Show notes
Episode Notes
Why are younger Canadians losing faith that political participation can improve their lives?
Michael Harris joins Cody Johnston on The Weird Canadian to explore how affordability pressure, delayed life milestones, and distrust of institutions are shaping youth political engagement in Canada. Michael lays out his views on what caused the affordability crisis and what a different economic approach might look like. Cody presses him on the trade-offs, implementation, and evidence behind those ideas.
The conversation also covers supply management and dairy quotas, Austrian economics, Alberta autonomy and independence, civil liberties, misinformation and censorship, Bill C-9, political alternatives, candidate recruitment, and the practical challenge of rebuilding a federal political organization.
You do not need to agree with every conclusion to engage with the central question: what would make younger Canadians believe that participating in public life is worth the effort?
Topics discussed:
- Why younger Canadians feel left behind
- Affordability and political disengagement
- Supply management and dairy policy
- Austrian economics and competing views
- Alberta autonomy and independence
- Civil liberties, misinformation, censorship, and Bill C-9
- Political alternatives and public trust
- Rebuilding an organization and finding candidates
Follow Michael Harris:
- Official profile: https://www.libertarian.ca/michael_harris
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michael_harris2525/
- Libertarian Party of Canada: https://www.libertarian.ca/
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Elections Canada context:
- Deregistration notice: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=med\&dir=pre\&document=mar0326\&lang=e
- Political-party registration information: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol\&dir=pol%2Freg\&document=index\&lang=e
This episode reflects the speakers’ views. Political, legal, economic, privacy, surveillance, dairy-policy, referendum, election-registration, and party-status claims are discussed for public-interest conversation and should not be treated as independently verified reporting or legal advice. Elections Canada states that the Libertarian Party of Canada was deregistered effective March 31, 2026; the episode discusses the organization’s rebuilding effort.
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