The Conservatives core message is primarily right but their approach to solving these problems are wrong and they will only exacerbate these problems, making them much worse.
Previous Liberal leadership may have had the right heart and vision but they also took the wrong approach, only applying band aid solutions to these problems.
Prior to Trudeau stepping down, neither party had the capacity to solve these big, long term, complex problems because they couldn’t comprehend them as a whole.
Mark Carney is actually the only person with the potential to tackle these problems, not because he’s a Conservative or Liberal, but because he’s thinking on a completely different level and mindset than most conventional Conservative or Liberal politicians have been in the past.
To put this simply, Mark Carney isn’t a transactional leader, like most conventional politicians today, he’s a transformational one.
The Conservatives core message is primarily right but their approach to solving these problems are wrong and they will only exacerbate these problems, making them much worse.
The Conservatives core message is primarily right in the sense that the problems we face today, problems relating to achieving our basic needs of economic survival, have not been dealt with for some time now. But these problems have existed for decades, becoming worse and worse under both Liberal and Conservative governments.
For example, housing affordability in Vancouver started prior to 2000. It’s just that it wasn’t on the radar of most people because it was just affecting the lower class and lower middle class. By 2010, it was starting to affect the middle class big time. Between 2015 and 2020 it started affecting the lower upper class, whereby companies trying to attract professionals with $150,000 salaries to Vancouver couldn’t because the cost of buying a home for your family was too expensive (even if you and your partner both had high paying jobs).
But even though the Conservatives are right in seeing these issues for what they are, they’re wrong in terms of how they believe they should be solved. That’s because they’re thinking from a conventional mindset. So they believe making cuts in the government will balance the budget and make everything better.
While it may balance the budget, it will only exacerbate the problems and make people’s lives worse. Why? Because in times of crisis, you need to invest in people not make cuts to them.
To put this in an economic sense, you need to spend money to actually make money. So by investing in things, you can get a bigger return on your investment.
But as the markets in the US are showing, business won’t take the risk in investing in people on their own, unless they feel there is a sense of certainty from a government’s perspective. This is why the Canadian government itself needs to drive this sense of certainty by spending money and investing in people first. This creates a sense of hope and certainty in the future and businesses will follow in kind.
Previous Liberal leadership may have had the right heart and vision but they also took the wrong approach, only applying band aid solutions to these problems.
I believe that Trudeau, as the previous Liberal leadership, did have his heart in the right place and perhaps could even see the larger vision of what Canada needed but good intentions don’t solve problems. How he and his party approached these problems was wrong. They really didn’t tackle these problems head on but just applied band aid solutions to them.
This is because he and his party were using a conventional mindset to try to tackle unconventional, complex problems. So they could only hit these problems from certain angles, one at a time, but they really couldn’t encompass and solve them as a whole.
Prior to Trudeau stepping down, neither party had the capacity to solve these big, long term, complex problems because they couldn’t comprehend them as a whole.
To put this another way, you can’t use conventional thinking, which actually caused these problems, to solve them. You need a new way of thinking. Not one that’s simpler but one that can grasp the complexity of the problem as a whole and thus tackle it as a whole.
That’s why it’s not so much about a change of leaders or parties that’s needed in our world today but rather a change of mindset.
Mark Carney is actually the only person with the potential to tackle these problems, not because he’s a Conservative or Liberal, but because he’s thinking on a completely different level and mindset than most conventional Conservative or Liberal politicians have been in the past.
He realizes that these complex problems can’t just be magically solved by the government alone. They need to be tackled by all levels of government (i.e. municipal, provincial, and federal), as well as with the cooperation of businesses and citizens.
In effect, he realizes that no one leader or party can save Canada. Canada, as a whole national body, needs to work together to save itself.
This requires a completely different mindset, one that sees the world and Canada’s place within it dramatically differently. One that doesn’t see Canada as “broken and needing fixing” but rather seeing Canada as an existing superpower with an abundance of untapped potential ready to be released upon the world.
By seeing Canada this way, he sees how problems can effectively solve themselves by transforming how we perceive them. Not by just seeing them as a crisis but as an opportunity for growth.
So a crisis of jobs, housing, and the US trade dispute affecting our country are each monumental on their own. But by perceiving how they relate to one another, he can transform and leverage them, seeing how they can work together to solve themselves as a whole (i.e. building homes creates jobs which also uses lumber affected by the US trade dispute).
To put this simply, Mark Carney isn’t a transactional leader, like most conventional politicians today, he’s a transformational one.
And if anything, he’s exactly what we do need today.
That being not “more of the same” conventional mindset that we’ve been getting from both the Liberal and Conservative parties over the past decades.