The Liberal Party has won enough seats to lead the next Government of Canada. The consequences of a far-right United States swayed this election.
Editorial
Canadian Anti-Hate Network
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After a hard-fought election, Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal Party will lead the next Government of Canada.
They will have to work with their rivals to decide the policy direction of the country for up to the next four years in an election focused primarily on housing, the cost of living, the economy, and the ongoing tariff battle with the United States of America.
A far-right government in the United States, and far-right movements growing in influence in Canada, have been the background of this election – but no major media outlet was willing to seriously engage in that analysis. Instead, the focus of this election has been on Trump. Who sounds like him? Who can stand up to him? Meanwhile, similar forces to the ones that elected Trump are working their way into our streets, media, and politics.
Here at home, Canada saw some of the first public signs of Second Sons Canada—a public-facing white nationalist Active Club. Canadian neo-Nazis have staged protest in the streets against immigration, all while forging bonds with likeminded US groups.
The Conservative Party of Canada performed above some projections going into the election. While Conservatives made gains in multiple ridings, Leader Pierre Poilievre, at the time of publishing, may have lost his seat in Carleton to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.
Jagmeet Singh has announced he is stepping down, as it looks like the NDP will not get enough seats to maintain official status in the House of Commons.
Canada’s most far-right political party, the People’s Party of Canada has struggled with its already weak polling numbers approaching this election.
The PPC continues to stoke and fundraise off division in Canada. PPC leader Maxime Bernier appeared outside an Ottawa school on Friday at a protest organized by anti-transgender activist Chris Elston – who then attended Pierre Poilievre’s final campaign rally.
Canada remains at loggerheads with our largest trading partner, security guarantor, and neighbour to the south, the United States. Under President Donald Trump, the country has become remarkably hostile towards Canada, often musing about threats to our sovereignty and imposing a range of seemingly arbitrary tariffs.
The Liberal government will need to not only attempt to navigate Trump’s moods, but the recession he has gifted us and the American people. The stories of cruelty and abuses of law the Trump regime demonstrates will not stop – as a good neighbour, what do we do about it?
We have to clean up our own backyard too. Over the past nine years, the Liberals were slow to introduce and have failed to pass proposed anti-hate legislation. We need legislation that addresses the hate and mis-/disinformation spread on social media platforms and in person hate crimes, at the least matching our European peers.
CAHN wants a greater emphasis placed on exposing foreign influence or interference by making it a requirement for all charities, religious institutions, and nonprofits to publicly disclose significant sources of funding. We have nothing to hide – let’s see what far-right organizations don’t want to disclose.
We also must recognize that propaganda, training, and money coming from the far-right in the United States is influential on our society. Consider whether it should be treated as foreign influence or interference. Put together a committee to hear from the public and experts on the issue and create recommendations.
The amount of time that Statistics Canada conducts its survey on hate crimes needs to be increased from every five years to every year. We have no frequent measure of the hate that people experience in this country – and we can only solve problems by measuring progress.
For years, we have advocated for restoring Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, so that people who experience racism and other forms of hate have a legal avenue to address it.
Finally, it is time for government business to leave the X platform, which will symbolize opposition to racism, hate, and the far-right administration in the USA.
We will write the new cabinet with these recommendations as soon as they are announced.
Rob McKee, a pastor at a controversial Ottawa church, claimed that an officer with the city’s police force invited him to “numerous” protests.
The 33 people standing together outside the Toronto Exhibition Place, chanting slogans, claim to be made up of members of multiple groups from Southern Ontario.
While the parties accept the final results, baseless claims of a stolen election began to circulate before the polls even opened.