Stop Trudeau's socialism

We have elected Prime Ministers noble and pitiable.

I remember John Diefenbaker (C). Overnight, he single-handedly destroyed Canada’s aircraft industry and 40,000 Canadian jobs.

Lester B. Pearson (L) followed him. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis.

Pierre E. Trudeau (father of our present PM), Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper and a few others followed. Each had their moment in Canadian history, good or bad.

Today we have Justin Trudeau. He is on a path similar to his father’s legacy, as reported in the Financial Post in 2017:

‘For Trudeau the elder and Trudeau the younger, admiration of communism is seen in actions that diminish private-sector investment in favour of public spending, along with social policies that discourage or prohibit ways of thinking not aligned with their “progressive” beliefs.

During the 15 years that Pierre Trudeau was prime minister, federal spending rose from 30 to 53 per cent of GDP. Huge public spending overheated the economy, resulting in runaway inflation’.

Today, the national 2021 debt is forecast to be 1 trillion 426.3 billion, a dangerous rise from 31 to 72.9 per cent of GDP since 2015!

F.P. continues, ‘By 1981, Canada’s prime lending rate had reached an incredible 22 per cent… skyrocketing interest payments caused widespread corporate and personal bankruptcies’.

I remember those gruelling days. Socialist policies caused unbelievable interest rates, anxiety, suicides and unimaginable heartache.

F.P. notes, ‘By the time he retired in 1984, national debt had grown by 700 per cent and Canada’s international debt rating had collapse. Canada was transformed from one of the financially strongest countries in the world into an economic basket case.

It would be two decades before tough fiscal discipline was able to overcome compounding interest payments and begin to reduce the country’s real-dollar debt’.

Today, Justin Trudeau has Canada on an unsustainable debt path…after inheriting the Stephen Harper government’s zero-deficit balance sheet a little over five years ago.

It is the highest debt in Canadian history, put on the backs of Canadians by a Marxist/socialist government parading as Liberals.

F.P. concludes, ‘That’s reason enough to worry, but the picture is certain to get much worse. Why?

For the same reason that Pierre Trudeau’s deficits spiralled out of control: the imposition of ideologically socialist government policies on a capitalist free-market economy’.

We need to stop Trudeau’s destructive socialist (Marxist) strategies!

Garry Rayner, West Kelowna