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Hello friends,
Seldom in Canada’s history has an election been as critical as the one before us today. This moment will not only define the future of our nation—it will also shape how the world perceives and engages with Brand Canada. Our global reputation has suffered in recent years, largely due to political ineptitude and decisions that neglected core Canadian national interests. We have reached a point where a political reset is not just necessary—it is urgent. It is time to re-centre our national priorities around leadership, stability, and a sincere commitment to Canada's future.
We face an uncertain economic future at this moment. All the past calculations are at risk and up for re-evaluation. The priorities that we set for Canada might have to be revisited. We, the people, need merit and talent to come back to play the most crucial roles to make our economy resilient and growth oriented. Politics, if it does not work for the income and financial stability of average families, is failed politics. Even before the tariff threats and the subsequent upheavals, Canada was experiencing a whirlwind of problems, most of them on the economic front. We need to jettison the paradigms of the past and bring in a new set of leaders, open to ideas, less obsessed with identity politics to stay in power, and make Canada competitive and prosperous.
My first and most important request to every member of our community is this - GO VOTE. Make your voice count. This is your opportunity to say who and what you support—and equally, who and what you do not. In a democracy, your vote is your voice. It is the most powerful tool we have to shape the course of our country. And at this moment in our national life, the stakes could not be higher.
What we are witnessing in today’s political environment in Canada reminds me of pre-2014 India—when elections were dominated by freebies, appeasement, and identity-based divisions. While not perfect, the Modi era marked a shift toward development and national interest. Leadership should be about vision and values and robust execution to achieve them — not optics. Canada needs sincere, unifying, and principled leaders now more than ever.
Small groups of motivated people, with extreme agendas whose objectives lie outside of Canada, have played outsize roles in our politics. While we need to guard against ‘foreign interference’ zealously, we need to be even more vigilant about this ‘internal interference’. These are elements who have proven that they could threaten Canada’s internal security and our relationships with key allies—particularly India.
Former Prime Minister Trudeau severely damaged Canada–India relations by his reckless actions. India, a rising economic superpower, and a friendly country with millions of its sons and daughters resident here, should be viewed as an ally and fellow traveler. Instead, he chose to put India on his crosshairs and helped create avoidable schisms within Canadian polity. Economic mismanagement, rising crime, thoughtless immigration policies, housing shortage, and a real affordability crisis are all a part of his legacy that Canadians live through every day. The Liberals have rebranded ahead of another election under Prime Minister, Marc Carney —but have they truly earned the trust to govern again?. (Read more)
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