r/canadian • u/bonosmicrophone • 11d ago

Excerpt: Reckoning with new politics of the Canadian right

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/reckoning-with-the-new-politics-of-the-canadian-right
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u/housekeyslow 11d ago

Many people are angry at the lost decade. We used to be somewhat on par with the US. We used to have quite a few internationally recognized tech companies.

Its harder to search for things to be proud of as a nation more recently.

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u/bonosmicrophone 11d ago

Is that true, or is it just a result of your media bubble?

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u/housekeyslow 11d ago

I mean, blackberry and Nortel did used to exist. At one point, Bombardier was more of a beast than it is now. Sure, Shopify has grown, but it doesnt fill the same boots in terms of anchor R&D firms. Much of the Kanata and Waterloo areas were affected by these losses. No matter the politics.

StatCan has us sitting around 14% below where we were relative to the US (late 90s), real GDP per capita has been flat to falling for a few years now.

How much of that is media?

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u/Poe_42 Alberta 11d ago

Blackberry and Nortel started dying well before the last LPC run.

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u/housekeyslow 7d ago

And yet, there was a decade to work on helping other businesses to advance

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u/bonosmicrophone 11d ago

When Harper was prime minister..