A new economic report from TD says Canada is falling behind the standard-of-living curve compared to its peers.

A new economic report from TD says Canada is falling behind the standard-of-living curve compared to its peers.

  • @[email protected]
    18•1 year ago

    Some kids where I live have pediatricians. My 1 yr old son sees a public health nurse for vaccines, goes to emergency when something is wrong and i sneak him in for checkups when I have an appointment with my nurse practitioner, because pediatricians (and doctors in general) are in short supply.

    Yeah. Canada has slipped to #11 behind Australia, New Zealand, and every scandinavian country. We could learn a lot from them, even if we’re WAY BETTER OFF than so many other countries. I’m voting to ensure we get back in the top-ten.

    $10/day daycare sounds great, unless your kid isn’t already enrolled. Waitlists are mostly closed. I’ve called a dozen daycares at least and I’m on the waiting list for two, basically hoping for a string of cancellations.

    This gap in the market has resulted in a boom of unregulated daycares in random people’s houses! What could possibly go wrong with that?

    I agree – regulation and inspection of daycares and massive fines for those opening ghetto childcare is an important goal. We’ve had so many ‘small governments’ that ditch any kind of safety inspections on day one, and it’s hard getting them back. It’s a job almost as thankless as a medical professional in a blue province.

    Cost of electricity is going up. Not because of oil prices, but because ratepayers need to pay (and pay and pay) for a government/crown corp boondoggle.

    Yeah. WAY better than Texas in a snow storm. Or … not.

    Hey. we can still vote to make changes to how arms-length crown corps do their business. We CANNOT vote to change how enbridge works.

    But don’t worry, the people who pushed it all through can afford the rate hike, and solar panels and wind turbines and batteries to boot.

    Tell us your postal code starts with a T but we won’t be surprised. You guys have been lied-to on all those points for way too long, and I’m sorry for how that must stress you.

    • BringMeTheDiscoKing
      2•1 year ago

      I didn’t mean to give the impression that I’m stressed. I was just responding to the topic with my own experiences. I think our current provincial government is doing their best with a bad situation. We are dealing with the lack of doctors by rolling out supposedly gold standard collaborative care, which seems like a great idea but we just don’t have the money to support it properly. And as for our crown corp boondoggle, we voted out that government but we still have to pay for their stupid “legacy” project. And the high-ups on that project have already moved on to the next thing – maybe they’ll pick the least popular one to take the fall so they can check the ‘accountability’ checkbox.

      My postal code starts with A, b’y ;) What about my comment came off as Alberta-y? In that context the tone of my post would be very different, I think! My own fault for leaving my province to the imagination :)