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Homelessness in North America

Adam Smith advocates two important notions. One, the self-interest of human nature, will make sure the market remains stables. Last, the state never should interfere in the affair of the market. The state merely ensures the well-being of the private property.

Since the Cold War came to an end, the threat of communism to permeate to the rest of the world came to an end. Thus, the Western nations did not have to invest in social justice programs to prevent communism to shape their nations.

Now, the capitalist or liberal economic doctrine and social values are geared toward self-glory. It creates a space for a handful of individuals to dominate the economic pie and leaves others in a state of destitution. Plus, there is an issue of self-interest which comes with greed, and the handful of individuals begin to use their resources to push others out of the economic system and transform a monopoly market that only survival of the fittest is able to survive.

In conclusion, in this liberal economic doctrine, it is designed only a few individuals to make a profit at expense of those individuals that they only have labor power to give-up for wages. The well to do individuals will make sure to dominate the economic pie and always the working class remains at their mercy. Therefore, the number of working class and middle class will vanish gradually to a point of nothing class. The role of state is at point of nothing. Only to make sure the well to do class to have access to public resources and ensure private property for the powerful class.

Price Tag of Not Caring

Dr. George Grant was a Canadian Political Philosopher. He cherished Conservative political values, and accepted some of the critic of Karl Marx on the key principle of capitalist or liberal economic system as an absolute truth. Dr. Grant books like “Technology and Justice” and “Technology and Empire” are explaining that how the capitalist or liberal economy is only interested about profit and not people.  Thus, it is time to put aside political competition among different political ideologies since this new area is not about the Cold War, but to look at the political economic issues in light of what is best for Canada.

Karl Marx criticized the capitalist economic system in terms of class conflict, it is divided in two classes, a class that has and a class does not have. Since the class has, it is defining the mode of production. The class does not have; it must obey what the class has says. The class has, it is interested to increase productivity to enhance its profit. To increase profit, it needs to have machines that they are working relentlessly and faster than human labor. Therefore, those individuals that they are unable to wear the capitalist or liberal economic, they are doomed to failure.  

Currently, scholars like Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson in their book “The Origin of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Why Nations Fail”, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs’s book “The End of Poverty”, and Canadian social activist Naomi Klein asserted that globalization as a major factor to contribute to poverty in the nations because the multinational corporation are moving their manufactures to the developing nations for the cheap labors and the developed nations are unable to develop workforce to contribute to sustainable economic growth. This trend has been going on for a long time, and the negative impact of globalization on the developed nations are appearing since 1980s.

In 1980s, Canadian public policy in the area of social programs began to have seismic shift from social investment on social programs to reduce poverty of Canadians to the point that caused massive homelessness in Canada which was unprecedented in the Canadian history.[1] It is important to understand that the issue of homelessness is effecting anyone, several attempts made to deal with the issue of homelessness with no concrete result.[2]It is important to understand that there are three types of welfare state.[3] Like “provision of minimum income, provision for the reduction of economic insecurity resulting from such "contingencies" as sickness, old age and unemployment, and provision to all members of society of a range of social services. Under this definition, Canada became a welfare state after the passage of the social welfare reforms of the 1960s”[4] The system did not develop a meaningful strategy to deal with the issue of homelessness.[5] Hence, the issue of homelessness is not dissipating from Canada’s hot button issues. There are some facts that they are worthy to know to understand the future of Canada is bleak in this light:

1)      235,000: Estimated number of people who are homeless in Canada annually.[6]

2)      35,000: Estimated number of people who are homeless in Canada on a given night.[7]

3)      150,000: Approximate number of people who access emergency shelters in Canada annually.[8]

4)      50,000: Estimated number of people who are "hidden homeless" -- defined as those without homes of their own who lean on friends or family for shelter -- on any given night.[9]

5)      4 million: Number of bed nights, defined as nights during which a shelter bed is occupied, each year across Canada.[10]

6)      $105.3 million: Amount the federal government spends annually on the Homeless Partnering Strategy, which is designed to prevent and reduce homelessness.[11]

7)      82,380: People who found more stable housing as a result of the Homeless Partnering Strategy.[12]

The current strategy to deal with colossal issue of homelessness is to work toward strategy of “the Housing First model across Canada, significant reductions in homelessness in Medicine Hat and Hamilton, federal interest and investment in housing and homelessness, and importantly, the return to a National Housing Strategy – a long overdue conversation in Canada.”[13]

In conclusion, the issue of homelessness is here to stay with us since the world is moving toward globalization. Plus, the United Nations has been expressing concern to Canada the way it has been dealing with the issue of homelessness.[14] “The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has criticized Canada for its "persistent housing crisis" in a report that points to the lack of a national housing strategy.”[15] The United Nations looked at the issue of homelessness in several areas “

1)      “Discrimination faced by First Nations people and people of colour.

