House-cleaning first, then policies which can help build a strongt economy are needed to save Canada

Lord Black, with his usual clear-sightedness, has laid out the problems Canada faces and suggested the way forward. 

See his article at the National Post:  https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-canada-needs-to-compete-heres-how-we-can-win

This will take, at a minimum, a major house-cleaning job at the upcoming federal election.  However, it will take a lot more than that.

The message is loud and clear!  The absolutely idiotic Liberals have created an economic mess that will take decades to rectify.  Just look at the difficulties Doug Ford and his Conservative government are now having trying to dig out from under the bankrupting socially and economically irresponsible policies of the Ontario Liberals. 

During the years when G.W. Bush was intent on bankrupting the U.S. with his adventures in the Middle East, Canada, if it had adopted a sane, sound, set of economic policies encouraging economic development, could have, in relative terms, by-passed the US in economic development (and the prosperity with jobs galore that would have come with it). 

Canada did not and does not have the drag of the enormous cost to bear of paying for the West's international police force.  It could have even contributed its share of the costs of the NATO alliance. 

Some of the blame for this falls at the feet of the Harper government's lack of vision, but the last 4  damaging years of irresponsible spending, lack of much needed helpful economic policies, and the adoption of harmful economic policies by the Liberal government of the clown Trudeau, has made the situation far worse for Canada, while the U.S., led by Donald Trump, despite all of his failings, has soared far ahead of us.  Are we going to survive this disaster?  The upcoming election may be a clue to that.