The 1 Million March 4 Children parents rights protests were a success, no thanks to the Conservative Party of Canada

Last year Woke Watch Canada readers followed our coverage of several dysfunctional school boards who consistently used bullying tactics and other undemocratic means to shut down concerned parents and others with dissenting viewpoints around controversial school policies. Mainstream media coverage was unsurprisingly sparse. The few stories that were reported on, painted dissenting parents, teachers and trustees, who had “unacceptable opinions” at contentious public board meetings, as unreasonable right-wing bigots or white supremacists.

But according to Angus Reid, 78% of Canadians do not support keeping secrets from parents regarding changes of gender, names or pronouns at school. This issue, and controversial policies around gender ideology – for example, the belief that gender is fluid and not fixed at birth, or the practice of placing boys in girls’ change rooms or sports categories – are the reason many school board meetings were so explosive last year, and why on Wednesday, parents joined 1 Million March 4 Children protests across the country.

Most Canadian politicians, including the other leaders of federal parties, Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh, made their positions on the parents’ protests clear. But, as I wrote on Wednesday, there was dead silence from conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. After a successful conservative policy convention earlier this month in Quebec, where party members voted into the conservative policy handbook a new provision that would entitle women to single-sex spaces, and another that would ban medical interventions for gender dysphoric minors, it was disappointing that Poilievre had no words of encouragement for Canadians standing up for families and parental rights – cornerstones of the conservative tradition.