Why Canada Feels Broken Now ft. Tristin Hopper

A cautionary look at how Canada drifted into dysfunction.

Tristin Hopper explains why housing, crime, drugs, and politics feel broken.

In this episode, we break down:

• Tristin Hopper’s book Don’t Be Canada and its argument that Canada is becoming uniquely dysfunctional
• Why Canada’s housing affordability crisis, crime concerns, and health care failures are hitting harder than before
• How harm reduction, bail reform, identity politics, and censorship debates have reshaped Canadian life
• Why Trudeau didn’t invent these problems, but accelerated many of them
• What Mark Carney has and hasn’t changed on immigration, energy, criminal justice, and economic policy
• Why younger Canadians are turning more conservative and losing faith in the current system
• How local politics, institutions, and everyday pushback may matter more than federal talking points

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• Hosts: Mike Wixson
• Guests: Tristin Hopper

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National Post columnist and Don’t Be Canada author Tristin Hopper joins TPL Media for a sharp conversation on Canada’s political direction, rising disorder, affordability pressure, public policy failures, and whether the country can still correct course.

⏱️ Timestamps:

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:04 What Don’t Be Canada is really about
• 03:07 Harm reduction and Canada’s policy extremes
• 05:45 Weaponized niceness and unintended consequences
• 08:44 Are Canadians actually buying into this?
• 11:09 When real-life consequences change political views
• 13:06 Did Trudeau create this, or just accelerate it?
• 15:09 What Mark Carney has changed so far
• 19:22 The core lesson: engage with reality
• 20:50 How Canada lost affordability and prosperity
• 22:03 Why young Canadians are shifting right
• 26:39 Why new immigrants and younger people feel it most
• 27:08 Can change happen locally before federally?
• 30:23 Final thoughts and book recommendation

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