On the heels of a Canadian election that both started and ended with a minority Liberal government, the term ‘democracy inaction’ takes on a new meaning.
Unfortunately, also on the heels of the Canadian election, evidence is beginning to surface that Canada’s electoral system is corrupt and that the 2025 election was rigged in numerous and subtle ways.
In a riding he held for many years, Pierre Poilievre, despite leading his Conservative Party to its best performance in decades, nevertheless lost his own seat in the riding of Carleton. And while criticizing Poilievre on campaign strategies and policies that may have hurt him is fair comment, holding him responsible for the loss of his own seat is not.
For example, Poilievre’s 2025 ballot contained 91 ‘candidates’ names and in the upcoming Alberta byelection in which he expects to regain a seat in parliament, a lobby group calling itself the ‘Longest Ballot Committee’ plans to add over 200 names to the byelection ballot. While this presents more of an inconvenience to voters than to Poilievre, the mere fact that Elections Canada permits such open and obvious manipulation of the ballot speaks to a deep systemic corruption within Canada’s entire electoral system.
Worse, the riding of Carleton, which Poilievre held for many years, was a different riding during previous elections. However, shortly before the 2025 election, Poilievre’s riding was gerrymandered to include a huge additional political jurisdiction consisting of a solid majority of Liberal voters.
Gerrymandering is defined as “the practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party.” This factor, more than any other, was the primary cause of Poilievre’s losing his long-held seat in Carleton.
Meanwhile, on the PPC front with Maxime Bernier, every possible action was taken to push him off the electoral stage, from changing rules so as to prohibit him from participating in the Leaders’ debates, to completely ignoring his existence in the corporate and state funded media.
And again, evidence is surfacing that perhaps as many as sixty candidates registered with the PPC withdrew their candidacy at the last minute because they were really Conservatives out to sabotage the PPC vote.
And last, but certainly not least, those ultimately responsible for all the dystopian and totalitarian governments that Canada has produced are the voters themselves. But as the old saying goes: “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.”
Indeed, repeatedly, various post-election pundits have found themselves unavoidably observing and arriving at the conclusion that Canadian voters are stupid.
And as we have so often observed ourselves when trying to understand why voters act against their own self-interest and continue to support politicians that are destroying their country: “It ain’t so much what people don’t know that gets them into trouble; it’s what they do know that just ain’t so!”
This indeed describes the condition of the average voter, and is why it is the voters themselves, and not just the politicians, who must be persuaded to trade their ignorance for knowledge.
Unless voters learn to vote in a way that is Just Right, not just stupid, voting will never be a process for positive change, but for continued social ruin.
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