We can blame the debasement of our currency at the feet of our politicians, Keynesian economists, and the central banking cartel. Fiat currencies allow for greater manipulation by the powers that be, especially since removing our money from the gold standard. The End-the-Fed movement in the States should be mirrored here in Canada with a call to rid our country of our central bank. With their current ‘goal’ of 2-3% inflation, we know that our dollar will be worth less and less each year and end in a halving of it’s value in 23-35 years (more if inflation rises above their target). The other problem is whether we can even trust the government’s inflation numbers; particularly when they manipulate the value of products through such concepts as hedonics, where ‘value’ is assigned to products because of their ‘greater utility’.