“Patriotic middle class Canadians often believe their country is good to the extent it functions as a stable, safe, bourgeois utopia, in which life’s most important bills are paid by someone else (healthcare, retirement) while everything else (real estate, food, gasoline, etc.) is cheap and abundant. There is no gun violence or endemic poverty, and if that means the citizenry are too complacent and risk-adverse to produce an Elon Musk, well, that’s a fair trade”
https://jjmccullough.substack.com/p/is-trudeau-responsible-for-declining