Since the onset of the election media, politicians, and spin doctors have tried to tell you that this election is about Donald Trump, tariffs, and that it's about left or right - it’s not.
It’s really not about any of that.
This election is about your government, its choices, and more importantly: this election is about YOU.
It’s about your life here - wherever you reside - , and what kind of country you will have to live in and leave for your children.
Across Canada, for the first time since the 1960s, we’re witnessing a deep cultural shift. It’s not one between East and West, or rural and urban, but between generations.
The Lost Liberal Decade as it is now being called, has created deep and nearly irreconcilable economic and cultural cleavages between younger Canadians and their aging, increasingly retired fore-bearers. The neighbourhoods of the North Shore of Vancouver have made this strikingly clear - and it's up to the young voters who still manage to call the North Shore home to change course.
The 2025 Federal election is an opportunity for an entire generation who has been left behind by the political leadership of the past decade and the economic conditions they created to make itself heard and chart a new course for themselves.
Perhaps nowhere in BC is situation more dire than across the three riding's that cover the North Shore of Vancouver. Across North and West Vancouver, young people have been squeezed out in record numbers due to the high cost of living, a shrinking job market, and a stagnant economy. Many have fled their home communities amid market conditions that cement the wealth of older generations while completely abandoning its youth.
A decade of heavy taxation, deepening debt, job-killing regulation, unsustainable record mass immigration - a betrayal of our nation - and blatant government corruption has left a wake of miserably failed public policy promises in virtually every ministry. This decade long pattern has left entire generations of Canadians completely empty-handed and frustrated; their future at a crossroads of uncertainty, facing the horrific decision of whether to remain in their hometown or leave, purely to survive.
North Vancouver used to be a younger, dynamic, affordable and enterprising place; a region unto its own where people had strong community bonds, a common identity rooted in cohesion, patriotism and promise and an underlining interest in carrying forward and preserving what this place had to offer to future generations.
After 10 years of uninterrupted Liberal representation of a government clinging to power (despite steadily declining electoral support), these notions of home on the North Shore have become but a distant memory.
The natural human tendency to conserve and pass on, of generational succession has been shattered. Instead of leadership that champions opportunity and wealth creation, Liberal leadership bankrupted a generation before they even started in life, leaving them to take their aspirations of the future elsewhere - sometimes as far away as other provinces - and now, more than ever, other countries.
A decade of Liberal government will do this to communities. Vancouver’s North Shore is just one example.
It all started with the Big Liberal Lie.
For an entire decade, Canada’s youth have been fed a steady stream of platitudes, promises, and political slogans. “Sunny ways”, “Diversity is our strength”, government making “investments in our young people”, “we’re all in this together” - you’ve heard them all before.
These slogans and public communications campaigns were used to usher in new spending programs, open up our universities like seedy stock exchanges, and sedate the immobile young professional class with government jobs or welfare programs, while funneling cash to connected consulting firms and government contractors. For a decade, the Liberal Establishment sold our youth on an idyllic vision of Canadiana, wrapped in the cozy blanket of the state.
But what did youth really get out of it all?
In return for voting for the Trudeau Liberals, Canada’s younger generations were rewarded with nothing but record debt, heavy taxation, rampant inflation, corruption and a spiraling standard of living, all spelling an outcome completely separated from what they were promised as children. In short: for believing in the Liberal Lie, an entire generation was handed utter and total failure.
Rents have doubled in the last ten years of Liberal government. Houses in North Vancouver now start at well over $1Million. New building starts continue to be held up in red tape urged upon municipalities by the sensitivities of older home-owning incumbents.
A broken immigration system intentionally broken by ideologically motivated policy has flooded our communities with low skilled immigrants, often victims themselves of a corrupt post secondary system that was supposed to serve Canadian citizens. These policies have contributed to sky high rents and degraded our once tight knit communities.
Disastrous Liberal fiscal management of perpetual deficits, ballooning public debt, interest rate suppression, reckless government spending, and unbridled government expansion has steadily rewarded middle management boomers, government employees, homeowners and benefits recipients - and of course, politicians - while plunging our dollar into free fall.
Liberal deficits have added over half a $Trillion CAD dollars to the money supply, decimating Canadian purchasing power, while inflating asset prices beyond the reach of the average worker.
