Posted on 11/13/2023 9:13:08 AM PST by yesthatjallen
(Goldy Hyder is president and chief executive officer of the Business Council of Canada.)
Whenever I speak with young Canadians, I begin with an apology. I tell them I’m genuinely sorry that my generation may be the first in Canadian history to leave the country in worse shape for those who follow us.
Never has this dire prediction seemed more plausible than in recent months when we’ve experienced high inflation and interest rates, the increasing damage caused by extreme weather events, and the shocking return of violent geopolitical instability.
Make no mistake, I’m far from alone in thinking this way; a clear and growing majority of Canadians share my concern. A recent public opinion poll found 65 per cent of respondents believe the next generation of Canadians will have a lower standard of living.
Why do Canadians feel this way? I believe it’s because we lack a collective long-term vision for Canada’s future. Our plans are limited to the short term, with the immediate outranking the urgent. We focus on today’s headlines, not tomorrow’s headaches.
I draw a deliberate distinction here between plans and goals. We have no shortage of long-term goals for as far out as the year 2050 or 2100; we just lack the plans to achieve them. My generation is great at setting goals, but we leave the implementation to others.
It’s not surprising then that younger generations are cynical and skeptical. These long-term goals are being set by leaders in both the public and private sectors who will be long out of power – perhaps no longer alive – when those milestone years are reached.
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The left is trying to destroy everything. It is on purpose.
Extreme weather events?
Stopped reading right their.
If Canada cleaned out its extremely flammable forest underbrush on a regular schedule, they would not have catastrophic fire events and smoke polluted air.
It’s what they do. All run by the same people that have been playing both sides since Napoleon. Longer really, but history gets tougher to follow going back.
“...the increasing damage caused by extreme weather events...”
Goldy, Goldy, Goldy, you ignorant anthropogenic climate change slut.
YOU have screwed up the future of The Children through such thnking.
But we sure had fun, ay!
And with Trudeau importing turd world Africans and violent muslim Arabs they will not even have to travel to know what it looks like in Kinshasa or Aleppo.
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