What a conundrum to face as an employer! Imagine an employee so incompetent that it would be better for your business if he did less. Imagine that this employee undermined the work of other employees, prevented other employees from doing their work and even undid previous work done. Adding insult to injury—in this imaginary scenario, fast becoming an employer’s worst nightmare—you couldn't terminate the employee! Such is the reality faced by every Canadian—the employee? Our current Liberal government!

According to a recent National Post article (Hopper, Dec. 24, 2025), our government sat for a mere 72 days in 2025. This is an 88-year record for the fewest number of work days in the House of Commons! You heard that right, a measly 72 days in 2025.

The average for a functioning government is around 150 days, so 72 days is less than half of the average. In 1964, the house sat for an all-time high of 214 days, about 3 times more than they achieved in 2025. Between Justin Trudeau's prorogue of the House to start the year, the general election last Spring, and the subsequent dallying by various members of Prime Minister Mark Carney's troupe, our MPs have enjoyed quite a slack work schedule. But oh! Full salary of course! There was no real national crisis or extenuating circumstance in 2025; even during the height of the COVID lock-downs our “leaders” sat for 95 days out of the year.

What did our elected representatives accomplish on our behalf in those 72 days of strenuous, arduous labour you ask? A paltry 7 bills! That's it. One was the budget. Instead of being tabled and passed by the usual February-March window, it took until November, the second last month of the year to get priority number 1 off the floor. That budget is a disaster, a $586 billion colossus, of which $72 billion is deficit spending. A budget this unbalanced shouldn't take any time at all; it's a balanced budget that requires more time and effort to wrestle and wrangle.

Another bill extended extraordinary powers to PM, Mark Carney to exempt resource projects from environmental reviews. The rest were sundry and routine.

A typical annual accomplishment would be to table, and pass, about 40 bills. What our MPs accomplished in 2025 was a pathetic showing for the $209,000 average salary each of our 343 MPs are paid annually (plus benefits).

But wait! Let's consider the damage they might have done had they worked more diligently. Consider Liberal Bills: C-2, C-8 and C-9, already queued up for 2026. Together, they constitute a devastating attack on personal freedoms and individual sovereignty. When considering the outcome of these bills, if passed, on the fabric of our nation and the future of our children, one could actually pray and beg the leadership of this nation to take the rest of the year off. Such is the sorry state that we're in, my fellow citizens—hosed if they don't work, enslaved if they do. It is such a bleak landscape, one might be tempted to despair.

But we must not yield to despair! The CHP has long sounded the alarm against the litany of progressive and detrimental laws that already plague our nation, plus new threats being proposed every day by the leftists in Ottawa. Over the years, our clarion call for volunteers and candidates has been answered by very few. So here we are. Are you and I prepared to work harder and put in more days than our highly-paid MPs? We ought to be. That bar is not very high.

The day is now upon us, the piper is puckering his lips. Do we throw up our hands and flee the ship? BY NO MEANS! The CHP has watched the decay, but we've also charted a small, narrow path back to liberty, prosperity, and faith.

The CHP has not sat idly by but has engaged the wisdom of Scripture and assembled a team to represent the prudence those Scriptures prescribe. As long as we are willing to show up and to exercise the opportunities still afforded us by the laws of this nation, we can not only call out incompetence, sloth and corruption wherever we find it, but we can also propose, in the public square, our better solutions.

Implementing our better solutions will require steadfast commitment, a shift in public opinion and Members of Parliament willing to work for change based on the godly principles and values that once made Canada a model of democracy and prosperity. We need to return to those principles while we still can.

Come, stand with us on the side of truth, justice and freedom. If not you, then who? If not now, then when? Your nation needs you today, and this is a call to you to defend our democratic traditions, our God-given freedoms and equally applied justice. We can settle for nothing less!

Join the CHP, be part of the solution, part of the change.