Canadians must reject 'the worst-case Ontario'

What you need to know about a Carney-Ford alliance -- in everything but name -- before heading to the polls Monday.

This is it. Canada’s federal election is Monday, and it’s vitally important that Canadians are made aware of the threat that they’re up against at the ballot box: a Carney-Ford alliance that’s not just a betrayal of both Conservative and classical Liberal values, but a potential death knell for Canada’s recovery.

This may well be our last shot to stop the decline, so let’s not mince words.

Mark Carney, the final boss of the technocratic, out-of-touch, globalist banker elite, who waltzed into the Liberal leadership, is serving up reheated Trudeau slop—more debt, more bureaucracy, more excuses. His $130 billion spending spree won’t fix the housing crisis that’s locked out a generation, the affordability crunch that’s gutting families, the Western energy projects being deliberately moth-balled, the crime waves turning our cities into no-go zones, or the modern identity crises that will have our flags back at half-mast and our statues again torn down by the New Year.

As for Carney’s so-called economic platform and plan? From Bay Street to Main Street, economists and business leaders are sounding the alarm, as they realize that Carney’s self-inflated bonafides, as some “leading economist,” don’t match his track record, or the ruin he’s left in his wake.

But the real gut-punch has come from Doug Ford and his camp, led by Kory Teneycke and Rubicon Strategies, who’ve been repeatedly trying to kneecap Poilievre’s campaign both behind the scenes and in the press. I’ve heard it straight from inside the Conservative war room, and from MPs and campaigners: “They’re sabotaging us. Ford’s camp is pissed they weren’t let into the inner circle, that we wouldn’t campaign for them during their shotgun provincial election no one asked for. They couldn’t pick up seats or turn out voters running exclusively like the Carney campaign -- on Trump fear-mongering and only Trump fear-mongering -- so they’re in the tank for Carney, throwing tantrums because egos are bruised, and potentially lining up their own federal run.”

For a team that still has Sir John A. boarded up on the front lawn of Queen’s Park, it’s hard to believe they won’t put a door on their outhouse. Ford’s team have been leaking snarky critiques and internal polls to the press, whining that Poilievre’s “off message” for also focusing on affordability and housing instead of Ford’s sole obsession: Trump.

Like the Carney campaign that has only reheated Trudeau’s existing platform -- and somehow made it worse -- the decision from Ford to run on Trump and only Trump was a strategy to distract from failures on every other file. Ontario, Canada’s supposed “growth engine,” now has the economic productivity of lowly Mississippi. Its housing starts are the worst in the country. And every day, the province further abdicates on crime, chaos, diploma mills and trucking fraud, and the continued desecration of the Greater Toronto Area.

This isn’t just run of the mill disloyalty; it’s a calculated move to position Ford’s camp for a federal leadership grab if the federal Conservatives stumble. These few operatives aren’t conservatives; they’re craven opportunists in blue suits. And they would be hard-pressed to find any support west of Manitoba after choosing to defecate where they eat – over, and over, and over again.

Rewind to Ford’s Covid years, and you’ll see the playbook. For 2.5 years, he and his consultants—Teneycke chief among them—bungled everything: deferring to Trudeau; cozying up to Chrystia Freeland (his “close personal friend”); supporting the Charter-violating abuse of the Emergencies Act; and bending to unelected “experts” who got it all wrong. Businesses collapsed, kids lost years they’ll never recover, and countless Ontarians lost their life-savings, their health from ailments other than Covid, and their trust in government. Ford’s daily press conferences were a masterclass in defeatism: no fight, no hope, just an endlessly dotish, lumbering surrender that tanked Ontario’s economy. And now? He’s back, meddling in this election to protect his failing fiefdom, even if it means handing Canada to an even more dangerous ‘Liberal’ figurehead than Justin Trudeau.

A Carney-Ford alliance is a one-way ticket to ruin. Housing? Carney’s vague promises on immigration, the support he’s received from the ‘Century Initiative’ mass immigration project, and his supposed plans for Soviet housing blocks and Brookfield-owned government trailers, coupled with Ford’s worst-in-Canada housing starts and development costs, are a match made in housing hell.

Affordability? Carney’s carbon tax waffling, and his Net-zero obsession will bleed families dry. He won’t build pipelines, or even back Ford’s supposed plans to expand operations in Ontario’s ‘ring of fire.’ Ontario’s economy cannot survive on EV subsidies and eye-watering corporate welfare, and that’s all the two would ‘accomplish’ together.

As for public safety? Both are too spineless to tackle the GTA’s crime surge or the hate rallies poisoning our streets. This is the "worst-case Ontario," and it risks spreading coast to coast—unless we stop it.

Poilievre’s Conservatives, despite the Ford camp’s sabotage, are still in this fight, and millions of Canadians are in need of their solutions: tax cuts to ease the squeeze; zoning reforms to build homes; real consequences for criminals; and a Canada-first vision to restore our pride and economic independence, that would actually stand against bluster from the Trump administration, instead of merely harvesting it for votes.

Monday’s election could be do-or-die. A Liberal vote rewards a decade of decline. A failure to crush Ford’s betrayal emboldens more turncoats, more housing crises, more young Canadians forced to move away from the towns they grew up in, and more Western alienation.

From Vancouver to Halifax, we’re one nation with one shot to stay together. So, stay hopeful, know that you can make the difference on election day, and then get out there and vote.

This time, you have to vote Conservative. And while you’re at it, tell Carney and Ford to go to hell—and to take their alliance with them.

Alexander Brown is a writer, non-profit campaign director, and part-time politico.

A version of this column is presently featured in the Western Standard.