That's a very noble thing to strive for, but you better be ready for the standard of living for your kids and grandkids to be considerably lower than what you enjoy today. You seem to imply that with China and India's rise, that they'll just come up to our standards while we keep doing what we're doing. They are rising, we are falling, and we are accelerating the effects. We are a punny country of 40M competing against a region of several Billion.... a region that often does not play by the same rules in regards to safety, human rights, environmental goals, and working standards.
Unlike you, I wasn't lucky enough to be born in Canada. My family risked almost everything to come here, and I know what's it's like to live in a ####hole country. It's why I'm flabbergasted when Canadians are ok with letting what we have erode for someone else's gain. Asia is eating our lunch, and we're just going to be nice Canadians handing everything over to them on a platter.
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