🇨🇦 Even Tory candidates admit the problem

A Conservative candidate openly saying he is hearing criticism of Pierre Poilievre from voters tells you the fairy tale is over. The issue is not that Canadians suddenly love the Liberals. It is that too many voters still see the Conservatives as managers of decline rather than a force willing to reverse it, as reported. After a decade of Trudeau wreckage, mass immigration pressure, housing insanity, cultural vandalism and sovereignty sold off to every fashionable global scheme, Canadians want more than polished slogans about affordability.

This is what the Ottawa class never gets. People are not begging for better branding. They want a government that will actually shut down the DEI bureaucracy, cut immigration to national-capacity levels, stop governing for lobbyists and NGOs, and put citizens ahead of the permanent consultant regime. If Poilievre is taking heat, that is not a media mystery. It is the cost of looking cautious when the country is being transformed at speed and ordinary Canadians can see exactly who is paying for it.

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