Canada: A Nation Exposed

My thoughts on the 2025 election

A peek behind the curtains
Other than what they might say outright, you can learn a lot about a person based on certain activities or actions they perform. For example, you can learn a lot about a person based on how they spend their money and what they value with their dollars. You may learn what idols exist in their lives. You may learn that they value convenience and comfort quite a bit.

You can also learn a lot about a person based on how they spend their free or disposable time. They might be a more outdoors-y person who spends their time fishing, hunting, or hiking. They might be a sport-y kind of person who golfs, plays hockey, or has the kids enrolled in several sports. Maybe they are the kind of person who loves to get away and go on trips, both local and distant.

You can also learn a lot about a person based on how they vote, why they vote the way they do, and how they talk about voting and politics. This is what I want to discuss in this article. We have just had a federal election in Canada, and the results have been surprising and disappointing to many Canadians. People had hopes and expectations for this election, and they were hoping to both attain the favourable and avoid the detrimental consequences of the election results. All of these thoughts, feelings, and expectations reveal a lot about our fellow Canadians.

This election, both the lead-up and actual results, communicates more about many of our fellow citizens, and really our country as a whole, than maybe any election in my lifetime. I am basing that assertion on the many conversations I have had with people across our country, the numerical results of the election, and the many responses from people after the election, both in person and on social media.

So, what did we learn about Canada? What did we learn about Canadians? In what kind of country do we live?

We fitted ourselves with shackles
In spite of rising poverty, uncontrollable inflation, a fledgling economy, a healthcare system on life-support, ever-growing debt, a looming real estate catastrophe, vile Woke practices, and cultural and moral division and decay, Canadians have decided to vote in a Liberal Party minority government, even though that has been the governing party in Canada for almost a decade. It’s mind-boggling, until you realize that Canada is a nation of slaves, and we would rather the wicked master we know than embracing freedom, which brings with it responsibility.

Canadians want to have a god-daddy State take care of their needs, while slowly clawing back our freedom and liberty day-by-day. We want State-run healthcare, State-run welfare, State-run education, and State-run media, all of which are funded by the tax dollars they steal from us each year. A vote for the Liberals is a vote for an over-bloated managerial State that will continue to treat Canadians like slaves, or babies, or helpless victims.

Rather than opting for individual responsibilities and the freedom that come from self-governance, Canadians have chosen a government that promises to “take care” of us and “keep us safe” from every danger, whether that danger is the climate crisis, Christian nationalism, or chief among all evils, Donald Trump (please re-read that sentence with a sarcastic tone). Shouldn’t we take care of ourselves? Of course not, according to those who voted for the Liberal Party. As long as we throw our elbows up and buy things stamped with little, red maple leaves, everything will be just fine.

Canada, as it turns out, is full of people who, just like Israel in the wilderness, are longing for the comfort and security that come with being slaves. “And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, ‘Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger’” (Exodus 16:2-3).

That’s Canada alright.

Scared to death
One of the most astonishing facts about the 2025 federal election is how much more binary it was than almost any other election I can recall. The Liberal and Conservative parties combined acquired 86% of the total votes cast. That is astounding. Every other party saw a precipitous drop in voter support. The PPC and the NDP, the two extremes of the Canadian political spectrum, saw significant losses from 2021. These parties are supported by people who, for good or bad, are committed to their party and their party principles, choosing to reject the Liberals and Conservative parties, which are more moderate in their policies and social beliefs.

In 2025, however, even these people abandoned their principles in order to support either the Liberals or the Conservatives, doing whatever they could to ensure the other party did not win. How much of a compromise? The PPC went from getting 844,076 total votes in 2021 to 139,321 total votes in 2025, which is 704,755 less. The NDP went from getting 3,035,715 total votes in 2021 to 1,236,317 total votes in 2025, which is 1,799,398 less. Unbelievable!

