Ten reasons why Canada's middle class and in fact all of Canada is in permanent decline

[Thiel]

And the central reason for this decline?

Taxes.

[Bricktop]

GOVERNMENTS!!!

[Anonymous]

This shit is killing Canada.



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Ontarians paid $37-billion above market for electricity over eight years, Auditor-General's report says

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

This shit is killing Canada.



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Ontarians paid $37-billion above market for electricity over eight years, Auditor-General's report says

I live in Ontario. This obsession with "green energy" is criminal. It's pushed low income earners into deep poverty. It has driven manufacturers out of our province.

[Anonymous]

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The NDP government tried that here, and the new government is fixing the mess they left behind.

[Anonymous]

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Crazy.

[Gaon]

The middle class in Vancouver is shrinking.

[Anonymous]

As the tax bite by all three levels of government takes more income away from families, charities are among the victims.



Generosity in Canada reaching new lows



Every holiday season, millions of Canadians donate their time and money to charities.



These charitable donations help the vulnerable, feed the homeless and ensure children around the world have access to basic necessities.



However, according to a recent Fraser Institute study based on data from personal income tax returns, the generosity of Canadians has been waning over the last two decades.



For example, the share of total income Canadians donate to charity has hit the lowest point since 2000.



Collectively, Canadians contributed 0.54% of their household income to registered charities in 2017 (the latest year of available data), down from 0.61% two decades ago and a steep drop from the peak of 0.78% in 2006.



Moreover, in 2000, more than a quarter of tax-filers (25.2%) donated to charity compared to 19.9% in 2017 (or less than one in five tax-filers).



Smaller donations by fewer tax-filers has produced a decline in the total dollar value for charitable giving in Canada.



In 2017, charitable donations by Canadians totalled $9.7 billion — down several hundred million from the previous year.



In fact, if Canadians had donated at the same rate as they did in 2000, charitable giving in 2017 would have been $1.2 billion higher, reaching $10.9 billion to help provide essential services, such as clothing for children, shelter spaces for the homeless and mental health counselling.



And the decline in charitable giving is not unique to any one province.



Over the last decade, donations as a percentage of income have decreased by at least 10% in every province, and the percentage of tax-filers donating to charities declined in every province.



However, some provinces experienced larger declines than others.



Saskatchewan recorded the largest decrease in the share of household income donated over the last decade, dropping 36.1% (from 0.87% to 0.56%), followed by Newfoundland and Labrador (a drop of 35.6%).



Saskatchewan also experienced the largest decline (20.8%) in the percentage of tax-filers reporting charitable donations from 2007 to 2017, again followed by Newfoundland and Labrador (19.4%) and Prince Edward Island (19.3%).



So donation numbers are down everywhere.



But what about volunteerism?



Conceivably, if Canadians were volunteering more of their time instead of donating money to charities, this might help explain the decline in giving.



However, recent data from the Conference Board of Canada finds that between 2004 and 2017, average annual volunteer hours per person declined by 7.3%, and the share of the Canadian population that volunteered dropped from 45.2% to 43.6%.



Unfortunately, the rapid decline in charitable giving over the last two decades means Canadian charities have been increasingly strapped for resources and face larger financial obstacles when trying to improve the quality of life for vulnerable Canadians.



Let's hope this holiday season, and into the new year, these troubling trends turn around.

[Anonymous]

Seoul, I volunteer with two charities, and I know this is true, that charities are suffering.....and it's Canada wide.

[Anonymous]

In 2009, Gerry Butts was a key policy advisor behind the Ontario Liberal government's debacle, the Green Energy Act. The GEA brought networks of windmills and solar panels to the province.



Ontario residents had to pick up the tab for massive subsidies to generate "green" energy, and they had to pay a 'Global Adjustment Fee' to offload this energy at a discount to places like Michigan, because the province didn't have the means to store the energy.



The result was a 70% increase in energy bills from 2008 to 2016. Unable to operate at those costs, businesses left Ontario. Most jobs created by the GEA were temporary, and many more were lost to the business exodus.



Even though the Green Energy Act was repealed by the new PC government in 2018, Ontario is still paying for Butts' Green Energy Act. Now Gerry's back, proposing a similar plan for the whole country. Plans like these always result in radically higher costs that ordinary Canadians have to pay.

[Anonymous]

Man, the Trudeau regime has been a disaster for blue collar workers.

[Berry Sweet]

The whole thing just pisses me off.  The only people who get help are refugees.  They have like, 8,9 or 10 kids, its fuckin ridiculous.



I don't like the green shit either, I just see it as a tax and nothing more.



Canada is alright...in time it will become a shit hole.

[Anonymous]

The whole thing just pisses me off.  The only people who get help are refugees.  They have like, 8,9 or 10 kids, its fuckin ridiculous.



I don't like the green shit either, I just see it as a tax and nothing more.



Canada is alright...in time it will become a shit hole.

It will not take long for Canada to become like Venezuela if we let every fake refugee in and green taxing the middle class into extinction.

[Berry Sweet]

I can already see that Canada is for the super rich or super poor.