Is Canada’s federation coming apart? With Parliament repeatedly prorogued, no budget, and a federal government operating with zero accountability, frustration is growing—especially in the West.
David Leis is joined by Cory Morgan, Columnist at the Western Standard, Lee Harding, Investigative Journalist and Senior Research Associate at Frontier Centre, and Marco Navarro-Genie, VP of Research at Frontier Centre.
Together, they’ll break down the growing cracks in Canadian unity—and what needs to change before it’s too late.
When I came under fire, no one in Canada had my back. It was U.S. groups that stepped up. That says a lot about the state of our institutions
It’s been a busy few weeks in Anglosphere politics. Canada and Australia held federal elections, while in England, voters went to the polls for local races and a high-stakes parliamentary byelection.
The campaigns—and their results—couldn’t have been more different. In Canada and Australia, incumbent left-leaning governments shaped their campaigns around external threats, particularly U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs. They portrayed these as “existential threats” to national sovereignty, crowding out debate on urgent domestic issues like housing, affordability and migration.
But English voters weren’t interested in fear campaigns. Instead, they used the opportunity to send a clear message of frustration with their own political class, punishing both the stumbling Labour government and the disoriented Conservatives.
Across local councils and mayoral races, the upstart Reform Party, a populist, centre-right movement, swept aside the traditional parties. Reform captured more than 30 per cent of the vote, winning 677 council seats and control of 10 of the