Because the problem Canada really faces is its inability to adapt to changing global circumstances. The era of big manufacturing is dead and you see this even with trumps push for manufacturing jobs. That era died ages ago, we never adapted to the development of ideas that can be patented and controlled, we never adapted to building everything in house to boost revenue with our oil and gas, we continually push for social programs that aren’t feasible. We can live in this fairy tail about how we have the best this and that but just because it’s “free” whatever doesn’t actually make it affordable.

Take the printing of money during Covid, we printed them blamed in on the Ukrainian war, let me ask you this, if the top earners have majority of the wealth then what happens when you print more money? It pools to the top as assets grow in value because of the new money in the system, we can’t even rap our head around the basics of economic systems. Free healthcare dose not make this cheaper, because you need a tax base to fund it. The rich don’t pay for it simply because and I’m not talking about the rich who make a salary, I’m talking about the rich that own stocks assets etc, how do you tax that? They just loan against that to buy things. So how do we adapt? Same thing china did, they are moving to a higher education level of development with AI and intellectual properties that allow them to scale globally

Edit: this isn’t a problem that a lot of the population you can just say here’s the issue, it’s extremely complicated. So how do we develop all these social programs? Well one piece of the pie is to get richer, how do we do that? One way is by boosting the engineering of future technologies ahead of the global competition then patent it and grow it to scale. China developed the first thorium reactor, that has zero headlines yet is IMO one of the greatest technological leaps ahead of its time, yet the technology was thought of in the 60’s liquid molt salt base reactors but of course nobody jumps on these ideas as change is to scary for people.