America's Privatization of Canada.
The destruction of Canada's social contract is almost complete.
The sacking of Canada by the US goes back to 1812 which turned out to be very bad for Washington, DC, with Canadian volunteers under British leadership burning Washington to the ground and taking all the gold to make the Americans pay for stealing Canadian territory in what is now the American Northeast. Another US sacking of Canada that hurt our military, the theft of the most advanced fighter jet in the world, the Avro Aero. All Canadian technology. Even my own father was blackmailed into illicit military contracting for US based arms corporations when he was chief engineer for Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. However, the sacking that truly turned Canada into another US state, a US colony where the US media don't report from ever (unless it is former and now deceased Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack) was vulture capitalism disguised as free trade.
Last time I checked US corporations owned approximately 32% of the Canadian economy. That's the most foreign ownership in any nation anywhere on the earth. The US itself has never been owned by foreign enterprises by more than 6%. Just to be fair it has shrunk somewhat lately but the US has been using Canada to experiment on with privatization that they won't impose on their own US cities and populations. I lived in and around the Boston area for nearly 30 years and absolutely loved their public transportation system but I live in Vancouver now. Where Translink is managed by a private corporation that skims the operating profits off the top of our publicly owned transportation system which will only lead to it being driven into the ground and the public exhausted paying for their rides at which point the private investors will flee. How did this happen in Canada?
The first step in the sacking of Canada by the US in our modern era was having conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney lie to the Canadian public in an election, in 1988, that he would not sign the US Canadian free trade deal if he were re-elected. It was almost the first thing he did when he was re-elected, was sign the US Canadian free trade agreement. With the US Canadian Free trade agreement the Americans flooded the Canadian market with US goods but then turned around and slapped a 32% tariff on Canadian softwoods entering the US market, one of Canada's biggest exports to the US. This led to vulture capitalist companies from the US with the assistance of the Canadian conservative and liberal parties, shuttering Canadian companies and mills to de-unionize them only to be opened later as non-union companies run by US management.
Canada is one of the richest countries in the world with 28% of the worlds freshwater, more gold and diamonds than we know what to do with yet thousands of people are sleeping in the streets because of a piece of paper called North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA that the next Prime Minister after Mulroney, Prime Minister Jean Chretien swore up and down in an election year that he would not sign to get elected. But almost immediately after Jean Chretien is minted as Prime Minister of Canada negotiations begin for the North American Free Trade Agreement.
After the North American free trade agreement was signed by Prime Minister Jean Chretien and President Bill Clinton, the US gained veto power over all of our energy resources as a means to aline Canada's energy policy with that of the United States. It's not like it wasn't alined before or any of our business interests in Canada, we were aligned with US but what NAFTA brought with it was US management and ownership, the privatization of what are considered public corporations owned by the taxpayers.
In order to make the privatization of the management of publicly owned corporations in Canada, like Translink, attractive to American investors they had to raise the price of the per person fair to over three dollars. The BC and lower mainland liberals were glad to participate in the privatization of Translink as American funded lobbyists began throwing money and sweetheart investment deals around to liberals and conservatives corrupting the Canadian political systems to the point of actually rigging Canadian elections by privatizing the ballot boxes in provincial and municipal elections with electronic Jim Crow vote counting machines that have been caught flipping votes everywhere they are used.
The very next Prime Minister after Jean Chretien who was totally in the bag for Washington was Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Prime Minister Paul Martin who was between Chretien and Harper attempted to soften NAFTA’s blows to Canadians but accomplished nothing thanks to DC. Harper spread Canada's legs even wider for the raping to come, a full scale attack on the public healthcare system by US corporations. Both liberals and conservatives stacked the Canadian Supreme Court for a planned ruling allowing the privatization of health clinics that cater to wealthier clientele. This was the first step in attempting to degrade public health services while making private services easier to receive if you're willing to pay cash.
In order for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to pass what is the Canadian patriot act he had to win a majority but to win that majority he enlisted a US republican party connected Robocall company located in the United States to call Canadians on election day and tell them that their polling station location has changed. Which was a lie and criminal American interference in a Canadian Federal election. Just to give the idea, the former aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper who was the one that arranged the Robocall poll distraction campaign got less than a year in jail whereas the American who got caught in New England doing the same thing in 2004 was given 10 years in prison. The Americans absolutely did not want New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton to become Prime Minister who would not sign Canadian version of the American patriot act into the law. While all of this is happening at the federal level, the sacking of Canada at the provincial level is where all the resource extraction by American companies is occurring. Where all the money is. Slowly but surely de-unionization of the Canadian economy continues to march forward and the costs to Canadian citizens for healthcare and medication slowly creep up.
