🇨🇦 Canada’s safety net was built for a country Trudeau already destroyed

Employment insurance pays 55 per cent of earnings, up to $729 a week, yet fewer Canadians can even qualify because Ottawa helped turn the labour market into a patchwork of gig apps, temp contracts and part-time scraps. Even reported that EI now mainly serves workers with stable full-time jobs under one employer, which is exactly the kind of job this regime has spent a decade pricing, taxing and regulating out of existence.

This is the Trudeau legacy in one neat little collapse: mass population growth, housing costs through the roof, wages diluted, secure work replaced by disposable labour, and then a federal system that pretends 1998 never ended. Food bank demand explodes, unemployment stays elevated, households drown, and the same political class that imported instability acts shocked that Canadians cannot survive instability. A sovereign country protects its own workforce first. This managerial state protects headcounts, cheap labour pipelines and the fiction that the economy is booming while citizens line up for groceries.

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