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Tomorrow’s election will be one of the most important in Canadian history. The results hang on one crucial question: what’s the biggest threat to Canada right now?

The Liberals, under the guidance of Mark Carney, have used every tool at their disposal to frighten, persuade, and cajole voters into believing the biggest threat to Canada is American tariffs and America’s president.

But while relations with America are indeed something Canadians should care about, let’s hope that they’re not quite gullible enough to fall for that one. Let’s hope they recognise what Liberals have spent ten years proving over and over: the greatest threat to Canada as we know it isn’t in some other country. It’s right at home in Canada, nestling comfortably in the nation’s biggest armchair: the feckless and arrogant Liberal Party, with Mark Carney at its head.

Friday afternoon, I received a tele-marketing call from the Liberal candidate in my riding in Calgary. She went through the usual spiel of “having a strong voice to speak on my behalf in Ottawa”.

She added the polls in the riding look like it’s a toss-up between her and the Conservative candidate, but if I cast my vote for her, “we can elect a government and a prime minister in Mark Carney that will stand up to Donald Trump and protect Canadian sovereignty”.

If the latest polling is accurate, Canadian voters on Monday may grant Canada’s Liberal government another four years in power.

The party, which has been in power since 2015, was given a new lease of life in the form of former central banker Mark Carney – who has boosted its standing in the opinion polls.

But despite the Liberals’ makeover, all Carney represents is the continuity of Justin Trudeau’s appalling legacy.

At a recent Liberal Party rally, Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to a heckler who accused Israel of perpetrating a genocide in Gaza with the words: “I’m aware. It’s why we have an arms embargo.” That sentence was not just a deflection — it was a tacit endorsement of one of the most dangerous and legally baseless accusations circulating in today’s global discourse.

Canada is tragically a nation in decline. For a number of years, the key economic and quality of life metrics have slowly but surely worsened. This has happened while comparable countries have done much better. And it’s largely been a policy choice. We are not in accidental decline, but managed decline.

This is where we find ourselves, as we are on the cusp of a momentous national election. The choice voters face on Monday is whether to continue down this path or to turn things around by going in a different direction.