Canada is standing on a knife’s edge, and most people don’t even realize it.

Canada is standing on a knife’s edge, and most people don’t even realize it.

We are being lulled into complacency by familiar political branding, while the ground beneath us shifts. This isn’t just about left or right....

This is about whether Canada aligns itself with a future of authoritarian power structures OR steps into something far more intelligent, far more human.

Pierre Poilievre isn’t just “Conservative.” He’s parroting the same emotionally manipulative rhetoric as Trump’s GOP...because it works.

“Everything is broken” isn’t a policy. It’s a tactic.

It’s designed to stoke rage, deepen distrust in institutions, and keep people glued to simplistic solutions instead of asking: Who benefits from this rage?

Don't be fooled.

The Canadian right wing is not operating in isolation. It’s being influenced, emboldened, and in some cases funded by American billionaires, think tanks, and far-right networks that have spent decades crafting disinformation campaigns.

Groups like the Atlas Network have funneled money and messaging into countries like ours, training conservative politicians in the art of populist manipulation... emotion over truth, spectacle over substance.

Look at the convoy movement. Look at the anti-vax, anti-mask disinformation campaigns. Those weren’t grassroots. Those were carefully seeded narratives.

The exact same playbook used to dismantle democracy in the U.S. is now being tested on Canadian soil.

...And while Canadians pride themselves on being different, we’re not immune.

We’re tired.

Financially depleted.

Fed up with housing costs, inflation, and systems that don’t seem to work....

And in that exhaustion, we are vulnerable.

The kind of vulnerability that makes people easy to manipulate, easy to radicalize. Especially young men... many of whom are being groomed into extremism through podcasts, YouTube rants, and algorithm-fed echo chambers that preach male victimhood and rage.

And here’s the sick irony: while Canadians shout about freedom, the party selling that "freedom" is the one aligning itself with oppressive ideologies!! (Make It make sense?!)

Anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment. Book bans. Anti-immigrant fear-mongering. Attacks on reproductive rights... They’re not even hiding it anymore!

And let’s talk about women, because THAT is where the mask fully slips!

Pierre Poilievre voted AGAINST the $10-a-day child care plan. He voted against the very policy that helps women re-enter the workforce and lifts entire families out of poverty.

He talks about “supporting families,” yet he stood against the most transformative family policy Canada has ever seen.

But it doesn’t stop there.

He also voted against pay equity legislation. Against fair wages for women doing equal work.

He refused to condemn anti-abortion bills introduced by his own party’s MPs—bills that used manipulative language to sneak fetal rights into law. And when asked directly whether he’d protect abortion access? He dodged. He spun. He chose silence.

He even initially voted against banning conversion therapy! A practice that disproportionately targets queer youth, especially young women and trans girls.

And don’t forget who surrounds him... He’s backed by influencers and networks who call feminism a disease. Who want women “back in the kitchen.” Who glorify the tradwife aesthetic not as a personal choice—but as a political weapon.

That’s not a coincidence. That’s a signal.

So when he says he fights for “freedom,” ask yourself: whose freedom? Because it’s not yours, mama.

Not if you’re a working mom. Not if you’re queer. Not if you’re poor, disabled, racialized, or just done with this patriarchal shit.

We are watching, in real time, the slow erosion of critical thinking. The slow numbing of a nation.

Meanwhile, we have one of the most economically competent leaders we’ve ever seen—someone who has steered us through global crises, who understands economics beyond the buzzwords, who’s offered real, structural solutions.... And Canadians can’t hear him.

Because we’re too tired. Because we’ve been fed lies. Because rage sells better than reason.

This is what makes me weep... not for the politics, but for the people.

For the single mom who thinks Poilievre is fighting for her when he voted against her child care.

For the young adult woman who thinks “freedom” means she’ll be safe, not realizing her rights are on the chopping block.

For every woman who’s been conditioned to mistrust her own anger, her own knowing.

We are not choosing between two political parties. We are choosing between two realities.

One built on complexity, intelligence, and equity...

And one built on control, fear, and conspiracy.

This isn’t about saving a country. It’s about refusing to let it rot beneath our silence.

We’re not just standing at a crossroads... we’re standing in the fire.

This is the moment history will ask: where were you when the darkness came dressed as freedom?