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The Niagara Independent, July 8, 2022 \u2013<\/em> This week the National Post<\/i> featured a book excerpt authored by one of its political columnists, Tasha Kheiriddin. She asserts that Trudeau\u2019s true legacy is his \u201cstoking the woke\u201d in our country. On a litany of issues \u2013 LGBTQ+, #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Indigenous rights, anti-Muslim discrimination \u2013 Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau purposefully virtue signals to embolden a radicalized social justice movement within the country.<\/p>\n The Trudeau Liberals have consistently aided and abetted Canada\u2019s woke. Their approach is tactical and mindfully taken to extend the Liberals political advantages with their progressive base. It\u2019s a name and shame game that fuels division and promotes woke objectives to disparage conservative values and traditional mores in the country.<\/p>\n The recent, most blatant use of this approach was PM Trudeau\u2019s response to the Ottawa trucker protest this spring. Trudeau and his ministers\u2019 actions followed a pattern:<\/p>\n Today, as the facts are revealed on what occurred with this citizens\u2019 protest, there is mounting evidence of Trudeau\u2019s fabrications and manipulations, furthered by a complicit mainstream media, to frame the national narrative and political debate.<\/p>\n At the time of the truckers\u2019 protest, Jonathan Kay wrote an insightful piece in Washington\u2019s Wall Street Journal<\/i>, \u201cIf Donald Trump Were a Woke Canadian, He\u2019d Be Justin Trudeau.\u201d Kay contends the PM has become \u201ca divisive demagogue.\u201d The editorial recounts the manner in which Trudeau attacked his critics by labelling them racist and misogynist and identifying them as right-wing extremists and Nazi sympathizers. It was a \u201chyperbolic response\u201d and taken to the Trumpian extreme of invoking the Emergencies Act to squelch any political dissent.<\/p>\n Kay also draws on the 2017 controversies surrounding Canada\u2019s 150th birthday when Indigenous leaders refused to celebrate the nation\u2019s milestone. This was Canada\u2019s \u201cGreat Awokening,\u201d a time when being woke required agreeing that \u201cCanada is a racist and genocidal hellhole.\u201d Recall in 2017, Canada Day was cancelled, flags lowered indefinitely, and mainstream news consisted of nothing but commentaries of national self-recrimination and self-flagellation. This was a watershed moment for the woke social-justice warriors who were empowered by Canada\u2019s political leadership (and Trudeau ensured he surfed the waves of discontent).<\/p>\n The London, UK-based The Telegraph<\/i> headlined a similar editorial to the Wall Street Journal<\/i>\u2019s that compares Trudeau to Trump as a polarizing figure. The paper claims: \u201cJustin Trudeau\u2019s woke agenda is tearing Canadian society apart.\u201d The posit is that Canada has become a left-leaning society due to three generations of political correctness in education and media. The Trudeau Liberals have increasingly given a voice to groups who consistently demonize conservatives and the white working-class. This has resulted in a great divide that has polarized Canadian politics: the PM\u2019s approval ratings among conservative-minded people are in low single digits and \u201cswitching between the Tories and Liberals, once commonplace, is now rare.\u201d<\/p>\n Lisa Bildy is a civil rights lawyer from London, Ontario who has placed herself on the frontline fighting social justice activists. Bildy effectively sums up the current state of the Canadian populous, stating in a @LDBildy Twitter thread: \u201cOur population is divided, possibly beyond repair. We don\u2019t just disagree, we live in completely separate & irreconcilable realities. We have different facts, different science, different media, different narratives, different values. We view each other as distorted caricatures.\u201d<\/p>\n At every opportunity, the Trudeau Liberals are enabling the woke to further divide Canadians and create an unbridgeable chasm between progressive and conservative-minded people. The Ottawa news agency Blacklock\u2019s Reporter<\/i> broke the story this week of a publication and soon-to-be \u201cvalues\u201d awareness campaign for school kids. The publication identifies the Conservative Party as being \u201cinfiltrated\u201d by racists.<\/p>\n Blacklock\u2019s Reporter<\/i> revealed that the federal government gave a $268,400 grant to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) to fund the writing and publishing of a guide Confronting And Preventing Hate In Canadian Schools<\/i>. The CAHN is a federally-subsidized group that has received an additional $268,400 federal grant to operate its website, where it will begin promoting its anti-hate awareness program to teachers and directly to students.<\/p>\n (Kudos to Blacklock\u2019s Reporter<\/i> for exposing this government activity and to True North<\/i> and Lorne Gunter of PostMedia<\/i> for repeating the story. Remarkably there was no other mainstream media on this half-million-dollar-plus awareness campaign. The publication can be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The online book, on two occasions, identifies the Conservative Party as having members who are bigots and \u201cgroypers,\u201d which is defined as \u201ca loose collection of young white nationalists.\u201d<\/p>\n In a chapter on \u201chate promoting symbols,\u201d the Red Ensign flag (Canada\u2019s national flag predating the current red Maple Leaf flag) is identified as a symbol of hate. Apparently, the flag is offensive because \u201cIts usage denotes a desire to return to Canada\u2019s demographics before 1967 when it was predominantly white.\u201d<\/p>\n The book instructs students to \u201cknow your enemy\u201d and to call out bigoted students who may use \u201ca defence\u201d like \u201cfreedom of speech\u201d or \u201creverse racism\u201d to further their hate. It also encourages students to challenge their peers who may favour a problematic politician or political policy.<\/p>\n The goal to incite divisions could not be more blatant. Confronting And Preventing Hate In Canadian Schools<\/i> indoctrinates a \u201cwokeness\u201d that is both manipulatively biased and politically charged. As Lorne Gunter assesses it is nothing more than propaganda, \u201cThis guide is a glaring example of the reflexive prejudice of Canadian \u2018progressives.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n In extoling the virtues of CAHN, federal Minister for Diversity Ahmed Hussen proudly launched the sponsored publication. Hussen shared, \u201cThis new resource will be delivered through workshops in schools across the country and it will help raise awareness with students\u2026 to teach core values to our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n Two sidebars punctuate the point: 1) Ahmed Hussen is the politician who was caught on camera telling an audience of Torontonians during an election campaign that they should not vote Conservative because they are against blacks. 2) CAHN issued two news releases last week to bookend Minister Hussen\u2019s launch of their awareness campaign. On June 28th the group released \u201cOttawa Facing Far-Right Protests \u2018All Summer Long\u2019\u201d and on June 30th it reported \u201cOttawa\u2019s Summer of Far-Right Protests Has Begun.\u201d<\/p>\n There may be no better example than the publication Confronting And Preventing Hate In Canadian Schools<\/i> for connecting the dots on \u201cthe woke,\u201d the Trudeau Liberals, and Canadian politics. This insulting publication signals Canadians need to wake up.<\/p>\n NEXT WEEK: Woke activists rewriting Canadian history<\/p>\n Chris George<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n