Canada Nears Economic and Social Collapse as Capital Flight Accelerates

[JOE]

Looks like there are no breaks to the Liberal immigration disaster under Carney. Health care is falling apart, schools are overflowing, millions of folks are dependent on food banks, cities have more folks living in tents and cardboard boxes than houses, and drugs flood our streets. Canada is near economic and social collapse and Carney plays the fiddle on a beach in Australia while the country burns.

For ya'll who think life in Canada is so bad, for many Americans it's just as bad or even worse:

Lotsa homelessness, Americans who work full time living paycheck to paycheck sleeping in their Vans

Perhaps we have our share of it in Canada but in the States the situation is bad & getting worse.

If I were a poor person probably preferable to live in Canada instead of the States. At least we have free healthcare here in some provinces.

[Herman]

What a prick.

[Herman]

How about helping young people here in Canada get jobs?
Are the Liberals interested in trying that?

[Shen Li]

This video is not that long. Watch it.

This ugly white British guy is no conservative either. He has tapped into why so many skilled immigrants and Canadian born are looking for trading Canada for freer countries that want their citizens to succeed.

[JOE]

This video is not that long. Watch it.

This ugly white British guy is no conservative either. He has tapped into why so many skilled immigrants and Canadian born are looking for trading Canada for freer countries that want their citizens to succeed.

I've seen that guy's videos on YouTube Shen Li Shen.

What he & all the Canada bashers NEVER mention is how much harder Asians & other countries have to work work to maintain their standard of living.

Here's a video about the new Prime Minister of Japan who gets 2 hours of sleep per night & expects her cabinet members to work as hard as she:

Asia's success is no accident.

They probably work 50% longer hours than Canadians do.

Meanwhile we have postal workers who whine about working beyond 9-5 no weekends. And Canada's postal service is falling apart.

You often blame the Liberals for the lack of growth and productivity be in reality it's entirely their fault. There are many lazy Canadians who just don't realize how hard citizens in other countries work to keep a roof over their heads.

Plus they retire later and get shittier pensions & benefits Shen.

A lot of Canadians are too soft and lazy. Many are starting to complain about Mark Carney too , even the ones who voted for him.

[JOE]

Reality of retirement in Japan:

[JOE]

Reality of retirement in South Korea:

[JOE]

Reality of Retirement in Taiwan:

[JOE]

Singapore works a lot harder than Canada:

[Thiel]

Jo Jo, I know how hard you try to get the attention of posters here and yet those meanies continue to ignore you. Sweetie, you have my word I will never do that.

Mr. Carney was booed at yesterday's CFL championship while doing what he does best - throwing away other people's money.

[Herman]

Jo Jo, I know how hard you try to get the attention of posters here and yet those meanies continue to ignore you. Sweetie, you have my word I will never do that.

Mr. Carney was booed at yesterday's CFL championship while doing what he does best - throwing away other people's money.

Jesus H I laughed so hard my gut hurt when I saw working folks showing the prog Conman what they think of him.

[DKG]

This editorial appeared in the National Post. It highlights why investors prefer investing in the certainty and safety of the United States over Canada with a legal and bureaucratic apparatus to use lawfare and procedural sabotage to create a hostile environment for investment.

Carney's budget creating record deficits to spend billions of dollars to create hydroelectic power in Nunavut for 13,000 people does not reassure global investors and boost our sagging productivity.

Mr. Carney, investors don't see 'rule of law' in Canada — they see chaos


When asked what "extra" Canada does to appeal to foreign investors over the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney replied, "Well, we have the rule of law," a remark that was met with laughter in the room. This comment reveals a staggering disconnect from reality — a political fantasy that frames Canada as a bastion of stability against the "shaky and unpredictable" nature of its largest trading partner. An analysis of the objective investment climate exposes this assertion as nothing more than political marketing, divorced from economic reality.

While investment risk in the United States is often political, external, and transactional, the risk in Canada is systemic, legal, and structural. For long-term, capital-intensive projects, this deep, internal rot is fundamentally more toxic and unmanageable than the headline-driven volatility of a U.S. administration.

If the "rule of law" in Canada is meant to provide the certainty and predictability that capital demands, it is failing spectacularly. Investors seek clear title and dependable contracts. Canada is increasingly delivering the opposite. Investors don't witness stability — they witness a fractured federation, a weaponized bureaucracy, and a legal system that injects profound uncertainty into the most basic elements of capitalism, like property rights.

Consider the devastating B.C. Supreme Court decision in Cowichan Tribes v. Canada. The court's declaration recognized Aboriginal title to land underlying private properties in a large, developed area of Richmond.

This decision didn't expropriate the land, but it accomplished something almost as destructive to investor confidence: it shattered the entire land tenure system. Landowners and businesses now confront a destabilized legal framework where the very ownership of their land hangs in question. This isn't theoretical risk — it's a judicial earthquake that injects massive uncertainty into property rights, the absolute bedrock of a stable, investable economy.

Carney claims the U.S. is unpredictable, yet Canada's greatest infrastructure challenge remains its own internal borders. We aren't one economy — we are 13 squabbling fiefdoms. The poster child for this dysfunction remains the Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline debacle. The project became so mired in regulatory gridlock and open inter-provincial warfare — with the B.C. government actively working to kill a federally approved project — that its private-sector proponent, Kinder Morgan, finally capitulated. The only way to get it built was for the federal government to nationalize it, a bizarre outcome for a nation supposedly committed to free-market principles.

This failure wasn't an anomaly. Just last month, the premiers of Alberta and B.C. were again publicly feuding over new pipeline proposals. This ongoing hostility is precisely the "unpredictability" that investors flee. Why would a company risk billions in a country where a provincial premier can unilaterally sabotage a project that has already cleared a billion-dollar federal review?

The prime minister's "rule of law" rhetoric ignores the brutal reality of Canada's regulatory and legal gauntlet  — a system that, as the Macdonald-Laurier Institute recently exposed , has empowered a "legal and bureaucratic apparatus" to use "lawfare" and "procedural sabotage" to create a hostile environment for investment.

The duty to consult with Indigenous groups, a constitutionally vital principle, has been perverted by this bureaucracy into a process with no clear timeline, no off-ramp, and no point of finality. It has become a recipe for indefinite paralysis, granting a de facto veto to countless groups, including a sprawling regulatory state.

We witness the same paralysis in Ontario's Ring of Fire. A generational opportunity to supply the world with critical minerals for the green transition is, once again, indefinitely stalled by a web of legal challenges, regulatory duplication, and jurisdictional squabbling.

For all its political theatre, the U.S. often delivers what capital craves most: certainty and speed. A project in Texas or Louisiana may face hurdles, but it doesn't face a provincial government threatening to tear up the constitution, or a legal challenge that questions the ground beneath your feet decades after a city was built.

In Canada, "rule of law" has degenerated into a "rule of lawyers," where the process is the punishment. The result isn't stability — it's paralysis. A 2023 Fraser Institute survey of energy executives found that investors are significantly more deterred by regulatory duplication, environmental regulations, and disputed land claims in Canada than in competing U.S. jurisdictions.

The government's own actions and the text of its budget serve as a comprehensive admission that Canada's investment climate is failing catastrophically. If the nation's "rule of law" was a sufficient draw for capital, the massive state intervention proposed in Budget 2025 would be unnecessary. The budget, titled "Canada Strong," isn't a celebration of a functioning system but a desperate, $1 trillion attempt to "supercharge growth" and correct profound, long-term domestic failures.

Richard Ciano, CAIP, is Chief Strategist at Yorkville Strategies Inc., a market research firm.