Dougie, you have to get out more, take off those rose-coloured glasses, open your eyes a little wider. The deep state was here long ago. Civil servants tend to be unionized and if one polled them you would find the vast majority voting for socialist ideologies that increase the size of government, government spending and borrowing. Bureaucracies always beget more bureaucracy, wanting to grow, not shrink. So where do we find our civil servants? Elementary and secondary school teachers, university professors, college instructors, police, federal departments, provincial ministries, and municipal employees. Where else is our socialism supported? How about anywhere in the private sector supported by public monies - contract work, public construction work, consultants.

Where do you think the politics of the majority of these people fall?

Good grief Dougie, we turned into a tax & loan funded socialist politburo long ago and you still say you fail to see it when you're a big cheerleader?