Carney or Poilievre Are Canadians Even Listening

 Does Mark Carney's swearing-in change the dynamic of Liberal Policy direction or, for that matter, Conservative policy? It's a good question! However, the question we should be asking is whether there is anyone out there who still cares!  

My guess is no! No one cares about what politicians say anymore, and the proof can be seen by looking at the turnout of the last Ontario Provincial election. Only forty-four percent of eligible voters went to the polls to cast their ballots. For what we call democracy, this, in old Twitter terms, is a hashtag fail. Now, at a time when we need our democracy most, the very structure of Canada's legitimacy is falling apart.  

Why is that? Clearly, this has been stimulated by what I think most would agree by a deliberately constructed sense of apathy by both spectrums left and right within the Canadian Democratic system.  

People see no difference policy-wise between the left and the right as they replace the parties in office, only to find that the New Government sounds just as familiar and is a continuation of the old administration.  

People in this country see what I believe our elected officials refuse to do. Poilievre references the numbers, but he does not see the evidence of which he is talking about.  

Homeless numbers in Canada now are between 150000 to 300000 people while more than a million and a half people use the food banks across this country.  Many of these already work but cannot afford to live. Tragically, 2 in every five are children.  

Meanwhile, many more Canadians still leverage themselves, going deeper in debt to try and sustain themselves, which now is not sustainable. Drowning in their own debt, most take on second or third jobs to try and repay a debt load designed never to be repaid. 

Canadians have been disenfranchised by all political parties and their inability or unwillingness to get down into the trenches and make things right for our citizens. Most feel that they have no reason to vote or that there is nothing to vote for.  

So, political parties turn to the age-old stumps of jobs, jobs that never seem to materialise. Immigration to which this Country and, for that matter, most are built on.  Or my favorite crime without thinking of its major root cause in the first place.  

I have been saying for years, just like a broken record, that we cannot fix the problems in our Country or, for that matter, around the world as every country is facing the same challenges without fixing the vast income inequality, housing, and hunger facing so many Canadians.  

So do I see a ray of hope with Carney or Poilievre? Not really. What I see is still window dressing and Band-Aids disguised as political rhetoric and empty promises from both, and truth be known, given the voter turnout, I believe most Canadians feel much the same. 

With our sovereignty under attack, would it not be a refreshing change to see what is wrong and unjust in our country being taken care of? Wow, that might just get people voting again.