Arden wasn’t good for New Zealand

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that she is burnt out, so she’s resigning. The truth is she quit because she had no chance of being reelected in the fall election.

She is another Justin Trudeau, whom she admires. She is destroying her country due to excessive taxation and going Green. Some of the results I saw on a visit last November is with food prices. If you think our food prices are expensive, they are substantially cheaper than what prices are in New Zealand. You could pay roughly $5 (NZ) a pound for most fruit and vegetables One cucumber in a grocery store was $9 (NZ). If you can afford a car, a litre of gas costs $2.72.

There were so many empty stores, some having no tenant for at least over a year. Every office tower had a “For Lease” signs.

She believes in Trudeau policies and while there she announced she plans on adding an extra tax on banks, exactly as Trudeau did to our banks. She is also a phony Green. New Zealand has an untapped gas field which she refuses to let be developed. While I was there she announced that the country will be importing more coal from Indonesia.

I went to the Cook Islands. They get most of their imported food and goods from New Zealand. Surprisingly, the cost of food in Cook Island is substantially cheaper than what you would pay in New Zealand.

I did a test. The company that makes all NZ ice cream is also sold in Cook Islands. Each cone was roughly 40% cheaper in Roratonga, and they tasted the same.

We in Canada can expect the same destruction as PM Ardern has done. It is now expected thanks to Trudeau’s policies Canada that by the end of this decade will slide to 30th position in the 30 county members of OCED. Up until the last decade, Canada was always in the top half of OCED countries. in productivity and growth.

The worse thing for kiwis is that due to poor prospects, many of the young are moving to Australia as it is easy for them to get work — a loss New Zealand will take many years to recover.

Brian Merriam Penticton