Why Norwegians Are Rich and Canadians Aren’t — and how the Liberal Era Has Stolen Our Future

Building a renewed Pro-Canadian Strategy for National Wealth, National Identity, and a Positive, New Economic Direction (Political commentary)

Canada should be one of the richest countries in the world and each citizen should be enjoying the vast national/provincial wealth that we ourselves own.

We have everything a prosperous nation needs — vast land, staggering natural resources, technology, fresh water, common and rare earth minerals, innovation capacity, and a hardworking, optimistic people who believe deeply in fairness and opportunity.

90% of Canadians feel squeezed, stressed, poorer, and increasingly hopeless and even homeless.  As more of the available wealth is funneled into rich corporations, government waste, and billionaires (the 10%) we’re seeing our future disappear into the void.

Real wages are stagnant. Housing is unattainable. Taxes keep rising. Prices go up relentlessly. Savings are collapsing. Public and personal debt soars. Young people see no way forward to a decent life, while others feel resigned to an unpleasant fate. The young wonder about how to leave the despair for a life elsewhere. Who can blame them?

Meanwhile, halfway across the world, Norway — a country that looks shockingly similar to Canada — stands as one of the richest societies on the planet. Norwegians enjoy high wages, low stress, real security, and a sense of shared prosperity that Canadians can only dream of today. A look into its economy shows a well-oiled economic machine that shares its prosperity with its citizens. That is inclusiveness.

What the Heck Happened?

It’s because Canada’s wealth isn’t missing — it’s been mismanaged, squandered, sold off, confiscated by the rich, or handed to foreign financial predators. The people of Canada are no longer participating in our wealth and their employment outlook suggests they never will. That’s what you should focus on.

With AI unemployment on the horizon, as 2030 nears, many Canadians have no idea where they will draw their pay cheques.

On the Matter of Canadian Human Rights and Suffering

Poverty Facts: Canada has more people living in relative poverty and homelessness.

Using comparable OECD / World Bank-style measures (share of population below 50% of median disposable income):

Norway

• World Bank poverty rate: 12.2%
• OECD relative poverty rate: ~8%

Canada

• Poverty rate posted at 10.2%

Homelessness: Canada’s rate is roughly Ten Times that of Norway

From World Population Review’s 2021 homelessness comparison:

Canada

• Estimated homeless population: 235,000
• 62.5 homeless per 10,000 people (625 per 100,000) in 2021

Norway

• Estimated homeless population: 3,325
• 6.2 homeless per 10,000 people (≈ 62 per 100,000) in 2020

Canada has a bigger, disenfranchised, low-income segment and thus sees more suffering overall.

3. Immigration

• Canada draws 500,000 per year as a low estimate (150,000 from India)
• Norway draws 30,000 per year

4. Unemployment Rate

• Canada’s young under 25 suffer a 25% unemployment rate
• Norway’s youth unemployment rate is around 9.9%

A Decade of Liberal Mismanagement Continues

For a decade, the Liberal Party and its corporate elites have pursued a policy agenda that systematically places Canadians last — and global interests, foreign investors, consultants, WEF/United Nations and international institutions first.

And with the current Prime Minister, Mark Carney, strategizing to control of the party and the country’s economic direction for 3 more years, Canadians are staring at a future of more taxes, more regulation, more austerity, more restriction, and less prosperity than ever.

His stubborn, protracted battle with President Trump, over some protected trade groups is further putting Canada’s future in peril. It’s fueling separatism sentiment in Alberta and Quebec.

There are some who believe the Liberal’s policies are a deliberate attempt to destroy the country, burdening it with a weight sure to make it uncompetitive with China and the rest of Asia where the corporates are heavily invested. It’s like the worse the Liberals treat Canadians, the more they vote Liberal. Right now, we can’t go to the point of whether national sabotage is real or imagined.  But printing money to pay for health care and imports can be deemed dishonest at the very least. We’re living the consequences of that now.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can move to launch another Federal Election in 2026. This should provide enough time for Canadians to feel the excruciating pain of adopting practices that cripple the nation and their own lives.

Canada can be wealthy again. Canadians can be secure again.

