Have you walked outside Canadian towns or cities this summer? Everywhere you go, farmland is being sacrificed to make way for cities. Our government has massively over-immigrated and failed to ensure that housing was available for the more than three million immigrants brought into Canada in the past 10 years. A serious lack of foresight!

Another area where lack of foresight is seen is the impact of reckless immigration on Canada’s secure food supply. We currently produce about 70% of our food needs. Not bad! We won’t all starve should we need to produce all of our own food, but will we discover, as we did with the housing crisis, that we failed to plan for our nation’s food needs? I’d stop there, but sadly, stupidity also seems to be the order of the day in other aspects of government policy.

When your household expenses exceed your household income, there reaches a point where you say, “I’ve got to cut back on something. I’m spending too much money.”

I recently noticed my car was looking well used. I saw lots of newer cars on the road, but I would need to go into debt to afford a new car. Looking at my finances, I knew that I could not afford to buy a new car just now, even though mine is older. I need to make it last longer. There wasn’t a need, there was a want. I needed to deny myself the want until I have the money, or the actual need, of a new car.

Perhaps our current (and past) governments have failed to understand that the only money they have is your and my tax dollars. There is no independent source of wealth for Canada’s government—just you and me, the taxpayers in the nation.

In the face of all of the frivolous spending of our government, we discovered that our Prime Minister could not find a construction site in Canada for his construction photo-op. You and I are tripping over construction sites, but our Prime Minister spent $32,707.23 to create a construction backdrop.

I did a quick search on the internet and the AI response was that there were 1.4 million residential units under construction. Surely among one of those in the Ottawa area—6134 according to the internet—there must have been one that could have been used for this photo-op.

The old adage, “Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves,” gives us some insight into why we are so deep in debt as a nation. If we had taken care of the tens of thousands then the trillions of dollars would take care of themselves.

Our nation is going broke over the many unaffordable programs our government has instituted in their incursion into every aspect of our lives. The truth is that we do not have government funds, we have taxpayer dollars. Thus, any programs instituted by our government are paid for by us! Our government leads us to believe that it’s “government money” we’re spending but . . . there is no such thing as “government money”. What is happening with our tax dollars is under the Communist belief that calls on funds to be taken from those who can afford things and given to those who cannot afford things. “From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs”. (Karl Marx)

How does this work?

John works hard to buy a home. He lives a quiet life, never uses illegal street drugs, is frugal in his spending habits, shows up for work on time every day, etc. John can be described as responsible.

Not Bill! Bill is a real party animal. He’s the life of every party, but the result of his lifestyle is seen in all that he does. No, he doesn’t make it to work everyday. When he does get to work, his work is poorly done. He hasn’t had stable employment in years. His credit is seriously deficient, so he’s almost on the street. Bill has been irresponsible.

So our government feels sorry for Bill . . . his teeth need care, he can’t provide childcare for his own children, etc. So, the simplest thing is to take from John’s hard work and help Bill pay for what he needs. Of course, in Canada today, we are not taking from John. We are taking from John’s children, grandchildren, great grandchildren for generations to pay for Bill’s lifestyle.

We all love to get a bargain, but Canadians must wake up to the fact that our government is frittering OUR money away. Whether it’s to spend $32,707.23 on a building site backdrop when there are over 6,000 building sites within spitting distance or its robbing John to pay for Bill.

There is no free lunch! There’s just a question of who is going to pay for the lunch.

Communism (socialism is the polite term) has not worked in any country. Where socialism—in any of its forms—has been imposed, it has not made people equally rich, it has made them equally poor.

Before our nation’s finances collapse under our debt-burden, we need to wake up, stand up, and demand that our government stick to its mandate to provide national defence, sound currency, and just laws. They do not need to micromanage our homes. We know what works there.

For common sense financial policies, join CHP Canada before our children are left with a bankrupt nation.