December 3, 2024
A statue of Queen Victoria lies ruined on Canada Day outside the Manitoba Legislative Building. Photo by PHOTO BY CHRIS PROCAYLO /Winnipeg Sun

To defeat wokeism, Poilievre must prepare for a long war of attrition

It can be scrubbed, rinsed and sanitized, but will require constant vigilance

Pierre Poilievre stepped into the culture war on Sunday with a video decrying the assaults on Canada’s national culture that have erupted during Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. Some of these are the direct fault of that government, such as the new passports that demean and cheapen Canadian heritage.

Other incidents featured in the video, such as statue toppling and the vandalism of universities during the past year’s anti-Israel riots, are not directly Trudeau’s fault. However, his government has laid the groundwork for anti-Canadian ideas and done nothing to dissuade that radical, criminal activism.

One of the many challenges that Poilievre and the Conservative Party will face, should they form a government, will be a complete dismantling of the Liberal Party’s cultural regime.

Whether it be allowing crimes like vandalism and arson to go unpunished or doling out taxpayer dollars to those with contempt for Canada, the Liberals have tolerated radical activism without any hint of a backbone.

No citizenry is motivated to better their country without self-respect, and no citizenry can have self-respect if they are told that their traditions and ideals are futile and antiquated.

Modern progressive liberalism’s great flaw is the assumption that whatever motivates radical activists has to have a grain of legitimacy and, therefore, they must be listened to, no matter how rabid, bloodthirsty, or criminal their rhetoric and actions are.

Despite their encouraging words in the video released on Sunday, a Conservative government will not end the “woke weird wacko world of Justin Trudeau” with only words. The culture war exists and is being fought whether people like it or not.

Those who write off the culture war as a distraction typically fall on the side that is winning it. When a Liberal bemoans the culture war and professes their wish for it to end, it is only because they enjoy the status quo.

A nation is not an NGO, which is how Canadian progressives have come to frame Canada.

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