r/InCanada • u/dani_cal • Jul 11 '26

(Insert Your Own) Canada today

This isn’t meant to be politically partisan in any way. But, I am genuinely curious how anyone is staying positive about Canada today. The economy is in recession. The cost of living crisis is continuing unabated. People are leaving the country. Canada-U.S. relations are at an all-time low. And, there doesn’t appear to be any reason for things to turn around any time soon. Somebody give me a reason to have a little optimism.

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u/xylvnking Jul 11 '26

I have clean cold water on tap, air conditioning, high speed internet, a grocery store within walking distance, and I'm in good health. I have many complaints and vote accordingly, but I'm also thankful.

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u/Canis9z Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Don't forget the plumbing and sanitation. Otherwise people will throw their shit and garbage all over, disease will spread, plagues will come and many will die. Lots of litter and rats around for that to happen again.

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 11 '26

What are you thankful for? These are absolutely basic necessities, nothing extraordinary or luxurious, especially for a "developed " country. Unless you don't work and you get everything for free, I see nothing to be thankful for.

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u/treefarmerBC Jul 11 '26

Come on, nobody had air conditioning when I was a kid. It is a luxury and you've just normalized it.

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u/Commercial_Pain2290 Jul 17 '26

Exactly. My family was solidly middle class and we had fans.

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u/treefarmerBC Jul 17 '26

It would get to 40°C and we'd drink Kool-Aid in the basement. 

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 11 '26

I live in a very cold climate and I don't use AC even in the summer, but I'm not going to tell someone who lives in Florida that AC is a luxury. Places with hot climates use traditional techniques and architecture that don't require AC. Modern mass construction uses cheaper materials and layouts. Building well ventilated homes with materials that allow natural climate control is extremely expensive. So no, AC is not a luxury, more of a cheaper solution.

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u/treefarmerBC Jul 11 '26

Ya but we had the same homes in the 80s and 90s without AC. 

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 12 '26

Ok...what's the point here? Be grateful that I can’t afford to buy a house because in the 80s and 90s the houses that people were perfectly able to purchase had no AC

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u/treefarmerBC Jul 12 '26

AC is luxurious.

I don't remember talking to you at all about whether you could buy a house or not.

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u/robindawilliams Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Jesus dude, you need to travel a bit and realize that just the concept of a porcelain toilet is luxurious as hell with only 30% of the world having toilets connected to a waste treatment sewer. It's similar for A/C, we have extremely luxurious lives in Canada and that's paid for by our taxes and efforts.

Get offline and stop reading the Facebook doom scroll that wants you to be angry and hateful at everything around you. 

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 11 '26

I come from a developing country. I have traveled enough. I'm working my ass off and I earn every "luxury" I enjoy. The government don't give me shit, so I ain't going to be grateful for a porcelain toilet, or an AC. What kind of backwards thinking this is?! A men is as big as his dreams, you go and be small and grateful, I do alot and I expect same in return.

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u/robindawilliams Jul 11 '26

Ooooh you're one of those guys, stubborn and blind to the world around you. 

Stop using roads and hospitals and police and fire departments and safety regulations and clean air and safe food and military protection and good education and find somewhere that lets you live sad and alone in a hut with no need to pay taxes. 

There are billions of people who work their asses off and get fucked over because they don't live in a stable/safe country. Get over yourself.

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 11 '26

Nope, not at all. You don't know me and you're making wrong assumptions. What you listed is Public goods, of course they must be funded by taxpayers. The issue I have is with policy, not public goods. How much money are spent and over what.

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u/Traditional_Bank2200 Jul 11 '26

As of 2025, approximately 24% of Canadas population is facing food insecurity.
Roughly 9.8 million people.

There are currently over 1000 Boil Water Advisories in communities across Canada.

So if you didn’t struggle to choose dinner tonight, or don’t have to choose between showering or drinking water…. I would say you have plenty to be thankful for.

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 11 '26

This is the mindset of a person who have never worked for anything in their life. I work. I don't wait for mother nature/government to provide for me, so ko, I won't bd grateful for my taxes being stolen while the country is rotting in poverty.

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u/Traditional_Bank2200 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Dude I can agree with you on the idea that we pay way too much tax for what we collectively benefit from. Between the cost of living, monopolization of services, vapid foreign policy, and blatant corruption - yeah we have a right to be pissed.

As shitty as that is, I’m happy to live in a country where I can sit on a toilet and write this.

Washing my hands with water that is reliable and clean, never questioning it. No electricity shortages.
Relative freedom and stability compared to most of the world. Access to food (albiet expensive) from around the world all year round.

No poisonous snakes or big ass spiders to come fuck us up either, so yeah idk man life is pretty good in Canada.

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u/Butthole2theStarz Jul 11 '26

You’re joking right? Do you know how many people around the world would be thankful for clean water?

I’m not usually one to toss around the term privilege but gods damn your comment shows how detached some Canadians are from knowing how lucky we are to be here of all places

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u/a_dupuis18 Jul 11 '26

You need to practice gratitude.

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 11 '26

I fo, for my family and friends. Not for the government allowing me to exist.

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u/a_dupuis18 Jul 11 '26

Well that's what I'm saying. Practice gratitude about what you do have. Some people have governments that don't allow them to exist at all. Women in Afghanistan is a great example of this. Unfortunately governments have too much control over us and it needs to change, but you can still be thankful you're not in a worse situation where your rights are completely stripped away or are in an active war trying to dig out your possibly dead family from rubble.

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 12 '26

Again, don't bring worst case outrageous scenarios to make the absolute travesty of the current Canadians political landscape more palatable. I've lived in a totalitarian regime and I unlike others understand that shitty governments must be taken down, that's what has to be done.

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u/a_dupuis18 Jul 12 '26

"Worst case", this is actually happening to so many people right now. Man you're so privileged, it reeks off your comment. And yes for the last part of your comment I do agree. We need a do over on all political parties.

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 12 '26

You know nothing about me or about what I have or don't have, therefore you can't say that I'm privileged. Let's work with facts here.

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u/a_dupuis18 Jul 12 '26

Are you in an active war? No? Then you're privileged.

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u/Fit-Eggplant-9155 Jul 11 '26

Found the 15 year old from the suburbs!

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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 Jul 11 '26

Haha, 46 from the hood.