June 1st, 2025 | Grant Johnson

How To Prepare For An Economically Decimated CAnada

Conservatives, in particular, can start now.

Canadian voters elected Mark Carney’s Liberals to a fourth term and already he’s performing as we right-wing dissidents expected. His weak posturing during his visit with Trump was far from “Elbows Up!” and we recently learned that Carney has decided to forgo the whole retaliation tariff thing. Not that his supporters would even notice. The style of the guy has overwhelmed the substance of his governance. These are the same people who voted for Trudeau based on nice hair and a famous last name after all. It took them ten years to realize he sucked and now they are enamored with boardroom Trudeau 2.0.

I think it’s clear now that Canada is going to be in for a rough near-term future. This country is amazingly resilient and a reckoning should have arrived even harder than it already has, but yet we persist and carry on. It’s a testament to the natural grind of the Canadian populace…people by and large are willing to work and this alone keeps Canada moving forward.

But it’s not enough. 

The will to work is fantastic, but we can’t endlessly throw monkey wrenches into the gears of the economy and expect everything to keep functioning. The level of bad governance in this country is exceptional and if we didn’t have easy access to the United States we’d likely feel the pain by now much more intensely than we already do.

Carney is, however, about to make things much much worse. Libtards across the country think they got some kind of John Manley character (which would be bad enough), but what they don’t understand is that the veneer of boardroom Trudeau is a facade for a globalist radical who is looking to implement hard left change which in the near term will lead us to dire economic decline.

Conservatives have been lamenting the state of Canada election after election, but this time I notice that the post-election vibe is much different. Poilevre’s loss after being the great white hope (undeservedly I might add), in conjunction with him losing his own seat Jagmeet Singh-style was so demoralizing that even the normies seem to have finally given up. Talk of “the next election” is almost non-existent. 

You know what isn’t non-existent? Talk of Western separatism.

Talk of Western (Alberta) separatism is running hot and wide in a way that we haven’t seen in the mainstream since the early 80s. After forty years of trying every conceivable strategy to influence this country for the better, and failing miserably… it’s starting to dawn on everyone that the situation in Canada is futile.

Futility is a good place to be because now conservative-minded people can stop wasting their time with the Conservative Party of Canada and focus on effecting real change. Here are some things conservatives in Canada should focus on…

Betting against Canada’s economy

Already we are seeing the end result of all the Trudeau-era, subsidy-laden battery plants, windmill farms, and cricket protein factories. They all end up in failure. They technically serve their purpose in terms of showing ideological action from a leftard government and lining the pockets of benefactors in the process, but they never amount to any real economic success stories like they pretend to at the beginning.

The Canadian dollar is likely to continue sliding downwards. Inflation will likely pick up by the end of this year. Investment by international companies will slow even more than it already has over the past ten years and then dry up to virtually nothing. Carney will give up whatever Trump wants during the new trade negotiations, but the impact and outcomes from the first half of this year will entrench Canada in severe decline. Ten times as many Canadians move to the U.S. every year as Americans move to Canada. Watch for this number to grow faster than even our out-of-control deficits.  

Dissident conservatives need to stop it with the articles lamenting Canada’s per-capita GDP and asking and arguing “Why can’t we build pipelines?” over and over and over and over and over again. “Why don’t we just diversify our economy?” “Why can’t we improve our productivity?” “Why can’t we strike a balance between caring for the environment and producing the clean and ethical oil and gas we need?” “If only we would just do this that or the other!”

These debates are brutal and neverending. It’s what progressives want. Endless talk while they blaze forward.

We can’t implement the policies we want, so we’ve got to thrive within the system we are trapped in. 

Start with yourself. When Rachel Notley won the Alberta election in 2015, I divested anything Alberta from my investment portfolio. When Justin Trudeau won later in 2015, I stopped buying Canadian stocks. Both of these choices have proven fruitful. Today, I won’t buy Canadian stocks or bonds. I only invest in stuff outside the country. The only exception to this is a gold-holding ETF…perfect if you think our currency is in red alert.

As our dollar declines and our business community falls behind and fails, all these people holding oligopoly stocks will see painful opportunity costs sliding away. Canadians should be looking to get their money working for them outside of this country.

Plan for the decline in our health-care system

Endlessly trying to convince libtards that there are more than two systems of healthcare in the world…Canada and the U.S. is futile. We need to stop talking about healthcare innovation and reform and accept that things will only get worse.

What this means is that you need to take radical responsibility for your own healthcare. So many people…especially boomers…think the healthcare system is absolutely enraptured with each patient’s best interest and the whole system can’t wait to deliver the very best to everyone who needs it. The reality is much harsher. Things aren’t great and they’re getting worse. Anyone who doesn’t wildly educate and advocate for themselves will get lost in a bureaucracy of indifference.

This means you need to take action and be demanding. It also means that heading outside the country for treatment is going to need to be a part of Canadian citizen's budgeting process. The option of paying for healthcare is available where you may need it and if the time comes to make those decisions you will be better served having these options open to you rather than sitting on a waiting list in a system in radical decline. 