Or it would be, except that Canada is full of cowards. People were so terrified of seeing the “bad guy” or “evil villain” win that they took all of their principles and values and threw them into the trash. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I saw – be it on social media, on “conservative” news, or in private chats – people say something like, “This election is the most important election ever, and it might be the last one we have if the Liberals win. It’s all hands on deck! We have to do everything we can to make sure the Conservative Party wins so as to save us from a ghoulish, dystopian, Liberal hellhole that will leave us, our children, and our grandchildren in grief-stricken poverty forever.” As hyperbolic as that sounds, it’s much closer to reality than you might think, and it applies to people on both ends of the political spectrum.

I was also disappointed – though not surprised – at the number of people who said that if Carney and the Liberals won, they would leave Canada soon. After the Liberals won, I saw many people on social media say that they were preparing to make their exit from Canada. How, I wonder, after staying here during the COVID tyranny, would they flee now? Because they reached their breaking point, the war of political attrition has worn them down, and they have given up fighting. They believe the Canada of the future is too much for them to bear.

What has happened is that people were so terrified about the greater evil (Assyria) gaining power that they chose to vote for and support the lesser evil (Egypt) in order to keep them as safe as possible. What did God say when Israel pursued that course of action?

“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation” (Isaiah 30:1-3).

What’s most ironic about all of this is that the plan didn’t work. The Liberal Party (Assyria) won anyway, and it turns out that there was truly no hope to be found in the Conservative Party (Egypt). And now, I am convinced that our general cowardice will bring upon our nation an even greater judgment than if we had stood firm on our principles and courageously voted in order to please the Lord, not save our skin.

Just me and my own
There was a pretty disappointing tendency I noticed in many people during the COVID era. When all manner of lockdowns and policies were being suggested and implemented, their economic and societal consequences were rather staggering. For example, disrupting global food supply chains through pandemic mandates would lead to hundreds of millions of more children being plunged into poverty and dying from starvation. Local lockdowns and stay-at-home orders would cause countless people to lose their jobs, their businesses, and create chaos in the home as more men would turn to substance abuse and even physically and emotionally harming their family, all as a way to cope with their livelihoods being damaged.

Knowing the utter carnage these policies would inflict upon many, there was a large segment of the population – the laptop class, if you will – of people who would not be that affected by the lockdowns. Perhaps they had a job where they could work from home. Perhaps they were deemed an “essential” service. Maybe they were so wealthy they knew they would weather the storm. In any event, many people said, sometimes without ever saying it with words, “So long as my family and my children are safe, I don’t care what happens to other people, especially people I will never see in other parts of the world.” These people were selfish and self-centered, and they didn’t give any real thought to how the policies they supported would ruin so many lives in such a short period of time.

This is precisely how many Canadians approached this last election. People on both sides of the political spectrum were so concerned with their guns, or their charitable status, or their property value, or their RRSP, or their ability to post whatever they want on social media, or whatever else, that they brushed off and didn’t take seriously questions like, “What about the 100,000 innocent pre-born babies that are murdered each year in Canada, and how the person I am voting for supports it, defends it, and will fund it with my tax dollars?” “How about the millions and millions of future generations of Canadians that will have to pay the bill and suffer the consequences for the people we are electing into office and the decisions they will make?”

Many might have said they were concerned with their neighbour, but if they were honest with themselves and others, it was love and care of self that drove many to vote and engage the way they did. We have neglected God’s instructions to, “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause” (Isaiah 1:16-17). We have failed to, “Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter” (Proverbs 24:11). We would do well to remember the very next words in that same Proverb, “If you say, ‘Behold, we did not know this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work” (Proverbs 24:12)? Yes, God does know and see, and I believe we in Canada will be paid back according to our work.

More beasts and antichrists
Both the campaign period and the results of this last election have made it abundantly clear that Canada has no desire to elect a godly candidate that will stand for righteousness and make God-honouring laws. Canada has zero bandwidth for someone who loves Christ and wants to see Canada established as a Christian nation, which it was both at its inception and for many years after that. No, what our citizens want are pagans, sodomites, Communists, Socialists, globalists, tyrants, liars, and hypocrites. This applies to all parties, by the way.

