Very hard to say. My sense is that for anyone able to hold onto (or at least project the appearance of) an upper-middle-class life the official narrative is what’s real and anything else is “super-fringe” if its thought about at all.
For people in a more blue collar way, I hear regular statements that we are being fed some pretty big lies at scale. But I feel like its more of a dawning awareness than the kind of coherent world-view that people like us work on.
I feel like the later group would agree that if we had only elected “the other guy” Canada would be OK for example.
In Alberta, the govt has largely disappointed the medical freedom types, but they have done some procedural things of interest. You not only had to pay for your Covid shot this year but next year you have to pre-order it.
This sounds good to people like us, but then I see a manager at my office post about it and people give the thumbs up (as in, “Thanks Ill get my order in!”)
I doubt its international news but Alberta has a teachers strike in progress. The last offer rejected by the teachers side involved “free covid shots” for the teachers.
I read it and thought the govt had insulted the teachers, but later found out it was apparently a key union demand.
So things like this make me think there isn’t much awareness or curiosity.
Chris made a comment on his last Friday update about the people around him being “A cargo cult that believes prosperity will return if they just follow the rules”. That pretty much sums up Canada IMO.
Alberta does have a core group of old-timers who very much dislike the Feds but this province has had huge in-migration (both from within Canada and international) and I don’t think the cities have much in common with the rural areas at all anymore (blue collar not withstanding)