The Conservative Party will end public funding for university research that addresses “woke” topics, according to the Quebec section of the party platform. The platform doesn’t define the term “woke,” and Poilievre hasn’t given a clear answer when asked by reporters.
However, in recent years, the party has increasingly used the term “woke” in speeches, petitions and policy statements to attack the Canadian government’s climate policy.
The right uses the threat of “wokeism” to invoke fear that liberal elites are “remaking the world” and will curtail people’s liberties and status, said Imre Szeman, director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability at the University of Toronto.
One of the most worrisome parts of the Conservatives’ pledge is that “woke” is a category that it can fill with whatever it wants, he said. “This is why “woke” is an adjective that is able to link up all kinds of unrelated practices, beliefs, opinions, and outlooks. What’s 'woke’ is, in the end, anything and everything that bothers them.”
This has to go down as the biggest face-plant in Canadian political history. The guy who’s entire political career has been as a barking attack dog, and all he had to do was come out swinging when a foreign psychopath started making threats against the literal existence of Canada. Not only that, he had a perfectly good example in Doug Ford of a conservative politician reaping huge rewards for doing exactly that (both in polling and an actual election!), and yet he manages to squander the biggest lead the Conservatives have ever had leading into an election? If the polls bear out on Monday, he should never be allowed to set foot in the Conservative party again. lol.