All I have to say is ‘heh.’
Bingley sent me this gem from the land of the Syrupians, and I am crying.
Meet Nate Erskine-Smith. He’s a member of the Canadian Parliament who had his eye set on winning the neighboring seat of Scarborough Southwest in a byelection, which, after triumphing, he could then use to catapult himself into Liberal party leadership.
And why wouldn’t he be confident? If you listen to him rattle off his bonofides in the campaign clip, he’s got all the progressive tickees checked. For instance, he’s the former ‘Canadian Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities who served under both Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney.’
He’s Liberal Party Gold.
He won his election last year with 68% of the vote. Everybody loves him.
He’s a card-carrying uber-progressive in the best Fidelito tradition. Open borders, anti-Israel, pro-First Nations, climate cultist.
The whole package.
…Erskine-Smith’s unguarded quality carries over everywhere else, as he resists the instinct to flatten himself into slogans and sound bites. Instead, he uses the internet to think out loud; he has a lot on his mind. He’s invested in environmental protections, animal welfare, and affordability. Back in August, he called on Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to take a stand against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and he’s one of twenty-seven MPs who backed a pro-Palestinian pledge. His support for drug decriminalization has made him a target of Conservative attacks; Poilievre called him a “radical hard drug legalization advocate” earlier this year.
…That mix of on-the-ground engagement and online transparency has come together to create something that almost feels like a contradiction: an honest politician. Erskine-Smith embodies both sides of that coin. A lawyer and an Oxford graduate, he understands the game. He projects charm and confidence, wants to win, to govern. At the same time, he is stubbornly committed to speaking candidly—“for better and worse,” he told me, laughing.
When I asked him if Carney was doing a good job as prime minister, he paused for a long time. There are, he said, many things to admire about Carney’s tenure so far: the establishment of Build Canada Homes, the commitment to meeting NATO’s 2 percent defence spending target, the focus on economic issues and on defending Canada from United States president Donald Trump’s aggression. But he also believes that pushing through Bill C-5 created unnecessary tensions with Indigenous communities, as well as raised questions about his commitment to the environment. And, though he didn’t quite say it, he seemed nervous about whether the Carney government—and its drift toward a more business-friendly, centrist agenda—would let down more left-leaning factions of the party. “The Liberal challenge,” he told me, “is how do you chart a new course without abandoning a progressive coalition of voters that got you there?”
His anxiety about Carney’s centrism is palpable in a Substack post responding to the 2025 federal budget. While he had some praise, he also levelled several criticisms—about stalled climate action, insufficient investment in affordable housing, and cuts to international development funding. He concluded the post with a pointed joke: “it’s a pretty good Progressive Conservative budget.”
And he was especially known for the immigration issue.
How shocking for Mr. Erskine-Smith when the votes were counted, and it turned out one of those Bangladeshi immigrants whose organization he was so proud of belonging to had beaten him for the seat he knew he had wrapped up.
Didn’t they know who he was?
Nate Erskine-Smith, a former Canadian Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities who served under both Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney, was supposed to be a shoo-in for the nomination for a by-election in Ontario for the left-wing Liberal Party.
Instead, the open-borders advocate got beaten by a Bangladeshi immigrant pizza shop owner — and he’s complaining about ID issues while voting. Whoa, pal, getting into a bit of denialism there, aren’t you?
Erskine-Smith, who had been a member of Parliament for a neighboring seat — or “riding,” as they’re known in Canada’s idiot nomenclature — had meant the nomination in the Scarborough Southwest riding to be “a first checkpoint en route to the party’s leadership,” according to the Oakville, Ontario, News.
One hopes he has an alternative checkpoint to start off his journey there, because he got beaten by Ahsanul Hafiz.
Erskine-Smith isn’t receiving much sympathy, either, and it’s pretty damn hilarious.
The Liberal Party spent 10 years importing voters.
Today those voters showed up.
And voted against the Liberal they were supposed to support.
