Wie der Gedenktag und die Politik kollidierten – und was das für die Zukunft bedeutet – Der konservative Führer Pierre Poilievre warf einigen Veranstaltern vor, zu „aufgewacht“ zu sein.

We’ve been on this trajectory on softly hating on the military, our service members, and our veterans for quite some time now. It seems like it has finally culminated.

While the CAF has had its ups and downs as an organization, I don’t think that is responsible for eroding the trust or relationship Canadians have with the military today.

It doesn’t feel right just dumping the blame squarely on liberal politics, but I do think today we need to reflect that things went a bit too far.

Part of the core identity for many Canadians (if you aren’t fully on Trudeau’s “post national state” train) is simply trying to be a better & less obnoxious version of America.

To sum this up: if you think military spending is wasteful, that service members are blood-hungry extremists, and that politicians will just send you away to fight in useless wars & bomb innocent people for profits: no shit you probably don’t care about Remembrance Day.

Unfortunately in today’s security situation, the same people who perpetrated these politics now want to pull a swift 180 like as if nothing happened, but people notice.

The fact that a school tried to tell veterans to not wear uniforms because “some members of the community might find it triggering” is abhorrent. Any person who feels anything but pride in the sacrifice that our armed services makes should rethink living in this country – it literally goes to the core of our values to pay our respects to the people who sacrificed everything for our freedoms.

Remembrance Day deserves to stand alone as a solemn observance of sacrifice. It is not a forum for airing grievances on other topics. Period. You don’t have to be a conservative or a liberal to feel that way – you simply need to be a patriotic Canadian.

I hate the term “woke” but certain elements have gone way too far with this stuff. It’s watering down our country’s identity to…..basically nothing. And no, I don’t buy Trudeau’s idea of Canada being a post-national country. No one person or PM gets to make that call.

Kind of tough to get on board with Poilievre’s outrage when the Conservatives were spreading a lie about Chaplains and Prayer being banned from CF military ceremonies leading up to Remembrance day.