By all accounts 2025 will be a year of significant change.
Fumbling governments will be replaced. This has happened around the globe and would appear to be Canada’s future. The Trudeau/Singh alliance of the Liberals and NDP has ran its course and the mood of the electorate, as gauged by polls, seems willing to put the Conservatives into office.
Where that leads is anyone’s guess.
The Liberals have already started their attack ads – striking fear into voters that all the gains in recent years will be in peril. Absent of course is any recognition that debt and deficits have ballooned to a point where tough decisions are now a necessity.
Wants versus needs will become a significant conversation in 2025 for both governments and households. Families will need to roll with the punches and within that context we know many will have it tougher than others.
This outlook sparked some conversation over the holidays with friends and family, centred around the notion “are we our brother and sister’s keeper.” Politics and faith intertwine in such a conversation, but for us the answer is quite clear – a moral obligation exists for anyone able to lend a helping hand.
Since the political class suffers from ineptness, that obligation lands on each of us as individuals.
Will 2025 be the year more people decide to volunteer? Will we make a point of contributing more regularly to charities that help the disadvantaged? Will we call out hypocrisy and insist on the betterment of all people?
Will we actually participate in making our communities stronger instead of sitting back and watching? Will that political class be held accountable?
To all those questions, we hope readers answer “yes.”
It is time.
