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Pierre Poilievre says he'll end 'woke ideology' -- he isn't saying what that means

Apr 22, 2025 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -64% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : " The Canadian Association of University Teachers has said it's alarmed by the suggestion of political interference in a well-established independent process for allocating federal grants through peer review.
43% : "When you get politicians saying they're going to come in and interfere with this on some basis of, I don't know, ideological issues or political expediency, that's the concern," said Peter McInnis, the association's president.
43% : In its platform, the Bloc says that while it "aims for greater participation of minorities in public institutions," it will "propose abolishing equity, diversity and inclusion criteria in the federal government since they create exclusion and are unsuitable for the realities of Quebec and its regions.
39% : On March 26, when the party released its Quebec platform, he said a Conservative government would "put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research.
27% : "We have already seen the widespread harm caused by Trump's attacks on DEI initiatives, workers' rights and public services in the U.S.," said DeSousa.
19% : Trump has sought to transgender people from joining the military and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has been criticized for saying in the past that women should not serve in combat roles.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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