I Am A Conservative Canadian. And I’m Done Being Ruled by the Laurentian Elite Who Broke the Country.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
Not the cartoon the pundits like to sketch on television. Not the villain in the tidy little morality play performed every night in Ottawa studios.
Just a citizen who works, pays taxes, and has reached the point where the lectures from the people running this country have become unbearable.
Because here is the truth no one in Ottawa seems willing to say out loud.
Canada is not failing because Canadians are selfish, backward, or resistant to progress.
Canada is struggling because the people in charge have confused moral theatre with competence.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
I believe a country should produce things.
Energy. Food. Opportunity.
Not just announcements.
I believe budgets should eventually balance because debt is not compassion. Debt is simply a bill we hand to our children and pretend we did them a favour.
I believe the truck driver hauling freight across the Prairies contributes more to Canada in a single winter storm than a room full of policy advisors drafting their seventh strategy document about him.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
Which means I believe the people who actually build the country deserve a government that respects them.
And that is where the “anger” comes from.
Because the class that governs Canada today does not respect those people.
They manage them.
The Laurentian elite speaks endlessly about the working class while living comfortably in a world completely insulated from it.
They host conferences about sacrifice.
They publish essays about equity.
And then they bill the taxpayer for lunch.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
And I am tired of watching a political class lecture the country about responsibility while demonstrating none of it themselves.
They tell Canadians we must accept higher energy costs in the name of the planet while sitting in a country blessed with enough resources to power half the world.
They tell families struggling with grocery bills that the real problem is their consumption habits.
They tell us housing is unaffordable because the issue is complicated.
Everything is always complicated.
Everything except the part where ordinary Canadians are expected to quietly absorb the consequences.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
Which means I have very little patience left for hypocrisy.
The same people who lecture the country about sacrifice never seem to sacrifice anything themselves.
They fly to climate summits to explain austerity to people who cannot afford their heating bills.
They expand government year after year while telling Canadians to tighten their belts.
They preside over failure and then congratulate themselves for managing it.
And when Canadians finally push back, we are told the real problem is our attitude.
That we are angry.
That we are misinformed.
That we simply do not understand the brilliance of the plan.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
And I understand it perfectly.
What I do not accept anymore is the arrogance behind it.
Because this country does not belong to the people who dominate the panel discussions on television.
It belongs to the people who wake up before dawn to keep the lights on.
The farmers who feed us.
The tradesmen who build for us.
The truckers who haul for us.
The small business owners who take risks while Ottawa writes rules.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
Which means I believe the purpose of government is actually quite simple.
Protect the country.
Maintain order.
Create conditions where people can thrive and build their own prosperity.
That is it.
Government is not supposed to micromanage the economy, redesign society, or lecture citizens about how enlightened it is.
And it certainly is not supposed to behave like a permanent ruling class that believes its authority comes from virtue rather than results.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
And I believe Canada deserves better than this slow drift into managed decline.
It deserves leadership that actually believes in the people who built it.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
And I am finished pretending that the people running this country know better than the citizens who keep it alive.
Enough.
Melanie in Saskatchewan