Canada - Post COVID-19

Although I am delighted to see the delivery of tens of thousands of protective masks, the billions of offset dollars being provided by the Canadian feds, and the trillions of offset dollars being provided by the US Congress / Senate, the fact remains that there are very few, if any, businesses that can sustain themselves as tax-generating entities, beyond 2-3 months without consistent, reliable cash flow. Unless, of course, you are an ‘efficient’ State Capitalist, authoritarian political party (i.e. the Chinese Communist Party) or a family-based oligarchy (i.e. the Sauds).

Hence, I propose that the following actions be undertaken by Canada in order to sustain itself as a safe, healthy, prosperous nation following the next business quarter - April to June, 2020.

1.      Change our expectations.

I include above the pointillist masterpiece “A Sunday on la Grande Jatte” by George Seurat that could be a guide for us all. Perhaps finding more time to be idle, thoughtful, yet active and respectful of each other – to be less consumer-orientated - is a good place to resume our humble internment activities in a renewed public realm. 

And why is this change in expectations required…?

2.      China as it is currently configured, will forever be a risk.

The West needs to desist with the lemming-like goal of creating fortunes over the growth of China. We are now witnessing the ginormous risk associated with a regime that through its political, cultural and culinary predilections, provides a consistent source of viral disease and pandemics – The Avian Flu, SARS, COVID-19, and as some have recently written, the Spanish Flu.  

Canada must substantially reconfigure our political and trade relations with China immediately; otherwise, there’s every likelihood we that we be facing another China-based pandemic within the next 10 years. The risks substantially outweigh the rewards.

3.      Saudi Arabia is a persistent threat to Canada.

Today, a Turkish tribunal indicted 20 Saudis, likely under orders from Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, with the brutal death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saud family interests are foremost in Saudi Arabia, as does the goal to completely eradicate the North American oil and gas industry. 

Canada must immediately cut off all importation of Saudi and OPEC hydrocarbon products and affirm a national energy strategy that celebrates and markets the broad, diverse and abundant energy sources, specifically hydrocarbons, across this nation. 

Quebec will have to get over their ‘social unacceptability’ of Alberta pipelines. They must.   

4.      Rid ourselves of PM Justin Trudeau and the reigning Liberal Government.

Thankfully today, Canada avoided becoming a dictatorship under the cliché-speaking man-child prime minister who is increasingly resembling Fidel Castro with his growing, greying beard (Obama used the same ‘wise-branding’ with his hair during his second term). 

As Trudeau said himself the other day: ‘Enough is enough…’. 

Climate change is no longer the greatest threat facing humanity. Destructive human regimes continue to hold that mantle, as they always have, and always will.

In the meantime, start looking for your top hat and umbrellas …