The Canadian Future Party (CFP) was founded in 2024 based on a love for Canada, a commitment to democracy as the only legitimate form of government, and with evidence-based decision-making at the heart of our ideology. We are about bringing Canadian politics back to the centre, focusing on solutions that work for Canada rather than appealing to extremists or special-interest groups. We need major reforms, not to break from our past but to build on it. To protect our country’s independence, to strengthen our society and public institutions, to make democracy deliver for Canadians, and to support our country’s growth in an increasingly unstable world, requires a commitment to a single goal: making Canada the world’s northern democratic superpower.
Our party is proud of Canada and our history, including our continual efforts to learn from our mistakes. After more than 150 years of Liberal and Conservative governments and worldwide experiments on what makes life the best for the most people, we have a good idea – based on evidence – of what makes people happier and wealthier: democracy first and always, public services that deliver tangible benefits, a thriving private sector, and protections for the private lives of Canadians coupled with high expectations for those in public service.
That’s why the CFP wants to bring back public conversations about values like honesty, service and sacrifice, not as code for marching back to some 1950s conservative fantasy, but because modern politics too often place those values second to short-term political gain. If a party campaigns, or worse, wins an election based on dishonesty, its leaders make a permanent withdrawal from the account of public trust in our institutions. If you keep hitting the ATM, the account is emptied. Then every decision made by every politician is looked on with distrust. Distrust based on experience.
That kills democracy.
We can see all too clearly what happens to a country that loses a shared understanding of truth and trust when we look to our neighbour to the south. That must not happen here.
It’s why we need a plan to urgently rearm our country. That doesn’t just mean preparing our armed forces to defend our country, and to be a leader in the global democratic coalition, though that is a task we need to embrace immediately, and with commitment. It means rearming Canada with a sense of purpose in the face of the multiple crises we confront.
We are facing the biggest threat to our independence since Confederation. Countries are not eternal; there’s nothing written that says Canada must continue to exist. With our allies far away and the United States sliding towards the sort of autocracy its President openly admires, Canada is vulnerable. No question.
But we have an opportunity. Canada can become the bridge between the democracies of Europe and Africa across the Atlantic, and with those of the Asia-Pacific to the west: we share cultures with them all, enjoying access to our responsibly developed natural resources, working to end climate change at the same time as we grow our population and expand our agriculture to take advantage of the land freed from frost. In ten years, if we choose to, we can decarbonize our economy. While we become the 21st century arsenal for democracy, we can show the world how to build a strong industry with green tools. We can show how to combine a free market economy with social programs delivered to the highest standards, with a simple tax code encouraging investments from throughout the democratic world.
We face many challenges, not least a lack of confidence in ourselves. It’s time to end that. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Canada gradually withdrew into itself while allowing its culture to be conquered by mainstream American trends without critical scrutiny. We now have an opportunity to open to the world again and for Canadians to reconnect with the values that drive us. To recognize the rare beauty of the country we’re so lucky to share. Not only its landscape – but that too – but the fabric of institutions and beliefs we share, which make us Canadian. And to remember, or to build again, that willingness to sacrifice to protect that fabric from any effort by those within the country or outside, to tear it apart.
In this, our first general election campaign, we are running candidates across the country who have gone through our vigorous vetting process, designed to minimize the risk of foreign interference and the influence of extremism. Many have political experience in other parties, while for others the CFP is their first political home.
Our goals in this election are realistic, as a startup party that held its founding convention in November, 2024: we want to introduce the CFP to Canadians, to ask for the honour of your support for our candidates on April 28th, and we want to share ideas on how to make Canada the world’s northern democratic superpower that will be adopted by other parties.
Good ideas aren’t owned by any party, and we’re thrilled that many policies first shared by the CFP have already been adopted by parties represented in the House of Commons!
The work is just beginning for the CFP. Regardless of who wins the election on April 28, we will continue to offer evidence-based policies based on democracy, honesty, and the confidence that the 21st century belongs to Canada: the world’s northern democratic superpower.
Dominic Cardy is the leader of the Canadian Future Party. Cardy is offering voters fresh, no-nonsense and evidence-based solutions developed by and for Canadians, to defend the country’s independence, to make life better and more affordable, and to build the country into the world’s northern democratic superpower.