How young men are changing what conservatism looks like in Canada [Video]

Adam Beattie was walking with a friend in downtown Vancouver on a rainy winter day in 2023 when a stranger, who appeared to be high on fentanyl, punched him in the head.

They reported the attack to police, but Beattie says he was told that even if arrested, the attacker would likely be released a few hours later.

Beattie dropped the matter, but ended up moving to a Vancouver suburb where the rent was cheaper and he would feel safer.

“It was a radicalizing experience,” Beattie said. 

The assault confirmed for Beattie something he had long suspected: that the promise of a secure middle-class existence had been undone by Liberal policies aimed primarily at older generations. 

“We’re on the front line of all the crap that’s going on,” Beattie, 30, said of his fellow male Gen-Zers and young millennials.

“The only people who are capable of living life without having to face that, frankly, are an older …