Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱<p>From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@EmmettMacfarlane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EmmettMacfarlane</span></a></span> [<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Pollievre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollievre</span></a>] "is promising to ‘end <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woke</span></a> ideology’, [and] to protect the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>French</span></a> language and promote <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quebec</span></a> culture.</p><p>"Has it occurred to anyone that these two promises are diametrically opposed? What is official <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bilingualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bilingualism</span></a> policy and employment and promotion rules and practices of the federal public service if not <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> for <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/francophones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>francophones</span></a>?</p><p>"Why is ‘woke ideology’ okay [for] francophones but not okay [for] race or gender identity?"</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canpoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/emmettmacfarlane/p/pierre-poilievre-actually-likes-woke?r=4t3klr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/emmettma</span><span class="invisible">cfarlane/p/pierre-poilievre-actually-likes-woke?r=4t3klr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a></p>