Excellent article, Meghan. Quite well sums up how I feel also. I've always leaned left and primarily voted Liberal and NDP. When the George Floyd riots happened and the police were so quickly demonized, I knew something was wrong. In my search for more information, I came across Thomas Sowell, Coleman Hughes, Ayaan HIrsi Ali, and you of course (and more but too many to list). Because of amazing and relentless journalists like yourself, I can now see the harmful effects this progressive ideology is having. Especially on women's rights. I believe it was in one of your podcasts (?) it was talked about how it has to be everyday people coming together to force politicians to address this. You are so right!! After hearing Billboard Chris speak of Erin O'Toole cowardly trying to avoid him, I lost all faith in the UCP. Maybe with the new leader it might be different, but I'm not holding out hope. The PPC would probably have addressed this, but people in Canada have become so reliant on government to fix everything that is wrong in society, that their message is a hard pill for people to swallow.
And weirdly in the last election it seemed like the Conservatives were trying to go Liberal, leaving us with no options at all! I like Pierre Poilievre though!
Yes, exactly! I have no doubt that if covid had happened while the UCP was in power, they would have done the same authoritarian restrictions as Trudeau did. Ford was proof of that. The UCP only started to back the truckers once they saw how much ground support there was for them. All that being said, though, I watched Pierre's interview with Jordan Peterson and I was impressed. So there is hope.
Excellent article, Meghan. Quite well sums up how I feel also. I've always leaned left and primarily voted Liberal and NDP. When the George Floyd riots happened and the police were so quickly demonized, I knew something was wrong. In my search for more information, I came across Thomas Sowell, Coleman Hughes, Ayaan HIrsi Ali, and you of course (and more but too many to list). Because of amazing and relentless journalists like yourself, I can now see the harmful effects this progressive ideology is having. Especially on women's rights. I believe it was in one of your podcasts (?) it was talked about how it has to be everyday people coming together to force politicians to address this. You are so right!! After hearing Billboard Chris speak of Erin O'Toole cowardly trying to avoid him, I lost all faith in the UCP. Maybe with the new leader it might be different, but I'm not holding out hope. The PPC would probably have addressed this, but people in Canada have become so reliant on government to fix everything that is wrong in society, that their message is a hard pill for people to swallow.
And weirdly in the last election it seemed like the Conservatives were trying to go Liberal, leaving us with no options at all! I like Pierre Poilievre though!
Yes, exactly! I have no doubt that if covid had happened while the UCP was in power, they would have done the same authoritarian restrictions as Trudeau did. Ford was proof of that. The UCP only started to back the truckers once they saw how much ground support there was for them. All that being said, though, I watched Pierre's interview with Jordan Peterson and I was impressed. So there is hope.
It's all politics.
Yep, and we need less of it.
she knows her stuff!
And then some!
I've learned a lot from Meghan, and I'm a lot older than her.