DO YOUR DUTY? YOU FIRST, OTTAWA. I’ve spent my life working, building businesses, creating jobs, paying taxes and contributing to this country. Today, taxes are my single biggest expense. Year after year, I watch my purchasing power decline, public services deteriorate and the cost of living climb. I pay more and feel I get less. And if the day comes when Canada’s political elites demand that ordinary Canadians pick up a rifle and fight, my first question will be: What the hell am I fighting for? For politicians who have never missed a paycheque? For bureaucrats who face no consequences for their failures? For a political class that lectures us about duty while enjoying privileges the rest of us pay for? Here’s my suggestion. Put the politicians, the well-connected elites and the people who are so eager to send others into war at the front of the line. Let them demonstrate the courage they demand from everyone else. Canada can survive without most of its political elites. It cannot survive without its farmers, tradespeople, workers and the families who keep this country running. I believe in defending my family, my freedom and my country. But don’t confuse loyalty to Canada with blind obedience to the people running it. Patriotism is earned through shared sacrifice, not demanded by people who never expect to make any themselves. You want Canadians to sacrifice everything? You first, you arrogant assholes.