Bureaucracy Burden!
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Dear Peter,
I came to Canada as a young immigrant with little more than a trade, a willingness to work hard, and a belief that if you built something of value, you could succeed here.
That belief turned out to be true. Over the decades, I was fortunate enough to build companies, factories, and thousands of jobs across this country.
But something has changed in Canada.
When we built new factories years ago, the process was straightforward. You hired engineers, prepared your plans, brought them to City Hall, and officials reviewed them to make sure everything met safety standards.
If the plans were sound, they were approved.
Projects that once took weeks now take years.
Even modest developments can become trapped in endless layers of permits, reviews, consultations, and appeals. Increasingly, the real authority over what gets built — and when — has shifted away from elected governments and into permanent bureaucratic systems that ordinary citizens cannot easily change.
And the economic consequences are enormous.
Projects stall. Investment moves elsewhere. Housing shortages worsen. Entrepreneurs spend more time navigating paperwork than building businesses.
Canada became prosperous because it was once a country where builders could build.
Today, too many people are being blocked before they can even begin.
That is why I helped launch the Canadian Economic Charter of Rights and Responsibilities — a grassroots effort to restore the economic freedoms that made this country strong.
If you believe Canada should once again be a country where entrepreneurs can build, invest, and create opportunity without being trapped in endless bureaucracy, please
click here to learn how you can help restore economic freedom — and become part of the movement to strengthen Canada’s economy.
A free society requires economic freedom.
People should be able to build, invest, and create without being trapped in a maze of administrative barriers.
That means restoring balance between those who produce and those who regulate.
For example:
- Permit decisions should have firm deadlines. If governments fail to act, approvals should move forward automatically.
- Major regulations should face regular cost audits, so Canadians understand their real economic impact.
- Rules should expire unless they are renewed and justified.
- And regulatory burdens should scale with company size so small businesses are not crushed by requirements designed for massive corporations.
These are not radical ideas.
They are common-sense principles designed to restore fairness and accountability to our economic system.
If every productive action requires layers of permission, then economic freedom exists only on paper.
Canada’s prosperity was built by entrepreneurs, workers, builders, and innovators — not by administrative systems that slow everything down.
If we want to restore that prosperity, we must restore the conditions that made it possible.
If you care about Canada’s economic future, I invite you to please
click here to learn more about what we are building.
Together, we can help restore the freedom to build, invest, and create opportunity in Canada.
Sincerely,
Frank Stronach
Founder
Canadian Economic Charter
P.S. Canada’s prosperity didn’t happen by accident. It was built by people who had the freedom to build, invest, and create. If you want to help restore those conditions, join the movement today: https://www.economiccharter.ca/rebelnews.