This documentary digs deep into the issues Canadians today are facing and provides answers to the key question echoed by citizens across the country. “What happened here?”
Canada is one of the largest countries in the world, with some of the richest natural resources. A founding member of the G7 and a leading nation in the western world. But it’s rapidly falling apart. Why? How did this happen? Where is it heading? Can we course correct or is Canada just going to continue to slide into shambles? This documentary aims to hold up a mirror to the issues Canadians are facing and provide answers to the key questions echoed by citizens across the country.
Video Transcript:
(00:08) [Music] took me over like a [Music] fever smoke like a meteorow glow glow. [Music] Do I have a family doctor? No. No, I do not. I actually have been trying to get an appointment with them. No, but I’m on the wait list. Yeah, I do, but she’s retiring. No, I don’t. I do have a family doctor. She’s hard to reach, though.
(00:44) I think after like 2 3 years, I finally found one. It was a horrible experience, honestly. I had a family doctor, but he has since moved uh to another country to try and find other work that’s going to pay more than it does here. [Music] Everybody wants a change. Everybody wants a change in this country. There’s a myth in Canada that we have dirty oil.
(01:07) I couldn’t be anything further from the truth. We need immigration, but I don’t disagree. Welcoming 600,000 new people to Toronto every single year, year after year after year, may not be sustainable. Regulation is a huge barrier in this country. Every single aspect of operating these businesses has gone up dramatically in the last four years.
(01:28) It’s hard to make money in Canada. 59% of food bank users have a post secondary education. There’s a critical mass of households who are one paycheck away from homelessness. I think where we’re starting off now, we are five steps behind what our parents started off with. But wait, it gets worse.
(01:58) Baby born today, she’s on the hook for about $30,000 in federal government debt. It really has been a very tough decade, and it’s not surprising that people are grumbling. The scene in downtown Vancouver is is is shocking. The reality on the ground is the Canadian healthcare system is not delivering for Canadians full stop.
(02:19) So they talk about the emergency department being the canary in the coal mine of healthcare. So that when things are going bad in emerge, they’re going bad everywhere else in healthcare. I wear this to remind me that the [ __ ] canary is dead. [Music]
