Canada's status as a beacon in a world going dark is in serious trouble because of the country's provincial legislatures. The period between 2015 and 2022 saw many Trump-like politicians like Jason Kenney and Doug Ford get elected to office. The provincial legislatures have been known to take different positions on social and economic issues compared to the federal government, and this has made the situation in Canada increasingly like the United States as it is right now.

During the first year of Kenney's tenure as premier of Alberta, his legislature passed a bill that would repeal the province's carbon tax, which was an economic provision designed to reduce the negative impacts of climate change in the country. The repeal of the carbon tax caused Canada to miss its commitments to the Paris agreement and increased the concentration of carbon emissions spurred by fossil fuels, which was one of the factors that caused the ensuing wildfires four years later. Kenney resigned as premier of Alberta in May 2022 (with the resignation taking effect in October of that year), which would allow Danielle Smith to be elected as the first female far-right premier in Canada's history. Smith is a Canadian equivalent of Lauren Boebert, a far-right representative from Colorado who was elected to the House of Representatives in 2020.

Upon Doug Ford's election as premier of Ontario in 2018, he vowed to work with the premiers of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and New Brunswick to fight Canada's proposed federal carbon tax as he warned that the imposition of such a tax would result in an increase in gas prices in Ontario. In 2023, he sponsored Bill 60, which would not only allow the province's privately-owned health clinics to perform surgeries but also convert more public health clinics to private ones. This, coupled with major cuts to the public health and paramedic services in the Toronto area that were enacted in 2019, resulted in a major increase in the proportion of citizens with long-term health problems throughout the province. The most problematic thing that Ford did, however, was the Ontario legislature's passing of the Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act in September 2022, which would grant authoritarian-like powers to the mayor of Toronto and allow the premier to take part in political campaigns for future mayoral elections in the city. Ford's daughter Krista Ford Haynes is a conspiracy theorist who spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic in a manner similar to Lauren Boebert and is expected to run for a seat in the provincial legislature in a future election.