THE LOBSTER HIERARCHY: CANADA'S POPULATION GROWTH CATASTROPHE

By Alex Peterson

My God, it's bloody obvious what's happening here. And I mean bloody obvious. Canada's political class is pushing for 100 million citizens by 2100—a massive social engineering project—while completely ignoring the archetypal structures that make a functional society possible. And that's no joke, man.

Let me be precise in my speech: the Century Initiative represents a Promethean overreach of the highest order. They advocate for population growth without the foundational competence to handle the chaos that inevitably emerges when you radically transform society's demographic structure.

Consider the housing crisis. It's not merely a market failure—it's a catastrophic manifestation of bureaucratic arrogance. The data is clear: while we're importing 500,000 souls annually, housing starts are plummeting due to regulatory pathologies that would make Kafka shudder. Construction costs have skyrocketed $98,000 since 2020 while municipal development charges exceed $150,000 per unit in major metropolitan centers.

This is exactly what happens when postmodern neo-Marxist thinking infiltrates urban planning. The bloody bureaucrats create artificial scarcity through their regulatory apparatus, then bemoan the very affordability crisis they've engineered. It's conceptually indistinguishable from the Soviet agricultural disasters.

And then—and then—we witness the pathological expansion of the consultant class. Federal spending on "professional services" has ballooned to $15.6 billion in 2023—60% higher than 2015! McKinsey alone received $66 million under Trudeau's governance. This is emblematic of our societal failure to confront necessary suffering. Instead of building the competence to manage complex systems, we outsource our thinking to an unaccountable shadow bureaucracy.

Make no mistake: this represents the triumph of appearance over substance. The public service has expanded by 49,000 employees while simultaneously increasing outsourcing expenditures. This isn't merely inefficient—it's morally reprehensible. Resources that should construct dwellings are instead diverted to PowerPoint presentations and policy papers that gather digital dust.

Here's a fundamental truth our current leadership refuses to acknowledge: sustainable societies aren't built on aspirational immigration targets and consultant reports. They're built on the competent management of physical reality—lumber, concrete, skilled trades, and regulatory efficiency. The housing shortfall isn't a statistical anomaly; it's the predictable consequence of ideologically possessed administrators failing to confront biological and economic realities.

The ancient wisdom traditions understood this perfectly well. You cannot build a tower to heaven through bureaucratic edict. The Century Initiative's push for 100 million Canadians without addressing construction bottlenecks isn't merely misguided—it borders on civilizational sabotage.

What's needed is clear: individuals must take responsibility for confronting these uncomfortable truths. We need to clean our rooms before attempting to transform society. Municipal governments must reduce parasitic development charges. Federal officials must recognize that immigrants need physical shelter, not consultant reports. And we desperately need to reestablish competence hierarchies that reward those who actually build rather than those who merely plan.

The alternative is continued descent into chaos. And believe me, there's nothing more dangerous than unacknowledged chaos.

If you wish to join those committed to speaking truth in an age of bureaucratic delusion, I urge you to subscribe to my newsletter at canamericanews.com. There, we'll explore the archetypal structures necessary for genuine societal flourishing and the courageous responsibility required to manifest them.

The time for empty policy pronouncements has passed. It's time to confront reality with the seriousness it demands.

And that's that.

Alex Peterson