We're literally "what if only Southern California had any say in Federal Politics", just with some bad French.
One of the biggest problems with confederation is the lack of checks and balances to keep the system in check. For example, the electoral college and the Senate in the United States where every state gets two senators regardless of population. Similarly, the UK and Australia have mechanisms where the removal of the Prime Minister is much easier as the case was for Boris Johnson. The Prime Minister of Canada and his office have an inordinate amount of power compared to their counterparts in the G7 and can be authoritarian, even in a minority parliament. This is not unique to Trudeau as Harper was able to push his agenda (or at least parts of it) through prior to his 2011 majority.
Another notable problem is Canadians, particularly proponents of the Laurentian consensus, are chauvinistic twits who are under the belief that our government and institutions are incorruptible. They act as if they are more intelligent and sophisticated than our American neighbors, but are some of the pampered and insulated bumpkins in the western hemisphere. Oh, these pricks complained about how evil Harper was and how the system was broken until their hands were on the levers. There is massive waste in the government; notably a $35B infrastructure bank that pays bonuses to its executives, but has yet to complete a single project. A common refrain I hear is the disappearance of hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars under former Infrastructure minister, Catherine McKenna's watch. The Trudeau government would rather lavish Ukraine with gifts and cash so that he can be the darling of the Davos clique while the Canadian Forces suffer from underfunding, low morale, and even lower enlistment.
Those aren't the only problems. Addiction is becoming a major problem in urban centers both large and small, as is homelessness with spiraling house prices. Food and energy prices also increased dramatically with unchecked immigration. National unity is fracturing, healthcare is teetering on collapse. Excessive regulation at all levels of government have made construction of critical infrastructure needlessly difficult unless it suits the government's ideological goals, hence why we have corporate welfare with the EV Battery plants in Southern Ontario. What is the government's response? Turn a blind eye and repeat the lie that Canada is the greatest nation on Earth and the example that all others aspire to. They will deflect any attempt to bring attention to these problem by pointing at the dysfunction of American politics to distract the general populace from the dysfunction at home.
Canada is truly the manifestation of the idiot trust-fund brat in the form of a modern nation-state with Trudeau as its personification. One has to remember that the family fortune came from his grandfather, who ran a chain of gas stations in Quebec. That afforded his father, Pierre, to attend McGill to pursue a career in law and ultimately politics as Canada's Prime Minister from 1968-84. Similarly, his mother's side were a prominent Vancouver family with his maternal grandfather being a Liberal cabinet minister, if memory serves. Justin has no concept of hardship because everything he has in life comes from the wealth from both branches of his family tree. There is no problem in his mind that cannot be solved by throwing money at it, spouting meaningless platitudes, and good ol' wishful thinking.
My only solace is that the sheen is coming off. All of his party's attempts to reverse the downward trend in the polls has failed these past few months. This summer has been one unmitigated disaster after another. No one wanted to be seen with him at the G20 summit in India, he created a diplomatic spat with India that shredded his Indo-Pacific Strategy, and his party haplessly brought a former Waffen-SS fighter into the House of Commons and honored him. That is not even taking in the fact that our allies are starting to view as feckless and unreliable so they banished us to the kid's table.
Yet the funny part about it? Trudeau, his cronies in parliament and the media, and supporters (mostly lonely and desperate white women) still delude themselves into believing that he is the golden child. This will make the potential collapse even more amusing as he is practically the Liberal Party now.
