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So while the current Liberal government frequently attempts to take victory laps for their record of largely paying lip service to key social inclusion issues, they have left much work to be done on removing barriers to equality of opportunity for many Canadians.on a not for attribution basis, was referring to when last month they said, “We need a government that is down to earth and less woke.”
The term “woke” has been used in the past to raise awareness of the social and political issues that affect minority communities, particularly Black persons. However, some Black leaders are now pointing out that the term has been co-opted and turned into a pejorative by those who seek to resist forward social progress on these issues.Article content
But the way that unnamed Liberal MP used the word suggests there is another perception of the word emerging in Canadian culture; a reference to the hypocrisy of using tokenism and empty promises on removing barriers while seeking to maintain a repressive status quo.Take for example, Trudeau’s claims of embracing feminism. Trudeau’s most notable contributions to women have been to leave
Why do we care what American Nazis think?
Woke nowadays refers to being aware or well informed in a political or cultural sense, especially regarding issues surrounding marginalised communities - it describes someone who has “woken up” to issues of social injustice. So basically she s a racist.
Has MRempelCPC been woke to the fact that PierrePoilievre thinks of her as a subservient to men.. CPC Hate IDU OldStockCanadians NiqabBan PoilievreHateKeeper
So anti woke is using misogynistic hashtags on video promos like Pierre?
Hmmm - I seem to remember that phrase sounding somewhat different. Either way, it's telling tgat Cons are demanding an end to 'woke' behaviour, given the definition of the word:
NationalPost supports Pierre Poilievre the Misogynist
She needs some new material. Boring and trite.
Enough with this woke 💩. Can we call conservatives Anti-woke which = stupid?!
Hmm...the Oxford Dictionary defines woke as 'aware of social and political issues, especially racism'. Seems like all of us could and should be much more woke.
Stop parroting US republicans, it's not a good look
Stuff? You mean 'shit' at least post what she really said. Which of course is against house rules. But hey, cons and rules, they never follow. But at least you could be honest with what she really said rather than trying to hide the truth. Again, cons always trying to fool us
Woke stuff 👇
Oklahoma Alky needs to lay off the booze
MRG needs to just cut it out. She helps no one; cares about no one.
In other words we should go back to the 1800s
meanwhile her dear leader is hashtagging incels and giving donuts to nazis
Stuff? I thought she said sh*t?! Cuz she’s trash like that.
Without “woke” people along the way Michelle wouldn’t be where she is today.
MichelleRempel Trudeau rocks
Is it appropriate for the pm to use the term woke when he likes to grope young female reporters and wear black face no less than 4 times?
So then National Post what does Michelle Rempel have to say about this ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube channel included hidden misogynistic tag to promote videos - National |
She is back with her BS
Most Canadians are woke
Better than being a misogynist PierrePoilievre
What's woke mean?
Yes let them all be miss informed, racist, bullies, terrorists, far right extremist, how there Trudeau protect the majority of Canadians
Trudeau...slave to the WEF. Canada comes last in his book.
He's not going to repudiate his only power source.
More woke stuff please.
woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism. Which part of this is MichelleRempel opposed to? Personally, I take being called 'woke' as a high compliment.
Michelle Rempel Garner needs to cut it out with the fascist stuff. AlexJonesApproved
So explain to me while calling out racists and treating ppl with respect is a bad thing?
Woke has been turned into a dirty word. You know what is really dirty? The Foxes who soak up every lie Murdoch and his evil cabal pollute our lives with. Woke means be aware and care. A Fox lurks and snipes and runs away when confronted.
🤣🤣🤣 he is the best PM we have had in years
JustInfatuated
Ill take Woke over your racism and hate politics any day Remple WOKE: alert to injustice and discrimination in society, especially racism. Were does that place you Remple? On the wrong side of your oath and the law hat's were.
*Shit.
In other news, MRG supports injustices in society, including racism.
Hey Michelle....
I still don’t trust her one bit though. She’s still quite possibly the most woke CPC MP there is, which says a lot as the CPC itself is a centre left party.
Lol. Liberals never use the expression “woke”. It’s stupid and disingenuous.
Conservatives bumbling along the road to ruin.
Michelle Rempel Garner prefers leaders who promote and attract misogyny apparently.
Rempel should put her uterus to good use and have some Canadian babies. Record low fertility rate in Canada cdnpoli
Say it again! Lol
So he needs to not be in touch and ignorant to things happening like the CPC? Did you need a definition of woke? alert to injustice in society, especially racism. So this is bad?
Postmedia is owned by an American hedge fund and the National Enquirer. They have a mandate to support the oil companies and are actively working to introduce US style Conservatism to Canada. This is propaganda, not news.
The National Post gets more and more like the fictional Rebel News/Western Standard every day.
