As part of the Conservative party platform unveiled in Quebec on March 26th 2025, Pierre Poilievre’s campaign states his 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.” This garnered scant media attention at the time, but to me, these words are chilling. The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration to justify freezing medical research funding and targeting universities with proactive diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. I wrote an article on this for The Tyee with Dr. Liisa Galea in which we explain why this could be devastating for Canada. Read the full article here