Editor:
Given the electorate's mindset of bottomless entitlement, the politics of Justin Trudeau’s pre-election deficit budget promise to turn Canada's social safety net into a veritable “hammock."
Without a change to the endemic Canadian mindset of the economic and social welfare state, there surely will be no change to the bloated size of the Liberal "nanny" state, tolerated by an electorate with an insatiable appetite for government services and a seemingly unending tolerance/indifference for Liberal government mismanagement and even outright scandal such as the SNC-Lavalin affair or the 2004 Quebec Sponsorship case.
In a land where the people have come to view the government as a benevolent force to redistribute wealth to all those who want equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity, turning taxpayers' hard-earned "gold" into free-spending government "lead" has become the essence of Liberal modern-day welfare state alchemy.
With prevailing standards of political morality, lowered so publicly and so contemptuously by Trudeau, is there a leader who will do what it takes to control spending, pay down debt, keep taxes low, increase productivity, and steer and grow Canada's economy through these difficult and unstable times?
But perhaps the question really is: If there is such a leader, will the people of Canada let him lead?
E.W. Bopp
