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The Opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, newly restored to the House of Commons by the voters of Battle River—Crowfoot, Alberta, made some public remarks defending the use of force against burglars by homeowners. The Justice Minister Sean Fraser, sensing an opportunity but perhaps failing to read the proverbial room, replied indignantly on social media:
“This isn’t the Wild West..."
His quip was followed by a weekend of appalling crimes across the country, some of them in fact having a disturbing Wild West flavour, darn the luck.
In Vaughan, Ont., a homeowner died from “trauma to his body” (?) after armed burglars broke into his house and threatened his child. This incident is not to be confused with the four armed and masked men storming a house in Markham, Ont. And in Welland, Ont., an enterprising solo practitioner broke into a home and allegedly sexually assaulted a toddler. (A neighbour told the National Post that the accused had previously been convicted of a similar sex offence against her son, had received an 18-month prison sentence and had been turned loose in 12. Real solutions!)
In London, Ont., which isn’t the Wild West, there was nonetheless a gunfight downtown that involved at least 11 rounds being fired. Guelph, Ont., which also isn’t the Wild West, got off easy, although the 80-year-old woman beaten unconscious in broad daylight didn’t. Renfrew, Ont., isn’t the Wild West, but two people allegedly broke into a hotel room to bear-spray the occupants and steal stuff. In west-but-not-wild Abbotsford, B.C., a house was riddled with bullets while its occupants slept. There have been a few apparent arsons, possibly involving homicidal intent — Richmond Hill, Ont.; Windsor, Ont.; and a fatal one in Edmonton in which a shouting match may have been ended, unanswerably, with a Molotov cocktail. Of course, I don’t know whether you could really say Edmonton isn’t the Wild West. A woman here was shot to death in her SUV over the weekend on the city’s historic main drag, Jasper Avenue.
WATCH PIERRE POILIEVRE TAKE THE QUESTION FROM KEEAN BEXTE (BELOW)
This week, a video of Calgary Transit went viral: hordes of commuters crammed into and around a bus in a scene of packed chaos. People spilling out of doorways, swarming the stop, the platform heaving — more like rush hour in Calcutta than anything you’d expect in Calgary.
It’s the latest proof of what Canadians already see and feel. Crime is up. Traffic is up. ER wait times are up. Rent and housing prices are in the stratosphere. And instead of acknowledging the problem, the Canadian political class, legacy media, and the immigration industrial complex have doubled down — smearing anyone who spoke up two years ago as a racist, a bigot, or a white nationalist.
This is not about skin colour. If one million unvetted Irish or French-speaking Belgians flooded our country through scam colleges, they’d need to go back too.
But that’s not who came. The federal government opened the floodgates to the developing world with zero regard for cultural fit, sustainability, or national interest — and now we’re all paying the price.
Even recent immigrants see the mess created over the last decade. In fact, polling shows non-white Canadians are more critical of mass migration than white Canadians. That alone should silence the pearl-clutchers.
Many of these “newcomers” — to use the new globalist buzzword that replaced “immigrant” after the latter became too toxic — were sold a lie. They were told Canada was a dreamland. Most are now waking up to a destroyed promise. But that won’t be enough. Because the ones who came to take advantage — the ones packed twelve to a house in Brampton — will stay. Why wouldn’t they? Even a collapsing Canada still offers ‘free’ healthcare (for now).
That needs to change.
This means mandatory language testing, with enforcement.
This means if you're not gainfully employed, you go back.
This means if you're a drag on the system, you're cut loose.
Canada is not a refugee camp. It is a nation with values, responsibilities, and a social contract — one that's being shredded by globalist ideologues and cowardly politicians too afraid to speak plain truth.
On Thursday, I personally asked Pierre Poilievre how he plans to fix it.
Poilievre’s answer hit some of the right notes: deportation for those deemed inadmissible, removal of criminals after detention, tracking down the 600 criminal fugitives the Liberals have lost, cutting international student and Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) numbers that corporations use to drive down wages, and — crucially — net negative migration “for the next several years.”
But broad strokes aren’t enough. We’ve had years of political hedging. Even now, senior Conservatives are still undermining this issue from within, calling for scrapping English language tests or hiding behind “family reunification” — buzzwords that mask the same unsustainable intake. Without clear, measurable targets and timelines for removals, border security, and intake cuts, the promises won’t outlast the next press conference.
The UK is showing us what political courage looks like. Nigel Farage spent years saying what his opponents wouldn’t — and now they’re forced to echo him. Britain’s ruling party is scrambling to pledge lower migration because Farage made it politically impossible not to. Reform UK is now the most trusted party on immigration, and Farage himself is the most trusted leader on the issue — beating even the Prime Minister. Two-thirds of Britons now say migration is too high, and even Keir Starmer, Britain’s liberal PM, is parroting Farage’s warnings, pledging to slash migration and warning the UK could become an “island of strangers.”
That’s what political courage does. It shifts the Overton Window. It forces the cowards to follow. Canada’s Conservatives should take note: speaking the truth about immigration isn’t just right — it’s smart politics.
Poilievre has moved the Conservatives further than Bergen, O’Toole, Ambrose, or Scheer ever did. The question now is whether he’s willing to go the full distance — before Canadians decide someone else will.
Because if leadership doesn’t act soon, the viral scene in Calgary this week won’t be a one-off spectacle. It will be the new normal in every major city. And by then, no amount of speeches will fix what’s been lost.
