Fri Jul 21, 2023 – 12:02 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Earlier this week I noted that Justin Trudeau is discovering that many Canadian Muslims who traditionally vote for his party are growing increasingly frustrated and angry with the public school system’s insistence on indoctrinating their children into LGBT ideology.
Trudeau’s tactic in responding thus far has been a combination of defending LGBT education in schools and claiming that concerns about the curriculum were primarily “American fearmongering.”
Several years ago, some Muslim parents participated in the protests against Ontario’s radical sex-ed curriculum, which was spearheaded by then-premier Kathleen Wynne and then left largely the same with a few changes under Progressive Conservative premier Doug Ford. But those multi-ethnic protests did not, at the time, appear to create a lasting coalition fighting for parental rights and against indoctrination in schools. This time, however, the Muslim involvement in the fight for parental rights may be more long-lasting — and may have significant political effects in the long haul.
On July 20, for example, Trudeau claimed Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is insufficiently enthusiastic about the LGBT movement, and cited as an example a recent photo in which the
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