You were right to refer to it as 'woke shit' Michelle.... it's exactly what it has become under Trudeau.
Woke? Most of us just call it equal rights.
Really? You’d rather deny facts?
The story is a joke! Conservatives are concerned the Liberals want to maintain the status quo and are only using the term woke in a token way? Are you gaslighting because you are the NP? Or because you’re Con? Conservatism is synonymous with maintaining the status quo!
She doesn’t even know what the word “woke” even means.
Pierre is very Woke for Iranian Women. MelissaLantsman WokePierreForIranianWomen CPC_HQ
'Wake up!' But don't be 'woke'. How exhausting.
could someone define 'woke stuff'? Seems like it is a catch all for some folks. Kinda lost any impact.
Wasn't igt ber boss that started it ?
MichelleRempel Who is hurting women? It seems to me that the Conservative Provincial Premiers are at the top of the list.
I don't click on Postmedia due to its support for Diagolon's Freedom Convoy (ie the 'racists & misogynists' referenced by Trudeau). MRG chooses to share PierrePoilievre's big tent w/them. Only Alain Rayes couldn't stomach it. You publish propaganda for all of it. Disgusting.🙂
I am proud to be “woke”, especially since the alternative is ignorance. Any party that continuously labels others as “woke” and uses the label as a weapon does not have my vote or respect.
Ya. PMJT must stop fighting against racial discrimination. The CPC_HQ is sick of it.
I wish media would stop posting someone's opinion as news.
Nat Compost at it again.
Woke stuff? Spending an afternoon with his children? Singing a song? Hugging someone who just lost her home? The Cons are a party of fossils.
The National Post anti-democratic poor excuse for a media outlet chooses angry, uninformed politicians like Oklahoma Rempel over progressives like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So sad. CdnMediaFailed
The is American owned.
She said Shit in HoC. She planned it and she is a perfect example of an uncouth , ignorant woman who should have been expelled immediately.
MichelleRempel is “anti woke” which means she is pro hate. This means she wants anyone who is different (POC, LGBTQ, disabled) to ignore those components of themselves and how it impacts their life so she and other fragile people can feel better about themselves.
MR needs to cut out the MTG stuff
Trudeau also has to cut out the breathing trick!
Why are conservatives so afraid of an informed and enlightened (woke) electorate?
Yes. Liberals need to stop stressing us with climate change and other quack ideas. Hearing so much stupidity out of people supposedly running to country does cause stress. If not stress a STRONG desire to change leadership
I would rather have a woke PM, than a repulsive unwoke PeePee as PM.
MichelleRempel The right keeps telling me they're fighting for my 'freedom' so why am I not free to be woke?
Trudeau needs to step down
...um, how is he being woke again? Do you guys even know what woke means? Honestly, the right has used the word so much to bash on the woke crowd (which moved on to better things a long time ago) that woke has lost all meaning
ME: National Post was once a reputable newspaper and Michelle Rempel Garner should write for the classified section of the Toronto Sun.
Woke means you care about others, you want things to be fair for all, you give a damm about the world around you. Why would you think that is bad?
Michelle just likes the sound of her own voice but says nothing.
Except she didn’t say stuff initially.
What woke stuff? Is it the desire to reduce racism or the the desire to lift ppl out of poverty that needs to end MichelleRempel ? Or maybe reducing child poverty?
I am proud to be 'woke', proud to think that all citizens are equal, be they gay, be they coloured, be they aboriginal, proud to share my Canada.
Michelle Rempel Garner: ‘Stand up to those who advocate against racial injustice! Stand up for racism!’
Woke: a term that means empathetic, compassionate, aware of social injustices, and caring about the needs and conditions of others. Scares the bejeezus out of conservatives to even think someone might care about the welfare of another human.
Yeah! He’s got to stop that because it’s making the cons look bad where they don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves.
If you ain't 'woke' you don't deserve to be in Parliment.
Canada’s Fox News 😂
Woke is a word invented by maga trumpians and used by his followers.
Who's that? Oh right, the member from Tulsa...
MRG, I am a Con, you have turned me off. Dont quote s vs population percent for those who are in prison to suggest injustice. Maybe they did wrong more than 'whitey' and deserve to be there. And any pol who hasnt the guts to allow comments on her tweets will never get my vote
The national post has really shown their colours. Anyone who uses the word woke in this way is showing how much of a rascist and bigot they are. So has Michelle Rempel Garner.
Woke shit! Weve all had enough.
Poor Michelle RG - stripped of her Shadow Cabinet post, sent to the very back benches, all for supporting Patrick Brown's campaign - now she's forced to suck up to Poilievre, which she is obviously very willing to do to retain her privileges. Nothing admirable here.
