Roundup: Stop saying “woke”

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The first Monday after the Conservative leadership contest, and already shots are being fired between Poilievre and Trudeau. Poilievre kicked off the day, first by meeting with his Quebec caucus alone to reassure them and ask them to rally around him in unity, and then addressed the caucus at large with a public speech in which he decried Trudeau’s “radical woke coalition,” and then spouted a bunch of nonsense about inflation.

From his caucus retreat, Trudeau responded with a quick congratulation to Poilievre for his victory, before calling out his reliance on “buzzwords, dog whistles and careless attacks,” as well as his “highly questionable, reckless economic ideas.” While this is happening, it sounds like a few Quebec MPs told Radio-Canada that they want the party to move more toward the “Centre” (which is odd, because they never really left it, and no, they have not actually taken a sharp leftward turn), and wants them to be “less woke,” which again, is a strange turn of phrase because I’m not sure what it’s supposed to mean. Should they be openly racists or homophobic? Is that what they think will win them votes? Is attempting to be inclusive so terrible? Really?

Ukraine Dispatch, Day 201:

The Ukrainian counter-offensive carried on in the country’s northeast, clearing out much of the Russian occupiers that have been in place since February, and it was done with such speed in part because Russians were simply surrendering in large numbers. Many of these prisoners are intended to be swapped with Russia for captured Ukrainian troops, so we’ll see how that progresses in the near term.

https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1569393669484036096

https://twitter.com/cmhwee/status/1569324523891363840

Good reads:

  • Patty Hajdu will be visiting the James Smith Cree Nation today, in the wake of the mass-stabbings there last week.
  • Ahmed Hussen is promising more training, particularly on screening, when it comes to Heritage Canada grants for things like anti-racism programmes.
  • Ralph Goodale assures us that as a realm (and the Queen’s putative “second home”), Canada will have a prominent role in the state funeral.
  • The head of the military’s personnel branch says they are working to overhaul the recruitment process, which has become extremely slow and cumbersome.
  • One of the surprises of the Conservative leadership was just how engaged the youth vote was with Poilievre, in part because he crafted messages about their difficulties.
  • The two sitting Green MPs are threatening to quit and sit as independents if the party stalls the leadership race in light of the president’s departure.
  • Heather Scoffield finds that the Bank of Canada is losing money for the first time in its history, as a result of the quantitative easing from the pandemic.

Odds and ends:

For National Magazine, I preview the Order Paper in Parliament ahead of its return, and there were way more bills on there than I thought.

My Loonie Politics Quick Take on how monarchy and the corporation sole of the Crown provides a seamless transition between heads of state.

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2 thoughts on “Roundup: Stop saying “woke””

  1. I do not agree with you when you write That being woke equals being less racist or homophobic. Wokeism now It is about presenting only one point of view as deep correct point of view and not tolerating any other point of view. It is about presenting only one point of view as deep correct point of view and not tolerating any other point of view. This is what has angered so many people who feel simply ridiculed or pushed to the margin because they do not agree with the woke agenda.

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