Slightly over a year ago, Canadians went to the polls to elect their Members of Parliament. In a major turnaround from the expected result for years, the Liberal Party retained its grip on Ottawa under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Carney. A large part of the Liberal Party’s rebound was due to Canadians’ dislike of Republican President Trump, and his perceived ideological similarities with Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Many Canadians feared Trump’s desire to make Canada the 51st state, trusting Carney instead to bring prosperity to an independent Canada instead.

For the past decade, however, the Liberal Canadian government, primarily under Justin Trudeau’s ministry, has trashed Canada’s standard of living. His imposition of numerous carbon taxes has strained Canadian businesses and families with higher energy costs, and his reckless spending has driven Canada’s budget deficit to all time highs. His response to truckers’ protests against vaccine mandates in 2022 that involved freezing of bank accounts of peaceful protestors also added to his attack on the liberties of Canadians. Perhaps most destructively of all, Trudeau’s immigration policy that rapidly admitted millions of  migrants in only a few years has placed a huge burden on the housing, healthcare, and public services that Canadians use. And the United States had no involvement in any of these policies. So what did keeping Liberal party in power actually protect Canadians from?