At a time when healthcare, housing, and transit are collapsing, the premier’s focus tells you everything you need to know

Ontario is in the middle of a housing crisis, a healthcare collapse, gridlocked cities, and a cost-of-living squeeze that’s eating people alive. And Doug Ford’s big move? Threatening to pull Crown Royal whisky from LCBO shelves.

This isn’t satire I can assure you. This is very real.

According to multiple outlets, Ford says he “can’t wait” to follow through on removing Crown Royal to “send a message.” A message to who, exactly? And about what? Because it’s hard to explain to a nurse working double shifts, a young family priced out of housing, or a senior waiting months for care why their premier is fixated on a liquor brand.

This is what out of touch really looks like. People aren’t asking for symbolism. They’re asking for solutions. Ontario residents are watching emergency rooms close overnight. Rent climb faster than wages. Transit grind to a halt. Homeless encampments become permanent fixtures in cities that used to feel livable.

And instead of addressing any of that with urgency or focus, Doug Ford is busy performing cultural theatrics with whiskey bottles. That’s not leadership, which is pretty clear. Its nothing more than another pathetic distraction.

It feels like the kind of move you make when you don’t have answers left, so you create noise instead. No one actually thinks removing Crown Royal from LCBO shelves is going to improve life in Ontario. Not even the people defending it.

This isn’t about public safety. It isn’t about affordability. It isn’t about health or infrastructure. It’s a headline grab. A gesture. Something to point at while real problems continue to rot underneath.

And the thing is, Ontarian’s aren’t stupid. They can tell when their government is playing dress-up instead of doing the job even if they won’t say it out loud.

Ontario doesn’t need any more messages, it needs someone who is competent. Doug Ford says this move is about “sending a message.” But Ontarians have already received plenty of messages from his government.

The message that healthcare workers are expendable. The message that housing affordability isn’t urgent. The message that congestion and gridlock are just things people should accept.
The message that optics matter more than outcomes.

If the government really wanted to send a message and cared to help, it would start with a serious, enforceable housing plan, emergency healthcare staffing solutions, transit timelines that mean something and accountability for ballooning costs and shrinking services.

Instead, we’re talking about Crown Royal like it matters. This is nothing more than what happens when leadership runs dry and has no where else to turn. When politicians stop solving problems, they start staging performances.

They pick safe targets. Harmless symbols. Things that won’t actually change anything but will dominate a news cycle. And they hope the public is too tired or distracted to notice the absence of real work.

But people notice. They notice when their lives get harder while government priorities get dumber. They notice when energy is spent on nonsense while essentials fall apart.

Ontario doesn’t have a Crown Royal problem. It has a leadership problem and always have since Doug Ford took office.

A premier focused on whiskey shelves while the province fractures at the seams isn’t “sending a message.” He’s broadcasting how disconnected his government has become from reality. If this is what passes for focus at Queen’s Park right now, Ontarians have every right to ask what else is being ignored while the cameras are pointed at the liquor aisle.

Because this province deserves better than distractions.

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From LifeSiteNews

By Anthony Murdoch

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre happily welcomed the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro by the United States on Saturday and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seemed to approve 0as well.

In a statement posted to X over the weekend, Poilievre, whose wife is from Venezuela, thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for the capture of Maduro.

“Congratulations to President Trump on successfully arresting narco-terrorist and socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, who should live out his days in prison,” Poilievre wrote.

Poilievre said that the “legitimate winner of the most recent Venezuelan elections, Edmundo González,” should take office, along with the courageous hero and voice of the Venezuelan people, María Corina Machado.”

“Down with socialism. Long live freedom,” he added.

As for Carney, in a social media statement Saturday, he noted how Canada had imposed sanctions on Maduro’s “brutally oppressive and criminal regime — unequivocally condemning his grave breaches of international peace and security, gross and systematic human rights violations, and corruption.”

“Canada has not recognized the illegitimate regime of Maduro since it stole the 2018 election,” he wrote.

“The Canadian government therefore welcomes the opportunity for freedom, democracy, peace, and prosperity for the Venezuelan people.”

As reported by LifeSiteNews, on January 3, U.S. special forces captured Maduro and flew him out of Venezuela in a sophisticated military operation. Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, was captured as well, and both were taken to New York, where they have been charged with drug trafficking.

While Canada’s two main political parties celebrated Maduro’s capture, the interim leader of the socialist New Democratic Party condemned actions by the Trump administration.

Don Davies said on social media that the “attack on Venezuela is neither an act of self defence nor does it have UN Security Council authorization.”

“It is therefore totally illegal and a breach of the UN covenants the US has agreed to uphold as a Member State,” he claimed.

He also said, “The U.S. can have no credibility upholding international law and the rights of nations when it blatantly violates those principles itself.”

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s indictment of Maduro’s regime accuses it of working to transport “thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States” and says that he “partnered with some of the most violent and prolific drug traffickers and narco-terrorists in the world” to flood the U.S. with the deadly drug.

Trump has said that the United States will now have access to oil that belongs to them, and that the United States will “run” Venezuela temporarily to provide for a “safe transition.”

As for Maduro, he rose to power in 2013 after the death of far-left president Hugo Chávez.

Venezuelan special forces committed more than 5,000 extrajudicial killings in 2018 alone, according to a United Nations report.

The Maduro regime was also responsible for jailing thousands of protesters and other people classified as political opponents and frequently tortured and abused prisoners, human rights groups have attested.

Also, the Maduro regime has engaged in anti-Catholic persecutions. In December, Venezuelan authorities blocked Cardinal Baltazar Porras, the 81-year-old former archbishop of Caracas, from boarding a flight out of the country, detaining him, confiscating his Venezuelan passport, and rejecting his Vatican passport.

Under Maduro’s leadership, Venezuela has suffered a catastrophic economic collapse due to his and Chavez’s socialist policies, including price controls, massive public spending, and the nationalization of major industries.