After the Conservative Party Convention in Quebec City, the progressive left is back at it again with a vengeance. They are doubling down on their fringe social issues, like gender identity, pronouns, and race-based hiring practices. I discuss why this is a problem, and why it s a symptom of a larger problem.
00:00:00.000As a strong conservative, I'm having a fantastic time watching the progressive left run their political ship up on the rocks of social issues that they should have never been touching in the first place.
00:00:09.760But at the same time, as much as I myself want to see the progressive left lose, there's almost no glory in beating them anymore because it's frustrating to watch how bad they've become at politics.
00:00:20.100It's effectively like taking candy away from a baby at this point because the left doesn't understand that the vast majority of Canadians aren't radical progressive activists.
00:00:29.140Yet their entire party's social positions have become geared towards this tiny minority of busybody social justice bullies rather than to the average Canadian who actually likes their own children and thinks that women's bathrooms should only be for women.
00:00:44.760But in the aftermath of the Conservative Party convention in Quebec City, it seems like everyone on the progressive left, every single party, is doubling down on these really fringe positions that they take on social issues in Canada.
00:00:56.920And I do not think that it's going to be, you know, like resounding to their benefit come the 2025 election.
00:01:03.080I think a lot of people do not want to hear them talk about these issues.
00:01:06.060But for some reason, they've gotten so used to just bullying weak Conservative leaders that they think at this point, if they just push a Conservative leader like Pierre Polyev on a social issue, he'll fold and then basically apologize and give them a big political victory.
00:01:19.580But that's not what's happening these days because I think that Pierre Polyev himself and many people in the Conservative Party realize that the average Canadian tend to be much more traditionally minded than one would think.
00:01:30.740Yes, television, CBC News, CTV, and the left-wing political parties pretend that everyone's a progressive who goes to every single Pride parade every single year.
00:01:42.060Most people just want you to leave their families alone and not sort of get too intrusive in their lives or especially the lives of their children.
00:01:49.440But these are a bunch of the media headlines that came out after the Conservative Party convention because these people just don't get it.
00:01:56.280So the first headline here we have from CP24, it was a headline, and a lot of these are not opinion articles.
00:02:02.000They're literally news articles, but they're obviously trying to push a certain angle.
00:02:05.460But the CP24 headline says, transgender Tory candidate says, vote against gender-affirming care could cost lives.
00:02:11.860Now, is CP24 going to explain what gender-affirming care is?
00:02:16.620It's giving hormones to children who do not naturally have those hormones occurring in their bodies, which could severely damage their bodies going into the future.
00:02:25.120And gender-affirming care also is gender surgeries, like removing tissue from children, whether top or bottom, to try and make them feel like they're the opposite gender.
00:02:36.260It's absolutely disgusting, and it's a very, very fringe thing to be in support of.
00:02:41.160There's not many people who are in support of it, which is why the Liberal Party is losing their ethnic base.
00:02:46.300This is why there is movements like the Muslim leave-our-kids-alone parents going around protesting liberal politicians, because they don't want these people instituting rules in schools that prevent them from knowing what's happening in the classroom or pushing gender ideology on their kids.
00:03:15.000I don't even think they're importing it.
00:03:16.200I think it's naturally occurring, because most people aren't insane.
00:03:19.620But the thing is that people at the Toronto Star live in such a, frankly, Toronto bubble that they don't understand that most people don't like it when you put pronouns in your bio.
00:03:30.820They don't want teachers to be using different pronouns for your kids when they're at school and keeping secrets from parents.
00:03:36.940People are just over it at this point.
00:03:38.880I've even been seeing that a lot of the sort of DEI-type ESG stuff in corporations is actually being gutted, because the own employees of the companies don't like it, and it doesn't do anything for their business.
00:03:51.440Because all of it's just performative nonsense, and it's only catering to this tiny minority of people who like to cause trouble in these different corporations.
00:04:00.920Anyways, I keep doing all these pauses between the headlines, but it's giving me stuff to talk about.
00:04:04.860But anyways, third headline, we have it from the CBC, and of course they throw up a photo of a guy with a cowboy hat and a beard to imply that there's something radical going on with the thumbnail.
00:04:17.260Conservatives approve policies to limit transgender health care for minors and race-based hiring.
00:04:23.120Again, are they, in this news article, going to explain what the Conservative Party position is?
00:04:27.760Or are they, like they literally did, going to just sort of say what the Conservatives did in a vague way, and then have an expert or some policy analyst show up and basically say how the Conservative Party shouldn't do this?
00:04:38.900They're going to alienate some of the moderates in the country, and isn't it bad that they're limiting health care for children?
