Michael, spare me the lecture about standing up for Canada while you refuse to say a single critical word about the government that has actually been running the country. Blaming a foreign leader for a trade dispute between two countries is the easy part. The harder part is admitting that Mark Carney and this "Liberal" government spent over a year and a half failing to deliver the deal he campaigned on, then walked away from negotiations in late August and matched 50 percent tariffs on roughly $28 billion in goods that has done us more harm than good. That was a choice made in Ottawa. The costs that followed like higher prices, lost work, people stretched thinner, are not something you get to wave away by telling everyone else to endure it.
People are already paying for it. August showed a loss of about 41,700 jobs with unemployment at 6.4 percent, and the pressure is concentrated where trade exposure is highest. Food banks are seeing record demand. Young people cannot find work. Housing is the clearest failure when Build Canada Homes has roughly 2,000 units under construction out of about 19,000 it committed to AFTER A YEAR, while overall starts sit near a 229,000–244,000 annual rate, far below what even federal analysis said was required. Carney talked about controlled immigration, then told the New York Times the question is when to resume increases, all while the housing shortage he inherited and did not fix is still here. It's absolutely funny how he talks more to foreign media than our own! But companies are still continuing shifting production south because the combination of tariffs, slow approvals, and the bills coming out of this Parliament makes staying less attractive. That is domestic policy, not an external plot that you seem to be cooking in your head.
This is the same pattern as the Trudeau years, just with a different face. Projects that were already approved before he walked into the PMO. New ones are not. The Senate is a joke since majority don't even show up to work. So it's clear we need to abolish the current senate and ELECT them ourselves. And Carney treats Question Period as optional theatre, cameras get cut when the answers are inconvenient, and major announcements keep happening abroad instead of in front of the people who have to live with them. Call it whatever you want, but it is not liberal in any sense that used to mean accountability, transparency, or putting citizens first. It is a government that protects its own connections and then asks everyone else to call the resulting mess patriotism.
My province just had an election and the results sort of speak for itself. Same with B.C. how you got a wave of blue on the map due to the horrid mess the NDP has done... but yesterday the Parti Québécois won a minority and it's the first time they have formed government in more than a decade, with a commitment to an independence referendum still on the table. Alberta votes on the 19th on a question that includes starting the process toward a separation referendum. When separatist options are winning elections or landing on ballots in more than one province, it is because enough people have decided the federal government is not worth the cost of staying under on current terms. You can keep telling Canadians to punch themselves in the face economically and call it standing up. The rest of us are allowed to notice that the LPC has not been liberal for a long time, that Carney has not been “elbows up” for anyone except the narrative, and that another round of the same failures is not something we have to applaud.
Especially when he's giving more money to American companies, buying American, and allowing cheap Chinese steel to be dumped into our market and hurting our industries. Carney is the complete opposite of Canada first.