Canada (like the EU) has monstously large and expensive bureaucracies that are suffocating the country.  If that's Liberal policy or just Canadian policy, they have to be reined in, or they will bankrupt the place while the benefactees enjoy their retirement pensions.
Canada also has to stop selling resources for a living, and get real jobs in ingenuity, invention, and product(s) development.  All traits unfamiliar to 'lock step, don't change a thing' Canadians.  We built the Space Arm and have myriad other internationally recognized accomplishments to our credit.  All that's lacking is the will.
Mother Nature (like all good mothers) is about to teach us a lesson in motivation.