Responding to "Canada is broken"
Interesting, but the problem is that Canadians see that everything is well, leave the system alone.
There is a history in Canada on why we have health care, and a social security system.
As humans we need shelter, food, water and air to survive. The big problem in Canada is that it gets cold and the long distances between cities and towns. This comes down to maintenance (heat) and infrastructure (roads, water supply, waste water, energy etc.).
Canadians also need jobs to make money. Taxes are used for infrastructures.
Looking back at the 50 & 60s, the post war boom in population and wealth for Canadians. (Based on company towns/support where companies employed people and made housing for them, gave health care and day care and other benefits to maintain employees). 70s was the oil/energy crisis and cost of high inflation. Phase out of company towns, into the 90s. In the 90s it was the dying of the autopac in Ontario (start of the world economy). Throughout the 90s companies were paying less on benefits and pension plans and that has continued on today.
So from the 90s onward was the house construction/remodeling boom. This is where the increase of house prices came from (actually its from the no capital gains on primary house) is from people flipping houses (and the constant reassesment of house values, not due to regular market issues, but the deliberate inflation of house worth through banks and assessment brokers)(scamers using legal means). The need for people to move from job to job. The house prices needed to be maintained so high, because of the large loans and the thousands of people trying to flip houses/apartments etc. The other side of this is real estate agents conspiring help inflated house prices in a "hot market" further overvaluing the price of homes. (house set at 100,000.00, real estate agent says put in bid of 105,000. Real estate agent comes back and tells you there is a bid of 109,000.00 and suggests a bid of 112,000.00, and so on until the house finally sells for 130,000.00).. Its great for the seller, and the agent who makes more on the increased price. But the new home owner has now a higher mortgage to pay, and when they finally come to sell again they are part of an increasing cyclic of house prices, that will eventually lead to paying interest only, until the next market increase in house prices. All because the people want to keep the equity in the house and the banks want to make long term interest off the mortgage.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/inflation-rate-cpi
Using 80,000 (say avg price of house in 1980) 4 bedroom with basement. 4% inflation rate over 40 years. Price comes out to 385,000.00. (compound interest calculator).
So after 30 years of this happening in Hot Markets (Toronto, Vancouver), the price in way overinflated for an average house. And because of the overinflated house prices in hot markets, other markets have increased, due to flipping and the creation of "hot local markets". Compare it to the 1929 stock market crash and aftermath (the speculation of stocks and the drought of the 1930s). Loss of the autopac in the 90s and people turned to other means (flipping houses).
So young people today are looking at house prices that are astronomical, and their ability to pay off that mortgage. Yeah I say they are not happy.
Solutions:
Simple interest for home owners. (yeah fuck the banks they deserve this).
Long term transportation projects. High speed Maglev trains between cities. Transport that relies on renewable energy. Solar- electricity to run trains etc.
Better roads and planning of them. Today we did up streets to get at sewer line etc. Potholes, due to water leaking/undermining the base structure, which means the base structure was cheaply built in the first place.
A better heavy transport system. eg trains. Therefore more track will be needed. Less big rigs for cross country work.
Air ships for tourists.
Energy sharing between provinces (electricity). We have more electrical infrastructure between Canada and USA then between all the provinces. Wonder why?
Manufacture plastics. Due to the nature of the tarsands, raw supply shouldn't be a problem.
80% natural resources have to be turned into finished products here in Canada. This gives jobs to Canadians. Every time raw resources go out of Canada, we are fucking Canadians over.
Foreign Companies pay taxes in Canada for profits made by Canadian materials.
Keep everything simple.
REHASH the TAX system. Simple tax, no refunds or write offs. keeps it simple. Probally around 25%.
Redistribution of wealth?? tax any thing over 200,000/family at 30%. The rich will always find a way to recover it.