A New Pro-Canadian Agenda

But we need a new direction and new leadership — a Pro-Canadian agenda that restores our national confidence, encourages Canadian participation, and treats Canada’s wealth as a national inheritance, not a global bargain bin.

The Stark Contrasts Between Canada and Norway: 2 Completely Different Outcomes

Norway and Canada share remarkable similarities:

3. 3. • Small populations
      • Expansive geography
      • Harsh climate and big energy needs
      • Enormous energy and resource wealth
      • Highly educated populations
      • Advanced democracy

And yet:

Norway: Citizens feel wealthy, secure, and optimistic – one of the happiest countries.

Canada: Citizens feel overtaxed, insignificant, overruled, overburdened, and left behind. Immigration is out of control with few jobs, resources, health care, education and support for the flood of immigrants (Liberal immigration for votes) who compete for the limited jobs and housing available. Canadian corporations (e.g., McDonalds/Tim Hortons) draw in immigrants to keep wages down and pad profits.  Other immigrants are brought in to take high-paying jobs, bypassing available Canadian talent.  More people including massive volumes of immigrants are shunted into inadequate social programs. And endless factions abort all housing construction projects making housing availability doubtful for the decades ahead.

Norway’s GDP per capita is among the highest in the world.  Canada’s has been falling, even as its population explodes.
Norway has a very low national debt, with its government debt as a percentage of GDP around 44.3%. It’s wealth means it never really has to borrow.

Norway’s households have stable costs and strong safety nets.
Canada’s households face the worst housing affordability in the OECD where housing costs take most of Canadians available income, leaving them little for living, saving and personal growth.

Norwegians trust their government to act in the national interest.
Canadians are highly suspicious but still vote in a government that is a proven failure.

The difference is not geography, or resources, or culture. It is Government ideology and policy.

How Norway Built Real Wealth — While Canada Built Red Tape

Norway didn’t become rich by magic.  It created wealth through a deliberate national strategy — a strategy that Canada once had, but abandoned.

Norway:

Treated natural resources as a national inheritance.  It insisted on significant public benefit from resource extraction.

Captured national value for Norwegian citizens. Resource royalties, national ownership stakes, and disciplined investment created a massive public wealth engine.

Norway Built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund

Now more than $2 trillion CAD, or about $320,000 per citizen.

They Balanced environmental concerns with economic realism

It did not sabotage its energy industry before alternatives existed.

They Protected their domestic market from predatory foreign interests

Norway prioritized Norwegians — first, always.

In short:

Norway believed its own citizens deserved wealth, security, and dignity.

How the Liberals Have Made Canadians Poorer

Canada has the resources, talent, land, and global position to match Norway — or surpass it. So why don’t Canadians feel wealthy? Because for the last decade, government policy has:

Driven away investment

3. 3. • Canada is now ranked among the least attractive investment environments in the developed world.

Suffocated resource development

3. 3. • Pipelines cancelled. LNG projects blocked. Critical minerals delayed. Energy policies designed for decline and increasing costs for Canadians.

Turned housing into the country’s only economic engine

3. 3. • Foreign ownership, speculative policy, and uncontrolled population growth led to record prices and record household debt.

Increased taxes on everything except foreign interests

3. 3. • Canadians pay more — for less — every year.

Expanded bureaucracy instead of national wealth

3. 3. • Billions spent on consultants and agencies while productivity collapses.

Prioritized global ideology over Canadian prosperity

Under Trudeau and now Carney, the Liberals have pursued an economy run by:

3. 3. • • global banks
        • activist NGOs
        • green technocrats
        • international institutions
        • foreign investors

Canadians were treated as an afterthought. And the results are exactly what we see today:

High taxes. High prices. No benefits. No growth. No confidence.

A once-proud country drifting into economic mediocrity.

Liberal Generation Next: Mark Carney’s Canada: Lower Growth, Higher Taxes, More Austerity

Mark Carney, Trudeau’s former economic advisor, is now his successor — how is a polished corporate manipulator, spewing out a spate of obvious rhetoric about the state and supposed opportunities without really saying anything.  The Canadian media lets him get away with it, with no comment on the downside for Canadians.

But his economic worldview is clear:

3. 3. • more taxation
      • relentless carbon costs and ongoing regulations
      • more financialization
      • more immigration
      • more central planning
      • less domestic industry
      • less energy production
      • less national wealth creation

Carney believes Canada must “transition.”  Norwegians believe they must prosper.

