Ending the mess we are in will take a critical mass of Canadians willing to stand up for our rights and freedoms

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he can vanquish “woke ideology” from Canada if he gets elected. Can he really do that? Probably not. At least not any time soon — or on his own.

Addressing a crowd at the Calgary Stampede last week, Poilievre elicited cheers and frenzied clapping when he took shots at our current government: “Justin Trudeau and the NDP took office and instituted a weird, woke ideology that not only seeks to take our money, punish our work, tax our food and undermine our entrepreneurs — but also destroys our education, dishonours our history and divides our people. But the good news is: life was not like this before Justin Trudeau and it won’t be like this after he’s gone!”

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That’s a nice promise. But defeating the type of wokeness he’s talking about is no simple task.

Last year, Poilievre defined wokeness as an “ugly and weird ideology” that aims “to delete everything except the state which would control everything and everyone.” His words at the Stampede echoed this view, and perhaps also hinted at the coupling of wokeness and Marxism — the anti-capitalist sentiment (undermining entrepreneurs,........

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