{"id":143307,"date":"2023-09-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=143307"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:58:08","slug":"winds-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/winds-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds of Change: Dave Wilkin | Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By <\/em>Dave Wilkin<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Early this year I wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/a-tipping-point-reached\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Doppler opinion piece<\/span><\/a> that a tipping point for PM Justin Trudeau had arrived. Since then, things have deteriorated for Trudeau, and most Canadians now see that Canada is headed in the wrong direction on many fronts. The impact of this on the Liberal Party is clearly evident, with a recent poll showing <a href=\"https:\/\/abacusdata.ca\/conservatives-lead-by-12-as-only-27-of-canadians-think-the-prime-minister-should-run-again\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">them trailing the Conservatives by 12 points<\/span><\/a>, continuing a <a href=\"https:\/\/338canada.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">national declining trend<\/span><\/a>. Even more telling is the cratering support of younger voters that was key to Trudeau\u2019s past election wins\u2014just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/getting-squeezed-on-both-sides-liberals-a-distant-third-among-younger-voters-1.6539949\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">16 percent support of voters under 30, compared to the Conservatives at 39 percent<\/span><\/a>. The reasons for the slide are obvious.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, housing affordability continues to decline as interest rates &amp; costs rise. Despite PM Trudeau\u2019s promises to address it dating back to 2015, things have only gotten worse, as the average home price has <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.crea.ca\/en-CA\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">almost doubled since then<\/span><\/a>. Trudeau\u2019s recent attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/star-columnists\/if-housing-is-not-the-job-of-justin-trudeau-s-team-then-whose-job-is\/article_b6ed3415-42bd-51a2-b56f-8280e90128e8.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">distance his government from the issue<\/span><\/a> points to confusion and even desperation. The lack of<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>a<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>national plan to address the impacts of his rapidly increasing immigration\/temporary visa levels has made things much worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, along with rising costs of everything, have led to increasing financial anxiety.&nbsp; Since 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fpcanada.ca\/news?Id=fp-canada-2023-financial-stress-index-finds-money-remains-the-leading-source-of-stress-for-canadians\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">money remains the top stressor<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/business\/almost-half-of-canadians-living-paycheque-to-paycheque-while-support-grows-for-poilievre-s-conservatives-poll-1.6544243#:~:text=The%20poll%20by%20Leger%20shows,ages%20of%2035%20and%2054.\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">about half of Canadians<\/span><\/a> are now living paycheque to paycheque. Personal debt has rocketed up, rising almost 60 percent since 2015 (to over 100 percent of GDP), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/canadian-households-now-have-the-worst-debt-ratio-of-any-g7-country\/article_becb8cc6-0f49-5d18-884f-eda6fa766ff3.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">worst in the G7 and highest of all industrialized countries<\/span><\/a>. Canada\u2019s government debt also rose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/datamapper\/CG_DEBT_GDP@GDD\/SWE\/CAN\/USA\/GBR\/FRA\/DEU\/AUS\/ITA\/JPN\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">faster than any OECD country, with national government debt now standing at 66 percent of GDP<\/span><\/a> and general government debt at double that. Declining average real income, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/gazette\/stories\/canada-s-lagging-productivity-affects-us-all-and-will-take-years-remedy#:~:text=Canada%20is%20currently%20ranked%2018th,of%20that%20of%20the%20U.S.\">lagging Canadian productivity\/capital investment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdhowe.org\/graphic-intelligence\/weak-capital-investment-canada-hurts-canadian-workers\">2<sup>nd<\/sup> lowest in the OECD<\/a>)<\/span> makes things even more difficult for Canadians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this has also added to the healthcare crisis, and almost <a href=\"https:\/\/angusreid.org\/cma-health-care-access-priorities-2023\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">70 percent of Canadians are now pessimistic<\/span><\/a> about seeing improvements in the near term. It\u2019s also contributing to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/substance-related-harms\/opioids-stimulants\/\">opioid-related harms increases (doubled)<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/substance-related-harms\/opioids-stimulants\/\"> <\/a>and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/trudeau-government-thinks-rising-crime-is-all-in-your-head\">violent crime rise (up 30 percent<\/a>)<\/span> under Trudeau\u2019s watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/leger360.com\/surveys\/crime-and-drug-use-in-canada\/?utm_source=nationalpost.