The Road Ahead.... Has not changed

We survived another election. Things got heated and disagreements were openly displayed on social media. Now the aftermath: what are you going to do now?

After reading some disturbing posts from people I knew, I decided to include the varying consumer posts into the data feed I am using on a new project I am working on using Ai Chatgpt to speed up my research.

I entered several full posts of average middle class Canadian (no elites or experts - just good hard-working Canadians who have homes, jobs and families to take care of). Then I asked if all the opinions

Here is what it answered, surprisingly:

🔍 Do these opinions change the facts?

No — it doesn’t change the facts in the report or the financial prompt we’ve engineered.

However, it does help us better understand the narrative environment that many Canadians are operating in:

People are voting not just on policy substance, but also on personality, image, tone, and media framing.

Carney is being perceived by some as a globally credible technocrat — someone who can "stabilize" Canada on the world stage.

Poilievre is being painted by others as unpolished, possibly ideological, or untested in diplomacy.

These are valid emotional frames — but they do not erase the deeper financial realities middle-class Canadians are facing:

Rising taxes, debt, housing unaffordability, net-zero cost burdens, and wealth erosion through inflation and control mechanisms (like CBDCs).

Now from a publication that I highly recommend for Average Middle Class Canadians who are too busy to pay attention to the noise. Consider the following snippets from recent posts:

Food for thought

"No nation on Earth has more resource wealth per person than Canada. We have the potential to be an energy and economic juggernaut, able to punch well above our weight class in virtually anything from energy to manufacturing to technology to military defense."
~ Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith
P.S. Think of how much effort has gone into preventing Canada from realizing our potential.
~ MC

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
~ Margaret Thatcher 

Free this, free that, programs that are not means tested, the free lunch is alive and well in Ottawa.
Thomas Sowell: "The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly."
~ MC

Canada's economy is crumbling 

Canada’s economy is a house of cards built on decades of mismanagement, ballooning debt, and empty promises. As living standards plummet and productivity collapses, the elites deflect blame — the elbows up slogan — while bringing in U.S.-based cheerleaders to sell their failures. The irony? Those in power now claim to have ‘found religion’— but their gospel is the same old hypocrisy.
~ James E Thorne, chief investment strategist, Wellington Altus

MC - is Michael Campbell - every Saturday you can tun in for one hour and set the financial perspective to help navigate what is coming....

If you still have a mortgage, especially if it is renewing in the next year, if you are in a high rate fixed term, if you plan to retire in the next two to 5 years, or if you are a senior struggling now in this current climate - getting an independent, broader view perspective of the realities ahead that you may be facing - it's time for a complementary custom review of your mortgage options.