CALGARY—The good times are officially over. That high standard of living we as Canadians enjoyed will no longer be. And it’s not because of immigrants, or the left, or “wokeness.” No, it’s the bureaucratic austerity approach that—even though those policies ushered in Brexit in the United Kingdom—is deeply ingrained in our politics and economic policies. The only thing that approach has produced is crushing income and wealth inequalities. And the Liberals are doubling down on starving government while transferring those resources to the private sector, hence exacerbating those aforementioned inequalities.

We are in a recession. On May 29, Statistics Canada concluded: “Real gross domestic product (GDP) edged down 0.1 per cent in March, partially offsetting February’s increase ( 0.2 per cent) and driven by contractions in goods-producing industries.” StatsCan posted a -0.1 per cent change in GDP for the first quarter of 2026, following “a decline of 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025.” What is troubling about this data is that the decline is concentrated in goods-producing industries while services-producing industries increased.

Why does this matter? Service industries are notoriously lower wage, fewer benefits, and precarious by nature. This means that as these industries occupy more of the economy, they will catapult workers closer to poverty in an affordability........

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