Carney supports an economy run by:

3. 3. • Bay Street corporations
      • global banks
      • UN-aligned climate bureaucracies
      • high paid consultants and technocrats
      • international institutions

In his worldview, Canadian citizens play the role of the payer, not the beneficiary.

Norway proves there is a better way.

A New Pro-Canadian Agenda: How Canada Can Build Wealth Again

Canada cannot copy Norway — nor should it.  But we can borrow their core principle:

National wealth must benefit national citizens.

Here is how Canada can restore prosperity:

3. 3. 1. Ideas for a “Canadian Prosperity Fund”

A uniquely Canadian way to build national wealth using revenue from:

3. 3. • investing in LNG and oil exports
      • corporate tax on excessive profits for large monopolies
      • requiring provinces/municipalities to build housing (or risk losing transfer payments)
      • investing in critical minerals development
      • royalties on massive lumber production increases
      • Arctic shipping tolls
      • technology licensing from Canadian innovation
      • US oil and LNG pipeline tolls
      • royalties from new major projects

This fund would:

3. 3. • provide payouts to poor Canadians
      • fund key infrastructure development
      • improve national productivity
      • grow national financial assets
      • protect Canada from future crises

And this isn’t “copying Norway.”  This is building Canadian wealth for Canadian citizens.

3. 3. 2. The Canada Energy Superproject Framework

A bold national program to reignite growth:

3. 3. • fast, expedited approvals for major energy and industrial projects
      • national corridors for pipelines, transmission, and rail
      • LNG terminals on all coasts
      • critical minerals production and value-added refining capacity
      • Canadian-owned energy infrastructure

We don’t need to apologize for our resources.  We need to support production and monetize them — proudly.

1. 3. Canadian Ownership First

Canada must stop being a bargain for foreign predators.

Policies:

• • limit foreign dominance in real estate
  • rezone land to build housing and reduce real estate as the major investment asset
  • limit foreign takeovers of strategic Canadian companies
  • tax monopolies and set rules to enforce competition in all markets
  • strengthen Competition Act to prevent price gouging
  • require pension funds to invest more domestically – no sending wealth to China
  • protect farmland from foreign acquisition

Canadian wealth must stay Canadian.

1. 4. Make Canada Investible Again

Investors aren’t avoiding Canada because of our resources — they’re avoiding it because of our government.

Fix it by:

• • eliminating regulatory duplication
  • fast-tracking industrial approvals
  • lowering business taxes
  • creating special economic zones
  • building world-class infrastructure
  • stabilizing policy so investors can trust Canada again

Investment fuels jobs, wages, growth, and national confidence.

1. 5. Rescue Canadians from the Cost-of-Living Crisis

Patriotism is not abstract — it’s the ability of Canadians to live well in their own country.

Solutions:

• • boost housing supply through real infrastructure
  • stop foreign wealth distortion
  • lower energy prices by producing more
  • lower immigration to match housing and jobs available
  • reduce taxes through the Prosperity Fund
  • restore competition in groceries, telecom, and banking

Restore National Pride Through Economic Strength

Canadians are not weak, passive, or resigned.

We are a nation of innovators, explorers, builders, and creators.
We’ve just been governed by a political class that doubts our potential and manages decline instead of building growth.

It’s time Canadians believed in ourselves and our elected politicians again.

Conclusion: Canada Can Be Wealthy — If We Choose Leadership That Believes in Canadians

Norway shows what’s possible when a nation treats its wealth as belonging to its people.

The Liberal era — and Mark Carney’s vision — show what happens when a government treats its citizens as a revenue source and its economy as an ideological playground.

Canadians deserve better.

We deserve:

• • national wealth, not watching others remove it
  • national opportunity for business, personal growth, and strong families
  • national self-esteem and strengthened identity as a nation
  • a government that puts Canadians first always
  • a nation that believes in itself and its own potential

Canada can rise again. But only if we choose a future where Canada comes first, Canadians come first, and national wealth stays in Canadian hands.

It’s time to build a stronger country — proudly, boldly, unapologetically Canadian.

A new Pro-Canadian future starts now.

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