This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor Canada. Our favorite neighbor to the north. I learned from Conrad Black, distinguished biographer, and the author of the new book The Political and Strategic History of the World, volume one, is also a man who's brought me facts about the Canadian citizens and the tax burden and what you get for your money in Canada.

Conrad, a very good evening to you writing in the National Post.

I'm ignorant of these stats until I read them.

I imagine all Canadians are aware of them and they're nodding their heads at me.

Where have you been John?

But really, the average Canadian family paid over 48,000

in 2022 taxes may have more than 45% of its income and more than what the average family spends on food, housing,

your tax to extinction, and what do you get for it?

Your accounting of the health care system means yikes, flee to the US.

And billions, more than 250 billion have fled the country since

since 2014. What is going on in Ottawa? Good evening to you.

Yeah, good evening to you, John. I don't, it's hard for me to believe this, but I don't think that this government

realize that they could get into the box they have. I don't know what kind of naive

predictions and analyses they were operating under that they could make it an uncompetitive place to invest because of the tax system

and in effect tax productivity and

and still have steadily rising revenue so they could

spread the money around in exchange for the votes of the

constituencies they're addressing.

And all of us, I mean, I was one, but I was one of a great many who warned them again and

again and again and again it was going to be a disaster.

Money would flee the country, economic growth would collapse.

We would cease to be competitive with all sorts of countries and it was going to put great stress on the country internally.

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