Philip Cross and I recently wrote articles on the same FP Comment page discussing Liberal culture’s negative influence on Canada’s economic growth. His focus was on entrepreneurship and innovation while mine treated climate-change catastrophism. We both described how culture can undermine fact-based analysis, rational decision-making and the economic well-being of ordinary Canadians.
Culture’s influence is pervasive and extends to human rights, sexual identity, the justice system, the military, historicity, race relations, national aspirations and more. Its power and influence may be benign and unifying, but it can also be manipulated by fear, virtue signalling, intolerance of dissent, financial inducements and the old standbys of mis- and dis- and sometimes even cis-information.
Culture does not change by happenstance. In Canada, the prime driver over the past eight years has been federal government policies and rhetoric, led by the scold-in-chief, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He has been advocating a toxic brew of isms — socialism, progressivism, globalism and wokeism — that, paradoxically, do not actually reflect the preferences or self-interest of most Canadians, not even of all members of the Liberal party and caucus.
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Culture’s influence is pervasive and extends to human rights, sexual identity, the justice system, the military, historicity, race relations, national aspirations and more. Its power and influence may be benign and unifying, but it can also be manipulated by fear, virtue signalling, intolerance of dissent, financial inducements and the old standbys of mis- and dis- and sometimes even cis-information.
Culture does not change by happenstance. In Canada, the prime driver over the past eight years has been federal government policies and rhetoric, led by the scold-in-chief, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He has been advocating a toxic brew of isms — socialism, progressivism, globalism and wokeism — that, paradoxically, do not actually reflect the preferences or self-interest of most Canadians, not even of all members of the Liberal party and caucus.
Joe Oliver: Liberal party culture is past its best-by date — Financial Post
Liberal government may be in death throes as desire for change grows in silent majority
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