00:04:48.480It's effectively forgetting about the real problems a kid has and then just giving them medicine and hormones to pretend like they might be the opposite gender when they're probably dealing with more serious mental health issues, not just this sort of gender dysphoria.
00:05:02.340A lot of kids who do end up having gender dysphoria usually have other problems at their home, and this is almost a coping mechanism for them to sort of disassociate themselves from maybe particular abuse or, you know, other sorts of life-shattering kind of events.
00:05:19.040This is not actually compassionate to be giving kids these drugs.
00:05:22.640It's actually just pushing away the real problems.
00:05:25.100And every single study shows that if you don't give kids hormones and they get to the age of 18, the vast, vast majority of them desist from thinking that they might be the opposite gender because it was obviously a momentary coping mechanism for them.
00:05:38.420And again, these are decisions that adults should be making for themselves, not children, and there's no such thing as kids having consent over the medicine that they take.
00:05:47.320A kid has to ask for Advil in school, yet we're going to let them use opposite pronouns and then see if they're ready to take opposite gender hormones.
00:05:55.240It's absolutely insane, but this is a position the progressive left thinks is fantastic.
00:05:59.520All the Canadians are going to be going to the ballot box to rally in favor of destroying kids' lives with pharmaceutical products.
00:06:06.340Anyways, final headline is from the Globe and Mail.
00:06:09.900It says, Conservatives leave National Convention with packages of policies, including vaccine and gender issues.
00:06:15.000And of course, because the Globe and Mail tends to be very center left to left, they phrased this apparent news headline by throwing in vaccine and gender issues.
00:06:25.100Into the headline, implying that there maybe was something controversial going on, like the Conservative Party condemned polio vaccines and they want to ban vaccines if they get into power and that they, you know, I don't know, like the gender issues when they're very vague.
00:06:38.000So maybe they're trying to imply that the Conservative Party was being sexist or that they hate trans people or whatever.
00:06:43.140It's nonsense and they're just trying to, they're trying to basically spur this sense of controversy around the Conservative Party.
00:06:51.220They can't actually explain what's controversial because if they explained what they think is controversial, they would be labeled as absolutely insane.
00:06:59.360The thing is that the left has taken all these positions that unless you've taken college courses in the last 10 years, you are not going to see what their point is.
00:07:09.000Their point is nonsense, but unless you've been indoctrinated into believing this hyper radical social progressive kind of way of thinking about the world,
00:07:17.200you don't see what their point is, especially if you're a new Canadian who has not grown up in kind of this progressive activism kind of environment in terms of universities and, you know, public and, you know, and politicians who sort of speak about this type of stuff.
00:07:32.120This is freaking out ethnic voters and I could see that this is going to be the main reason that the Liberals are going to lose seats in Mississauga and Brampton because those are heavy ethnic minority ridings out there.
00:07:44.060And a lot of those people are do not want you messing with their kids.
00:07:47.300They do not want their daughters having to compete with men in their sports.
00:07:51.440They don't want there to be, you know, washrooms that are that are not only meant for women.
00:07:56.380That is not something that any of these people are going to support.
00:07:58.960But the left tricks themselves into thinking that people support this crap because everyone in the media agrees with them.
00:08:05.340So when a liberal politician has a stupid opinion and the media claps for them and the conservative party and a conservative politician has a rational opinion and the media is condemning them and saying how radical and intolerant they are.
00:08:16.660They truly believe that that's a representative of the vast majority of the country when all the polling on parental rights and a lot of these gender issues show that it's only about 20 percent of people who are this radical progressive kind of brand of liberal or NDP supporter.
00:08:33.440And the problem is, is that it's the NDP, the Bloc, the Liberals, the Greens that are all fighting over this very, very small sliver of voters.
00:08:44.500Yeah, there's probably a lot of other voters who also don't care about social issues.
00:08:48.080It doesn't matter what any party says in social issues.
00:08:51.220But I guarantee you the conservative party is probably picking up about 50 percent of Canadians who actually do care about these issues and agree with them and are causing these voters to consider voting for them.
00:09:02.660Because at the end of the day, people don't actually just like these ongoing Marxist kind of social revolutions that these left wing politicians are always trying to push in Canada, that we need to rethink gender.
00:09:14.680We need to rethink, you know, male, female relationships.
00:09:18.300We need to rethink all this stuff like this is not like this is not something that most Canadians want to consider.
00:09:24.020Not everything needs to be a social activist movement and a struggle session.
00:09:28.180And I think a lot of parents just want sort of that smaller government approach that pure poly of and the conservative party are bringing.
00:09:34.780They just want people to leave them alone, let them run their own business, lower the taxes.
00:09:39.720Let me think less about what government officials care about and let me think more about what my family cares about.
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