This is another weekly 2025 federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN.
Politics should be simple. Governments should fix problems. That’s all they have to do. If there were fewer problems, people wouldn’t be as angry. We would be able to agree on facts. We would be able to be civil to one another. But we don’t need to solve problems to win elections. We just need to tell the people who are angry about the lack of problem-solving that there’s no place in Canada for their feelings.
I've been contacted by a not-insubstantial number of people who feel they have no future in Canada anymore … and all for different reasons. To see millions of voters give these people the middle finger is something I don't think I'll ever be able to unsee.
— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) April 22, 2025
The more we laugh at them, the more we dismiss them, the more we tell them to go away—the angrier they get. And that’s hilarious. It also makes us look good, calm, sensible and rational, and distracts people from our obvious shortcomings. They’re rude, we’re nice; they’re bad, we’re good. That’s the real meaning of #ElbowsUp. If you’re inside the circle, people will embarrass themselves trying to defend your worst screwups. If you’re outside the circle, nobody cares about what you have to say, no matter how competent you are.
Wow, the Ford government is outright endorsing the federal Liberal position, and outright opposing the federal Conservative position on child care.
— Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 (@MikePMoffatt) April 23, 2025
This is such a gift to the Carney folks from the provincial Tories that it should count as a campaign contribution. https://t.co/QooOdbrLZp
That’s why we’ve had yet another vibes-based election which was sort of about Donald Trump, and was sort of about the cost of living, and was also sort of about Pierre Poilievre’s security clearance. Come what may every day of this election, from Liberals attacking reporters, to candidates threatening death against other candidates, to the entire Liberal campaign going into hibernation several times, voters seized on every excuse they could to keep the red team in the game.
there is no evidence JD Vance killed the Pope. there is also no evidence JD Vance didn’t kill the Pope.
— Peter Twinklage (@PeterTwinklage) April 21, 2025
in conclusion, JD Vance should be deported to El Salvador.
No one, it seems, is more excited about using the power of government to not solve problems than the left. When the left shows up in my life, it is never to solve a problem. Their function is to make jokes about how JD Vance’s deadly lack of rizz caused Pope Francis to depart this earthly realm, or to lecture someone about not being empathic enough, or to demand funding for something so that good money can be thrown after bad. This might be because they just lack the capacity to solve problems, or they might just be (incompetently) selling hope like it’s another product to be consumed. Both of these are certainly reasons why Jagmeet Singh’s political career is mercifully coming to an end Monday night.
Woman gets her young child to step on Israeli and United States flag in Victoria, BC then complains about Canadian recording in public.pic.twitter.com/McJij7fr4L
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) April 20, 2025
At any rate, the left is more interested in giant public therapy sessions where people shout and scream about the Inevitability of History, and the need to teach their children to resist the Zionist entity than they are in solving problems. Enter Mark Carney, whose job is to look and sound like a guy who can solve problems. He ran a couple of banks, which is not like running a government, and he has a great resume, which is not necessary to get things done. But as I said, the actual solving of the problems is not what Canadians want. That’s why the Liberals have gone down from 15 points to five points (to less?? who knows) ahead over the course of this campaign. The notion of Mark Carney: Captain Canada and Trump-Killer, didn’t last more than a couple of weeks, mostly because Trump has (temporarily, mercifully) bigger problems at the moment, but also because nobody believes waving your elbows like the chicken dance from Arrested Development will actually stop Trump.
We did it! We out-cringed “brat” https://t.co/ONJkjNqwEH
— Rahim Mohamed (@rmohamed_yow) April 22, 2025
The truth is, Mark Carney is the solution to the communication problem that had bedeviled the Liberals for more than a year. At the debate and many times before and after, he has proven very adept at making angry people feel small and useless and that their concerns are not real. He won’t say a bad word about the debate commission that dropped the ball multiple times despite being entrusted with exactly one job—run a debate. This, despite close to a week of consensus that the debate commission should be set on fire and everyone involved run out of town on a rail. He did, however, attack the Conservative platform for having holes while ignoring the holes in his own Liberal platform. Who says this guy isn’t a politician?
“These numbers are a joke.”
— David Beaudoin (@DavidABeaudoin) April 22, 2025
Carney dismantling the CPC platform.
“There’s a phantom growth that comes from the sky in his platform, that arrives and changes his numbers.”
Also not impressed with the CPC tax cut.
“A ‘bring it home’ tax cut—that never comes home.” pic.twitter.com/7Kd3lvPffw
You might ask how we can stand up to Trump if Ezra Levant’s troll squad can throw the entire country for a loop because they pushed in front of a line of Real Journalists to ask questions about how many genders there were. It is about the thousandth time that Rebel News has pulled this kind of stunt, and every time it does everyone tears their hair about how not acceptable it all is before forgetting it happened. But don’t you see, the debate commission allowing Rebel to get away with it again is not actually the problem. The debate commission is incompetent, but at least they aren’t far-right—Rebel News is far-fright. And if we start firing one group of anonymous well-meaning government-type-people who failed spectacularly and repeatedly, we’d have to fire them all, which would leave precious few Canadians unfired in short order. That’s why we have to go on useless expletive-laden tirades about how beyond the pale Rebel has always been instead of solving a problem.
CTVs Liberal Scott Reid viciously unloads on the debate commission and Rebel News..
— An Oil Exec (@CanadianOilExec) April 18, 2025
“It just turned into complete pandemonium”
“It was so bad, Rosie had to be escorted by security” 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/u3XUITmR7W
Mark Carney, CEO, would probably like nothing better than to fire everyone involved with the debate commission. I might vote for that guy, because, just to remind everyone, we are in a fight for our lives with a crazed madman south of the border and the nightmare Canadian scenario of annexation is being talked about openly. The time for tolerating incompetence is over, and it should never have begun. But we’re not getting the Mark Carney who takes a hatchet to incompetence, because that Mark Carney would be the one being flipped off by grinning small-town Ontario boomers.
I feel really bad for that guy in Brantford facing insane harassment for flipping off the very same hulking cameraman who travelled hours to secretly film me on a private night out (then shoved his camera in my face while quaking and licking his lips).
— Rachel Gilmore (@atRachelGilmore) April 23, 2025
Release the whole video.
Canada is what happens when people value being nice over being competent. It is proof that you can’t do both. If the polling is accurate, Carney is going to find this out very quickly. If it isn’t accurate, a lot of Canadians are going to find out the hard way that there is a limit to how much you can gaslight angry people before they vote you out. They’re going to find out that blaming the far-right for everything while not actually doing anything about the far-right doesn’t actually make things better for anyone. Either way, we’re coming out of this election divided, just as the Liberals intended—which means we’re still not in any fit state to take on anything, let alone solving the smallest problem.
Josh Lieblein can be reached at [email protected] for your response to Doorstep Postings.
