MILLS: A 'naive plea?' Are you kidding?

Vancouver-based Alise Mills is a strategist and political analyst working at the intersection of communications, policy, and strategy to help grow and modernize Canada’s conservative movementOn Monday afternoon, Andrew Perez — Liberal pundit, insider and longtime Liberal surrogate — posted a thread on X (formerly Twitter) that attempted to shame Canadians into silence. Dressed up as a “naive plea” for unity, it is in fact a carefully crafted attempt to gaslight a nation reeling from a decade of social and economic decline.Perez writes, “Country before party” as though critics of the Liberal government were putting their personal grievances above the nation’s interests. But here's the truth: holding government accountable is putting country before party. Especially when the ruling party is responsible for the dire circumstances Canadians now face..Let’s be clear: Mark Carney hasn’t received a “strong mandate." He’s inherited a broken country, shattered by years of reckless overspending, cronyism, and contempt for working Canadians.And what has he done? Appointed the very same insiders who helped ruin and steal from this country, back into cabinet. He has rewarded negligence, incompetence, and in many cases, the malicious abuse of power, by re-elevating the architects of this crisis and asking Canadians to simply “move forward.”.Perez warns of an “unprecedented and perilous trade war,” Alberta separatism, and a resurgent Parti Québécois. But these are not unforeseen disruptions — they are the direct consequences of Liberal mismanagement. Trudeau and his enablers spent years ignoring the economic realities of the West, gutting Canada’s energy sector while simultaneously engineering false economic outcomes through billions in wasteful spending.They used the so-called 'green transition' to funnel public money into a 'Green Slush Fund,' rewarding political allies and lobbyists under the guise of climate policy. We now see the fallout: billions lost on failed EV investments, collapsing battery plants, and empty promises that did nothing to create long-term prosperity for Canadians. It wasn’t just economically reckless — it was ideologically driven sabotage disguised as innovation.Worse still, the Liberals trampled on and continue to trample on Western Canada’s constitutional rights in the process. Through Bills C-69 and C-48, the Trudeau Liberals effectively expropriated Western Canadian lands and waters, stripping provinces of the ability to develop their own natural resources. .C-69, dubbed the 'no more pipelines bill,' created suffocating regulatory barriers that crippled not only our ability to transfer and export Canadian energy but would then stop much needed energy and infrastructure projects, while C-48 imposed a discriminatory tanker ban targeting Alberta and Saskatchewan exports.This wasn’t national unity — it was targeted economic lawfare against the West. And now, while Mark Carney publicly declares that Canada will become an “energy superpower,” he refuses to repeal the very legislation that ensures we never will. It’s not just hypocrisy — it’s a deliberate strategy to talk prosperity while legislating decline. In other words, it's gaslighting.So no, we won’t “strike an entirely new tone.”The tone Perez wants is one of submission — of loyal compliance while Liberal elites reshuffle the same broken deck. Canadians are tired of tone policing. We’re tired of being told we’re “dividing the country” when we point out the obvious: under this government, housing is unaffordable, groceries are unaffordable, energy is expensive, good, high paying jobs are evaporating, foreign investment is almost nil and public trust is collapsing..I’d remind Andrew that Canadians have always pulled together in times of crisis — real crises, not crises of Liberal conscience. But real unity is built on truth, not enforced consensus. And right now, the truth is this: the Liberal establishment has failed Canada. If Perez and the Carney government want unity, they need to start by being honest about their role in this decline — and stop promoting (and rewarding) the very people who have caused Canadians to suffer, doubt and struggle.Country before party? Always. But Canadians weren’t given a real choice — they were handed a crisis, a media echo chamber, and the same old ruling class. True unity requires honesty, humility, and real change — not fear, spin, and recycled power.Vancouver-based Alise Mills is a strategist and political analyst working at the intersection of communications, policy, and strategy to help grow and modernize Canada’s conservative movement.

MILLS: A 'naive plea?' Are you kidding?

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