What I found strange is that it seems that the PPC strategists think that PP should be more "angry" after Trump, but that's not the problem. Even if PP hates Trump with all his heart, he's himself doing all the MAGA playbook, from the policies to the language to the attitude.
So no surprise that people are just putting the two next to each other and can only see the US as what could happen if the PPC gets the majority. Especially that in the US, it seems all the institutions in place have done nothing to stop it.
Michael Wernick, a former clerk of the privy council, has looked at what might be up for discussion in the civil service and the government's funding agreements.
Wernick identifies where the CPC could make changes across the whole machinery of government. Thing is the CPC lacks the perseverance and intellect to complete half of it. They just want to wreck stuff.
I remember the Harper Govt not allowing a govt funded research paper to be discussed on account that it would offend creationists because it was about a flood that happened 13,000 years ago.
Only PP would say this openly in his campaign. Woke is defined differently than we all believe. Why has the reporters never asked him to explain in English what it really is to the Conservatives? Because the Conservatives are hiding their agenda from all. Screw you PP asshole
Pollievre would sell Canada piece by piece. French culture and life would be reduced just another “minority” as the US gain more influence in our nation. What protections could PP possibly offer if his master says otherwise? #neverPollievre
Meanwhile, every conservative strategist who supported this bullshit for the last two years is BEGGING Poilievre to at least pretend he isn't this guy during the election campaign because it's tanking him.
PP stated he will defund universities who pursue wokism & dont squash protests he characterizes as anti-semetic
PP has also stated he would deport temporary residents for protesting characterized as antisemitic. Not only does PP sound like Trump, he wants to pursue same policies as Trump.
#StopCPC
We need NONE of the idiotic US 'culture' war in our Canadian politics. Any Canadian politician using the word woke should receive a swift kick to the groin.
Be specific PP. Are you looking for a less diverse workforce? A less inclusive workforce? Who are you kicking out?
How on earth did caring about our fellow human beings, especially those who are disadvantaged in some way, get to be a bad thing? We are living in some alternative universe where wrong is right with these people.
Aaron, please. For those of us in the back. Could he please define exactly what "woke ideology" is.
He thinks it's bad. Obviously. What exactly?
Can we get some context. From anybody. Really.
Lets discuss thought control.
#cdnpoli
Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke. The term acquired political connotations by the 1970s and gained further popularity in the 2010s
There are many terrible right wingers there are in Quebec and how much they blather on about "les wokes." Anti-wokism is generally all Islamophobia in Quebec (and France), like it is in the rest of Canada.
It's like he and his team can't pivot at all. This is the kind of stuff that gets him easily associated with Trump and also one of the reasons why non-CPC voters are flocking to Carney.
Is he seeing numbers that are showing significant movement away from the CPC so he needs to solidify his base?
I guess he didn't do as much damage as he'd hoped, in Harper's "Conservative" cabinet.
But he's hoping to do more damage this time around.
More world class research libraries to destroy, more world class scientific research programs to abolish, more renewable programs to cancel, more tar to burn...
Since 'anti-woke' has come to mean 'f*** empathy', it's fitting that Mr. 'We're Conservatives, we don't believe in that' would make it his flagship ethos.
I don't mean to state the obvious, but in what dreamworld does the CPC think a Foreign nations' culture war crap magically applies to ours? We have radically different societies, so this is insulting, pointless and pathetic.
Researcher's in Canada are scared seeing what's happening to American colleagues where "woke" research being defunded is everything from suicide rates in LGBTQ youth to domestic violence during pregnancy...
Seems kind of silly to double down on acting trumpy when the main problem voters have with him is that he acts too trumpy. Anyway I'm sure Jenny Byrne has it under control.
Just as Trump is doing in America. Because PP wants us to sleep walk into autocracy. I say wake up Canada, and stay woke. Life is too precious to not be woke to it.
What's frustrating to me is that I cannot find this anywhere *but* the Gazette, do you have any leads? Because the Cons in my life dismiss this out if hand because "the Montreal Gazette is useless just like CBC". I need this actually somewhere, or him saying it, before they'd believe me.
Enough with the BS woke ideology. They label everything "woke" and use it as an excuse to dismantle institutions. If you vote for Poilievre get ready for fascism in Canada.
Woke-a euphemism used by the Heritage Fdn to rally their gang around. Calling themselves "Awake" as in opposition to "Woke". We have a propaganda source "Awake Canada" for those that like US Fascism.
No Maple MAGA BS up here, thank you. Conservatives about to learn that Canada is not America, and division and hate are not a popular platform right now.
FFS.. Poilievre's whole platform is ',everything Trump can do, I can do better'.... this "A Conservative government would put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research,” is right out of Trump's playbook.
