Election 2025

We are finally at the watershed that everyone agrees is one of the most important elections in Canadian history. I realize that regular readers would already be familiar with my opinion of the merits of the contending parties and to some extent I’m putting old wine in a new bottle while, in a scandalous melange of metaphors, preaching to the choir. The Liberal campaign is a gigantic fraud. It pretends that since they have a new leader, though that leader is up to his eyeballs in the failed policies of the debunked Trudeau regime, it can simply slink out of its responsibility for the clangorous Gong Show of misgovernment of the last 10 years. It pretends that it has the ideally qualified candidate, when he has never been in active politics, has never actually run anything except a central bank, and in that capacity in Canada he tinkered with the interest rate while Finance Minister Jim Flaherty navigated Canada through the financial crisis of 2008-9, and he was a catastrophic failure as governor of the Bank of England. He was almost tarred and feathered as he left London’s Heathrow Airport. He represents now that he warned the British about the dangers of leaving Europe and that they now regret that decision. He tried to terrorize the country into remaining in the EU, which Britain had never voted for, (they voted for a common market, not a European government), and his projections of disaster have not occurred. The British left Europe and have shown no disposition to return and despite an unprecedented six successive incompetent governments in ten years, Britain has performed better economically than the EU.

John Duffy, the late political strategist and author, began Fights of Our Lives, his lively and encyclopedic account of the federal campaigns that shaped this country, with a simple premise — one always worth returning to at moments like this.

“Elections matter,” he wrote.

Writing in 2002, Duffy was pushing back against what he saw as the lazy cynicism of “academics, journalists and political dissenters of various stripes” who had “worked very hard for many years to convince voters in democracies that elections are inconsequential or, even worse, rigged, so that this or that social group maintains dominance no matter what happens at the polls.”

After spending the last 30 days telling Canadians that he would fight Trump and that Trump was trying to annex us..

..sources have now leaked to CBC that Carney grovelled to Trump, praising him as a “transformative President” who “respected Canada’s sovereignty” pic.twitter.com/p2FmFeK7wa

— An Oil Exec (@CanadianOilExec) April 25, 2025

The threat to Canada’s sovereignty from US President Donald Trump has dominated the election, but the country also faces a challenge from within. Some western Canadians, fed up with a decade of Liberal rule, are openly calling for separation.

Standing in front of a crowd of about 100 squeezed into a small event hall in the city of Lethbridge, Dennis Modry is asking locals about Alberta’s future.

Who thinks Alberta should have a bigger role in Canada, he asks? A dozen or so raise their hands.

Who thinks the province should push for a split from Canada and form its own nation? About half the crowd raise their hands.

The long-running drama playing out behind the scenes between Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s team and the federal Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre has erupted in full view of the public in the dying stages of the 2025 election.

The relationship between the two camps has long been fraught, but things have hit a fever pitch as Ontario PC sources recently alerted the media to efforts by the federal party to keep Poilievre’s Ottawa-area riding blue. It has meant the Conservatives have had to contend with several stories critical of the party’s strategy and campaign team as Poilievre makes his final pitch to voters ahead of the April 28 election day.

Elections are decided by those who bother to show up. Which is why a Conservative victory on Monday is still possible and desirable.

We’ve seen a lot of change in the polls already this year from a 15-20 point lead for the Conservatives at the start of the year, to a 12-point lead for the Liberals near the start of the campaign to some polls in the last week having the two parties tied or a slight lead for one or the other. As my maxim goes, voters are fickle, polls can change and campaigns matter.

I hope the shy Poilievre vote is real.

If Mark Carney is to lead his Liberal Party to its fourth straight term in government, seats in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area will form the backbone of his win.

There are 55 ridings up for grabs between the 416 and 905, home to an estimated 4.5 million eligible voters.

Toronto and the GTA have been dominated by the Liberals in every election since 2015. Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party will need to chip away at that dominance to have any hope of winning enough seats nationwide to form government.

Leaked audio of Prime Minister Mark Carney telling his elite $$$ buddies how they will “make a lot of money” off of their net zero plan (while the rest of us plebs go broke.) pic.twitter.com/o3gqTYLVng

— Odessa Orlewicz (@OdessaOrlewicz) April 23, 2025

As Canada prepares for a pivotal federal election on Monday, the stakes for the Jewish community — and for the future of Canada-Israel relations — have never been higher. This is not just another ballot. It is a litmus test for the country’s moral compass, a reckoning with the rising tide of antisemitism, and a defining moment for Canada’s role in supporting its democratic allies in the world, Israel among them.

This guy verbally assaulted & harassed my wife, he yelled & screamed at kids, and drove his bike into families.

When Elizabeth asked him to stop, he said she's a target too because she's my wife.

It's alarming to learn he's not only with the @NDP, he's their riding president.… https://t.co/GgfqJQSnr5

— Kevin Vuong ️ (@KevinVuongMP) April 24, 2025

Stark? Obvious is more to the point.