🧭 CCJ Lived Realities Part 1 of 3

🧭 CCJ Lived Realities
This is the Canadian Citizens Journal.

Canadians are told to work hard, pay their taxes, and one day enjoy retirement.
That promise no longer matches reality.

People work their entire lives pushing through stress, pain, and exhaustion just to survive.
They delay rest.
They delay medical care.
They keep going because they cannot afford to stop.

By the time retirement finally comes, many are already worn down.
Bodies are broken.
Energy is gone.
Health begins to decline faster, not slower.

Retirement is not freedom.
It is surviving on less money with more health problems.

Pensions were never designed for today’s costs.
Housing, food, utilities, and basic needs keep rising, while retirement income falls behind.
People do not relax.
They worry about money and their health at the same time.

We see this pattern again and again.
People finally stop working and collapse.
Not because they are weak — but because they were pushed too far for too long.

Canadians did what they were told.
They worked.
They contributed.
They followed the rules.

And when it was time to rest, there was nothing left to enjoy.

This is not a personal failure.
This is a broken promise.

This is the Canadian Citizens Journal.