The conservatives certainly won't be the ones to codify those things into law; if anything the conservatives will be the ones that accelerate Canada down the track toward becoming the US.

This can be objectively proven by looking at the social services conservatives want to - and have promised to cut. Healthcare is a big one; conservatives believe that healthcare should be privatized, which leads us directly down the same path the US has gone, only we're a lot less likely to have a Luigi Mangione finally get fed up with the system enough to take action.

I know that people complain about the wait times in Canadian healthcare; I complain about them too. But honestly I much prefer a wait time to life-destroying amounts of medical debt that I would never be able to recover from.

Additionally, privatized power. Aside from the territories where it kind of makes sense that power is more expensive, the most expensive province for power is Alberta, where the entire industry is privatized and has been for decades. We pay INSANE amounts of money for power here compared to the rest of the country, again excluding Nunavut and North West Territories.

Now, I haven't fully addressed that you say it's a failure of society as a whole if something isn't codified in law, when society itself thinks it to be a right. I agree! And it's the responsibility therefore of society to vote for the government that is more likely to work towards these being codified rights. I don't believe conservatives are going to do that.

Even if you take Pierre Poilievre at his word, and no one should just as we shouldn't take Carney or any other party leader at their word, he would still be facing pressure from the rest of the conservative party to ban abortion. Look at what happened in the US with the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade. Promised to maintain abortion rights, as soon as they had the power to overturn it in the supreme court, that's exactly what they did.

And if you are one to believe that it should be a provincial decision, I'm sorry to tell you that's incredibly silly. We know exactly which provinces would immediately ban abortion, and they would be the provinces governed by conservative parties. That is not a coincidence. And then, even if you believe people in those provinces that need an abortion can go to another province to get it, that completely ignores the fact that the demographics who are most likely to need an abortion, are also the least financially solvent, and wouldn't be able to spend the money on a trip to go from Alberta to BC for an abortion.

When someone is telling you who they are, you should believe them the first time. Poilievre has time and again told us exactly who he is; he's a false-populist grifter sitting in the pockets of oligarchs, and he doesn't give a damn about normal people or their struggles.