Our economy, once robust, resilient and productive a mere decade ago, is now a world leader in dysfunction and immobility. For comparison, our wealthiest province, Ontario is poorer and less productive per capita than Mississippi, the poorest jurisdiction in the United States, Mississippi. Industrial development has been reduced to breweries, self storage, retail banking and of course, questionable currency exchanges. Service jobs, middle management positions and government jobs litter job boards - an employment environment catered to the demands of an aging and increasingly outdated and fading ruling economic cohort.
Those high productivity, high income, resource-based jobs - ones that countless young Canadians took advantage of to save for things like university - have been regulated away by restrictive anti-development legislation like Liberal Bill C-69, costing our nation billions in revenue and countless well-paying jobs for young people.
Young Canadians on Vancouver’s North Shore face an impossible job market. A young worker making $100,000/year is now barely getting by on the North Shore. For those of us fortunate enough to make around $150,000/year, we’re forced to put up with a wealth destroying 50%+ tax burden - or move away to more business-friendly jurisdictions.
The household income required to own a home in North Vancouver is now well over $200k.
There are winners and losers of inflation. There’s no wonder why boomers love Big Liberal Government. What is worth asking is why they’re willing to sabotage their children’s generation in the process.
Older, rent-seeking, asset-rich residents coast by easily in times of inflation, their needs and, their lifestyles sustained by the advent of the artificially suppressed interest rates and inflated house values that, in combination provide their HELOCs (home equity line of credit) that finance their lifestyles while they’re waited upon by local service workers and cheap foreign labour. Inflation sustains their new lifestyle while the next generation struggles to find productive, high-paying jobs, let alone the security to cover the ever-increasing rent prices.
Polling indicates older Canadians have decided they’re perfectly content in sustaining a government machine of subsidies, payoffs, “loan” programs and “investments” - of which many of them certainly benefit.
You might, too, if you didn’t have to pay for it - but received the lionshare of the benefits. But you do have to pay for it - for the rest of your life if you choose to stay in Canada. You’re on the hook for the last Liberal governments, and you’ll be the only one on the hook for the next one if Mark Carney’s Liberals win the election.
Justin Trudeau, backed by every representative on the North Shore: Patrick Weiler, Jonathan Wilkinson (a senior Cabinet Minister) and Terry Beech each helped ensure the economic ruin of Canada, and helped design, knowingly or not, the radically dysfunctional economic environments of places like the North Shore.
And now, their new leader, Mark Carney, the man who practically spent his career popularizing the damaging economic policies that artificially suppress interest rates and balloon housing costs beyond reach, wants to double down by spending an extra $130 Billion to rack up a total deficit of $223 Billion in 2025 alone.
That’s right. After advising Justin Trudeau on doubling the national debt and hamstringing our economy with taxes and regulations, he wants to finish the job by raising our national debt by a quarter of a trillion dollars.
Canada now spends $1Billion dollars every week (not every year, every week) on servicing the national debt alone.
These Liberal failures explain why Millennials and Gen Z voters are increasingly embracing a radically different approach to the management of our economy. Younger Canadians who are struggling to achieve life’s basic milestones of purchasing a home and starting a family are overwhelmingly favouring a new course of economic disruption: A path of market deregulation and an aggressive retraction of the state involvement in their lives. Younger voters view this as a way to reset and level Canada’s economic playing field away from rewarding a protected class of older, established interests in favour of the new emerging one: a generation of productive Canadians.
For those who still fight to remain, to survive, and to work toward ensuring the continuation of their family in the place where they grew up, I’m hard pressed to meet a single one of them who have in some way benefited from the federal government over the last decade - let alone who view a future for themselves on the North Shore under disastrously incompetent Liberal government.
There is no future for young people in alongside the largesse of the Liberal state. Only debt and disappointment. It didn’t used to be this way. And it doesn’t have to in the future if young Canadians act by choosing a different future, for Canada, yes, but also for themselves.
Vote for a new Canada, one that is reminiscent of the great country that made possible the conditions for our parents and grandparents’ success. That means voting for a government that will respect taxpayer dollars, operate within its means, prioritize growth again and champion the working population.
If you’re a millennial from North Vancouver - maybe one who’s left but longing to return - and end the wholesale betrayal of our future take back the Canadian promise we all grew up with:
Vote Conservative on Monday, April 28th.
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