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The Conservative leader doesn’t seem keen to define the term.
April 22, 2025
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Pierre Poilievre says he'll end 'woke ideology' — he isn't saying what that means
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks at an event for the Canadian Association of Retired Persons at Zoomer Media in Toronto on Monday, April 21, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Laura Proctor
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By Sarah Ritchie The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre is vowing to eliminate “woke ideology” from the public service, federal funding for university research and military culture.
But what does he mean by “woke,” exactly? The Conservative leader doesn’t seem keen to define the term.
When asked recently to explain what he considers “woke,” Poilievre gave a nearly two-minute answer that touched on most of his campaign talking points.
“Very simply, after a lost Liberal decade of dividing Canadians, turning people against each other and weakening our Armed Forces, we need to put Canada first,” he said, pointing to what he called the Liberals’ “woke criminal justice agenda” and “woke agenda on spending.”
Poilievre has threatened to pull back federal funding from universities over their alleged ideological slant. On March 26, when the party released its Quebec platform, he said a Conservative government would “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research.”
The Canadian Association of University Teachers has said it’s alarmed by the suggestion of political interference in a well-established independent process for allocating federal grants through peer review."
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