British Columbia’s Conservative Earthquake Shakes Canada’s Political Landscape

 

Canada went tropical last week (October 24, 2026).

I would have written “Hell freezes over in Canada,” but Canada is frozen most of the year, so that wouldn’t work. A political earthquake like nothing before has shaken the Great White North to its tundra core.

I’ve previously vented my disdain for our Frozen Banana Republic neighbor, which locks up Christians, dismisses citizens in need of health care, and treads upon the rights of the common man while claiming to be nice in the process.

The country has drifted, then rushed to the political left over the last ten years. Aside from ongoing Conservative wins in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada was turning into a Liberal graveyard. Even one prairie province, Manitoba, is governed by the New Democratic Party (NDP), which is further left than the national Liberal Party.

After last week, change looks like it’s coming, and for the better.

A miracle happened in British Columbia, one of the country's most liberal provinces: Conservatives have won, big time. Imagine Republicans taking over the state legislatures in California and New York. Far-fetched, right? Total fantasy, for sure.

Yet something similar just happened in British Columbia.

The BC Conservative Party swept the provincial election, winning a commanding majority. Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson campaigned on cutting red tape, cutting taxes, increasing energy and resource production, and making the province business-friendly.

Unlike other Conservative parties, the BC Conservative Party spent decades on the political margins. For years, anyone who wanted to get the NDP out of power generally had to vote for the BC Liberal Party, which served as the centrist/center-right alternative. The Liberals renamed themselves BC United in 2023, but the Conservative Party, reinvigorated when former BC Liberal MLA John Rustad joined it that year, rapidly gained ground. In 2024, BC United suspended its election campaign, leaving the Conservatives as the NDP’s principal opposition. Rustad and his team almost won the election, taking 44 seats to the NDP’s 47, with the Greens winning two. Premier David Eby’s NDP held on by a single-seat majority.

So close, and yet so far.

The diminished yet still majority NDP government doubled down on its rapacious left-wing policies. The BC Conservative Party ousted its leader, Rustad, then elected a more conservative fighter, Kerry-Lynne Findlay. A few months later, still dealing with a mix of more liberal members and staunch conservatives, party members feared Findlay’s approach would alienate swing voters, and she was forced to resign. Another round of infighting threatened the NDP’s main opposition, and the BC Conservatives settled on interim leader Lorne Doerkson, while other members became Independent MLAs or joined the more populist OneBC party.

The NDP smelled an easy win, which would have given it another four-year mandate, so Eby called a snap provincial election to beef up his one-seat majority. Eby’s arrogance got the better of him and worked in the Conservatives’ favor. Despite the infighting, the BC Conservatives united under Doerkson, set aside their disputes, and focused on defeating the NDP.

They succeeded, with preliminary results showing Conservatives leading in 63 of the province’s 93 seats, a commanding majority. Eby won his riding (what Canadians call their electoral districts), but announced his resignation as NDP leader the same night.

He should have known better. Thankfully, the voters did better.

British Columbians were desperate for a course correction. An October Ipsos poll found that the voters’ biggest concerns were the cost of living (57%), health care (39%), and housing affordability (30%). Under NDP mismanagement, British Columbians endured skyrocketing food and energy prices, unattainable housing costs, and a strained health care system, where long wait times, rural hospital service disruptions, and difficulty accessing medical care left many residents frustrated.

Other grievances included open-air drug use, mass immigration, rising crime, LGBT-dominated education, and a government whose regulatory policies discouraged private investment and resource development. The province's economic struggles and mounting costs of living gave voters plenty of reasons to demand change.

Not only that, but a novelty in left-wing governance reared its ugly head in the province: the undermining of private property rights under the guise of honoring Indigenous rights. British Columbia has become the center of a major legal controversy over Aboriginal land title and the security of privately owned property.

In 2025, a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling involving the Cowichan Tribes recognized Aboriginal title to approximately 732 acres of land in Richmond and held that Aboriginal title takes precedence over certain fee-simple property interests. The ruling did not simply order whole neighborhoods handed over to Indigenous owners, but it raised profound concerns about the reliability of private property titles. The City of Richmond and the provincial government appealed the decision.