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=crime_illegal_drugs_report&amp;utm_content=\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Canadians see these as very serious issues and they want action, not words.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Trudeau\u2019s signature file, climate change, results are underwhelming. His government boasts of <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lau-trudeaus-climate-spending-tab-excludes-costs-youll-pay\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">$120 billion in environmental spending<\/span><\/a> while his carbon tax steadily rises, now joined by a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/climate-and-environment\/climate-policies-and-fossil-fuel-clean-fuel-regulations-and-carbon-pricing-explained-1.6463483\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clean Fuel tax<\/span><\/a>. Despite this, Canada\u2019s emissions declined about <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lau-trudeaus-climate-spending-tab-excludes-costs-youll-pay\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">7 percent since 2015<\/span><\/a> and much of which was due to the COVID pandemic&#8217;s lingering economic impacts. In British Columbia, where fuel taxes are highest,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/bc-climate-emissions-ipcc-1.6410443\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">emissions have actually risen since 2015<\/span><\/a>. Carbon taxes haven\u2019t lowered emissions, but they have fuelled inflation, helping driving costs up across the economic spectrum. This is not sufficiently accounted for under the federal Climate Action Incentive Payments. Additionally, cost increases tend to gobble government energy rebates. This certainly looks to be the case for new windows, heat pumps and EV\u2019s. Banning combustion engine new car sales by 2035? Sorry, not happening. Trudeau doesn\u2019t seem to understand affordable energy is a necessity, not a luxury, and that it still drives economies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hard reality is our 1.5 percent share of global emissions is <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/fossil-fuels\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dwarfed by developing countries<\/span>,<\/a> the highest being China. If Trudeau was really serious about climate change, he would ramp up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/another-miss-on-canadian-energy\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">export of Canadian natural gas to help displace far dirtier global coal consumption<\/span><\/a>. Ditto for nuclear power technology. But he\u2019s not, and when it comes to China, crickets again. Instead, we get <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/guilbeault-criticizes-canada-from-beijing-but-silent-on-china\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">critical words for Canadian energy giant Suncor from Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault<\/span> <\/a>while attending the recent China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, which is basically a Chinese government propaganda tool. How pathetic is that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Trudeau\u2019s high spending ways (not his \u2018sunny ways\u2019), Canadian climate-resiliency investment is mostly absent, as this year\u2019s unprecedented wildfires have so clearly demonstrated. Likewise, under-investment in electrical system infrastructure continues, making the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/science\/electrification-grid-ev-heating-1.6935663#:~:text=Reports%20from%20the%20International%20Energy,reach%20its%20net%2Dzero%20goal.\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">doubling or tripling of capacity<\/span><\/a> needed to meet Trudeau\u2019s 2050 net-zero emissions target virtually impossible.&nbsp; That cost could well reach several trillion dollars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So as the new session of parliament gets underway, watch NDP leader Jagmeet Singh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/ndp-absolutely-angling-to-leverage-liberal-dip-in-polls-for-movement-on-key-policies-1.6543583\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">leverage Trudeau\u2019s polling decline<\/span><\/a> by pushing for his top unfulfilled priorities in exchange for propping up the government. With higher interest rates, persistent inflation and now a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/canada-s-economy-unexpectedly-shrinks-supporting-rate-pause-1.1966183\">shrinking economy<\/a><\/span>, his timing is problematic, but he knows Trudeau wants to avoid an election at all costs. Politics first. As pressure on the Liberal party mounts, expect more \u2018fear attacks\u2019 from Trudeau targeting the Conservatives, painting them as extreme, scary and lacking plans. It won\u2019t work. Blaming global factors for his own lack of results won\u2019t cut it either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winds of change are blowing stronger. I remain cautiously hopeful.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/Dave-Wilkin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119507\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dave Wilkin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Dave Wilkin is a Professional Engineer, with a master\u2019s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. His career spans over 40 years in Information Technology, banking, energy and consulting. A former resident of Huntsville, Ontario, he now lives in Burlington, but still spends time at his Huntsville area cottage.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave Wilkin Early this year I wrote in a Doppler opinion piece that a tipping point for PM Justin Trudeau had arrived. 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