Editor,
 
I predict that if/when they form a federal government, Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives will eventually have to concede that they, contrary to their campaign promises, won’t be making quality-of-life matters any better for the average Canadian than they were/are under the federal Liberal-NDP minority government, after all. No better for the "little guy," at any rate. Big business and the wealthy, however, will still be good, if not even better. 
 
That Conservative government will conveniently blame it all on the preceding minority government’s supposed irreparable damage to the economy mostly via inflation – inflation that was actually caused by the pandemic, exploitive corporate greed, and Canada being helplessly economically attached to the U.S.
 
What will be done about the unaffordability of housing and even food, largely due to real-estate speculation and greed-flation, respectively? Nada. Excess commissions and bonuses via massive corporate profits must continue — and even increase.
 
There’s an unprecedentedly high percentage of residents who must rent and who’ll likely never make enough money to own their home in Canada. It’s fairly doubtful a money-first-minded Conservative government would be ideologically willing to place effective disincentives on investor speculation in the housing market, which makes unaffordable housing even more expensive.
 
What will be noticeably different, though, will be the thick austerity measures, disproportionately at the pain of those with the least. Combine all that with the unaffordability crisis, and you get a breeding ground for worsened economic conditions thus exacerbated human suffering.
 
This, while government subsidization of already-very-profitable corporations, especially the fossil fuel industry, remains untouched, if not increased — all under the guise of economic and/or job growth.
 
 Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock