By Dave Stach | nutrirebel.com

Fellow Canadians, it’s time to face the ugly truth. For decades, we’ve been sold the Big Lie: a massive “skills shortage” or “skills mismatch” that’s supposedly holding back our economy. Job postings go unfilled for years while employers, think-tanks, universities, and the corporate media whine that Canadians just aren’t qualified. Yet wages remain frozen. No bidding wars. No fat signing bonuses. Just endless excuses to keep us broke.

This is deliberate theft.

Go back to the Canada of the 1950s–1980s. Real labour shortages meant real wage explosions. Employers fought for workers with higher pay, better benefits, and genuine training. That’s how a working-class family bought a house, raised kids, and retired with dignity. Today? “Desperate” companies in tech, trades, healthcare, and hospitality offer poverty wages, part-time gigs, and zero investment in apprenticeships or R&D.

Toronto’s Don Pittis has exposed this fraud over and over. Economist Don Drummond proved in 2013 that there were no wage premiums in high-demand fields—exactly what you’d see in a true shortage. These same “starved” employers hire cheap foreign labour or cry for more immigration while doing nothing to train Canadians.

The Bank of Canada’s suicidal low-interest policy is a core culprit, pumping endless cheap money to corporations for buybacks instead of fair pay. But there’s an even darker layer they’re hiding: our bodies and brains aren’t the same as they were 50 years ago.

Since the 1970s, industrial farming, soil depletion, ultra-processing, and chemical-laden junk have gutted the nutrient content of our food. Studies show massive drops in vitamins, minerals, and trace elements in fruits, vegetables, and grains. We’re eating more calories than ever—but getting far fewer real nutrients. The result? A nation of malnourished, low-energy people who can’t perform like our grandparents did.

Nowhere is this collapse more obvious than in Canadian men. Sperm counts have plunged over 50% since the 1970s. Testosterone levels are crashing year after year. Young men today have lower T than their grandfathers did at the same age. Erectile dysfunction, depression, fatigue, and irritability are skyrocketing. This isn’t “laziness” or “poor lifestyle choices”—it’s biochemical warfare on our biology from a poisoned food supply and environmental toxins.

Pioneers like Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling and Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Abram Hoffer warned us about this exact crisis through orthomolecular psychiatry. They proved that mental health, energy, focus, and even motivation depend on having the right molecules—vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids—at optimal levels in the brain and body. Deficiencies in B vitamins, vitamin C, zinc, magnesium, and omega-3s (all stripped from modern food) create depression, anxiety, ADHD-like symptoms, and total apathy. Hoffer successfully treated thousands of “schizophrenic” patients with optimal doses (often wrongly termed ‘mega’ or much higher than the pitiful RDA) of nutrients instead of drugs—because many cases were simply severe malnutrition misdiagnosed as an incurable illness.

Back when Canadians ate real food from healthy soil, we had the biochemical firepower to work hard, innovate, and demand our worth. Today? We’re zombie workers—tired, foggy, infertile, and too beaten down to fight for raises.

This is why the “skills shortage” myth works so well: they’ve engineered a population that’s nutrient-starved and hormonally crippled. A healthy, high-testosterone man from 1970 wouldn’t accept today’s slave wages. But a depleted, estrogen-soaked, low-vitality generation just shrugs and scrolls TikTok.

Enough! We demand:

• Bank of Canada reform for full employment and real wage growth
• A national nutrient-restoration strategy: regenerate soil, ban the worst food toxins, enrich staples
• Massive investment in orthomolecular health education and affordable supplementation
• A true Canadian-first training system—not endless imported labour to suppress wages

Our grandparents built this country strong and proud. We can reclaim that strength—but only if we fix the food, fix the money, and put Canadians first.

Wake up. Nourish up. Fight back.

Who’s with me?

Dave Stach, BA(Hons), OHP, is an orthomolecular practitioner committed to helping people regain their vitality through nutrient-based, terrain-focused care. His free Symptom Measure Tool is available at nutrirebel.com/symptom-measure-tool.html for anyone wanting a deeper look at their health.