Call it what it is: a cost-of-Liberal crisis

Notes on the road, the Canadian doom loop, and movements back towards not-totally-insane.

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It’s 10 degrees Celsius in sunny, picturesque Franklin, Tennessee, much colder in the shade, and the rock star for a sister, rock star for a brother-in-law, and yours truly, an indie columnist and campaigner of mild Canadian renown, have finished up with Civil War sites for the day.

On the road home, after an affordable meal, and a surprisingly inoffensive trip to the grocery store (imagine that), we pass dozens of real estate billboards and ‘for sale’ signs.

Nestled amongst verdant, rolling hills are charming starter townhomes, detached homes, and non-dystopian-looking condos that start in the two-hundreds and three-hundreds of thousands.

Back in Toronto, our one-bedroom apartment was busy costing the missus and I $2700/month, for perks such as the odd shooting, and ‘safe supply’ success story emptying their bowels on the sidewalk out front.

Back in Ottawa, the Conservatives were preparing a motion of non-confidence to rightly wedge the Liberals, NDP, and eventually, the separatist Bloc, on gratuitous, and practically insidious April tax hikes that won’t change the weather in industrial China, or in the sulfuric skies of Mumbai.

The motion, as you may well know by now, was denied.

Upon my eventual return to Terminal 3 at YYZ, as if to add insult to injury, I walked past an immigration overflow room with a line out the door.

The truck horns may not be sounding this time, but those same resentments that gave rise to the Freedom Convoy are growing once more.

As of April 1st, every time you open your fridge, every time you fill up your car, and every time you pay for the roof over your family’s head, the Liberal-NDP coalition no one asked for will now be coming for even more of your hard-earned wages, at a time when millions of Canadians have already been forced onto the precipice of economic ruin.

The numbers don’t lie. Canada’s standard of living has completely collapsed in comparison to our American neighbours to the south, where one has the luxury of reinvention and affordability 50 times over. In contrast, Canadians are forced to swap hamster wheels, and even make cannonball runs to the border when our failing public healthcare system offers government suicide over timely and attentive care.

It’s no wonder Conservatives now have a massive lead among Canadians struggling financially, and struggling with their place in a country that has rewarded their loyalty, patriotism, and blood, sweat, and tears with a shrinking economy, government-supplied drug addicts, judicial vacancies and police who don’t enforce the law, annual tax hikes, and one of the lowest standards of living in the Developed World.

It’s no wonder, then, too, that for the first time in a long time, Conservatives now lead with young Canadians who view their future as hopeless without a major course correction, and soon.

You feel that hopelessness at a Canadian airport, after arriving home to a place you no longer feel all that welcome, from parts freer and more affordable.

It’s why this broader understanding of Canada’s cost of Liberal crisis, not a cost of living crisis — still in its infancy stages, but growing each day — will be of the utmost importance before election day, whenever that may be.

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The Liberals, the NDP, and even the Bloc were stupid enough to put themselves on the record denying Canadians tax relief, and the carbon tax election they were so desperately ready for, at the precise moment that millions are feeling the pinch like never before; millions who will now remember that decision at the ballot box.

And they’ll certainly remember how the Liberals and the NDP are working to delay the fall 2025 election day by one week to provide golden parachutes and pensions to dozens more MPs bound for the shellacking of a lifetime.

Boy, when Liberal Canada isn’t busy contributing to the development of COVID-19, the doxxing of identities and freezing of bank accounts belonging to democratic protesters, or attempting to censor the internet in collaboration with the most dubious partners imaginable, they sure have a funny way of pretending to give a damn, in that, well, they’re no longer even pretending to give a damn.

Presented with the most unique of political opportunities: a do-over; a chance to save face with two-thirds of a country at their wits’ end, the anti-civilizational forces who wish to sand down the sharp corners of our existence, and tax, ban, and subsidize acts as benign and humane as driving your child to soccer practice, still wouldn’t budge on providing Canadians with this most rudimentary of mercies.

They’ll pay for it, of course. Even if that takes longer than any of us would hope.

That’s the thing about an effective rebrand, under a cost-of-living-Liberal crisis, there can be little doubt who’s to blame.