AI Generated Opinion Pieces

You don't own your music. You don't own your car. You don't own your home. In Canada, we have moved from an economy of "Owners" to an economy of "Renters." From the housing market to the heated seats in your car, corporations have figured out that "Recurring Revenue" is more profitable than selling products. Combined with Canada's telecom and banking oligopolies, this has created a "Fee Economy" where your income is drained by thousands of tiny cuts before you even wake up. In this video, Hoch audits the "Subscription Trap." We look at the "Oligopoly Tax," the "Right to Repair," and why the Canadian economy is designed to extract rent rather than create wealth.

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Here is another AI Generated opinion piece showing support for Carney's supposedly bold move regarding trade deals with China. This message is easy to listen to, insightful and a great summary.

For 80 years, Canada was the 51st State of the American economy. We supplied the oil. We supplied the lumber. We supplied the engineers. We were family. But after being rejected by the US in favor of Mexico, Venezuela, and Greenland, Ottawa made a desperate move. In January 2026, while Trump threatened tariffs on Europe over Greenland, Canada quietly signed a deal with Beijing. We dropped EV tariffs from 100% to 6.1%. We opened "collaboration frameworks" in energy and clean technology. We invited Chinese state-owned enterprises back into our supply chains. While the rest of the West is "de-coupling" from China, Canada is "re-coupling." This is the story of how a G7 nation traded its strategic position for a lower cost of living.

The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy." Mark Carney said it at Davos. The room gave him a standing ovation. But nobody talked about what he really admitted: Canada's entire economic model was built on the assumption that America would always be there. That assumption is now dead.

Canada has the resources. Greenland has the speed. The race is already over. For decades, Canada assumed it was the "Mining Superpower" of the West. We sat on 15 million tonnes of Rare Earth elements, convinced the world would wait for us to dig them up.

One part of Canada pays the bills. The other part spends the money. A viewer asked for a deep dive into "Equalization"—the complex formula that moves billions of dollars from "Have" provinces to "Have-Not" provinces. It sounds boring. It is actually the most explosive issue in the country. For decades, Alberta and the West have subsidized the rest of the federation, contributing over $600 Billion net. Meanwhile, provinces that block resource development continue to cash the checks. In this video, Hoch performs a forensic audit on the Equalization formula. We look at the "Clawback Trap" that kills innovation, the "Hydro Loophole" that favors Quebec, and why the system is destined to break when the oil money runs out.

Venezuela just came back online. After fifteen years of sanctions and collapse, the oil is flowing north again. Millions of barrels per day heading straight to the same refineries that used to depend entirely on Canada. For the last decade, Canada had a monopoly. The US Gulf Coast refineries were built for heavy crude, and we were the only stable supplier left after Venezuela and Mexico fell apart. Canadian oil sands production hit 4 million barrels per day. Alberta boomed. The Canadian dollar strengthened. We called ourselves an energy superpower. But we weren't. We were just the only gas station open on a lonely highway. And now another station just opened across the street. With cheaper gas. Closer to the customer. And backed by the world's largest military. This is the story of what happens when your economic model breaks.

Geologically, Canada won the lottery. It has the third-largest oil reserves, massive uranium deposits, and the critical minerals needed for the AI revolution. It should be the Norway of North America—a country with a massive sovereign wealth fund and zero debt. Instead, Canada is the "Broken ATM." It is a nation that has strangled its own golden goose through a combination of "Regulatory Hell," political paralysis, and the "Green Paradox." We are watching a G7 nation voluntarily abdicate its status as an energy superpower while its citizens struggle with a cost-of-living crisis. In this video, we explore the "Squandered Inheritance." We look at why Canada buys oil from dictatorships while sitting on an ocean of it, why the "Ring of Fire" mineral deposit is still empty after 20 years, and how we confused "revenue" with "capital."

On paper, Canada is one of the richest countries on earth. In reality, it is becoming a feudal state. If you are under 40 in Canada, you aren't crazy. You are the victim of a forty-year economic experiment that has gone catastrophically wrong. From the "Productivity Trap" that keeps wages low, to the government-protected oligopolies that keep prices high, the Canadian economy has stopped investing in the future and started cannibalizing the present. We are witnessing the transformation of a G7 industrial power into a massive real estate hedge fund with a flag. The housing market isn't just a bubble; it is a mechanism of wealth transfer from the young and productive to the old and asset-rich.