They can play around with stats to try to make things look good and the left wing media will always try to make their side look good, but reality is at an individual level things are bad for practically everyone except the rich.
Our standard of living is declining.
Inflation over the years has been very bad and even though it's mostly back to normal now, the damage from the previous years is done. By the time all the bills come out there is absolutely no room for toys. I have less disposable income now making more money than I had 15 years ago making less money.
I'm fairly well off in that I make decent money but even for me it's tight, for those making a more average salary they are struggling a lot more to make ends meet. My parents are both retired and are struggling, they may end up having to give up their house. The bills are just too high, and they still need to pay lot of taxes too on what little money they have coming in, they don't really get much of a break. My dad ended up owing like 9 grand this year. They don't have that kind of money, so it's going on credit.. Lot of projects they wanted to do around the house had to be put on hold. It's pretty sad that you can't even enjoy your own property after retirement because all the bills take most of your money.
The unemployment rate is not a great metric either, because a lot of jobs are taken by immigrants and are minimum wage jobs, they live like 20 in a house, which is a very shitty standard of living. They also get tons of money from the government so they may be well off but rest of us are all paying for it.
Our debt is also out of control and eventually that will catch up to us, probably via even higher taxes. This government loves to spend money on all sorts of useless pet projects while the things that matter are crumbling. I'm willing to give Carney a bit of benifit of doubt though as he has already made some cuts in public sector such as CRA and Passport office, maybe this is a sign of what's to come. We need some big cuts and more efficiency in all government programs to try to do something about our growing debt. He also says he wants to unlock resource projects, so that could very well help us. So we'll see...
Just saw this article after making this post:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/high-immigration-is-worsening-canadas-economic-problems-says-report
It focuses more on house prices though, the real issue IMO is all the ongoing costs since even if you already own your house from before the houses went crazy, all the bills have gone up over the years so the price you have to pay just to keep your house is higher each year. But even in my area the houses have gone up. A house very similar to mine just sold for like half a million a few blocks from me. I would never be able to afford that.
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