From Pride Month to Pride Season

A look at how Justin 'Bieber' Trudeau, a/k/a Daddy's Little Boy, is forcing LGBTQXYZ+∞ insanity on Canadians at their own expense.

From The European Conservative

By Jonathon Van Maren

Last month, elites celebrated Pride across the West, but Trudeau’s commitment to the movement is second to none.

On June 8, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined other dignitaries on Parliament Hill for a formal raising of the ‘Pride’ flag, a solemn ceremony in which he promised yet more taxpayer money to the LGBT movement and insisted, once again, that the activists who own the country are facing a “rising tide of hate.” Last month, elites celebrated Pride across the West—the White House flew the LGBT flag alongside the Star and Stripes; in the UK, the Union Jack was taken down and replaced with the Pride flag—but Trudeau’s commitment to the movement is second to none. His government spent $108,594,964 in 2022 on ‘LGBTQ’ ideology in 2022 alone.

As Carl Trueman noted recently: “How do you take over an empire?” The answer: “You simply need to control time and space.” If you have any doubt that the LGBT movement has done that, take a walk in any town or city in the month of June. Colonizers always come with flags, and the rainbow flaps everywhere—even from the spires of many collaborating churches.

Canada’s shame

Nowhere is that truer than Canada. The Trudeau government is not satisfied with merely celebrating Pride Month, and so they have announced Pride Season, which the government website says “takes place during the summer months, from June through to September” and “is an opportunity to recognize, celebrate, and learn more about the countless contributions Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional sexually and gender-diverse identities (2SLGBTQI+) Canadians have made to the Department of National Defence (DND), the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), and to the country.” For four months, Canadians are inundated by this taxpayer-funded “opportunity,” which the government doesn’t mean to imply is voluntary.

Canada’s taxpayer-funded state broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, also kicks into full gear. This, for example, is an actual headline from CBC Kids: “Just in time for Pride Month, learn what 2SLGBTQQIPAA+ stands for.” The kids, incidentally, are already learning that in school. It is mandatory in most public schools—including Catholic schools—to feature ‘Pride activities’ ranging from celebrations of sexual diversity to reading stories about LGBT figures. These activities begin in kindergarten. At the Toronto Pride Parade, the nation’s largest, children are exposed to naked middle-aged men and a wide range of obscene sexual displays. Not so very long ago, Canadians would be appalled at the idea of adults exposing themselves to children. Now, the CBC says that at Pride, “your kids will probably see boobs and penises”—but that people should “consider the experience as a great opportunity for some interesting discussion.”

A government-funded media outlet promoting children seeing adult male genitals as “a great opportunity for interesting discussion” may now be the norm, but previous generations would have viewed this sort of thing with horror and contempt. 

What distinguishes Canada from most other countries is the near-total lack of conservative opposition. When the Catholic school board in York Region, Ontario, declined to fly the Pride flag, Premier Doug Ford—leader of the Progressive Conservative Party—promised to march in the York Pride Parade in solidarity with LGBT activists. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe of the allegedly conservative Saskatchewan Party tweeted that “Pride Month serves as an opportunity for all of us to recognize and support a part of our diversity that makes Saskatchewan such a great place.” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of the United Conservative Party promised to address “2SLGBTQIA+ Albertan’s concerns” and commit to “tangible action,” while Pierre Poilievre of the federal Conservative Party released a celebratory Pride statement.

Those are Canada’s conservative leaders. Most of them, if asked privately, will admit they think much of this stuff is bunk, just as the UK’s Tory prime minister, Rishi Sunak, was recently caught privately joking that his political opponent, who insisted that some women have penises, needed a lesson in biology. But the fact that many of them aren’t true believers makes it worse, and renders their genuflecting to the LGBT flag particularly pathetic. These politicians claim to be the inheritors of Canada’s great conservative traditions while celebrating—and even attending—parades where oily men in bondage gear simulate sex acts in the street in front of children. Great prime ministers like John G. Diefenbaker would find this version of conservatism unrecognizable—and would be appalled by the amoral men and women claiming the mantle. 

Multicultural tension

It is ironic that, like in the United Kingdom, the backlash to all of this is being primarily fueled by Muslim immigrants. For years, Canadian Muslims ignored Pride Month and public school sex education, removing their children from classes and events they disagree with. But the LGBT movement’s agenda is totalitarian, and as LGBT content permeates the entire curriculum and major broadsheets such as the Toronto Star claim that keeping kids away from Pride events is a human rights violation, some are finally beginning to realize that Canadian multiculturalism is a myth and that they are expected to declare their loyalty to two flags rather than one. Protests have exploded in Ontario and Alberta, with most mainstream media outlets ignoring the fact that the parents are largely immigrants facing off against white, middle-aged counter-protestors. Indeed, a majority of white Canadians are on board with the Pride agenda—but most non-white communities are not.

This presents Canada’s progressives with a conundrum. Trudeau has frequently foamed about ‘Islamophobia.’ Would that include, for example, an Edmonton teacher insinuating that Muslim students should go back to where they came from for opting out of LGBT events? The mainstream media has carefully covered every microaggression constituting Trudeau’s “rising tide of hate” against the LGBT movement, from the town council of a rural farming area restricting government flagpoles to government flags (a hate crime because LGBT activists want their flag up, too), to tire marks on Pride crosswalks, which are incidentally on the road where vehicles with tires drive (the police have actually been called to investigate these tire-marks as hate crimes). So it seems significant that a crowd of Muslim children stomping on piles of Pride flags in the street in front of cheering parents has attracted almost no reaction.

The reality is that Canada is a post-Christian country, and thus Justin Trudeau and his progressive allies have enjoyed trashing all those who oppose their agenda, knowing that Christian-bashing is a practice perpetrated constantly by the government-funded press and has little to no electoral consequences. But this year, Pride Month revealed once again that the majority of Canadians who oppose the LGBT agenda have only been ignoring the issue because they’ve been able to remain, for the most part, personally unaffected. That is changing—and the first parental protests may mark a turning point in the culture wars that will make this a Pride Month to remember.