The evidence continues to pour in with distressing consistency that Canada is falling behind its peers economically. We are broadly following a similar economic policy to Argentina and South Africa in overtaxing and over-regulating the private sector. And we are focusing more on the redistribution of existing wealth than expanding the wealth of the country as a whole, and then slightly adjusting the distribution of it as public social policy commends. The federal government persists in regarding climate change as the greatest challenge facing the country and the resulting heavy taxes and ecological restrictions kill jobs. As I’ve written here before, we have allowed climate zealots to hijack national policy on this issue, who are oblivious or even hostile to the job-creating and cost-reducing potential of key industries, especially oil and gas. We should continue to resist industrial pollution up to, but not beyond, the point of negatively affecting job creation and materially increasing consumer costs.
