Broken windows, broken display cases, broken locks, broken public systems, and broken people all result in one thing.
Broken trust. And shattered dreams.
As America embarks upon what they are told will be a “Golden Age,” welcome to a Canada in decline. Robbers smashing and grabbing diamonds and rings at jewelry stores at will, people lining up at food banks and for a family doctor, a city declaring a food emergency.
All of this is happening while Canada’s Parliament is shut down while the minority Liberal government, who would not survive a confidence vote, are allowed to spend months sorting out a new leader to replace their failed current one.
They don’t care about the country or the people in it. They care about power. Get power at all costs and keep power at all costs.
As people have their homes and malls invaded, cars jacked and accounts hacked, those who have done nothing to stop it fly around in corporate jets, ride in sports cars, wear Rolex watches, and vacation in posh resorts while Canadians pay through the nose to feed their families and make their exorbitant rent.
It’s gross. It’s obscene. It’s happening — right before our eyes. It’s certainly worse than anything Don Cherry ever said or anything Tamara Lich, Chris Barber or Pat King ever did to democracy and to the country. The woke warriors don’t care. They just mock you. Or call you a Nazi as they cling to power.
They will change the name of your town square, tear town your statues, cancel your founding fathers, ban reporters who they don’t like and ignore antisemitism that would never be ignored if perpetrated on any other group.
And the public just stands by and lets it happen. They have no answer for it.
The Hunger Games is not just a movie in Canada but becoming a reality: Hunger for food. Hunger for a family doctor. Hunger for drugs or cash.
Don’t look now but recent trends and events offer insight into what the country could be thrust into if it goes into a recession or depression upon the implementation of the threatened Trump tariffs. Things are already problematic with people not being able to pay their bills or put food on the table.
There may not have been any windows broken but make no mistake this shattered glass represents the Broken Windows philosophy to a tee. The Broken Windows doctrine is that if a community allows broken windows in its abandoned buildings, that neglect opens up a gateway to more serious crime.
Like shot-up windows
You don’t deal with the small stuff, get prepared for big stuff that your police and courts won’t have enough personnel to deal with. Smash-and-grab jewelry store heists have become so common, if not for today’s social media and on-the-spot reporters with their phone cameras we probably wouldn’t even know about them.
But there is nothing more public or brazen — often conducted in front of children with their parents in the shopping mall.
The latest one at the Erin Mills Town Centre at 3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon is the perfect example. “They just ran in with masks and took out their hammers and started smashing the displays at will,” said one witness.
Everybody understood what was happening.
“You could hear it all through the mall,” said another person who saw it happen. “It all happened so fast.”
The security guy I spoke with said as soon as he heard about it, he sprinted from the other end of the mall.
“I wanted to arrest them,” he said. “But they were so quick. It happened so fast.”
The video I was able to get from a witness said their faces were call covered and they moved at lightning speed. Peel Police are investigating. But history has shown these thugs are hard to catch. That’s why so many people enjoyed watching Markham jewelry store own Jerry Sorani scaring off a bunch of them with a broom stick.
In the one in Erin Mills Town Centre, the smashed glass all over the floor from the display cases destroyed by hammers represented the Broken Windows problem of 2025. This kind of crime is not minor in nature in any way. But it’s treated like it is by the soft-on-criminals Liberals — unless it was loud critics of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau like Lich, King or Barber who all face up to ten years in prison for charges of mischief stemming out of protest.
Notice there is no police investigation into why the city of Kingston’s council declared a food emergency because one in every three people has a food insecurity issue. Or into the people who allowed millions of people on temporary visas into Canada during a housing crisis but didn’t seem to be able to find any doctors, as illustrated in a lineup last week of more than 1,000 people in Walkerton hoping to get a family physician.
Move over Broken Windows. There are a lot of things broken.