If you feel as though Canada is broken, you are not alone. Last year, a Leger poll found that 70 per cent of Canadians believe “everything is broken in the country right now.”

The social contract Canadians thought was in place — work hard, pay your fair share of taxes, buy a home, raise a family — is broken. It’s becoming so difficult and expensive to support families and communities that widespread disenchantment, despondency and even discord is taking hold.