We save ourselves

It’s Liberal boomers, sheltered from the wreckage of the last ten years, versus Canada’s young and missing middle to open election 2025.

I stole this image from Pierre. “Sorry, Pierre.”

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It’s Liberal Boomers Versus Canada’s Young and Missing Middle to Open Election 2025

By Alexander Brown, Director, National Citizens Coalition (link to feature in the Western Standard)

The battle lines have been drawn, and based on the polls, policy, and the eye test, each side’s foot soldiers have been made clear.

For the Conservatives, who have opened with high energy, a message of “hope and change,” the power of happy-warrior positivity, and the highlighting of very real threats to Canada’s recovery and the reclamation of the Canadian Dream, their packed halls and overflow rooms are made up of a younger support base than ever before.

For the Carney Liberals, riding a black-swan excuse to a potential fourth term, it’s been bingo halls, appeals to those who have paid off their mortgages, spend five months a year in Palm Springs (while still making their entire online personality one that criticizes America), and who have been immune to the wreckage and reality of Canada’s real economy.

Spend any time on the campaign trail or at political conferences over the past few years, and coming out of Covid it’s been clear there has been a shift in traditional demographic support between the two parties. Feeling abandoned by endless authoritarian policies of inflation, safetyism, closed schools, gyms, and restaurants, Canada’s youth, and its now unprecedented ‘missing middle,’ have had enough being told to “stay home and stay safe,” to live with shrunken footprints and in dog-crate condos, by those with homes in Rosedale, cottages in Muskoka, and time-shares at Del Boca Vista.

The same demographic of retired public servants and champagne socialists who called into snitch lines for kids playing at the park in Ontario, or for skating on a pond in Alberta, and who supported the lowering of the Canadian flag, the sabotage of vital energy projects, and the desecration of our historic symbols and our very identity, may now believe they’re putting their “elbows up” against a combative administration south of the border, but what they’re really doing is putting their middle fingers out to Canada’s recovery.

Housing crisis and mass immigration trigger-man Sean Fraser is back from “spending time with his family.”

Carney’s ‘Century Initiative’ ties couldn’t look sketchier to the millions of Canadians under 50 struggling tremendously with the cost of living, and with dreams of ever owning a home turned into a nightmare.

And the Liberals are in talks to establish a new “foreign buyers program,” to keep the ‘Vancouver model’ of housing asset grift rolling for anyone who got in at the right time, the nation’s kids and grandkids be damned.

In the words of B.C. writer Tristin Hopper, the Liberals and their boomer support base have “pulled up the ladder. Now they want to drop a couple of grenades to be sure.”

And just how pronounced is this demographic shift? Recent polling from Nanos shows the Conservatives with overwhelming support from age 18-60.

For those aged 60 and up? Overwhelmingly Liberal.

So what are young Canadians, and those not benefiting from a Liberal-boomer screwjob to do?

Vote. Vote like their chance to ever own a home in the country they were born in depends on it – because it does.

But here’s the good news: they have all the tools and all the opportunity to stop the steal, and to get their Canadian Dreams back on track. For the first time in Canada’s modern history, they are now the majority voting demographic.

There are also ample lessons to be taken from the U.S. administration drawing “elbows up” threats from part-time, fair-weather Canadians in the Ontario suburbs. With enough outreach, finances, and community-building efforts, America’s missing middle – and young men, in particular – were able to swing an election.

If Canada’s voter turnout were to return from just 61% to the misplaced Trudeau excitement of 2015 (68%), or the Mulroney highs of 1988 (75%), that’s not just a Conservative win, it’s a recovery turned supermajority.

In this 2025 election sprint, with a choice as stark as “you will no longer be actively betrayed by your country,” and “LOL, go screw yourselves, kids,” no one can save young Canadians, and Canada’s missing middle, but themselves.

Thank goodness, then, that there are enough of us. That we are enough.

Take it back. Take what’s yours.

But most importantly, take yourselves to the polls.

Alexander Brown is the Director of the National Citizens Coalition, the writer of the best-selling ‘Acceptable Views’ newsletter on Substack, and an election columnist for the Western Standard.

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