Harper also joined with the rest of the corporate media in Canada and gutted the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) of it's most important, open and journalistic practises that made me one of the most famous environmentalists in British Columbia in the late 80s. That CBC no longer exists. You can't tell the CBC reporting from any conservative or liberal rag in Canada. Interestingly enough no private media outfit dared to fill the gap that Harper took away from the CBC. So now Canada has the dumbest news in America and it's colonies because they don't report on Canada in the US at all unless it's our Prime Minister come to Washington to bend the knee once a year.
When liberal Kathleen Wynn was elected Premier of Ontario, she did the unthinkable, she privatized the management of the provinces biggest public asset, it's electrical grid system which includes several nuclear power plants. Hydro One in Ontario then increased Ontario's electricity bill by $48 billion, the single largest public robbery in the history of Canada at the time which still has not been reversed. This move by the Ontario liberals destroyed any chance of them being re-elected in Ontario giving the New Democratic Party an almost free and clear path to victory in the next election. With the liberals out of public favour the Americans turned to the conservatives as they always do
With the theft of the election in Ontario by Doug Ford using electronic Jim Crow vote counting machines, the Americans got their perfect puppet in Canada's richest province. Who only received 40% of the vote but yet ended up with a majority. I have since discovered that US election thief Carl Rove was directly involved in the theft of the Ontario election as his criminal pathological tell showed up with far too many too close to call races in too many ridings that were sure things for the NDP before the election. And of course Doug Ford campaigned on a kind of a promise to maybe reverse or something, the privatization of the management of Hydro One.
The present Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who has chosen to ignore any calls for accountability for all of his lawbreaking and ethics trampling is proceeding with the American desire to completely privatize Canadian healthcare system. With the cooperation of many conservatives, the amping up of private clinics versus the defunding of emergency rooms across Canada is exactly the same thing the Americans are doing to the National Health Service in England. Exactly the same process.
At this moment over 75% of Americans polled in almost all US public opinion surveys, shows the American public wants a Canadian style single payer universal healthcare system like Canada’s and that's up 10% + from 1993 when 65% Americans wanted Canadian style single payer universal healthcare system. Part of reason Americans like the Canadian system, is that doctors are the private side of the healthcare system. They can open a single doctor clinic anywhere in Canada but they are simply paid for each patient they see by single tax payer monitored payer to insure the lowest cost and best health outcomes. So the doctors you see in Florida, from Canada, in January on the beach, make enough money to own a house in Florida and a house and clinic in Canada. American GPs don't. I don't know about you but I like to have a happy doctor. Every GP I saw in the US was worried about something.
During the pandemic it's been discovered that the illicit PM Justin Trudeau and I say elicit because the Americans this time chose to corrupt elections Canada entirely, to use the early voting ballot boxes as a means to keep Trudeau in power for two elections that produced minority governments for the liberals. The early voting are not counted before the ballots boxes are removed from the polling places in Canada's federal election which is illegal under Canadian election law and a violation of international standards. All ballots must be counted in front of observers who see the actual paper ballots before they can be removed from the polling place.
PM Justin Trudeau has been using the Trudeau Foundation exactly the same way the Clintons use the Clinton foundation and the Gates' use the Gates foundation, to invest in profit earning contracts using a nonprofit foundation as a vehicle. Which is so radically unethical it must be outlawed. It is outlawed, it's called conflict of interest. The Trudeau Foundation is actually invested in a company in British Columbia that provides a component for mRNA Covid vaccines. This is why Trudeau did not initiate a Canadian vaccine for COVID-19. Trudeau, joining in on the money printing orgy to pay top dollar for vaccines that are foreign made and developed and don't work. My father's entire generation are rolling in their graves along with Trudeau's father. So we must look at Trudeau's actions in the political sphere as completely compromised. Privatized you might say. The Americans have succeeded in privatizing the Canadian government.
Every Premier in Canada compromised the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by coercing the public into an unwanted medical procedure which is explicitly pointed out in the charter itself as prohibited, violating mine and many other individuals civil rights who wished to remain for our own personal reasons, unvaccinated, as well as coercing millions more by dangling their paycheques in front of them, that they yanked away if they didn't cooperate with being vaccinated. Total insanity. Using the media to amp up fear every day of the pandemic while denying early treatment. I cured my covid with vitamin C. The death toll in China is so low because of vitamin C IV drip. What this means is that the Prime Minister and premiers signed contracts that most likely called for emergency measures to coerce the public into a medical procedure completely prohibited by the Canadian charter. Vaccine mandates are completely illegal but somehow private American companies got every elected Canadian political leader to violate the civil rights of all Canadians. The vaccinated who are now showing up injured and are dying from the vaccine in unprecedented numbers have had their lives destroyed by privatization of healthcare in Canada.
