The Last Six Days & the Chaos of Electoral Uncertainty

Keeping it together has become harder than ever lately. I’ve struggled to function the way I need to — whether that’s adulting around the house or meeting deadlines.

Everything’s just hard now. I have not been ahead of the game on anything for weeks now.

In 6 days, we’ll be hours from learning the next Prime Minister of Canada, and I have never in my life felt the “battle of good and evil” like I do now. Poilievre stands against everything I’ve ever believed in, and much of it being what I take deep pride in as my Canadian identity: Our human rights and our fastidious national defense of them.

Mark Carney, for me, is a bit too conservative — he’s the fiscal conservative I grew up with. But the big-C “Conservatives” in Canada today have nothing to do with the Mulroney party of the ‘80s. Today’s “Conservatives” are the ones that Preston Manning and his religious extremism began so long ago.

For me, anyone voting Conservative today in Canada is not voting Conservative for fiscal reasons — they’re voting Conservative for social reasons, and emotional ones, because they’ve been manipulated and duped through online misinformation and lies. They’ve been told to blame immigrants, queers, druggies, and anyone else — except the billionaires who own the news media who’s telling ‘em who to blame.

And I don’t care.

I don’t give a fuck why you justify voting Conservative.

If you’re voting Conservative, you’re voting against everything I value as a Canadian — freedom, diversity, healthcare, the CBC, a mosaic of culture, the freedom to be who I am, the freedom to be a woman.

My problem with you isn’t your politics. My problem is your lack of humanity and the hate that courses through you. My problem with you is your lack of compassion, your anger, your divisiveness, and your inability to put your country over yourself.

So, anyhow.

I’m distracted and angry, frustrated and stressed. I rage against fascism because fascism kills people, and I'm terrified of what would happen if this becomes a fascist continent.

Every day, some other Crazy comes out of the United States of Chaos, and we’re sent into another what the fuck?! tizzy of confusion.

I am terrified of the future if a political lightweight, with zero fiscal competence, gets into office. Poilievre is not the man of the moment, and he sure as fuck isn’t the man to contend with a malevolent psycho like Donald Trump. Poilievre has nothing but slogans and hate to bring to the table. He likes what Trump is doing. He likes what DOGE is doing. He has been ENDORSED by Trump and Musk.

The problem here in BC, where I live, is that there’s a tug-of-war where the Liberals and NDP are vote-splitting and the Conservatives will likely win. On the upside, there have been few elections in my lifetime where BC’s outcome mattered much.

Anyhow. It’s all moot to me now. There’s nothing I can do. I voted.

But I can tell you that I strongly believe this is the single-most important election I have ever cast a ballot in and IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION YOU WILL EVER VOTE IN.

You must vote.
You must vote against fascism.
You must vote against sending women into the dark ages.
You must vote for those who are terrified this week.

You must vote for the climate, for the country, for the people you love.

You cannot vote for the simplistic fucking carrot of a tax break.

Please, Canada, don’t fail me now. Vote for the country that, as a traveller, I’ve always been proud to represent around the world — the one that remains a beacon for humanity and a champion of human rights.

Canada’s not perfect. But it’s not broken, either.

We’re an ideal to keep striving toward. We are not America. We will never be America.

Please don’t vote for the man who wants us to be Fascist America’s best buddy.

Good luck, Canadians. Make a plan to vote. Ask around, if you have a car, to see if anyone needs a lift to the ballot box on Monday. Engage, engage, engage. We need the highest voter turnout in our lifetime.

If you don’t know what you’re voting FOR, at least know what you’re voting against: American-style fascism and division.

In six days, if we're lucky, we will have elected the status quo, the Liberal government who are terrifying Russia and America so much that their bot farms and trolls have been working overtime on Facebook so much that even the New York Times has been writing about it.

Six days. Vote for Canada. Vote against fascism! VOTE.