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Amy Hamm: If Canada doesn’t improve, I don’t expect my children to stay

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23.04.2026

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At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I do not expect that my sons will choose to stay in Canada when they are adults. Certainly not if this country stays on its current trajectory — namely, on our slow and agonizing decline.

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Swathes of Canadians seem unbothered, at best, by the country’s first unelected majority government, made possible by five dubious parliamentary floor crossings. Yes, the majority technically didn’t happen until three by-elections, two occurring in Liberal stronghold ridings, clinched the deal; however, Prime Minister Mark Carney would not have a majority government without those floor crossers. That is incontrovertible.

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Which raises the next question: why so many Canadians are also apparently unperturbed by what appears to be a Liberal effort to make backroom deals with opposition MPs. One Conservative MP, Billy Morin, was caught on a hot mic before an Ottawa press conference stating that the Liberals were attempting to “poach” him. Aside from the angry constituents who vandalized floor-crossing MP Marilyn Gladu’s Ontario office, there has........

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