All party leaders are selling this is the most important election for Canada’s future. Both Carney and Poilievre say this election is about change. They are not wrong. Unfortunately, Canada’s future and Canada’s problems change almost day by day. No one could have forecast the consequences Canada, and the world, would face with the election of Donald Trump. We may have heard of the 2025 document and believed that it would never come to pass.
We were naive. We did not even fathom that our closest ally would turn on us. We still are in shock as the administration is targeting Canadian industries with huge tariffs that economically strike at our nation’s wellbeing. It is the biggest issue in the election. We never expected that the Trump administration would seek to annex Canada.
The campaigns that were written up for both the Conservatives and the Liberals in mid 2024 have now been tossed in the waste basket. The comfortable lead of the Conservatives has been diminished to make this election a horse race. This is the election is about Canada remaining strong and free. Not one politician has provided a vision of how they will lead Canada to remaining strong and free.
And now in this Canadian election, we are already experiencing mischief and misleading information on various social media platforms about the candidates for the two major parties. Both major party leaders are trumpeting themselves as the best choice to fight the on again, off again tariffs of Donald Trump.
Danielle Smith made a comment about Team Canada. It has been noted that eight of the 10 premiers were on Team Canada. But in her comments, she noted that the rest of Canada also has to be on Team Alberta and that means building pipelines to the west coast and the east coast to move Alberta’s and Saskatchewan’s wealth to new buyers and remove Canada’s dependency on the U.S. market. It is a good vision to developing new markets.
Leaders across Europe are now examining their purchase of armaments from the world’s greatest supplier of weaponry. Canada is reconsidering the purchase of F-35 planes, knowing in advance that future upgrades in software could be withheld from countries the U.S. sees as unfriendly. Canada has now been earmarked as such by Donald Trump.
We must examine the party platforms as they change daily to meet this ever-evolving worldwide trade war. We must examine the platforms to see how the parties will seek to grow and expand our economy, diverting our trade from the United States to more countries throughout the world.
The election has also been dubbed “the election where we are fighting for our lives!” We have become united and voters have made it crystal clear that the next four years will be a fight against Donald Trump to maintain our sovereignty both economically and physically. This is Canada’s fight.