The controversy extends beyond that single court ruling. The province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), intended to align provincial laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, has become a flashpoint in disputes over land use, resource development, and government authority. Critics argue that the law has increased legal uncertainty and complicated economic development, while supporters see it as an essential step toward reconciliation.

To their credit, OneBC pushed the BC Conservatives to take a stand on DRIPA. Premier-designate Doerkson has pledged to repeal DRIPA, while pursuing economic partnerships with First Nations. He has also promised changes to the province’s approach to education, including its LGBT curriculum. Doerkson has announced that his government will prioritize pipelines, resource development, and an audit of provincial finances. Local leaders are looking forward to growth instead of stagnation, declaring that the province cannot live on “coffee shops and whale-watching” alone.

Huge win!

I spoke with a friend in British Columbia, and she has nothing but optimism for her province. She has witnessed what she considers the worst evils perpetrated by the left-wing NDP government, and she celebrated the different conservative factions uniting to oust the NDP.

As expected, the NDP tried to tie President Trump to the BC Conservative Party, claiming that a BC Conservative government in Victoria would sell out the province and bring extreme right-wing tyranny and disaster to British Columbia.

The strategy failed. An early-October Angus Reid Institute poll found that only 10% of British Columbians considered Trump, U.S. tariffs, and related trade issues among their leading concerns in deciding how to vote. Cost of living, health care, jobs, and housing ranked far higher.

Canadians have not suddenly turned around and fallen in love with President Trump, either, but BC voters refused to be distracted by “Orange Man Bad” when their own homes, families, and communities were facing economic hardship and declining public services. The NDP’s Trump-bashing could not overcome dissatisfaction with its provincial record.

This is a historic win. Trump-bashing no longer appears to be the political left’s guaranteed winning strategy. The whole conservative ecosystem, from the United States to Latin America and throughout Europe, should recognize this victory as a possible sign of a conservative resurgence against left-wing agitprop and increasingly intrusive government.

Is this a sign that we can stop hating Canada now? Time will tell. My contact told me that there will always be room for improvement. Canada’s conservative parties nationally and provincially have failed and succeeded on some fronts, but things are looking better with the British Columbia group.

The most important message from this massive political upset in the most unlikely of places is this: if the pain is bad enough, if the voters get tired enough, if independent media and political organizations are brave enough, an oppressed populace can oust the awful tyrants in their midst and restore goodwill and proper rule in their communities and country.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,

The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!

Is It OK to Hate Canada Now?

 

Blame Canada! Blame Canada! You know that everything’s gone wrong since Canada came along! --- South Park, The Movie

On September 16, 2026, the Ontario Superior Court Justice Ann Molloy convicted a Christian activist named Bill Whatcott of “willful promotion of hatred.”

What did Bill do that was so hateful? With five fellow Christians, he dressed up as a gay zombie, complete with a green skin suit and tutu, then he passed out gospel tracts disguised as condom packages to the 2016 Toronto Pride parade attendees: a silly practical joke to share the Good News. For ten years, the Canadian government has pursued and persecuted Whatcott, believing that his little evangelical escapade was a greater affront to Canadian society than, say, homeless vagrants defecating on major city streets, the destructive spread of fentanyl, or the rise of other serious crimes. In 2024, the Toronto Police Chief advised residents to leave their car keys on their front porches to avoid harm or death in the face of the city’s epidemic of car theft.

In Canada, passing out Gospel tracts is the heinous crime that must be stamped out. Yes, you can go to jail for so-called “hate speech” in Canada, too. They don’t have freedom of speech in the Great White North, despite all their supposed claims and celebrations about a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Those mere parchment guarantees guarantee nothing for the average Canadian citizen. For Christians, even less. Even Holocaust deniers have gone to jail in Canada, as well as critics of Islam. A Saskatchewan man went to jail for willful promotion of hatred against an unidentified identity group! No matter how vile or disconcerting someone’s speech may be, the proper remedy is more speech. For Canada, the answer is a jail cell, a complete violation of natural law and natural right.

The conviction of a Christian in a purported Western country, especially one outside of Europe (which has sadly maintained its own poor record on freedom of speech), is a travesty. It sickens me, and it should infuriate all of us.

