It was nice while it lasted, I guess. After a few days of flirting with the idea of hope, the Conservative Party of Canada and its pundit-class proxies have returned to their regularly scheduled fear-mongering. Its latest subject is a speculative report produced by Policy Horizons Canada, a federal government “foresight organization” charged with identifying and assessing potential threats in the future. The report in question was actually released in 2024, with a longer brief on the issue of declining social mobility published this past January, but it only seems to have caught the attention of the Conservative universe in the dying days of a failing campaign.

Desperate times, as they say. 

Things are so dire for Poilievre, in fact, that he brought up the organization’s work on three consecutive campaign days, suggesting that it promised inevitable ruin if the Liberals were re-elected. "The report paints a terrifying picture of a spiral of economic depression and cost inflation," Poilievre said after releasing his party's platform. "What they are anticipating on the current trajectory is a total meltdown, a societal breakdown in Canada if we stay on the current........

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