Send an urgent message to Canadian legislators and courts telling them to uphold parental rights
(LifeSiteNews) — Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre doubled down on his defense of parental rights in a recent interview with the National Post, while at the same time seeming to stop short of condemning the LGBT agenda outright.
During a year-end interview with the National Post’s Rex Murphy, published December 18, Poilievre repeated his promise to defend parental rights but maintained a “you do you” attitude, refusing to condemn the LGBT agenda.
“If I were to create a political party from scratch, it would be called the ‘mind your own damn business party.’ People can make the decisions of who they marry, who they date, how they live their lives, but also how they raise their kids,” Poilievre said, noting this was the Liberal Party’s position 25 years ago.
Poilievre further voiced support of Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs for implementing legislation mandating parental consent for children to go by a different gender in school.
Saskatchewan announced the new policies in August which mandate parents be informed if their child wants to identify as a different name or “gender,” allow parents to opt their kids out of sex-ed, and ban third party presentations from groups including Planned Parenthood.
The western province’s defense of parental rights came just months after New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs was condemned by the LGBT mob for reviewing the province’s Gender Identity policy, as it allowed schools to hide students’ “transgender” status from parents.
“For [a desire to be identified with the opposite sex] purposefully to be hidden from the parents, that’s a problem,” Higgs told reporters, referring to his desire to change Policy 713, which currently requires children to give consent for their parents to be informed if they decide to “change” their gender at school.
Under the new policy, parental consent is necessary for teachers to use different names or pronouns for students under age 16.
“We have to respect parental rights and I stand for parental rights because I trust parents to make the right decision for their kids,” Poilievre told Murphy.
“This is a key area where Justin Trudeau and I just disagree,” he continued. “He believes that he should be able to impose his radical ideology on other people’s kids, by demanding provinces implement his thinking and calling anyone who disagrees, whether they’re Muslim, or Jewish, or Christian parents, hateful. And so I think he should butt out and let parents raise kids.”
“That’s why my role as a prime minister, is not going to be to impose my values on other people,” he added. “It’s to get out of their faces and run a competent government.”
While Poilievre’s “you do you” attitude may seem surprising to some conservatives, Poilievre has, in fact, taken a liberal approach to many social issues during his time in office.
“We are pro-choice,” Anaida Poilievre Galindo, told French media outlet TVA Nouvelles earlier this month. “We have spoken out on this. I am a woman from Quebec, I grew up here. And it’s part of my values.”
Poilievre has, in the past, openly voiced his support for homosexual “marriage,” and just recently his wife made headlines for championing the couple’s pro-abortion views.
Poilievre was also notably missing at the Million Person March for Children against LGBT indoctrination in schools and even went as far as having his office tell his caucus to refrain from making any statements about the movement.
This led many online to accuse the Conservative leader of cowardice and having missed a good opportunity to rally his grassroots base.
Following the outcry, along with overwhelming evidence that conservative Canadians are in favor of pro-family legislation, Poilievre voiced support for parental rights, blasting Trudeau for “demonizing concerned parents” who attended the Million Person March against LGBT indoctrination.
Send an urgent message to Canadian legislators and courts telling them to uphold parental rights