Western Standard - July 29, 2025


Is the Federal Government Trying to Shape How Canadians Think？


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

150.05557

Word Count

405

Sentence Count

27


Summary

In this episode, I discuss how the federal government is using government ministries to try and change the way that Canadians think. I talk about the Privy Council Office, the CRTC, Parks Canada, and other government agencies that are trying to make Canadians think differently.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I looked at what the federal government has been doing under the Trudeau administration and subsequently continuing under Mr Carney and how they are actually using government ministries to try and change the way that Canadians think.
00:00:19.640 I mean, you know, the high school civics, of course, says, well, everybody thinks what they think and they choose the politicians they like best and then the politicians go and govern.
00:00:27.220 And that's sort of the grade 11 idea of what politics is about.
00:00:34.560 And I think, broadly speaking, that described things until Trudeau Jr. came on the scene in 2015.
00:00:40.640 But since that time, there has been a very deliberate attempt, an intentional, they even talk about it, to actually make Canadians into a better, kinder, gentler, woker, more accepting, more everything.
00:00:54.580 You know all the words that they use.
00:00:57.220 People, and that's not what they were elected to do, but they quietly do it.
00:01:00.860 And the way they do it, there's a lot of ways.
00:01:04.220 Parks Canada, for example, has been given a mandate to tell Canadian history in a certain way, not the way you were taught.
00:01:12.120 So that's why you see the placards around the statues changing, if in fact the statues even stay.
00:01:18.940 The CRTC has been empowered to take over the Internet in Canada.
00:01:27.180 There were three landmark bills in the last couple of years to facilitate that.
00:01:34.040 One of them, the Online Harms Act, didn't get passed.
00:01:37.280 That died on the order paper.
00:01:38.960 But that was actually the one that would have said, look, folks, if you see something you don't like, complain.
00:01:43.660 We'll pay the costs.
00:01:45.920 You sue the person.
00:01:47.120 If you win, you get money.
00:01:49.440 And we'll, you know, we'll vanquish people with bad ideas.
00:01:54.240 There's, what else was there, CRTC, the, well, the Privy Council Office, there's a number of these things.
00:02:03.480 But here's the one that really grabbed me.
00:02:05.300 Just last week it emerged, thanks to Black Locks, that the Privy Council Office has a section that is specifically tasked to change the way people think, to change opinions.
00:02:18.760 That's the top of the food chain in the federal government.
00:02:23.980 The Privy Council Office is the, you know, geographically it's, you exit the Langevin block back door and you walk into the PCO.
00:02:32.840 They're like that.
00:02:34.160 And so this government is actually doing something they'd like to do, which is to try and change Canadians.