and didn’t see the stats. WHAT I DID SEE is this same statement copied and pasted, over and over, w/o a cite to the actual document (URL, doc number, page number, etc etc.)

    Liberals call us “stupid” and we need to show them that we’re more than smart here. Then, once we prove we’re not stupid, they’ll just call us “evil”….

    1. This is from the Bank of Canada referenced study on page 3 of the “Abstract”

      “Our work suggests that selective emigration of high-ability workers—
      commonly referred to as brain drain—to the United States may play a significant role in
      accounting for the gaps in GDP per adult and labour productivity. The lower level of
      innovative activities in Canada is consistent with larger income gaps for high-income earners.”

      Instructions
      1) Click on “X” link provided @TomTSEC
      2) When there click on bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/upl

      If you can do that maybe you can even find a job in Ottawa provided you are not White, Straight, Christian, Jewish or like Donald Trump over Mark Carney. Please stay away from America unless you are like Justin Trudeau, who is now vacationing in CA, after telling his loyal subjects and serfs in Canada not to vacation in the US.

    2. To: geek49203

      Reading and comprehending are hard if you attended a government school in Canada or the US but keep at it, amigo. Who knows you may stop voting Liberal eventually.

      “Indeed, the cross-country differences in the distribution of
      income suggest that at least 40 percent of Canadians whose ability would place them in the top
      income percentile reside outside of Canada.”

      This from page 28 of the Bank of Canada report

      https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/swp2024-49.pdf

  5. Not just young workers. We’ve been actively looking at retiring outside of Canada since covid. We were looking at places like Uruguay, Paraguay but quite a few recently retired work colleagues have moved to Ecuador. We’ll be checking out that country and others starting next year. Other than family, why stay in Canada and get bled dry with excessive taxation, deal with substandard (yet expensive) healthcare/MAID and watch Canada continue to slide into an authoritarian kleptocracy? Since my spouse is not a Canadian citizen, the tax relief is substantial if we leave Canada.

    1. Many years back Costa Rica attracted a lot of Canadian retirees (and non-retirees in the hospitality business) I believe.

  6. Although a rancher may occasionally lose a calf to predators, a Liberal might similarly argue that the biodiversity loss is more than offset by the resulting population boom in parasites.

  7. I actually have a sister in law who believes that if almost everyone was a teacher, we could all teach each other, pay taxes and all would be fine. She’s retired now but spread this shit to kids for 30 years. No wonder most Canadians are stupid morons.

  8. That red column must include all levels of government.
    Carney will give all of them guns before the shooting starts when Alberta votes Separation.

  9. Yup, now you know why Liberals keep getting elected in Central Canada, Eastern Canada and large urban centers across Canada. They vote Liberal to keep their jobs, the spouses vote Liberal to keep the job in the household, the young adult children vote Liberal, to keep the money flowing into the family. The restaurants and lounges vote Liberal to keep the gov’t workers rolling in after work,,, etc etc etc

    Oh ya, it’s always so funny when government connected workers think they’re paying taxes. All their doing is paying back to the gov’t, tax money the gov’t already collected from someone else!

  10. “Roughly 40% of Canadians whose underlying ability/human capital would place them in the top 1% of Canada’s income distribution if they had stayed — now reside outside Canada.”

    Yup. And a hell of a lot of them are parasites — buddies of Carney and turdo and the rest of the Ivory Tower Trash — who have profited off the destruction of Canada.

  11. They’re saying this like it’s new, but it isn’t. I fled Canaduh in 1993 for the USA, so I could have an education in my chosen field. Which I couldn’t get here, because shut up, straight white male.

    I would still be living happily in the USA but for the abject, horrifying, utter incompetence of the INS. They literally drove me out of the country.

    Here in Canaduh, despite having ALL the education and experience now, I couldn’t practice in my chosen field because shut up, straight white male. They don’t even pretend it’s fair. But that’s alright, I made more painting houses because Canada sucks.