You can't argue with science.
Oh good Lord, Michelle.
Actually Trudeau only wants to follow his masters (Fidel Castro, Xi Jing Ping, and Kim Jong Un) to transform Canada to somewhat we can call Chinada.
I believe Rempel correctly called it “woke shit”.
Ok then ,sure
He’s following UN Agenda 2030, blueprint for the authoritarian globalist planet.
TIL 'woke' means 'make corporations pay their taxes'. Huh, I thought it had to do with racial justice.
Woke this, woke that, get a life, lady.
Or now hear me our we could just be nice and respectful to everyone
woke [wōk] VERB past of wake. ADJECTIVE informal alert to injustice and discrimination in society, especially racism: 'we need to stay angry, and stay woke'
MichelleRempel I'm woke too. I woke up and went to work this morning
I like her original word for it.
You just get the best of the best writing for you. What an impressive roster 🤔🤔🤔
Woke. Hilarious. Flavour of the month.
Woke stuff? Excellent! Bring me more, unless you're a rage-farming, right-wing automaton of course.
OMG 🤦🏼♀️
More Bullying. Make Canada Great Again.
yawn
If only to have a chance in the next election because people are truely sick of this shit!
Hey you guys, trying to treat every human with basic kindness and respect is “woke s**t”.
While she makes some valid points on the gov needing to do better I do not believe for a second that conservatives would do better with skippy at the helm.
It’s amusing because I’m sure many Conservatives would accuse Rempel Garner of being “woke” when it comes to issues like LBGQT rights or feminism. It’s a meaningless insult at this point.
How dare he want to double people's HST rebates! (literally what Bill C-30 is about)
You’d think a paper, even a rag from another CUNTry would know the meaning of woke. Call me woke all friggin’ day.
You know you are nothing more than a propaganda outlet when you are letting MPs write their own anti government articles
Thank God Michelle and the FecklessCPC are not in charge. They just cannot stand the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and standing up for 'all Canadians'.
MichelleRempel I believe it was the woke shit!
She's an embarrassment who's desperately trying to win back the base after daring to suppprt Brown.
Conservatives are really bizarre. “Cut out all that tolerance, equality and understanding!” Dafuq.
You think lol
Can we just cut out MichelleRempel from Canada instead?
Trudeau really needs to cut it out with the empathetic, educated and enlightened stuff. How does anyone expect a Regressive Conservative to understand his answers? Far to esoteric it would seem.
He really does. I mean he needs to do whatever it takes to not be disgusting to look at or listen to anymore. Thank God for Pierre he’s like a ray of sunshine in this black tunnel of a government we have running this country!
She’s lost her base and trying to get them back. Sad really
This is an MP basically saying 'stop confronting racism'... think about that.
Good grief...she's a Simpsons joke come to life. 'teamwork is overrated. Sharing is a bunch of bull too, and helping others, and what's all this crap I've been hearing about tolerance?!?'
Nope she doesnt, its the truth
It's more disturbing that the Tories want to be the Party of flat earthers, anti-vaxxers and other fringe right-wing loons. Just remember Michelle, Bernier is trying to appeal to 9/11 truthers, how many seats do the PPC have?
Its too late! Trudeau cannot be rescued!
I don’t know if I’m “woke”, but to me, being “woke” just means being considerate. This message simply implies to me, “I don’t want to be considerate.” 🤷🏻♂️
Michelle Rempel Garner needs to cut it out with the Michelle Rempel Garner stuff. Please stop being you; you are repulsive.
She actually said “woke shit” in parliament. Then laughed and sort of apologized. It was really embarrassing and cringe worthy.
MichelleRempel you need to cut your snottyness (arrogance). Don't flatter yourself, you haven't the capacity
“Trudeau is so woke it literally hurts women.”
“another perception of the word emerging in Canadian culture; a reference to the hypocrisy of using tokenism and empty promises on removing barriers while seeking to maintain a repressive status quo. The Trudeau Liberals are arguably masters of this definition of wokeism.”
Wasn't she the one who apologized for her white privilege 🤔
Nothing wrong with woke. You'd think a newspaper would agree racism is wrong.
MichelleRempel really needs to quit it with a performative bull crap she gets on with. 🙄🙄🙄 ClownParty NeverVoteConservative
MichelleRempel 😂😂 MichelleRempel is so not woke she won’t even enable replies on her tweets. Cons don’t want discussion they just want to redefine every word in the dictionary apparently
MichelleRempel Today I learned Michelle rempel reads the dictionary and chooses for herself how words are defined
Um, she swore in the HoC...y'all are showing your right wing bias. But, the PM spending time with his family is 'worse'.
He needs to stop being alert to injustice?
Call it like it is - WOKE BULL SHIT.