And let me tell you Canada 🇨🇦, as an academic living in USA, Trump has done more damage to post secondary education in 3 months than anything in USA 🇺🇸 history. If you want a 3rd rate University system in Canada 🇨🇦 vote for Poilievre. This Professor is voting for Mark Carney!
Woke means nothing. It is fake made up word that MAGA types use in order to try to win arguments they can't otherwise win.
MAGA "He is bad"
Normal person "Why?"
MAGA "He is woke."
NP "What is that?"
MAGA "He is WOKE! Ok? Facts!!! Do your own research!!!"
I thought Woke meant "smart", the opposite of Anti-Woke; "dumb!" And I find it funny to watch PPs followers standing behind him attacking Woke Canadians, not realizing they are the Anti-Woke!
VOTE - #LIBERALMajority and give PoiLIEvre his Eviction Notice from Stornaway and the HOC! 🍁
yes. When people would, and still, mock "political correctness" (aka "woke", these days), my response is always, "so you don't like being a decent person and would rather be an asshole?"
Oh yeah, ask any of these clowns to define "woke" and they crumple like a cheap suit. Because the only way they can form a sentence without "woke" in it is to descend into hate speech.
It means fighting racism, supporting women's rights, women's bodily autonomy, it means supporting scientific facts and vaccines, it means being pro-choice, supporting LGBTQ. It means supporting foreign aid, it means dialoguing with our allies.
Every single time a CONservative says 'woke' anything they should be made to specifically name the issue they are speaking to.. 'woke ideology' cannot be an acceptable response.. Name the issue🤬 This was a huge mistake in US politics.
I fear that the average Canadian doesn’t know about the racial animus behind this type of rhetoric from the USA. The Trump regime is implementing a segregationist-sexist ideology and some of them have been explicit about it.
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https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/article840629.html
https://secteur-public-sector.ca/en/eliminating-toxic-woke-ideology-what/
Would love to see a nice article about this this week.
Always providing cover to this guy.
"On va aussi lutter contre le wokisme.
Mon gouvernement va mettre fin au wokisme dans la fonction publique fédérale.
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https://www.conservateur.ca/pierre-poilievre-partage-sa-plateforme-pour-le-quebec-a-la-nation-quebecoise/
My friends, a certain René Lévesque said: “ Beware of people who say they love the people – but who hate everything the people love .”
Fuck them and fuck him. He cannot be saved.
Woke: someone who has passed their security clearance.
PP has also stated he would deport temporary residents for protesting characterized as antisemitic. Not only does PP sound like Trump, he wants to pursue same policies as Trump.
#StopCPC
Be specific PP. Are you looking for a less diverse workforce? A less inclusive workforce? Who are you kicking out?
When someone uses 'woke' that pretty much shows their lack of understanding.
aware of, actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).
Anti-woke would just mean unaware or inattentive based on this definition.
He thinks it's bad. Obviously. What exactly?
Can we get some context. From anybody. Really.
Lets discuss thought control.
#cdnpoli
The people who use this word in a derogatory way can’t even define it
How can you remove the ideology from the government when it doesn’t exist?
Anti-wokeism seems like an odd thing to try to sell in Quebec.
Is he seeing numbers that are showing significant movement away from the CPC so he needs to solidify his base?
But he's hoping to do more damage this time around.
More world class research libraries to destroy, more world class scientific research programs to abolish, more renewable programs to cancel, more tar to burn...
SAY it PP what are you going to get rid of that’s “woke”.
It’s anything DEI. It’s anything that acknowledges indigenous peoples and land rights
SAY IT Out loud tell us clearly and plainly PP
How Bout a new 3 word slogan “I LIKE BIGOTS”
What could possibly go wrong by aligning with Trump/Vance?
Imagine that!!
Poilievre has excluded reporters from his campaign bus.
Tell me when it's appropriate to use Orwell's quote on making fascists extinct, I'll wait.
We know what being "anti-woke" means, we know what trolling the "woke" means.
Vintage KKK campaign language, racism, misogyny, bigotry.
Pierre is a bigot.
MAGA "He is bad"
Normal person "Why?"
MAGA "He is woke."
NP "What is that?"
MAGA "He is WOKE! Ok? Facts!!! Do your own research!!!"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woke-meaning-word-history-b1790787.html
He said woke doesn't have a meaning.
VOTE - #LIBERALMajority and give PoiLIEvre his Eviction Notice from Stornaway and the HOC! 🍁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N726SelMhtc
https://cpcassets.conservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/23175001/990863517f7a575.pdf
What can we do? We fight like hell to get out the Liberal vote
Given how many rely on public sector roles & funding, we do NOT want that here.