In a country where MAID is increasingly the solution for everyone, you’d better be open to international options.

Local management/governance

The best government is local government. Municipal governments have a large direct impact on people’s lives in a way that federal governments do not. Canadians are horrifically passive when it comes to municipal affairs and yet, these are the real local leaders that matter most. 

When nations crumble, it’s the local warlords who rise up. Strong central authority is difficult and distant in the best of times, but it’s the local authorities that you can have more influence on. 

Secondly, provincial governments are extremely important counterweights to federal governments. Danielle Smith is a hallmark of resistance for Alberta against the rising tide of Liberal tyranny. The United Conservative Party is much more approachable and attentive to Alberta's needs than a distant technocratic elite in Ottawa.

This goes for all provinces.

The fix may be in for national politics, but at local levels, you can still have an impact. Get involved. Put pressure on your local officials. Write them a letter…they will read it. Give them a call. They will talk to you.

Because people are so dumb and apathetic, if you are someone who isn’t, your power is greatly amplified.

Independence

Alberta is holding an independence referendum sometime within the year. Do I believe that Alberta will vote to separate? No… not yet, but this is a step in the right direction.

The great thing about holding this vote isn’t that it will magically make Alberta a nation, but that it will open millions of people up to the idea that this is a real possibility. Debates will take place. True colours will be revealed. Voices will step up. Minds will change. It will have an impact.

A big part of the problem with the Canadian mentality is the infantile nature of our mindsets. The United States wrestled control from the British and charted its own course without a safety net. Canada on the other hand has always had a mentality of a glorified colony. We’re a nation of babies looking for leadership. First, that leadership was France…then Great Britain…now the United States.

Independence for Canada’s provinces will function like a middle-class kid moving out of his parent's house and renting a shitty apartment. It will offer growing pains that will lead to powerful results down the road. That baby will become a powerful man. I wish this for all provinces, but unshackling ourselves from the dysfunction of our national state is going to be a necessary consequence. 

Self-sufficiency

Creating an independent state requires self-sufficiency. This is what Donald Trump is trying painfully to remind the United States. Self-sufficiency creates strength and power, which is why socialist infrastructure like the so-called nation of Canada hate self-sufficient citizens so much.

This goes for governments and states, but it also goes for individuals.

How are you making yourself self-sufficient? 

You can investigate this question without becoming an off-grid prepper. Part of self-sufficiency is just being aware. Paying attention. Thinking ahead.

If I lost my job tomorrow, I have about half a dozen different phone calls I could make to get back to work immediately. Side hustles. Home improvement projects. Minimizing debt. Investing in gold (bitcoin if you’re into that). Learning new skills. Stocking up on food/supplies. Adapting. Growing. Learning.

Most people aren’t doing anything other than existing. Doordash and Netflix is about as ambitious as they get. Millions of people are on welfare in Canada. Millions more vote for socialistic governments to give them stuff they want.

Don’t be a loser. People have been able to thrive under shitty national governments since forever. Yes, it’s disappointing that one has to do so and so many conservatives lament the opportunity costs forgone due to constant bad policy, but it is what it is.

Be nimble, be quick, and don’t let the bad guys get the best of you.

Relationships

Self-sufficiency is good, but that doesn’t mean you can just go it alone. Relationships are important, both personally and at a business level.

For example, the cost of beef is set to rise substantially. My family reached out to local farmers selling directly. We bought an entire cow. We split it up amongst extended family and the farmer was happy because it cut out the grocery store allowing him a better profit and us a better price!

We need more of this. 

Cash jobs are another thing conservatives should lean into. If you need to hire out a job, then work in cash and cut out Revenue Canada. If you need to clear your conscience for the tax man, remember that gifts aren’t taxed. So when that home-based hairdresser or sidewalk shoveller or furnace fixer shows up to do a job, ask them to do it for free and then gift them cash after they’re done!

Relationships are also important in terms of community. Getting things done and living a decent life is much easier when you’ve got good people around you. This is why so many people try to get out of “bad” neighborhoods and into “good” ones. A lot of this is class-based shorthand for rich and poor and everything that goes with it, but really it’s more than that.

Big techno-globalist governments the kind that Mark Carney are a part of hate individualism. They see the masses as a blob that would be better off shrinking and silent and doing some necessary grunt work while the world elite live the aristocratic lifestyles they feel entitled to. That’s why anything that positions itself as an institution outside of the total state is targeted as a problem to be solved. This makes non-governmental institutions and the people who run them all the more important for our side. Clubs, charities, sports, churches, families, and individuals…stay connected!

The constant drive to make money and spend it eats up a lot of time in modern society and it is really hard to build relationships when time is in such short supply, nevertheless, much can be done with little and finding areas of interest is crucial to resist the coming decline.

Mark Carney is going to usher in some darkness and most Canadians are oblivious to this. They think he’s “Elbows Up!” Mark and he’s here to save the day! Their disillusionment is likely to take years. If you’re reading this you’ll know better.

Stay sharp and be prepared. Always be prepared.