“ We are much further along in the Great Reset than you are and almost everyone here I’ve warned about it looks at me and treats me like I need meds for my delusions. ”
My experiences here in Calgary are quite similar, though my son and two close friends are on the same page as us. But even some supposed conservatives have knuckled under and/or become never Trumpers because they believe CNN etc.
On the upside, I guess: I threw myself out of a bar Tuesday night because they insisted I wear a mask. Went down the street to another bar, one that wanted my business. I’m doing a lot of voting with my dollars these days.
(I miss my annual journey to Niagara on the Lake for the Canadian Car of the Year TestFest. They turned the airport into a test track and it was a blast. Now they’re at Mosport and the commute from the hotel in Ajax is a real pain - so much so that I’ve avoided it the past few years. But your area is very pretty and it was nice being there.)
That surprises me about the West. Albertans used to be sensible cowboy types and reliably conservative - you couldn’t get much past them. Not so much any more. Everyone in Canada just become intellectually lazy and became blank chalkboards for the TV news to write on. And that’s what they spew when they speak. The people who still think for themselves are few and far between.
Oddly enough, the Canadians I’ve had the most complaints about in my lifetime - the Quebecois - are now the people I have the most in common with. They were politically active way back in the 70’s when the rest of the country was asleep (I was too young to know anything). Their politics then were all about independence and separation from the rest of Canada. The separation idea failed, but they generally remain more fiercely independent than English Canadians, who are still asleep and heavily indoctrinated. The French are having a hard time choosing between their freedom and their man. Trudeau has always presented himself as one of them and I’m not sure they’ve come to grips with his betrayal yet.