The Garden City Refugee

Dear Marilyn Gladu

April 11, 2026

Dear Marilyn Gladu:

I hope this message finds you well. We’ve never met, but your name has been all over the news lately, so I thought it would be good to check in with you. Even though you’ve undoubtedly been flooded with phone calls and emails, I hope you won’t mind the additional intrusion.

When I saw the notification that you, a longtime CPC MP, had crossed the floor to join the Liberals, I first thought it was an April Fool’s joke. Every year, people get increasingly creative with them. I’ve found myself fooled more than once. Maybe you have as well.

But no. It wasn’t on April 1st. This was no joke.

Understandably, my next thought was for your well-being. Because there can be only one reason you made this decision. You and/or your family had been threatened with serious bodily harm or worse by the gangsters ruling this country and their masters in the Chinese Communist Party. Join us or else. It’s the kind of thing that happened in Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union where dissidents targeted by those evil regimes were given the unenviable choice of being a prosecutor at a show trial or a defendant, where the outcome has already been predetermined.

No doubt, they threw in some financial incentives your way for your trouble. Some Brookfield shares, perhaps. The mafia chieftain at the head of the Liberal crime family can certainly arrange that. I can just picture him speaking in a deep voice, “It shall be done.” Or maybe some other goodies funded by Canadian taxpayers. Liberals, as you are well aware, don’t fund anything themselves. That’s what the little people are for. Let them eat cake.

Without being threatened, there is no way any principled conservative, one who openly supported the Freedom Convoy and one who, even recently, suggested high-ranking Liberals should be in prison, could change their beliefs so radically on the drop of a hat and join those she once detested. Not even if they offered you a controlling interest in Brookfield.

Unless you really weren’t a principled conservative at all. Unless it was all just for show.

In which case, good riddance to you.

Enjoy your new mafioso friends.

You deserve to be in such company.