I can’t remember who was the first writer (it may have been the witty and erudite John Robson) to refer to Ottawa as “Disneyland on the Rideau.” But for ten years under Justin Trudeau, the sobriquet applied in spades—and even more so today under the amateur prime ministership of Mark Carney.

From Justin Trudeau’s moronic “The budget will balance itself” to Steven Guilbeault’s climbing the CN Tower in a vainglorious attempt to force Canada to leave its oil bonanza in the ground, Ottawa (under both recent and current administrations) has become a wonderland of wishful thinking.

I could fill the rest of this column with nothing but references to the unfulfilled and unfulfillable promises from the ‘kiddie cabinet’ of inexperienced DEI appointments:

• The Electric Vehicle mandate that’s going to go into force in five months: where will the energy come from to recharge all those EVs? It will take the equivalent of about five of BC’s Site C dams. And who can afford those cars? Taxpayer subsidies are not the answer.

A CHP government would scrap the EV mandates and allow Canadians to purchase and drive the cars and trucks they want.

• The fake cancellation of the consumer carbon tax (which was quietly transferred from the consumer to the manufacturers): did you notice how the price at the pumps dropped briefly—then spiked back up after the election? There’s no free lunch; if producers and manufacturers pay a tax, they will pass additional costs back to consumers.

A CHP government would eliminate ALL carbon taxes.

• The promise to reduce the cost of the federal government: the cost of running Parliament is $70 million a year; but the cost of the permanent appointed civil service is still $70 billion a year. Our debt has ballooned to over a trillion dollars. Our grandchildren will, on average, be more than 80 years repaying the current governments dreamy excesses. Promises by this PM to cut the cost of government are simply word games. He has no serious intention to cut his favourite programs.

A CHP government would cut the bureaucracy and eliminate foolish program spending.

• The ‘elbows up’ promise to ‘handle’ U.S. President Donald Trump: While the U.S. has negotiated tariff deals with most of the world’s nations, only two remain on the outside, looking in: China and Canada. China is obviously a self-proclaimed enemy of the USA; Canada used to be a trusted ally—until Carney and Poilievre both decided to campaign against Mr. Trump. You might not agree with Trump on everything, but he’s done wonders for employment, incomes, and investment in the USA, while Canada has become the investment equivalent of a leper colony.

A CHP government would take serious steps to secure our borders and ports against illegal drugs, human trafficking and weapons and drop ‘retaliatory’ tariffs that only hurt Canadian businesses and families; then we would negotiate in good faith with our neighbours to the south.

• The sick promise to increase access to abortion and provide ‘gender transition’ to the next generation. Canada has been killing off our future for decades—over four million pre-born have been sacrificed on the altar of “convenience” and uncaring politicians have been trying to compensate by bringing in millions of “replacement” immigrants and refugees, many of whom require substantial taxpayer supports. The gender transition scheme has rendered thousands of boys and girls incapable of ever becoming parents. It’s also cost a boatload of taxpayer dollars.

A CHP government would completely eliminate federal funding for abortion, ‘gender-re-assignment surgery’ and MAiD (which has already killed more Canadian adults than all the Canadian soldiers who died in World War II).

What are the underlying delusions of our current misguided dictators? How have they so managed to deceive voters into allowing them to control our every move?

A basic one is the idea—believed by so many—that ‘the government’ is responsible for providing for our needs and wants.

A second one—a corollary—is that governments are not limited in their jurisdiction. Some folks think elected governments are infallible and that the mortal, sinful human beings entrusted with the responsibilities of legislation and legal judgments must be obeyed no matter how thin their excuses nor how twisted their reasoning. That’s how Hitler came to power. And that’s how our representative democracy could be transformed into a nightmare if good Christian men and women fail to resist the evil that we see all around us.

Another one, cooked up by the socialist, globalist elites who are now driving the bus is the WEF fantasy that “You’ll own nothing… and be happy.” They want us to be prepared to rent from them the things we now own outright. Like houses. And cars.

But from whom will you rent the things you need? After all, ‘someone’ has to own them.

The globalists want us to rent from them: from the managerial elite of corporations like Brookfield Asset Management (in which the Prime Minister, presumably, still holds massive shares in his so-called ‘blind trust’) or CCP-linked Chinese corporations (in which previous PMs and a former Canadian ambassador to China have had big investments); from Bill Gates and George Soros; from BlackRock and other US-based asset management corporations.

Are these self-centred entities concerned with the well-being of Canadian families? I don’t think so.

If we want to avoid the pain and suffering currently being unleashed on us by faceless bureaucrats, self-satisfied politicians and entrenched financial power brokers, we—the Canadian people—will have to step up and begin to reclaim our birthrights of freedom and dignity. We in the CHP are in the trenches and calling—as watchmen on the walls—for a movement to restore that which has been lost, to rebuild that which has been destroyed and to defend the moral principles that once made this nation Strong and Free.