While freedom, equality, opportunity and achievement are the tenets of nations built on the belief that individuals are responsible for their own successes and accountable for their own failures, the federal Liberals took no chances on such “sentimental” notion, having preferred instead the relative electoral “safety” of Canada’s politically proven “Robin Hood” equalization system of “robbing Peter to pay Paul.”
Needless to say, Justin Trudeau counted on the para-phrased wisdom of one George Bernard Shaw: “Politicians who rob Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the electoral support of Paul.”
Sadly, in Canada we are no strangers to the collective entitlements of the welfare state, where “equalizing” everyone’s share of the national economic pie trumps growing and broadening the “pie,” making everyone’s share bigger instead, and validating the economic truism: “A rising tide lifts all boats.”
E. W. Bopp, Tsawwassen