Canada has seen a total moral degradation over the last fifty years, in every institution, and across every demographic. This is due to, in part, the growing cultural behemoth that has taken over in our land (I wrote about that here). My main assertion was that “this monster that is comprised of Secular Humanism, Postmodern Neo-Marxism, and Statist Scientism – this Cultural Chimaera – has been growing for generations, and it will take a multi-generational battle to slay this beast.”

The other part of the equation is the utter failure of the Church to engage in the cultural and political spheres, to function as a God-ordained prophetic voice speaking out against evil, and to train its own people in godliness and Biblical fidelity. Let’s just be honest about it. The vast, vast majority of churches complied with the State and denied the sovereign rule of Christ over His Bride. The vast, vast minority of churches would say anything about public injustice or evil rulers, let alone encourage their people to run for office and push back against the darkness in the culture.

In his book “Christian Mission in a Modern World,” John Stott asserts the following, and I would add, correctly: “When any community deteriorates, the blame should be attached where it belongs: not to the community which is going bad but to the church which is failing in its responsibility as salt to stop it going bad. And the salt will be effective only if it permeates society, only if Christians learn again the wide diversity of divine callings, and if many penetrate deeply into secular society in order to serve Christ there.”

How did we see this play out in this last election? Well, there are many Canadians who went to vote, saw that a true follower of Christ that they know was on the ballot, and rather than vote for righteousness in Canada and support a godly candidate that is actually qualified to serve in office, they opted for a pagan. In fact, I know of many Christians who discouraged other Christians from voting for another professing Christian, all that the Conservative candidate, who was a God-hater, would defeat the Liberal candidate, also a God-hater.

The sad story of this last election is that while pagans vote like pagans and support pagan policies – which is to be expected – many professing Christians also voted like pagans, and in doing so ended up supporting pagan policies by extension. They can say “lesser-of-two-evils” and “strategic voting” all they want, the word they are really looking for is compromised. And as I mentioned earlier, the sad irony is that they compromised and went against their conscience (which is a sin) for nothing, because the Liberals won and Mark Carney is our Prime Minister.

How to bridge this divide
After all of the COVID mandates and policies expired in March 2023, and things went back to “normal” (whatever that is), I believed that the lines were firmly and permanently drawn in the sand. At that point, anyone who believed the State-advanced narrative would never be convinced otherwise. Likewise, any church that had not repented of their sinful abdication of authority would never admit they did anything wrong. The only options would be a dramatic work of the Spirit of God leading them to repentance, or a plunging into catastrophic circumstances that would wake them from their stupor.

I believe the same is true with voting and politics. At this point, with a totally compromised and pagan Conservative Party, and with Canada in a moral death-spiral, nothing is going to get people to change where they stand on these issues; nothing, of course, except for either a dramatic work of the Spirit of God leading them to repentance, or a plunging into catastrophic circumstances that would wake them from their stupor. I believe the latter is more likely, and it weighs heavy on me and what this will mean for my children and grandchildren.

I am sorry to say that I do not believe this ideological distance can ever be closed apart from one of these two circumstances taking place. No amount of discussion, convincing, evidence, or debate will accomplish it. Our country is so divided, people are so polarized, and they exist within their own echo-chambers. Something very significant has to occur for people to move over to the other side, as it were.

Rather than be depressed by this reality, we should be all the more exercised about getting to work, because there is much work to be done. We have a Christian culture to build in Canada, and it certainly won’t build itself. We have schools to start, businesses to create, and churches to grow, all for the glory of God. We have eager young men who need to be discipled and directed to get married, have kids, and work hard for the sake of the Kingdom of God. We have eager young women who need to learn what true Biblical femininity looks like, and we need to disciple them to be women of character and self-respect. We don’t have time to whine and moan. We understand what time it is, we have surveyed the land, and we see where the battle lines have been drawn.

Canada has been exposed for what it truly is, a godless nation that has rejected the truth of the Word of God. Now we must shine as lights in the darkness and labour for the glory of our King.

“Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.” – Philippians 2:14-16