A Note to My MPP and MP About The Direction of Ontario and Canada
Sharing the discouragement many of us in our 30s and younger are feeling living in Ontario and Canada right now.
*Note: I will update this post if/when I receive a response from the politicians*
July 8, 2025
E-mail sent to:
MPP Mike Schreiner
MP Dominique Orourke (My riding in Guelph does not have an elected MP currently. Therefore she may not respond).
Dear Mike and Dominique,
I am writing as a mid-thirties, female voter in Guelph, Ontario. I normally write emails to my MPP and MP that are well worded and thought out. However, I am finding myself so extremely overwhelmed by everything that is occurring in our province and country, that I am struggling to know what to say.
I am feeling so much hopelessness when it comes to the direction of not only the province of Ontario, but Canada. I am a social worker and see the impacts of a high cost of living crisis every day. Not only in the lives of the clients I serve, but in my own life as well.
As a 35 year old, I have needed to grieve that my life does not look the way I was told it would by the adults before me. I cannot afford a home, my income is unstable, I do not trust that the health care system will take care of me or my loved ones in the way it should. I am watching the climate crisis get worse and worse, and yet Doug Ford and Mark Carney are passing bills which further harm our environment and undermine environmental protections in the name of the economy.
I do not feel pride living in Ontario. I feel that I have watched our province shift further and further to the right and that what we are watching happen across our southern border is already starting to creep into Canada. Mark Carney is working with the Conservative Government. A party that has never had the interest of working class people on their agenda. We are tightening our borders and there are plans to increase Federal funding to invest in our military.
I am so stressed. I am so anxious about what my future in Ontario looks like. We are losing so many people to addictions. Our health care systems continue to falter. The job market is crumbling and I have friends in their mid 30s losing jobs that we were told were, “life career jobs”. Public services are being cut further and I feel as though I cannot keep up with the Bills being passed by Doug Ford and Carney. I also see no opposition or push back from the NDP or Green parties. I feel so disheartened by our system and it feels as though what is happening in the US, will be at the door of Canada in the next several years in some capacity with the changes that are being made.
Why is this happening? Why are Ontario and Canada going in the direction of moving further to the right? Have we learned nothing from history? Why is there no opposition to these bills (Such as Bill C5) being pushed so quickly?
Jessica del Rosso
