The Liberal Party needs a serious time out of government to take responsibility for their ten-year legacy of democratic decay and a weak, disunited Canada; and to thoroughly rethink their principles, values, policies, and commitment to democracy.

Canada is not a one-party state, and Mark Carney is certainly not some sort of messiah or Trump-whisperer, as Liberal strategists insist. Canadian voters can recognize Liberal smarm when the proposed emperor has no clothes.

Yes, Canada has to deal with an unpredictable, unhinged U.S. president, but we are not alone. And there is nothing to support the conclusion that an elite banker dragging the Liberal Party albatross behind him is our best choice for prime minister.

Yes, Virginia, Canada will survive and thrive without another Liberal government and Liberal prime minister.

Indeed, the Liberal Party election strategy of hiding their abysmal record as a government behind an untested leader anointed by crony elites, and repeatedly using exaggerated scare tactics about Donald Trump while shamelessly copying Conservative Party policies, reveals both the arrogance and hollowness of the Liberal Party, and their fundamental disrespect for Canadian voters.

Fortunately, in this election Canadians have a clear choice: more unprincipled, self-absorbed Liberal rule, or a fresh Conservative government that can rebuild a strong, united Canada, manage Trump, and rejuvenate our democratic and federal institutions.

This snap election campaign increasingly resembles the Charlottetown Referendum campaign in 1992.

Canadians should recall how the 1992 referendum campaign featured the prime minister exaggeratedly elevating the vote to the level of existential threat to scare Canadians into accepting a fundamentally flawed constitutional accord.

Mulroney repeatedly called Canadians opposed to the controversial Charlottetown constitutional accord, “enemies of Canada” and insisted throughout the campaign that a NO vote would lead to the end of Canada as we know it, economically and otherwise.

Only to find that Canadians on their own, in thoughtful non-partisan forums and communities, independently of political parties and leaders advising the contrary, concluded that the constitutional amendments would irrevocably weaken the federation and undermine the Canadian Charter.

The Charlottetown constitutional accord was soundly rejected in a short snap referendum campaign, with a 72% turnout of the electorate, as was the Mulroney government one year later, led by Mulroney’s fleetingly popular successor.

In this election, Mark Carney is channeling the role of Brian Mulroney, deliberately deploying the politics of fear of Trump, in a short snap election campaign, to obscure the fundamental failings of the Liberal Party and its leader.

It’s time to give Pierre Poilievre and a Conservative government an opportunity to lead the way out of the morass left by the Liberal Party and their faux-democratic leaders, and give voice to the many Canadians who deserve better from their elected representatives.

Canadians are already motivated to pull together against the Trump threat and to build a uniquely compassionate and productive country that is fiercely independent and more than a sum of fragmented parts. We need our federal government—the one government elected by all Canadians—to rejuvenate our democratic and federal institutions, and support our collective efforts to strengthen national unity.

Yet another Liberal government is not the answer.

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See Chapter 2: Why Meech and Charlottetown matter: Lessons in citizen mobilization. (pp. 15-26).