I am really looking forward to the new year and the summer in this province because I have a nice mid 1970’s classic car I just purchased and can drive around. I want to find a range where I can shoot my guns and I still have yet to explore beautiful places like the Big Muddy.
I am going to do all of those things with a clear mind, free from stress. That is because Saskatchewan seems to be the only place in Canada where the government doesn’t want to shoot itself in the foot, and I knew that when I applied to work out here.Ìý
If I was living back in Ontario I would be trying to succeed in a sunset industry while my provincial government was taking every opportunity to kill the economy, and being someone who understands economics, 2018 would be the year I would go bald from pulling my hair out.
Saskatchewan’s next door neighbour, Alberta, has implemented a carbon tax and minimum wage hikes, and switched to volatile natural gas or useless wind and solar for electricity. The story is much the same elsewhere in Canada.Ìý
Ontario is following in Alberta’s footsteps, implementing a carbon tax, raising the minimum wage and moving forward with a whole bunch of other economically damaging polices.Ìý
If I ever get any time off, I think driving around the Alberta Rocky Mountains at sunset with all the windows down, hearing nothing but the deep rumble of a Chevy 350 V8 engine, is going to be wonderful. It’s going to be great for obvious reasons, but on the way back I will be going home to a place that isn’t run by fools.
Justin Trudeau and his policies are not his own. The man hasn’t a single original thought in his head. His policies like the carbon tax, green energy, Motion 103 on Islamophobia, minimum wage hikes, or welcoming dangerous people into the country are all recycled garbage from Europe.Ìý
It’s popular and its trendy and it gets votes providing you have a supermodel as its poster person. But in Saskatchewan all those horrible policies fall on deaf and defiant ears. Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is expected to be imposed on Saskatchewan this year, and as much of the rest of Canada runs around in a circle screaming with their hair on fire, it’s just another brisk and calm day in Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan is doing OK so far, and while other provinces implement insane policies, this province is poised to be very successful. That said the people of this province have an attitude towards Trudeau’s policies that they need to preserve.Ìý
As I have written before when you give something away to the government they will end up taking what ever else they want. There is no happy middle ground when negotiating polices with the federal government that have the ability to really hurt this provinces economic prosperity. It is a matter of kind not degree and any kind of a carbon tax or wage hikes that go beyond inflation are all bad to any degree. Trudeau’s Liberals are on a crusade to radically shift this country to the left and its only because they have a Messiah Complex and want to be worshiped and remembered as the noble crusader.
The Sask. Party leadership race is underway and a new leader will be announced at the end of the month. Saskatchewan does have a debt problem and cuts to funding are prevalent. The appropriate action is to drift further to the right than the left politically speaking. The reason for this is to create real jobs and real wealth instead of using other people’s money to create a mirage of a healthy economy.Ìý
A mixed economy doesn’t work; people are motivated by fear and socialism is a quick fix with a horrible end result. That is why capitalism always loses in a mixed economy; the carbon tax is a wealth redistributive mechanism in response to a broken economy.ÌýÌý
This province has a choice to make between a slow death or making a stand against bad polices with bad intentions. For now it is just another brisk and calm day in Saskatchewan but a lot has to happen for it to stay that way.Ìý
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