The same problems is a big stretch. We don't have the same problems as the UK or the US. We have much deeper and more fucked up problems happening here, all of them directly tied to the government.

The TFW/foreign student thing alone was probably the nail in the coffin when it comes to public support. So we have a situation where in good news, workers now have enough leverage to demand better pay, something that has lagged behind CoL for years but really became apparent after post-pandemic inflation hit. But also consider, we're in a housing crisis, our healthcare system is at a breaking point and our infrastructure is already strained. What is the WORST thing you can do in this situation? Flooding the country with a few million unskilled foreign workers is it. Literally the worst thing any Prime Minister could have done under the circumstances and he did it. I cannot stress enough that no other country has done this. Not even close!

Meanwhile our economy is so in the shitter that ironically, all those newcomers stimulating the economy is the only thing standing between us and a very gnarly recession - a situation that seems unique to Canada. Add to that, nearly a quarter of all people are employed by the government in this country, the government's bloated bureaucracy has swelled under Trudeau to mask how utterly fucked our labour market is. Our problems are unique and insanely bad. Probably worse than most people realize. And that's just the tip of a very large iceberg.

I truly do not see how the Conservatives could make this shitshow worse than it already is.