Politic?: Justin Trudeau's Post-National, MAID, Harm-Reduction, LGBTQ-2 Canada

"You are out to lunch if you think it's acceptable to not show up because ... there's Pride activities going on at school."
"[Non-Islamic students did not complain when Ramadan was acknowledged.] It goes two ways!"
"If you want to be respected for who you are, if you don't want to suffer prejudice for your religion, your colour of skin, your whatever, then you better give it back to people who are different than you."
"In Uganda, if they think you're gay, they will execute you. If you believe that kind of thing, then you don't belong here, because that is what Canada believes."
"We believe in freedom, we believe that people can marry whomever they want, that is in the law, and if you don't think that should be the law, you can't be Canadian."
"You don't belong here, and I mean it."
Unnamed Londonderry School teacher, Edmonton

“You are out to lunch if you think it’s acceptable to not show up because ... there’s Pride activities going on at school,” says the unnamed Londonderry School teacher. Photo by Google Maps

Someone recorded an audio tape of this schoolteacher tongue-lashing one of her students. This is how far down the rabbit-hole of an alternate world of gender dysphoria Canada has fallen into under the ministrations of a government that has declared itself 'feminist', post-national, 'progressive', dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion, championing the right of the LGBTQ-2 community to bully the majority of Canadians for whom gender and sexual preferences within any community is a matter of privacy which should have no glaring public theatrical shows, much less insist that everyone celebrate their differences.

The audio that resulted from the taping began circulating, and was posted online by a U.S.-based Islamic scholar, Hamzah wald Maqbul -- which he explained had been forwarded on to him by "multiple sources". Edmonton Public Schools confirmed the authenticity of the recording, adding it is "taking steps to address the situation". "I want to emphasize that the views expressed by the teacher do not reflect the values of acceptance, inclusion and belonging that are so strong at Londonderry School", principal Ed Charpentier wrote to parents.

The school is located in North Edmonton, a junior high. The public school board sets aside the first week of June as Pride Week: "Join us in celebrating schools that are welcoming, inclusive and safe -- because all students belong here", an official district announcement states. Canadian Muslim communities have been pushing back against in-school Pride observations. Silently and obviously, by recommending absences of Muslim students at staged events held at elementary schools when announcements such as an International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia erupt. There months earlier schools in London, Ontario marked Rainbow Day.

An estimated 4 percent of the entire Canadian population represent the non-heterosexual population. In the past this demographic was scorned, belittled, victimized, discriminated against, and faced violent persecution. That is no longer the case. People are generally more tolerant, believing that everyone is entitled to live their lives the way that is most suited to their expectations and orientation. That this has been translated to demands by the community that they be 'noticed', extolled and celebrated by everyone else not of their community is accepted by some in the general population, while others consider the loud, brash demands unacceptable.

A wave of ultra-progressive 'woke' enlightenment has washed over governments and institutions at every level. Those in the population unwilling to lend themselves to the entertaining spectacle of gay parades, finding them offensive are belittled and slandered, their disinterest interpreted as 'homophobic' and 'racist'. School boards across the country have hewed to the temper of the times where the federal government has led the way in favouring all the recognition demands of the LGBTQ-2 community. Elementary school curricula now include introductions to the community, inviting children to admire and emulate the conceits of a culture unlike that of their families' cultures.

Conni Smudge reads a story to a crowd during Drag Queen Story Time at the Coquitlam City Centre library in Coquitlam, B.C., Jan. 14, 2023. Photo by Jennifer Gauthier /REUTERS

"[Parents] should use their discretion [with respect to keeping their children home on select days; the London Council of Imams is] not in the position to direct parents on whether to choose to have your [children] ... attend or be absent from school."
"As a secular school board, public schools should not be taking positions to promote a certain set of values and beliefs over or at the expense of others [and a series of lectures would be announced to provide] faith-based clarifications on sexuality and gender issues."
Statement, London Council of Imams

Muslims are entirely correct to feel themselves imposed upon in this matter. Just as non-Muslims feel that requests by the Muslim community to provide prayer rooms in the secular school system for the use of Muslim students who are enjoined to pray five times daily, is entirely inappropriate in public schools in a non-Islamic country. One needn't go back very far, only a few years, when the Canadian educational system was void on Pride celebrations. In 2018 the Toronto District School Board allowed the raising of the rainbow flag on school property.

Pride-themed events, decor and activities have become a feature of school districts across the country. In St. John's, Newfoundland at one school, elementary schoolchildren filed into school under a rainbow arch with teachers waving Progress Pride flags, with loud dance music blaring and a school assembly featured an appearance by a visiting drag performer. Education ministers in British Columbia and Ontario circulated official Pride Month notices in reminders to staff that these celebrations are now mandatory; failure to properly observe Pride could be viewed as a violation of the Canadian Human Rights Code.