    So I may be back here in Canada, but honestly not by choice. Given the opportunity, I’d go back to Phoenix in a hot minute.

  12. I have said several times before, on this particular website, that America’s most powerful weapon is not it’s nuclear arsenal, nor it’s stealth bombers, or even it’s Navy.. Hell, it’s not even military by design, though it is much more insidious and destructive to targeted nations.. It is ‘brain-drain’, the most potent, and diabolically effective weapon in America’s non-arsenal, and it is run mostly by the private sector, in search of talent. Carney has ‘inadvertently’ triggered that weapon, and the last time I looked, the little STAZI wannabe kommissar ‘Pichette’ wants to build an iron curtain around the Peoples Democratic Republik of Canadaland to mitigate the damage.. Yeah, have fun with that.. Meanwhile, with that in mind, eastern provinces. AB/SK should be running, not walking to the exits right now (B.C. too, if they had any sense, which they don’t).. and, they need to tell their first nation shills (Chinese dummy-front operations) to hang their ‘potential treaty violations’ (if AB separates) in their asses..

    1. L – Industrial psychology states that 10% of the workforce is responsible fo approx. 50% of the output. When I looked around the office that applied.

      Given the dropping standard of living and the steadily lowering of the quality of life, by way of gov’t. fiat, with more to come. Responsible parents and those wanting to become same. Why would they, in search of peace, prosperity and freedom under moral law, not choose to move to a place offering that? Or better yet, create that out of Independent provinces???

      Independence offers that above the 49th parallel, without having to move.

      1. And they go with my blessing, for whatever that is worth to them.. Godspeed, AB.. blaze a path forward for the other western provinces. Let the St. Lawrence swallow the eastern cesspools, and wash away their filth..

  13. l suspect whats happening is the elites are looking only as far as ‘whats in it for me and mine’.
    and ‘well if Canaduh goes to shyts dont blame me l took car of me and mine’.
    forgetting at the ‘me and mines’ add up to half the friggin workforce.
    and precipitate the fall of the society, the incessant drain on its wealth.
    thus *causing* the very thing that motivates their selfishness, completely consistent with human nature.

    what to do? the immediate remedy in Canaduh is vote Liberal.

  14. It looks very French to me. So I looked it up.
    Only 20% in the public sector there.
    So.. well that’s just frightening isn’t it?
    I’m thinking only die hard commie countries could be higher. Indeed, China’s at 23%
    wow…..

  15. Huguenots. A long time ago, I read that the success of the Industrial Revolution was because of the migration of these people into Great Britain. Talented, capable people migrate to where they can be successful. That in itself is a worthy study. Secondly, those left behind tend to adapt … and those talented and capable at ‘gaming the system’ do just that. This is another worthy study.

    I believe that the current coded language for this is the ability to ‘develop and maintain sophisticated infrastructure’. There are murmurings about a class of hyper-efficient workers who must exist and be nurtured in a society if it is to have ‘sophisticated infrastructure’.

  16. “Employment Growth”.
    Right.
    More nobblers and lecturers,nags and scolds…none of whom produce any value for their fellow citizens.
    What is the official level of, percentage of working Canadians now paid by government?
    I confess to being too jaded to look this up.
    The cost to the tax payers per “Civic Servant” is impossible.
    Which is why we have that “National debt”.
    The parasitic overload has bankrupted Can Ahh Duh and none of our existing political parties has ever had the courage and integrity to shut this kleptocracy down.
    Western Separation will save us..only if we change our ways.
    Can we abandon the welfare state?
    And create a constitution that cripples those who seek the State of Thuggery?
    Imagine,actual rights and freedoms,immune to government “reason”.
    And imagine giving our children a future with choices,unburdened by massive debt…
    We have run the “Big Government Experiment’..the reasonable conclusion is there for all to see.
    That was the path to national ruin.
    Or as our traitors say “Success”.

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