Mark Carney has released his campaign platform, and it looks like it may well be opening up a gusher of funding for anti-parent initiatives.
We have mentioned before that the Trudeau government was funding Egale Canada to the tune of tens of millions of dollars to advocate against parental rights.
Specifically, Egale Canada is suing the provinces that have legislation respecting parental rights in education and praising Cuba for eliminating all such rights.
In March, we learned that we can expect even more federal funding for new anti-parent initiatives - this time from the ARC Foundation.
The ARC Foundation pioneered the outside materials strategy for working sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) content into classrooms without parental knowledge.
In their newsletter, they announced:
“We are excited to share that ARC Foundation has secured nearly one million dollars in funding from the Department of Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) to further advance SOGI 123’s intersectional approaches to creating safer, more inclusive schools for all students.”
Unfortunately, by “safer” they mean “more hidden from parents”.
Likewise, “inclusive” means its opposite - namely, the exclusion of you as a parent from involvement in discussions of your child’s identity.
The ARC Foundation plans to use these new federal funds to hire a new employee who:
“will foster intersectional community engagement to further incorporate intercultural perspectives into SOGI-inclusive education, with a focus on Muslim and South Asian communities.”
To be clear, this is work that would be plainly illegal for the Feds to do directly.
So, instead, they're just funding a separate organization to interfere in the provincial jurisdiction of education on their behalf.
But this may just be the tip of the iceberg because, in back-to-back commitments (on the last of 67 pages), Mark Carney has promised to:
- Make permanent the “temporary” “capacity building” funding stream through which the SOGI education was funded.
- Expand the program for groups favoured by the federal government to engage in lawsuits.
Of course, this isn't the only area where the Feds want to cut out parents.
You may remember SafeLink Alberta, from the incident in which they distributed pamphlets on “Safe Crack Smoking”, “Safer Crystal Meth Smoking”, and so on at Medicine Hat High School.
SafeLink is funded by no less than three federal government programs.
The federal government lists classroom-based funding recipients as 60% of its “Action and awareness success stories” for its “Climate Action and Awareness Fund”.
Unfortunately, we could go on and on.
This would be a problem, if only because these are all examples of the federal government using your tax dollars to usurp provincial jurisdiction.
But it’s an even bigger problem when they are using your tax dollars to advocate against or to subvert parental rights in these sensitive areas.
Whoever wins on Monday, we plan to bring pressure to end this end-run around provinces and parents.
But unless and until we succeed, you're already funding the organizations with the most vested interest to prevent us from succeeding.