{"id":8203,"date":"2013-11-27T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2013-11-26T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:51:04","slug":"open-space-canadas-future-in-our-hands-not-looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/11\/27\/open-space-canadas-future-in-our-hands-not-looking-good\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Open Space<\/em>: Canada\u2019s future in our hands, not looking good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be Canadian? If you\u2019ve ever asked yourself that question and thought about it, I\u2019m betting you found there\u2019s no good answer. Individually, it\u2019s hard to define what my identity is as a Canadian. Pancakes? Beavers? Maple syrup?<\/p>\n<p>Economically, Canada is the globe\u2019s resource prostitute: it\u2019s always there, ready to provide, and it\u2019s always cheap. As the global economy grows, and the future looks bleaker in terms of energy, we need a plan, despite not knowing who \u201cwe\u201d are exactly. Canada currently depends on exporting its resources to stay afloat, but what will transpire when resources can no longer be used?<\/p>\n<p>Canada is supposed to be the land of the \u201ctrue north strong and free,\u201d but I don\u2019t see much freedom. I see governments that rely on a shock doctrine to achieve their goals, and I see an economy that\u2019s owned primarily by foreign companies.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there\u2019s nothing wrong with foreign companies coming to Canada; it\u2019s just that the profits earned through those ventures don\u2019t make it to Canadian citizens\u2019 pockets. It\u2019s depressing to see that as we advance into the future, the value of social support expectations erode. You\u2019d think we\u2019d be more advanced socially as our economies grow. Truthfully, there\u2019s really not much sovereignty left.<\/p>\n<p>Harper recently passed the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA). If you haven\u2019t heard of it, look into it, because it\u2019s going to change our lives as Canadians. And it won\u2019t be for the better.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, CETA is promoted to bring prosperity to Canadians, but in practice these trade agreements give unprecedented power to corporations that aren\u2019t required to consider Canadian citizens\u2019 welfare. Hence the current slump we are in.<\/p>\n<p>With a future that holds resource prostitution as its golden egg, and trade agreements as its saviour, where does that leave Canadians?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be Canadian? If you\u2019ve ever asked yourself that question and thought about it, I\u2019m betting you found there\u2019s no good answer. Individually, it\u2019s hard to define what my identity is as a Canadian. Pancakes? Beavers? Maple syrup? Economically, Canada is the globe\u2019s resource prostitute: it\u2019s always there, ready to provide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-views","category-november-27-203"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}