2)      High unemployment among disadvantaged and marginalized groups and individuals.

3)      Minimum wage that falls short of living costs.

4)      A stagnation of social spending as a share of GDP.

5)      Lack of adequate housing for people with disabilities.”[16]

The issue of homelessness will require attention of three level of governments, private sectors, and non-profit sectors.[17] It is an issue which needs to be dealt with so everyone can benefit from economic prosperity of Canada.

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[1] “The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016.” The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016 | The Homeless Hub, homelesshub.ca/SOHC2016.

[2] “The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016.” The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016 | The Homeless Hub, homelesshub.ca/SOHC2016.

[3] Moscovitch, Allan. “Welfare State.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/welfare-state/.

[4] provision of minimum income, provision for the reduction of economic insecurity resulting from such "contingencies" as sickness, old age and unemployment, and provision to all members of society of a range of social services. Under this definition, Canada became a welfare state after the passage of the social welfare reforms of the 1960s

[5] “The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016.” The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016 | The Homeless Hub, homelesshub.ca/SOHC2016.

[6] “Homelessness in Canada: Key statistics.” CTVNews, 16 Mar. 2016, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/homelessness-in-canada-key-statistics-1.2819986.

[7] “Homelessness in Canada: Key statistics.” CTVNews, 16 Mar. 2016, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/homelessness-in-canada-key-statistics-1.2819986.

[8] “Homelessness in Canada: Key statistics.” CTVNews, 16 Mar. 2016, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/homelessness-in-canada-key-statistics-1.2819986.

[9] “Homelessness in Canada: Key statistics.” CTVNews, 16 Mar. 2016, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/homelessness-in-canada-key-statistics-1.2819986.

[10] “Homelessness in Canada: Key statistics.” CTVNews, 16 Mar. 2016, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/homelessness-in-canada-key-statistics-1.2819986.

[11] “Homelessness in Canada: Key statistics.” CTVNews, 16 Mar. 2016, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/homelessness-in-canada-key-statistics-1.2819986.

[12] “Homelessness in Canada: Key statistics.” CTVNews, 16 Mar. 2016, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/homelessness-in-canada-key-statistics-1.2819986.

[13] “The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016.” The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016 | The Homeless Hub, homelesshub.ca/SOHC2016.

[14] News, CBC. “UN committee chastises Canada over 'persistent housing crisis'.” CBCnews, CBC/Radio Canada, 8 Mar. 2016, www.cbc.ca/news/business/un-housing-crisis-1.3480979.

[15] The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has criticized Canada for its "persistent housing crisis" in a report that points to the lack of a national housing strategy.

[16] The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has criticized Canada for its "persistent housing crisis" in a report that points to the lack of a national housing strategy.

[17] “The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016.” The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016 | The Homeless Hub, homelesshub.ca/SOHC2016.

Praying for People of Las Vegas

Life is fragile, please handle it with prayer as is the case for the people of Las Vegas, do not forget them. Also, pray for the family of Stephen Paddock that now they have to deal with aftermath of this incident.

Unstable People are Coming in any Shape and Color

1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/las-vegas-shooting-1.4316121 2. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/abdulahi-hasan-sharif-somali edmonton-1.4316074

On Saturday, October 30th, 2017 one man who adopted Canada as his home, he did not like polytheism. He believed that other faith groups were worshiping a false god and must be killed. He decided to kill others.

On Sunday, October 01st, 2017 a news broke out that a man with several assault rifles in Las Vegas began to open fire on people randomly and killing them.

Therefore, people who are unstable, they come in many shape and form. Simply they need an idea to justify their brutality.