My animus with Canada originates with the ongoing persecution of Mr. Whatcott, which I have written about before, but there is more reason for the rest of us to despise our northern neighbor. In 2021, Whatcott was actually declared “not guilty” of these thought-crimes! Unfortunately, unlike other Commonwealth nations, Canada permits double jeopardy. The Crown can appeal an acquittal and demand a retrial. This is insane. With such kangaroo (or bull moose?) justice, can any Canadian hope for justice if the government can keep appealing your acquittal? In theory, the government can persecute a suspect with vexatious litigation until the citizen calls it quits and goes to jail.

That is not justice.

Injustice reigns in Canada in other ways, as well.

There is no Second Amendment, so gun ownership is tenuous at best. The Justin Trudeau government issued a blanket gun confiscation scheme, and current prime minister Mark Carney has expanded on this tyranny. To their credit, some provincial governments have started pushing back, but by and large the country remains gun-shy. Despite the aversion to firearms, Canada has witnessed a disturbing increase in gun-related crimes. No kidding, eh?!

Every provincial government across the nation has also established Human Rights Tribunals, before which aggrieved citizens can drag their counterparts and demand compensation for offending them. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ordered Whatcott to pay $55,000 to a confused man wearing a dress because he called him a “he.” The same provincial tribunal fined McDonald’s for firing an employee because she had failed to wash his hands properly. One Human Rights case dragged on for twenty-three years! Only recently, a former chairman of one of these tribunals has begun sounding the alarm on their abuses. Too little, too late.

Their healthcare system is not just abysmal; it’s evil. Instead of care, you get a waitlist, or the option to end your life. The testimony of Donovan James and his wife Kristin, who is surviving and thriving despite Stage Four ovarian cancer, should chill and outrage all of us. The Canadian system told Donovan’s wife to choose MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) instead of providing her adequate healthcare. The couple gave their government the middle finger and fled to America to live. Many Canadians do that, in fact, and there are plenty of reasons why. The wait times for a surgeon or a specialist are much longer in Canada. Michigan-born American commentator Steve Crowder’s expose of the rampant incompetence of the horrible healthcare system in Canada is entertaining if it wasn’t so devastating

Canada has been the most intransigent opponent of the United States. Last month, Vice President JD Vance remarked on the ongoing frustrations our leaders have faced just trying to work out a better trade deal with our northern neighbors. They won’t budge one bit towards better trade. They won’t negotiate in good faith with us, and they insist on keeping their Dairy Cartel and other heightened tariffs to protect their industries while shutting out our country’s goods.

Canada and its leaders have been growing closer to China, too, and even allowed their military to conduct training exercises! Canada is supposed to be our ally. Instead, they lock up Christians; they tell their citizens to tolerate crime; they offer death instead of healthcare; they fight us on trade while resisting our own national interests and reject cooperation.

Canada, a Frozen Banana Republic, and the voters are proud of this increasing hostility to the United States. After ten years of woke tyranny under Justin Trudeau, Carney repeated “Orange Man Bad” and bashed Trump, and Canadians went along with it. They have no problem voting to their own harm, just as long as they can retaliate against the United States.

The West is dying from Wokeness, the progressive leftist madness that insists on seeing disparities of any kind as discrimination, which treats absolute equality as the end goal of society, not the protection of citizens’ natural rights or even public safety. Canada is in the terminal stages of this morally bankrupt mind virus, and the citizens are proud of it! Canada officially sucks. Pardon my invective, but this wannabe runt cousin of the United States is just plain horrible. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were onto something, after all!

I never thought I would have such an abiding disdain for a nation. Mexico deserves our opprobrium for the border controversies, but that country is a better trade partner whom President Trump has knuckled under to our advantage. China is the United States’ most militant adversary, yet that country does not pretend to be free or enlightened. The European Union and its member states have their own share of issues, but a rising populist, nationalist conservative movement is making headway across the continent, and even the more liberal interests across Europe are willing to work with Trump, since Europe needs our money and military aid.

There is no such thing as “Canada Nice.” There is no “nice” in its government, and it’s time for Western countries that care about the rule of law, individual liberty, and citizen sovereignty to stop being so nice with its leaders.