What you are describing is happening and has happened for decades in many countries and at different levels: Governments with failed philosophies buy votes en-m

What you are describing is happening and has happened for decades in many countries and at different levels: Governments with failed philosophies buy votes en-masse from various numerically large groups of people by (a) pretending to be aligned with their interests and, (b), gift-giving to that group. I think it is fair to say this is now happening along the entire American continent, from Argentina to the USA. I know nothing about Canadian politics so I can't comment. The framework is the same everywhere: Socialist or socialist-leaning ideology coupled with failing policies. If you truly study history from, say, Evita Peron in Argentina to Obama in the USA the parallels are scary. It's almost like they study each other's techniques and replicate them across time and space. Of course, this makes sense. Politics responds to evolutionary forces. It is easy to see that "survival of the fittest" converged on a solution that swaps favors to the masses for votes. The only thing that matters is the survival of the organism, in this case a politician and the party they are associated with. Of course, what happens to the masses and the ecosytem within which they live (the country) is of no importance to the organism aiming to survive (politician and party). Again, Argentina is a perfect example of killing the host or the environment in exchange for the survival of the political species. The country goes to hell but the politicians live it up. Same in the US where not one of our populist politicians has to live by the very rules they push on us. For example, Obama and his daughters will never have to worry about healthcare because they exist on a plane far above ours. Humanity has to come up with a way to prevent political actors from manipulating the masses for their own gains. Easier said than done.