Alot of the problems Canadians have is the problems of perspective.
Canada is a country that is very very rich in natural resources.
Mining, Forestry, Fishing, Human Resources (includes Education) and Energy. Canada is an elitist's country, where the top 1% control over 95% of the wealth. Its civil service is elite too, where once about 400 families controlled the civil service.
In Canada the rules for the rich are not the same as for the average or middle class. The middle class is disappearing and its not toward the 1%ters.
Today Canadians are overburdened by High mortgages, High debt load and the increasing likely hood of stagnate wages and opportunities due to gobal economy. The reality is no other country wants our manufactured good, unless it contributes directly to another country manufacturered goods. eg. Cdn car part goes to Mexico for certain truck/car.
Most assembly lines are now can be controlled by computers and robots which can work 24 hours vs 8 hrs for a human.
Any type of material for making stuff is usually imported like metal bars, pipes and tubes, electrical wire and plastic material, causing Cdn manufacturing to be more expensive.
Todays Technology is consumed by people through smart-phones, smart TVs, computers, household appliances. But it is not built in Canada.
Canada in 1900 was a big ship builder.
Now it isn't, the ship building industry in Canada is dead. In WW2 any decent sized city with a shipbuilding company was building Corevettes for the war. By the end of the 1960s, shipbuilding moved to Japan, in 1980 to Korea, Next will be India. Our heaviest industry today is Bombardier, who makes trains.
Canada biggest and best future is in Energy. Hydro-Electric, wind and solar and Nuclear (yeah all those facist anti-nuclear idiots can go fuck themselves) and the oil sands and the arctic and queen charlottes hold alot of oil. And all types of oils means plastic.
https://www.cn.ca/en/our-services/maps-and-network
https://www.cpr.ca/en/choose-rail/network-and-facilities
All railway lines could be converted to solar with lots of back up batteries (lots of new technology coming out for batteries) for a nation wide electrical grid.
High speed electric trains could replace airplanes. The prairie provinces between major cities, southern Ontario, Montreal, Quebec city, to Maritimes big cities.
Air Ships for transport too.
Also within the limits of today's technology and materials is the hydrogen economy. Whether a fuel-cell or direct burning hydrogen engine (gas turbine or ICE with only by product water and heat). The drawback is infrastructure and the populace scare of an hydrogen fire like the Hindenburg. No different now then a propane explosion (BLEVE).
A big concern is Health care and an aging population. More people will be needed to field more nurses, doctors and health care professionals at old age homes. Better service and maintenance at old care homes are needed. A solution would be to fast track immigrants who hold doctor degrees and nursing degrees. Now this I will say is probably inherently protectionist.
The one thing that will effect most Canadians is climate change disasters. Forest Fires, Flooding, Drought, Protection of towns and cities from fires.
A big thing that really could take off is a Recycling Economy. Recycle everything. Cities put aside areas to develop recyling depots to deal with all aspects of recylcing. Especially plastics and metals. This is gonna take enormous planning, knowhow, and determination. It will never take place because all the political parties will drag their feet, in the meantime they are jacking their dicks off, because it sounds good, but in reality they are only jacking their dicks off again and again and again.... repeat about for the next 20 years till its too late.
Another thing to eliminate will be political party cancelling of projects, just to slam it into the oppositions face saying "it was no good". Yet 3 elections later that party that cancelled that project, renames it and starts it from scratch again. Wasting tax payers money while giving no service to the project, which was needed. Kinda like the talk in Victoria BC for the last 40 years about getting a water treatment plant. On again, Off again, on again, off again... etc.
The problem is nobody is willing to pull up their sleeves and get their hands dirty with actual work these days....
Also none of these politcal parties- Liberals, Conservative, NDP, or Greens have the political balls to make Recycling Economy, a Hydrogen Economy, Plan for climate Change disasters (with actual equipment / plans in place) happen. Because they don't have the plans, they are just ideas for now. same goes for their political platforms all words, no substance and in the end will be cancelled by the next electors....
Basicly its shit that has to be done, everyone will bitch and complain, but are not willing to do the fucken work.
The political parties promise the world, but are full of shit.....
pls note: By the end of WW2 ( a mere short 6 years) Germany plundered and stole all available resources in Europe. Pls, also note the Germans used slave labour. Pls, note never to do that.