Can National Post clarify something for me? Do you want people to be uninformed, should they support injustice and racism? Because “woke” is the opposite of those things.
It wasn’t just the bungee jump that sent him down…
Most of Alberta: What did she say? She blocked me on Twitter.
So she would prefer the government do racist, fascist shit?
Yawn.
She's right
I see you're doubling down on your attempt at turning the 'woke' into a weapon to be wielded against people opposing systemic racism, despite your claims yesterday of having learned a lesson from the pushback you initially received Your behaviour is pathetic
A smear piece, full of recycled 2018 nonsense that was settled when a certain MP lost her seat. If you had any doubt Postmedia is bought and paid for by the CPC, witness this garbage, obviously pre-arranged to pump a narrative during Pee Pee’s honeymoon period as new leader.
Why?
Trumpian nonsensical rambling. An excuse to use 'woke' because it gets her core supporters yapping like Shit Tzus.
Woke=$10 daycare, CCB that reduced child poverty by 50%, CPP reforms to double young peoples pensions, CERB, lowest COVID death rates, Senate apptments based on merit, 2B trees, price on pollution, triple A credit rating, and more. A “woke” Liberal govt. in touch with Cdns.
Detest Trudope but Garner is another WEF stooge. She knows the Cabal on its last legs.
What does that even mean?
Annie Oakley Rempel from Calgary-Oklahoma has returned to the club!!
What 'woke stuff' is she opposed to?
NP needs to quit it with Con shit.
TryHarderTroll 🤣🤣🤣🖕🖕🖕
😂🤦🏻
MichelleRempel Try doing things with love in your heart. (Not greed, ego…)
Using woke in a pejorative sense is a conservative invention.
“Woke stuff!” Lol.
Another example of a Con. using the word when they don't really know what it means!
So Michelle deliberately swears in QP to drive clickbait for her NP article where she defends being woke but doesn't like how Trudeau has coopted the term for political gain? Conservatives sure do love the theatre.
'Woke' is a strawman buzzword that the Cons use to rage farm for donations. 'Libs are so woke! Help us end the wokeism! No more woke! Fight the wokeness!', as gullible bigots empty their wallets to own the libs.
I really wish Conservatives would learn to use a dictionary. They are saying… ✅ They DON’T WANT to be well-informed, alert to injustice, have empathy for others ✅ They DO WANT to be ignorant, simple, unreasonable, illogical, apathetic and indifferent. CPC_HQ
Quote her accurately.
I'd rather be Woke than a mean bully of a Conservative!
MichelleRempel
'Michelle Rempel Garner really needs to cut it out with the woke stuff' There. Fixed it for ya.
Pretty weak though true that Trudeau unbearable. Garner still needs to sit on back bench for a while after reading the article. Too woke still.
He can't help himself, this is what a narcissistic, selfie loving, attention seeking, virtue signalling man-child does.
= Conservatives prefer ignorance to reality and empathy
They need to become racist and discriminatory? Strange message from the Convoy Party of Canada.
Don't the liberals have some documents to backdate?
most woke government ever
Now there’s an objective opinion…..
MichelleRempel MichelleRempel why do you have comments off on all your posts? is this how you cower from accountability?
MichelleRempel Good for her she at least tells it like how every sensible Canadian feels.And the NP should use the word she used not the typical Trudeau censorship version.TrudeaMustGo
100% he does.
MichelleRempel If Oklahoma Karen wants to speak to Woke’s manager then she should enable comments.
Well spoken, possessed of an abundance of common sense and not afraid to say the quiet parts out loud. I'm liking Michelle better every day!
If you are wondering what “woke” is…
I thought he was one. 🙄
is MichelleRempelGarner one of those MAGACult members
He’s acting!What else to expect from a drama teacher.If his name wasn’t Trudeau does anyone really think he would be PM
So glad she said this. She's right!!
MichelleRempel Holy woke!
MichelleRempel All liberals do
How old is she? These are the words of a 15 year old posturing for her classmates, same with her faked shit gaffe. Michel Rempel Garner needs to cut out the peevish adolescent stuff and behave like a grown up MP, in whom many people have given their trust and power. DramaAlert
MichelleRempel This you? cndpoli wokeism
Damn! Fkn! Right!
At this rate we'll be seeing this soon.
Michelle Rempel Garner needs to cut it out with the Michelle Rempel Garner stuff.
No one buys it and it helps no one
Agreed. take issue with this line though, woke being 'turned into a pejorative by those who seek to resist forward social progress...' That's far from the truth. It's ppl who want the pendulum back towards center, not who resist forward progress.
How about she does it first?
Truedope is WOKE
I think instead the Cons should just stop being bigots.
The woke virus has been far more deadly than the China virus. It renders people absolutely stupid.
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