To the Liberal government and @MarkJCarney: The OECD ranks Canada dead last — 38th out of 38 — for projected GDP per capita growth through 2060. Not a recession. A generation of relative decline. Ordinary Canadians get poorer compared to peers while you manage the slide. This is the direct result of 11 continuous years of Liberal policy: • Real GDP per capita stagnated while others pulled ahead. • Housing became dramatically less affordable. • Food costs crushed budgets (family of four groceries projected near $17.5k+). • Food bank visits hit a record 2.35 million a month (up 117% since 2019). • Federal debt roughly doubled; interest now ~$59 billion this year (>$1B/week, fastest-growing expense). • Private investment and capital fled under regulation, uncertainty, and project delays. • Rapid population growth outran housing, healthcare, and infrastructure capacity. Youth jobs suffered. You own this. It is not Trump, global forces, or “the world.” Look in the mirror. Stop the gaslighting and press releases claiming Canadians have “never had it so good.” Admit that Liberal choices since 2015 are the primary domestic driver of the decline in living standards — especially for young people and working families. Then reverse course: slash regulatory barriers on real projects, align immigration strictly with housing/jobs/healthcare capacity, prioritize productivity and private investment over announcements, and measure success by per-capita outcomes, not total GDP or government size. I have nine grandchildren. They inherit the debt service, the weaker labour market, the housing costs, and the lost years. Kitchen table first. Results, not spin. The clock is running.

I have zero trust left in the system. None. 519,000+ mail-in ballots in this Alberta referendum. In 2023 it was barely 51,000. There are nearly 600,000 temporary and permanent residents in this province who are not citizens and cannot legally vote. Elections Alberta does not require proof of citizenship for mail-in or in-person voting. Name and address is enough. They take your word for it. We used to run elections on the assumption that people would not try to game the system. That assumption is dead. High non-citizen numbers, massive mail-in expansion, and high-stakes questions about Alberta’s future and immigration do not mix with an honour system. Albertans just voted yes on requiring actual proof of citizenship to vote (passport, birth certificate, citizenship card). The people spoke. The system still runs on declarations and hope. For my nine grandchildren, this is not abstract. Loose rules plus zero trust equals stolen futures. Tighten it. Prove citizenship. Cut the mail-in free-for-all. Or stop pretending the results are clean.

He ran on being the one who could get a deal with Trump by mid-summer 2025. July 21 was the date that came out of the G7. He dropped the digital services tax to keep that timeline alive. Deadlines came and went. Talks were suspended more than once. Tariffs stayed or went up. Now he is saying, from Istanbul, that Canada doesn’t care about the timing and is prepared to wait until after Trump or even another administration for a “proper” deal. That is not a new strategy. It is the admission that the election promise was the product, and the actual plan was to manage the crisis, borrow against it, and wait it out while pivoting to other agendas (EU associate talks with no parliamentary vote, immigration pathways that clean the temporary numbers without fixing housing or youth jobs, modular housing money that has not produced the starts he named). Businesses hear this clearly: the largest customer is on indefinite hold. Steel, aluminum, autos, energy, and everything integrated with them cannot plan capital, shifts, or hiring when the government is openly saying the deal can wait until the other side changes. Uncertainty is a tax. Prolonged tariffs plus the rest of the file (youth unemployment near 13%, housing that never caught up, interest payments already larger than the GST) is how you get delayed investment and quieter Main Streets. He said judge him on groceries. They went up. He said a deal by summer. We are in fall 2026 with no deal and an explicit willingness to wait it out. The pattern is the same one the post names: create or stretch the crisis, spend, and treat the next generation’s balance sheet as the residual. I have nine grandchildren. They inherit the debt service, the weaker labour market, and the lost years of certainty with our main trading partner. A Prime Minister does not get to campaign on the deal, miss every public timeline, and then tell businesses the timeline was never the point. Kitchen table first.