Canada is a failed state

[Jetpack Himmler]

Something that has been turning inside my mind for a bit. I've been thinking of the promised spending for various major projects:

• Defense (needs $150B per year to achieve NATO's 5% of GDP by 2035. Largely uses creative accounting to include infrastructure projects as I doubt that Ottawa has any serious plans for streamlining procurement and recruitment beyond another layer of bureaucracy.)
• ALTO (promised price tag: $90B, but projects of this scale typically go overbudget, overschedule, and with Ottawa's reputation, underdeliver. If I use the Trans-Mountain expansion as a baseline, I could see this ballooning to $200-250B for a service a vast majority of Canadians will never use.)
• Space Launch Capacity (This get take tens of billions before anything is launched due to logistical bottlenecks, and frankly, the attitude I get from proponents is that they want to compete with SpaceX and Starling. However, Canada is a day late to the party and a trillion dollars short.)
• Canada Strong Fund (Given that the 2025 Federal Election has emboldened the Liberal Party in light of Trudeau-era scandals, we can dispense with "innocent until proven guilty" and assume that this is another slush fund for insiders. The fact that it is funded by debt leads into the next point I want to make.)

When accounting for servicing on the debt eating more federal revenue than national defense (and possibly healthcare, not sure of that yet) in addition to existing spending, it paints a bleak picture of the future. There seems to be this attitude within the establishment and swaths of the voting public that the economy is a bunch of levers you can pull and something nice comes out. However, history demonstrates that central planning on this scale never works and only leads to bigger problems down the road that toxic positivity cannot fix. Canada is facing a productivity crisis while the feds are chasing prestige projects that offer little to no relief to the ills facing a moribund economy.

 

[Whiskey]

Consider that what's known as "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada" is about a woman fucking a Bear, and I don't mean the hairy man kind.

That shit won awards by the way. I feel like part of the reason Canadian schools largely don't use Canadian Literature might just be the sample size of things both well written and school appropriate is just that fucking small compared to just focusing on American and European literature instead.

Its a fucking crime that Steven Erickson isn't promoted more... while his recent works are a bit weaker then his earlier ones. His mazalan tales of the fallen series is on par with a wheel of time and depending on your taste close to lord of the rings.

Man shits over Game of thrones but unfortunately choose to write at a late high-school/university level so a lot of retards drop off from his books.

Sadly I believe he is still on hiatus from his publisher going under that had exclusive rights till this or next year.

 

[OutInTheRain]

The Federal Government has no intention of actually completing any of these. It's announcements to bamboozle the boomer.

Defense (needs $150B per year to achieve NATO's 5% of GDP by 2035. Largely uses creative accounting to include infrastructure projects as I doubt that Ottawa has any serious plans for streamlining procurement and recruitment beyond another layer of bureaucracy.)

Not happening in any real tangible way, will most likely be done by announcement of projects and procurement that Ottawa never intends to fulfill. What ones do get the go ahead will take forever. Like a certain three story parking garage just finishing up year three of being under construction.

ALTO (promised price tag: $90B, but projects of this scale typically go overbudget, overschedule, and with Ottawa's reputation, underdeliver. If I use the Trans-Mountain expansion as a baseline, I could see this ballooning to $200-250B for a service a vast majority of Canadians will never use.)

They saw how much got scammed in California and now they want a piece of that pie. This will be cancelled in 15 years after sucking down a few hundred billion with nothing to show for it. People will lose their shit about it being cancelled because of the leftist's fascination with trains and thinking it makes them like Europe.

Space Launch Capacity (This get take tens of billions before anything is launched due to logistical bottlenecks, and frankly, the attitude I get from proponents is that they want to compete with SpaceX and Starling. However, Canada is a day late to the party and a trillion dollars short.)

Launches are most efficient at the equator, that's why everyone launches in the south. So we're going to spend billions to develop a launch field that no one uses. Brilliant!

Canada Strong Fund (Given that the 2025 Federal Election has emboldened the Liberal Party in light of Trudeau-era scandals, we can dispense with "innocent until proven guilty" and assume that this is another slush fund for insiders. The fact that it is funded by debt leads into the next point I want to make.)

Like has been said, another slush fund. Will accomplish nothing like the last infrastructure fund.