Canada

Yea but it's the Finpo it's a boot lickers rag

I don't think it's fair to lay current economic landscape squarely at Trudeau's feet.

I agree. There is plenty of blame to go around. Trudeau, the other leaders, the MPs, and the very parties themselves going back to at least 1990 are to blame.

There is virtually nothing that can't be traced back to changes in policy enacted by, supported by, and tacitly accepted by literally everyone involved.

Changes to EI that gutted the power of non-union employees.

Changes to business and labour policies such that "society owes me a business" and "nobody owes you a job" attitudes were fostered, then cemented.

Any subsidy or tax reduction or public funding of anything that generates private profit.

Complete dismantling of a world-leading social housing program.

Gutting civil service in favour of consultants and industry association advisors.

Allowing already weak anti-monopoly legislation to gather dust in a drawer.

The focus on the financial health of the stock market instead of the financial health and stability of the general public.

The idea that industry can self-regulate potentially damaging behaviours. It's never happened. It never will.

And my favourite, running the country like a business. Every employer runs their business as a dictator. Who the hell thinks that's the right model for running a country?

Snc Lavalin... Whatever happens with that?

As someone who looks at a lot of data and charts I don't remember seeing any charts where Canada isn't gotten noticeably worse compared other G7 countries.

I actually find it hard to believe people don't think Trudeau's leadership has been a very significant problem for this country. It's just laughable that anyone thinks Pierre is better.

Corporations don't have a share. Corporations have shares. Shareholders own those shares.

That being said, the single biggest drain on most advanced countries lately has been real estate. The value of which has been increasing far more rapidly than corporate profits.

It's land owners who've been taking too much for the last few decades, as was predicted would eventually happen in the late 1700s and early 1800s by early economists. It happened in Japan 30 years ago, and look where they are today. Tiny homes, overworked, declining population...