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Mentor Sessions EP 106: Broken Country Filmmakers Mira Metter & Mike Werry on Canada's Collapse, Healthcare, Housing, Taxes and Government Control
Canada used to be the envy of the world. Now people are asking whether they can survive here, let alone raise a family. Mira Metter and Mike Werry, the director and producer of the documentary Broken Country, spent months traveling the country to find out what broke and when. Their verdict a year later: not one thing they covered in the film has gotten better.
They break down why Canadian hospitals run at 100 to 120% occupancy when 80% is considered safe, why roughly 20% of Canadians have no family doctor, and how a country of 40 million ended up with fewer MRI machines than Pennsylvania. On housing, prices have climbed about 375% in 20 years, going from roughly 2.5 times annual income in the '90s to 9 times nationally and 19 times in Toronto and Vancouver.
We also get into rising taxes, immigration policy, censorship bills and cameras turned off in Parliament, the federal government's own 2040 social mobility scenario, Alberta and Quebec separatism, and why this is a warning for Americans watching the same policies at home.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:52 - Canada From Envy Of The World To Survival
3:33 - What's Wrong With Canadian Healthcare
4:00 - Hospitals Running At 100-120% Capacity
5:29 - 20% Of Canadians Have No Family Doctor
6:42 - Fewer MRI Machines Than Pennsylvania
7:20 - Hospitals Funded On Last Year's Patients
10:03 - Healthcare Worked Until The Early 90s Cuts
12:37 - Canada's Hidden Two-Tier Healthcare
15:43 - Rural ER Closures Costing Lives
20:31 - Can Canadian Healthcare Be Saved
24:08 - ER Doctors Abused And Burned Out
26:12 - Addiction, Homelessness And Housing
27:03 - Housing From 2.5x To 19x Income
27:55 - Housing Up 375% In 20 Years
29:03 - How Housing Got Dumped On Cities
31:01 - Rent Eating Half Your Paycheck
33:49 - The Five-Year Mortgage Renewal Shock
35:12 - The Money Printing Behind It All
43:20 - Can Housing Ever Correct Without Breaking The Banks
48:01 - How Canada's Government Failed
49:36 - Safe Supply And The Opioid Crisis
52:30 - Censorship Bills And Cameras Off In Parliament
55:43 - Government-Subsidized Media
58:31 - Bill C-22 And Digital Privacy
1:01:38 - The 2015 Immigration Shift
1:06:54 - Youth Unemployment And Temporary Foreign Workers
1:09:55 - Entrepreneurs Leaving For The US
1:11:31 - Wasted Resources: Ring Of Fire, LNG, Hydro
1:17:10 - Walking Away From The US Trade Deal
1:19:46 - Does It Get Worse Before It Gets Better
1:20:52 - The Government's Own 2040 Warning
1:22:39 - Alberta And Quebec Separatism
1:25:52 - A Wake-Up Call For Americans
1:26:50 - Not One Thing Has Gotten Better
1:28:45 - Where To Watch Broken Country
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