The Ivermectin scandal in the US media, attempting to defame a Nobel prize winning human medication widely used in Africa and many other regions of the world for everything from malaria to now COVID-19 as horse paste is evidence enough that US media consolidation has destroyed open discourse and democracy in America and Canada.
In the whole saga of the US sacking of Canada I have found it very interesting that they experimented with privatization in Canada before even attempting it on the American people who love their public transportation, publicly managed. Thanks to JP Morgan electricity has always been privatized in the US but regardless they did a good job of providing low-cost energy to business and public consumers because someone else would've. Today however, things have radically changed. Energy costs have climbed through the roof in United States and joined the inflation model to earn obscene profits by simply raising prices on everything, pushing all the costs onto the consumers as Premier Kathleen Wynn and the liberals did in Ontario. Even in the American consumer economy model, today's CEOs wouldn't last two seconds in any corporation if this was the 1960s. For the simple fact that America was built on build something, sell something, farm some thing, sell something economics. Corporate privatizers today are demolishing the social contract between public and private business that was built up over decades of struggle.
The US is down to a 13% unionized work force, so the consumer economy in the US has been collapsing steadily for a few decades now. The government in the US simply created a law called the Taft/Hartley Act which made it impossible for unions to organize but ironically Amazon and Starbucks workers seem to be overcoming Labor department restrictions. Hell, in the US they even took the U out of the word labour. By moving their manufacturing offshore and de-unionizing the Americans have destroyed the consumer economy which we Canadians are a significant part of. By de-unionizing, America destroyed the middle class which had the power to fight back against what is now seen as a totally destructive economic policy.
Regardless of what do you think of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vulture capitalist privatizers from America used it to rob taxpayers blind by privatizing the pandemic, having all Western countries buy a vaccine from a private company in the US and Europe at top dollar. With Canada's Godfather of generic drugs, Barry Sherman and his wife Honey being murdered just before Doug Ford was placed in the Ontario premier's seat by his American backers, it now looks like early American preparation for the destruction of generic drug manufacturing in Canada which does not recognize patents on drugs for the simple fact patents on drugs can lead to a violation of the Hippocratic oath of do no harm through price denial to patients. The fact that the Sherman murders have not been solved to this day makes it look even more like a corporate hit job and with Trudeau not authorizing a Canadian vaccine in one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the world, Canada, and profiting from the American made vaccine, makes everything around the Sherman murders stink to high heaven. Barry Sherman would have protested publicly against buying an American vaccine and would have immediately set about making a Canadian vaccine for a fraction of what Trump spent to give us a vaccine that doesn't work.
Now, Trudeau is totally discredited in Canada but somehow has persuaded the US to corrupt the New Democratic Party of Canada through bribery, threats and intimidation of NDP MPs who are now keeping Trudeau in power till 2025 (in a sleazy deal cut with NDP leader Jagmeet Singh who is now hated by NDP voters) which can only mean that the privatization of our persons through biometric ID, digital currency and the apartheid vaccine pass is the agenda. They want us all shopping at the Company store, wearing company brands as fashion while earning our paycheques from the company who can have the government punish us by shutting down our bank accounts if we decide to, you know, go on strike or stand up for our civil rights and refuse to cooperate with illicit government vaccine mandates.
Publicly owned businesses like the electrical grid, electrical generation, public transportation etc. was all considered a subsidy by the taxpayers for small business, big business and taxpayers themselves to ensure the lowest possible costs in those areas as it means to make it easy for people to get to work and for businesses to have workers get to their factories and small businesses and for everyone to have affordable electricity. This policy is why the economy in the 1960s and 70s was booming in Canada. But sadly, President Ronald Reagan, President George HW Bush and President Bill Clinton all chose to attack Canada with a privatization program through free trade deals.
One of the big fears that Washington had in the late 80s and 90s and why they did the North American Free Trade deal was that Canada was starting to cede land back to First Nations tribes which would mean that the US would have to negotiate with every separate tribe for resource extraction and in particular energy extraction which the NAFTA deal gave the Americans veto power over. Then they stacked Canadian Supreme Court that ruled that the Canadian government did not have to consult First Nations tribes over any development on un-ceded First Nations land. That's right, un-ceded land. In treaties one through seven First Nations tribes never gave the British colony of Canada after Canada itself declared its phony independence, did not cede sovereignty to the British colony in Canada or its independent successor. Therefore the government of Canada is illegitimate all territories are there for under First Nations Administrative rule. In reality and on paper Canada doesn't really exist but the Americans are gonna do everything in their power to hold onto everything they gained in Canada with sharp teeth until Canada is a completely hollowed out corpse. All you have to do is look at BC's forests from google earth and you will see the destruction America has brought through it's privatization but really, it's colonization of Canada.