@TheIronQuill This is an important point, and one that often slips past public attention.
Most political arguments appear to revolve around ideology, but as you’ve highlighted, the deeper struggle is frequently about control of the numbers. Whoever defines the assumptions behind budgets, deficits, and projections effectively shapes the public’s perception of reality.
Independent referees exist precisely to prevent that drift. When institutions responsible for verifying the math lose credibility or independence, the debate quietly shifts from evidence to narrative.
At that stage the public is no longer evaluating policy choices based on shared facts, but competing interpretations of reality.
A functioning democracy needs more than elections; it needs trusted mechanisms that keep the scoreboard honest. Without them, confidence in the system begins to erode long before people can explain exactly why.
Bottom line? Governments do not like truth. This is why they want Jacques gone. It is why the PMO assigns the ethics commissioner, the senate, the courts, now the police and media. Canada is in trouble and no one wants to accept the truth today, much easier to sit in the corner playing video games and eating junk food and drinking beer. Ya!! That’s the life! We have become a mollycoddled, sick society and it happened slowly over time. Here we are now…a country very divided. All by design.
@TheIronQuill This is an important point, and one that often slips past public attention.
Most political arguments appear to revolve around ideology, but as you’ve highlighted, the deeper struggle is frequently about control of the numbers. Whoever defines the assumptions behind budgets, deficits, and projections effectively shapes the public’s perception of reality.
Independent referees exist precisely to prevent that drift. When institutions responsible for verifying the math lose credibility or independence, the debate quietly shifts from evidence to narrative.
At that stage the public is no longer evaluating policy choices based on shared facts, but competing interpretations of reality.
A functioning democracy needs more than elections; it needs trusted mechanisms that keep the scoreboard honest. Without them, confidence in the system begins to erode long before people can explain exactly why.
Thoughtful piece.
Every game
Bottom line? Governments do not like truth. This is why they want Jacques gone. It is why the PMO assigns the ethics commissioner, the senate, the courts, now the police and media. Canada is in trouble and no one wants to accept the truth today, much easier to sit in the corner playing video games and eating junk food and drinking beer. Ya!! That’s the life! We have become a mollycoddled, sick society and it happened slowly over time. Here we are now…a country very divided. All by design.
I like that wording : political storytelling. You are very astute in your post. Thank you very much Iron Quill.