After decade of decline, Citizens' group launches campaign to fix Canada

"Fix Canada" campaign launched this week by the National Citizens Coalition.

Bryan Passifiume, Toronto Sun

OTTAWA — Out with the old, in with the fix.

Seeking ways of cleaning up the mess left by a decade of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, the National Citizens Coalition (NCC) is launching a new initiative entitled Fix Canada aimed at pushing lawmakers to sweep away old, ineffective and divisive policies and end a decade of what NCC spokesperson Alex Brown described as “managed decline.”

“This moment right now is very much a ‘put up or shut up’ moment for the failures of the past decade,” Brown said of the campaign, which launched this week.

“We’re seeing false starts from (Prime Minister Mark) Carney’s proclaimed major projects office, we’re seeing a reticence to crack down on crime and chaos, we’re seeing very slow movements on fixing immigration — these are incredibly concerning times.”

With Carney’s succession over the wildly unpopular Trudeau, many were hoping it would also mean the end of Trudeau’s equally unpopular policies.

And while Carney did indeed go after low-hanging fruit like the consumer carbon tax and pausing the gasoline and diesel engine ban, many more policies remain that more and more Canadians are speaking out about.

“We’re seeing it in the opinion polls, we’re seeing Canadians waking up on wanting energy projects and waking up on wanting immigration reform,” Brown said.

The campaign kicked off with a 90-second video, accusing the Liberals of “squandering” the great nation Canada had become through generations of hard work and prosperity.

“This is a moment for for culture change, a moment to be proud of our history, to ensure that all those John A. Macdonald statues go back up,” he said.

“And that we don’t revert back to the sort of defenestration of the last 10 years, the self-indulgence, the self-loathing.”