Distraction vs Accountability: Why We’re Arguing While Decisions Get Made

Pay attention to what keeps happening.

Every few weeks there’s another pressure point.
Food. Farming. Health. Costs.
Rules that hit close to home.

People get angry.
People argue.
People react.

And while everyone is busy reacting…
very few people are watching.

This is the difference between distraction and accountability.

Distraction keeps people emotional.
Accountability requires people to stay focused.

Now notice what keeps soaking up all that attention.

Endless outrage over Donald Trump.
Every headline. Every clip. Every argument.

Not Canadian policies.
Not Canadian agencies.
Not decisions being made here.

Trump isn’t the story.
He’s the noise.

While people argue about him, real decisions move quietly — through regulations, technical changes, and administrative power most people never see.

That’s how regulatory overreach works.

It doesn’t arrive loudly.
It comes buried in process, framed as safety, efficiency, or risk management — written far from the people it affects.

Then the impact shows up in real life.
Farmers struggle.
Beekeepers can’t adapt.
Food production weakens.
Costs rise.

People get mad — but at each other.

Anger burns attention instead of directing it.
And while the public is distracted, accountability disappears.

It’s not that anger is dangerous to power.
Anger is manageable.

What’s dangerous is a calm public that stays on one issue, asks boring questions, and refuses to move on.

Because accountability doesn’t shout.
It watches.

It doesn’t react.
It tracks.

And once you see how distraction and overreach work together, it becomes much harder to ignore what’s happening — quietly — right in front of us.