If 69 per cent of Canadians think the country is “broken,” as a DART & Maru/Blue poll conducted for the National Post suggests, that means it’s not just one kind of Canadian: not just Albertans furious about their landlocked bitumen; not just Quebec nationalists who feel Canada cannot accommodate their perfect society; not just those who think it absurd that a provincial pipeline dispute in northwestern British Columbia could shut down the Canadian National Railway almost four provinces...
“Better than our dysfunctional neighbour” isn’t a standard anyone would accept from their family members, those commentators noted. Canada has world-class problems that should make us all wince, they properly observed — none more critical than the mostly shrinking but still massive socioeconomic gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and the horrifying outcomes to which those indicators lead in some communities: staggering rates of suicide, homicide and other violent victimization.
Canadian news consumers are used to some pretty inflammatory rhetoric about this country, after all. Anti-monarchist obsessives and proportional representation fetishists routinely allege that we are literally not a democracy. Michael Wernick, then Canada’s senior civil servant, sat down in front of a committee investigating the SNC-Lavalin affair and warned of violence and assassinations to come, and this was warmly received in the establishment salons.
The House of Commons, the Senate, the Cabinet, the media and the public service are all shadows of their former selves, Savoie argues. “Canada’s national institutions lack the capacity to articulate and incorporate Canada’s regional perspectives in shaping Ottawa’s policy and decision-making processes,” he writes. “Canada is doing poorly when it comes to regional equality when compared with other federations.
So sad when National Post isn’t he getting traction on an article they feel the need to re-post it. Maybe they really are just bad writing.
This same story is reposted again by NP based on Maru/Blue survey using paid panel participants ... according to their website, Maru Blue connects clients (aka NP) with “expertly profiled known respondents” .. These results are biased.
Time to look at your money in the banks
it is. it is no longer the model country it once was. healthcare is a disaster, ZERO leadership exists federally or provincially, tax code is way outdated, crime is rising drastically in toronto
Canada is broken, thanks to over 150 years of mismanagement. The fixation on oil, gutting of the manufacturing sector, abominable abuse of First Nation's peoples, fascistic political system (that keeps small and new parties from winning), etc. Cons and Libs have ruined Canada.
I’m still waiting for someone to tell me why Canada needs to exist. Everything the federal government does can be done provincially and with less headaches. cdnpoli
Just rich Cons no one else cares.
Most Canadians would be correct to believe the country is in shambles and only an out of touch, narcissistic moron would think otherwise. Long list of issues; weak leadership, blockades, union strikes, political corruption, the country’s unity, out of control gov spending....
All part of the grand design! Global Socialism is the ultimate goal of George Soros and his Bilderberg pals. How better to get your hands on all the levers of wealth, without paying full price for it, or rewarding the workers and owners? PopulismIsTheAnswer UpTheDeplorables
The major parties have all moved towards the extremes as they engage in identity politics and govern based on issue/activism vs solid policy Most Canadians are more moderate and centrist in their politics As a result a larger and larger number of them no longer feel represented
Really NP? Really? The only ones that believe n are pushing this gas lighting is the Conservative ideological contingent n MSM owned by American dark monies. Canadians are unified against your un-Canadian, un-democratic BS so suck it up buttercup. cdnpoli
Quite misleading to say 26 million Canadians can't be wrong when only 1500 people were polled.
Ask them why it is broken...being broken led to the protests, the protests are not the broken part...misleading to the point of gaslighting
Actually Canada is not broken, what is broken is the management.
Canada has imploded over the past four years because JustinTrudeau and his team only have done word salads. Countries do not run on words, but action!
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