Federal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, endorsed by Mark Carney himself, just lost a provincial nomination race in Scarborough.
He lost to… pic.twitter.com/jANfvvyWti
— Mario Zelaya (@mario4thenorth) May 10, 2026
…He lost to Ahsanul Hafiz.
A Bangladeshi-born business owner who owns 30 Domino’s Pizza franchises.
Today in Scarborough Southwest:
Sample ballots were handed out entirely in Bengali.
The Ontario Liberal Party allows temporary residents to vote in nominations.
Nate knocked on doors of his own “members” people who had no idea they’d signed up.
The Globe and Mail reported it themselves.
Nate cried irregularities.
Hafiz said: “The hallways were full of people wearing my badges. That’s the clear evidence of who won.”
The Liberals flooded ridings with new Canadians.
Those new Canadians just picked their own guy.
The man who built the machine is now complaining about the machine.
Welcome to the Canada you created. 🇨🇦
So Erskine-Smith is doing what every progressive does when crossed – crying.
I WAS ROBBED BY A BUNCH OF FOREIGNERS
They are doing it because that’s how things are done in Bangladesh and Nate insisted on bringing them here. This couldn’t have happened to a more deserving midwit. pic.twitter.com/Oxdajrit7R
— Natasha Montreal (@NatashaMontreal) May 13, 2026
Sour grapes is what most people are saying.
…Unfair indeed. If Erskine-Smith had been serious about checking IDs at the border, he wouldn’t have been replaced by the people who invaded Canada. By the time they’re inside and at the voting booth, it’s much too late.
Here’s old ES talking about the “economics of Canadian immigration” to a guest who argued for, “strong but smartly managed immigration to ensure Canada’s economy remains competitive and resilient in the long-term”.
Now he just got a lesson in the political economics of mass migration. And Canadians won’t be competitive or resilient. Just replaced.
For his part, Mr Hafiz is being very gracious.
…Hafiz came to Canada roughly 25 years ago on a student visa and is now “a businessman owning about 30 Domino’s Pizza shops across the province,” Oakville News reported. This might have actually been a good outcome otherwise, since, you know, he works for a living, as opposed to having spent most of his 40-odd years on this planet Earth just mindlessly climbing the rungs of the Liberal Party hierarchy.
However, this whole thing is rich on a number of levels, beginning with Hafiz telling his supporters that certain opportunities “do not exist” for immigrants to Canada. What, they might only have to settle for 15 Domino’s franchises?
“Like many of you, I came here as an immigrant,” he said before the voting. “Ontario is not moving forward. I want to help build the same opportunities that were available to me.”
For his part, Mr. Erskine-Smith is not.
HEH
A bitter dispute has erupted inside the Ontario Liberals after Nate Erskine-Smith challenged the results of the Scarborough Southwest nomination contest, with competing claims of procedural failures, ballot discrepancies and political damage #onpoli https://t.co/JamjSZmNTA
— QP Briefing (@QPBriefing) May 13, 2026
He’s appealing and sullenly giving up his hopes and dreams of Liberal Party leadership.
Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith cast doubt Tuesday on a potential leadership bid for the provincial Liberals, hours after filing a notice of appeal to that party challenging the result of a nomination race that he lost.
Erskine-Smith was vying to represent the provincial party in the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection ahead of an intended bid for the leadership of the party, but he now says that may not happen.
“I would say it’s certainly much less likely than it was heading into the weekend and not only because of the outcome, but also because of how the outcome was realized,” he said in an interview on CTV’s Power Play.
Political and karmic tragedy strikes, and it just isn’t fair.
HOLY CRAP
Nate-Erskine Smith a raging Liberal who just got CRUSHED in a muslim majority riding by a unknown muslim man
is SUGGESTING voter fraud!!
This is so racist!! 😂😂😭pic.twitter.com/hOSFLqIDCd
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) May 10, 2026
But it sure is fun.
Oh, WAAHnada!
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