So this weekend I ran into two articles.

The first was written in my native language and was stating that the government of Canada has launched a trial to explore the use of blockchain technology in making government research grant and funding information more transparent to the public. Because of reasons I’ll describe below, I was a bit suspicious of the information provided, so I made a short research and indeed found that the article is legitimate. Well, a bit outdated as the original information was from January 20th, but more or less properly addressed.

While I was verifying the news of an unknown media (usually in my country even the known ones are questionable), I came across another article, this time from yesterday, which was addressing the approval of Canada’s first blockchain ETF. I was really pleased from these news — which add to what we already knew about legalizing cannabis use later this year. It is really delightful to know that there is at least one government institution in this world that seems to know what is doing and is not afraid of being modern and unconventional.

I’ve already had some impression of the country. Its policies seem well written. Homicide rate is relatively low. Although it is one of the most immigrant friendly countries out there, it does not seem to have serious conflicts based on racial, ethnical or sexual status. Basically, everyone seems to be living his own life without anyone else disturbing him — how cool is that!

And here is the thing, which made me write this blog (or whatever you call it). I have always believed that my generation is going to change things for the better. Our country may be a mess, but it is up to us to create a well promising future for our children. And if you are a bit clever and hard-working there is nothing to stop you from living a decent life. Today I imagined that maybe in five or ten years, I’ll be living somewhere else. And it really disturbs me…

When I graduated a lot of my friends moved abroad to either study or work and we all knew they ain’t coming back. And in the next years this trend kept going. However, today people are not leaving because they can’t find jobs and live in poverty. People are leaving because of corrupted government, because there is no justice, because there is lack of any control. They are leaving because the country is supporting various monopolies instead of providing a competitive environment and because there is no freedom of speech. An impartial journalist may lose his job on the next day, if his work threatens someone’s interests, while most of the media present one-sided stories or fill our heads with useless information hoping that no one would ever pay attention to the next ludicrous episode in our parliament.

And when the people, which have some active position on these issues and are supposed to make a difference, decide that they have had enough, then the whole country goes to a downward spiral. When there is no one left to criticize the poor governence, corrupted cliques would become tighter and tighter, while the average person would become less and less independent.