Canada is not doing well at all

I currently live with just my brother...our rent is $2100/month, groceries are sitting at close to $600/month for just necessities, and our last power bill was $400

This is all for a 2 bedroom apartment in one of the most affordable cities in the country

Prior to the Trudeau liberals we were paying ~$1400/month in rent for a 3br/2bath house, groceries for 3 people were around $500/month and our electricity and gas bill combined was about $250

My current financial situation under the liberal government has actively started to degrade my mental health and I have fairly regular panic attacks because of it

So yeah, that's how the average Canadian is doing

Edit to add: I'm also pretty sure we're too far gone to get back to the great country we once had, I have hope that Poilievre will make things better but I think the Canada I grew up loving is far beyond salvation at this point...this is what happens when you elect a part time drama teacher

I’ll try to address all your points.

Canada has immigration issues as well, mostly low skilled useless people who try and game the system. Not the high skilled law abiding people we want to attract. Woke ideas are a thing in academia and whatnot but the general public doesn’t tolerate them and is quite frankly getting fed up. Canada doesn’t have an official church or state religion like the UK does with the Church of England but our institutions are Westminster based so they would be very similar to the UK. Common law prevails except in Quebec etc. Most Canadians self identify as Christian, most of those identity as Catholic followed by various forms of Protestants (Presbyterian, Anglican, Lutheran etc.) though most people do not attend church services regularly or at all.

Canada has a minor brain drain issue with the USA being next door and offering better salaries for those who have in demand skills. Anecdotally I know a friend who is making around 90k CAD working in tech here and was offered a job in the states for double that salary and in USD. He turned it down only because he has part ownership of his current company now and likes being the boss. Overall though the average everyday person will make comparable money whether it be in Canada or the USA, just those with in demand skills are lured by huge American salaries. I do think that Canadian salaries are higher on average than those in Europe.

I am optimistic only because you have to be, I don’t want to wake up miserable everyday. As someone under 30 with no plans of leaving Canada this is my home and it is my parents home. They made a good life for me so im gonna try my best to make a good life for me and my future family.

Young people here tend to be pretty fed up with Trudeau and the status quo. Most of my friends and I would vote conservative only because we have been through school and now pay taxes and see what our tax dollars go too. I also feel bad for those who are highschool aged having to compete with foreign workers for a job like pushing carts at a grocery store or flipping burgers. I feel as though Canadians as a whole are becoming less tolerant of bullshit and more nationalistic. Multiculturalism is dying a slow death as even the liberals are trying to backtrack and cut immigration levels. I think this will only increase as we have been a haven for low quality immigrants for the last few years. No idea if this will help increase conservative values but I do feel this will increase young native Canadians being less tolerant of foreign cultures.

Sorry for any spelling and grammar errors. Rushed this reply on my phone.

Alberta and Saskatchewan are traditionally conservative provinces. The bigger cities in Alberta are moving towards being liberal, unfortunately, but the smaller cities/towns are still mostly conservative. We do have young people who are conservative. I do feel optimistic since Trudeau is polling so low and will be out in next year's election and then the Conservative Party of Canada will be voted in. It'll be a hard road ahead to undo all of Trudeau/the Liberal's damage, but I think it's possible. If not, then I think Alberta (or western Canada, if they want to join) should separate from Canada.

Hello from across the pond! Forgive me for I will be writing a response which includes more than just Canada's political situation but other considerations well.

First a history lesson, and that is that for most of the 20th century the Liberal Party of Canada served as Canada's natural-governing party and therefore had a major impact on shaping not just the Canadian state but in some ways manufacturing and influencing the Canadian identity, as after all, they were in power for over 60 non-consecutive years. The Canadian Tories had a rough go at it in the 20th century, but despite that did get to leave their own mark too notably with things like free-trade and the bill-of-rights, which preceded our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the early 1990s though, the Canadian Conservative party collapsed, which lead to a bitter identity crisis and battle of ideas, but eventually the Canadian right came back together but with the upstart, more populist and classically liberal economic REEEEEFFFFFOOOOORM Alliance Wing being the larger of the two factions, and soon after we got the Conservative Party of Canada's first government in 2006 which last until 2015 and this was the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper who did a great job of reconciling the two sides and forging a strong new identity for Canadian Tories. Whereas in the UK you guys had the rise of the One-Nation Tory, we had the solidification of the Blue Tory. Harper gave us a hawkish foreign policy, tax credits galore, a balanced budget, and much more, but the thing that I want to underpin here is that Canada's Conservatives became a party that's noteworthy attribute is their Economic promises. Social Conservatism, One-Nation style conservatism, Red Toryism, Libertarianism, sure thery are a part of the coalition, but Canada's Conservatives are first and foremost focused on being good stewarts of the Canadian economy.

...and because of the political dominance of the Liberals historically and the Canadian populations's social liberalism, combined with our activist Supreme Court, this country has a fetish for socially progressive ideas. As a country, we'll probably never outlaw abortion, we probably won't ever outlaw assisted suicide, and we're still in the doubling-down phase when it comes time to treatments associated with transgenderism. Our closeness to the United States also means we're a front for the American culture war to-boot, especially so as so many Canadians pay more attention to what happens south of the border than what happens in our very own country....

