After the lost Liberal decade, we have a Prime Minister without a seat, without a plan, without a clue. He wants to rule this country for a fourth term while the people he’s supposed to represent have already rejected him. He’s not listening to Canadians—he’s lecturing them.

Canadians didn’t just vote him out of office in his own backyard—they showed him the door in his own home. And now, instead of respecting democracy, he’s clinging to power from a borrowed seat, hiding behind his party’s broken promises.

On this topic, we recently published a related article by @patrickmccurdy.bsky.social and Kaitlin Clarke that dives deeper into the political weaponization of “woke” in Canada and how it echoes the American far right’s culture war tactics.

Missed it? Read it here: policyoptions.irpp.org?p=116497

will check it out, ty

Indeed and the history of the "Canada First" movement from the late 1800s is also whack

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A free "Author Accepted Version" of our paper is available via the University of Ottawa's digital repository ruor.uottawa.ca/items/9e3982... #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics

More in our paper:
McCurdy, P., Clarke, K., & Cammaerts, B. (2025). From social awareness to authoritarian other: The conservative weaponization of woke in Canadian parliamentary discourse. Journal of Language and Politics. Here [Paywall]: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

🔍 Strategy Results :
▪️Merged Freedom Convoy extremism w/ traditional conservatism
▪️Reframed climate action as "elite control"
▪️Normalized far-right talking points in Parliament as "protecting" Canadian values
▪️Frames progressive policies as an existential threat

📈 GAINING MOMENTUM: We tracked how this message spread & used by CPC. Each time linking progressive policy to authoritarianism:
🛻 During Freedom Convoy ("woke" = government control)
🏘️ On housing crisis ("woke mayors")
🌎 Environmental policy ("woke green agenda")

Poilievre's March 2023 definition in Parliament: "Woke has one purpose... control. It is designed to divide people by race, gender, ethnicity, religion, vaccine status and any other way." A complete inversion of the term's social justice origins. openparliament.ca/debates/2023...

📶STRATEGIC EVOLUTION: Tracking Poilievre's messaging from Finance Critic to Opposition Leader reveals how "woke" transformed from simple criticism to a powerful narrative linking social justice to government overreach.

The numbers tell the story: 122 uses of "woke" analyzed in Hansard Transcripts (2019-2023):
🔵 35 by Pierre Poilievre
🔵 59 by other CPC MPs
28 by all other parties (🔴Lib, 🟠NDP, 🔲Bloc). From social justice term to far-right rhetorical weapon in just 4 years.