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.”
It’s wild to me that anybody would vote these morons in. Their platform is nothing short of crying about Trudeau, and their policy declarations literally struggle at the best of times to go more than a point or two without contradicting themselves.
One of the dumbest was how it goes on to talk about both - how the government shouldn’t interfere with the raising of a child blah blah blah and then goes on to talk about how it won’t allow HRT or gender-affirming care.
The liberal platform actually has quite a bit of overlap with the conservative platform, but the difference is that they focus a lot on making the country better through reducing regulations on shipping goods between provinces. They also give a lot of examples for points they make, and any time there is potential for a negative, they managed to catch it and state that they would be making sure the negative doesn’t happen - things like cutting back regulations while still ensuring consumer/environmental safety.
So while cons want to go after our pensions, make us work to our death, and suffer as much as possible, Liberals want to actually strengthen the country and give everybody a better life.
This country has been plagued by zombies or something.
We have a once in a lifetime chance to get the best and brightest American academics and researchers.
Are we really going to waste this golden opportunity on the same policies chasing them away from the US in the first place?
This is a golden goose. This is a chance for us to bootstrap our pharma, tech, AI, materials engineering, chip design, and more industries.
This kind of thing hasn’t happened since scientists fled nazi Germany.
Yes we are going to waste this opportunity (independent of who we elect)! Provincial governments are in charge of funding universities and have been consistently decreasing funding for decades and simultaneously cutting off any source of revenue. Most universities in Canada are struggling financially and will have a very hard time hiring anyone in the short term. There will be some counter examples like the ones at U of T, but this will not be the norm.
A quick correction. Most of the scientists didn’t really flee from nazi Germany. They were given the option to either work for the USSR or USA, or face trials (or simple executions) for what they did during the war.
Any reference to “fleeing” Germany would be referencing the scientists that left before, or early in the war. While they were a minority, they did include some extremely notable examples like Einstein and the Polish scientists that figured out the Enigma machine. After the war, those left were given choices (orders) by the victors, and followed them as cowardly or enthusiastically as they did during the war.
So you’re saying they… left the place where they were in order to avoid a form of danger.
The difference is the form of danger was from the people they fled to. The nazis weren’t trying to prosecute their scientists at the end of the war. The allies were. They were given the choice of imprisonment/death, or work for us.
Oh, right. They were fleeing from dying there though.
… while, on the same speech, utterly failing to explain what “woke” is
“Can you believe this fucking guy? Just called me RESPECTFUL AND TOLERANT! Wow, I dunno how I could ever one-up that one. What an insult!”
The anti woke agenda is the woke agenda!
The idiot keeps doubling down on trying to emulate the Republicans. Can’t he read the room?
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.
The room contains far more idiots than we are willing to admit.
I’m hoping we have fewer idiots than they have. Even conservative minded people, in their own self interest, must see how destructive the maga polices are to their own bottom line. If you run a business, it must be pretty obvious how fucking stupid and destructive the republicans have been to our economy, doubling down on stupid seems unwise. We’ll find out Monday how intelligent our population is.
low iq, unable to guage the temperature, highly suspect hes being prodded like hell by putins/oligarches to do this.
I have a hard time believing he’s this dumb. His whole career was as a barking attack dog, and he can’t bring himself to say anything particularly negative about Trump or Putin? That’s his whole personality, and suddenly he’s meek?
The room contains a TV with Fox News on, and Fox News shows that Trump is winning