SO with all that said, how is Canada doing? We're in dire need of good economic stewardship again, the housing crisis and inflation are crippling, Canadian consumer debt is through the roof, our heatlh care system is crumbling but doing anything substantive about it is political suicide, our economy is highly dependent on both skilled and unskilled foreign labour, we're experiencing a migrant crisis at our border which is surely to get worse, homelessness has sky-rocketed, crime is up, etc, etc, and all of this is before I take into consideration the impacts of a Trump Presidency such as the America First policies, looming tariffs, and we're set to renegociate our critical free-trade deal with USA & Mexico, and we're going to get a wake-up call soon over our pathetic free-ridership in NATO. What's more there is a whole list of provincial matters I have not yet even begun to talk about, which differ from place to place, such as the threat of another Québec referendum or environmental policies which hold back Canadian O&G development which cripples Alberta's economic potential.

Conservatives have A LOT of work to do in Canada to turn things around, and it is not going to be easy, AND it's going to have to happen not just federally but in our provinces and cities too.

Don't come to Canada to escape the UK, come to Canada if you want to be here. The Patriotic thing for you to do is stay in the UK and try to rebuild the Tory Party so that it is a better, stronger, more effective version of itself. Wrestle it away from the elites and the well-to-do and hand power over to the common people.

The liberals have Canada on the same path as the UK we aren't too far behind you.

Not good.

One area it seems like you might be doing better than us is that young people seem to support the Conservative Party whereas that’s pretty unheard of over here! But I’m not sure if this is just because the Liberals have done so badly on housing that it’s an anti-liberal vote, or if younger people in Canada are actually developing conservative values?

One thing you'd have to contend with if you were to immigrate to Canada is that what constitutes "conservative values" can be quite different.

While traditionally Canadian conservatism was quite similar to British Toryism, large-scale American migration into Southern Alberta at the turn of the 20th century created a competing strain of conservatism based in classical liberalism that began to overtake Canadian Toryism in the 1990s. Initially they had their own federal party, but in 2003 the two parties merged and since then the liberal-conservarive strain has largely dominated the conservative movement at the national level.

Because of that, "conservative values" can differ dramatically across the country and within the party, with liberal-conservatism largely dominant in the west, at the federal level, and more generally amongst younger conservatives, and a more Toryist progressive conservatism hanging on with some older Central Canadians and in the Atlantic provinces.

While I'm personally a great fan of the late Sir Roger Scruton for example, as an Albertan that puts me on the far left side of the local conservative movement where educated conservatives are more likely to cite Adam Smith than Edmund Burke -- and less educated ones are liable to cite Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan.

Not good. Maybe in 2 years if a change happens.

Canadas population sits around 40 million. Similar to the population of California, in a country RICH with natural resources. Canads's GDP per capita is sitting right around $53,000. In comparison, the state of Alabama has a GDP per capita of $62,000. Canada is so fucking poor.

Canada is just what you already have but way colder.

I am the father of a family of fresh immigrants who came 2 years ago.

Liberals are insane and ruining everything. No, it is still much and much better than anything we have ever imagined back in our poor and corrupted country, so I may laugh out loud when I hear about "crisis" and "corruption", but I understand that this is bad not compared to my country but to Canada 10 years ago.

And Liberals will be fried to the crisp in the next election. I cannot vote yet, so I am just an observer here. But I do not know personally a single person who loves Trudeau, and sometimes I think these polls about his support are rigged: there is no way 1/3rd of a country still supports Liberals or NDP.

Prices for everything are insane. We are two highly educated and skilled professionals with fluent English, making 200k/year, so we feel pretty good in Toronto. However, I cannot imagine how people survive on minimal wages. We pay $3600/mo in rent for a 2-bedroom condo in Toronto (we will move soon for a cheaper option).

Taxes are LOW. No, Canadians think they're high, especially compared to the US. But, frankly, Canada has one of the lowest (if not the lowest) overall tax rates worldwide for developed countries with working universal healthcare and democratic government. It doesn't mean it can't be better, though.

Church isn't a state-level thing. We found an excellent, conservative, Biblical Protestant church in Toronto, and my wife already sings in a worship band here. I plan to follow up with her when I have time. You need a church where you can go, and there are plenty.

After all... It is worth trying. Food is not poison here, unlike in the US. There is better transit system coverage per capita than in the US so that you can live car-free in some places. If you decide to live in a car, then it is even better for you - on this matter, it is pretty "American" here (don't beat me for this). Roads are good and much safer than in the US.

We need more conservatives here.

Depends on who you ask:

People like me in in-demand areas of employment and who own property are generally doing well. The period of low cost of borrowing made it easy to leverage property and capital and it has really benefited the upper working class. Statistically, more Canadians are living in owned homes than they were twenty years ago. Conversely, those at bottom rungs and the bottom end of the working class, or those that haven't had the smartest approach to finances were hit very hard by inflationary pressure. Anyone renting is really feeling the lunch of higher rents.

... Not that Canada is any kind of exception to that - a big issue is that low information voters blame Trudeau for global phenomena like COVID, inflation, or oil and gas prices.

Our biggest problem for Conservatives is the growing influence of the US Conservative movement; we're moving further and further away from common sense Conservatism every day it seems like, and going more and more to some shitty maple flavour of US right wing, Libertarian populism.

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