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Sunday, July 20, 2025

OP-ED: The Pine Creek Burial Boondoggle Needs Celebrating

By
Hymie Rubenstein
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“Today marks the conclusion of our initial excavation,” words spoken on August 18 by Derek Nepinak, Chief of the remote Pine Creek Indian Reserve 440 km northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

This suggests that further excavations looking for the remains of unnamed indigenous children no reserve members are frantically looking for will continue, at least if extravagant and wasteful public funding for such searches continues.

As of the end of September 2022, the federal government had allocated $90 million to aboriginal communities and organizations to help identify unmarked burials tied to former residential school sites where unspeakable horrors are said to have been meted out on their students.

The total amount of federal funds earmarked for research, commemoration, and field-investigation work is $320 million, so the Pine Cree Reserve still has a large cash reservoir to draw from.

The Pine Creek Indian Residential School, one of Canada’s longest-running boarding schools for treaty aboriginals (1890-1969), was operated by the Roman Catholic Church on behalf of the Government of Canada.

As with many of these schools, homesickness and an aversion to alien forms of discipline and regimentation led students to run away or engage in acts of arson. In 1928, a group of eight boys ran away from the school. Two years later, a boy was caught trying to set the school on fire.

Allegedly, “some of the living students have long spoken about the abuse there.” However, neither the nature of the abuse nor its perpetrators nor its victims have ever been identified except in the vaguest possible terms.

According to the Reserve’s July 18, 2023 “statement on excavation plan of unmarked burials at [the] former residential school site and Catholic Church”:

“Community members have been in planning since last fall to excavate the basement locations since the discovery [using ground penetrating radar] of 14 possible unmarked burials under the Church and 57 other suspected locations on the grounds around the church and old school site. We understand that over time burial sites may be lost to the natural elements but to bury remains under a building suggests a dark and sinister intent that cannot be unaddressed as we expose the truth of what happened in our homeland.”

The statement also revealed that the search was grounded in the 2021 alleged discovery of 215 unmarked graves at the former Indian Residential School in Kamloops, BC. Moreover, the Pine Creek copy-cat search included “reaching out to potential partners in exposing the truth, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Winnipeg, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Brandon University, The federal Special Interlocutor’s Office for Missing Children and the International Commission on Missing Persons.”

To its credit, and unlike any other such search for the remains of students associated with the former boarding schools, the RCMP was called in last October to assist with the investigation.

Given all the accusations of school abuse, some passed down from generation to generation, band leaders, elders, knowledge keepers, and former boarding school students must have been devasted by the RCMP announcement on July 21 that:

“The investigation into possible criminality in relation to potential burials at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Roman Catholic Church has moved into a new phase. After a year of interviewing community members, conducting surveys, and following up on leads, the RCMP has not uncovered evidence at this time related to criminal activity specific to the reflections detected at the site.”

“In consultation with the community and partners, a way forward has been found. A community-led forensic anthropological dig in the basement of the church is taking place. If anything is located that is possibly related to criminal activity, the RCMP has plans in place and investigators assigned to continue the investigation.”

And so the investigation continued to excavate, “the next step on a journey of trauma and healing,” likely exacerbated by the RCMP announcement, as members of the community were told at a research update on July 25, the day before the basement of the Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church that sits beside the former Pine Creek Residential School was dug up.

The charming Our Lady of Seven Sorrows probably was designed by one of the Oblate Fathers, Reverend St. Germain. In 1930, fire destroyed its interior, but the congregation rebuilt it. In 1991, the church became a provincially-designated historic site.

Nearly four weeks later, in an August 18 Facebook video, a despondent Chief Nepinak revealed the excavation’s results. Although “difficult truths” about “horrible things” at the school had been revealed by former students, presumably including the murder of indigenous children by clergy and staff, no evidence of human remains was found.

In retrospect, the only organization not contacted to help with the investigation was the most important one of all, namely the Government of Manitoba Vital Statistics Branch.

Why an allegedly sovereign “First Nation” hired a pricey ground penetrating radar (GPR) outfit with public monies to do a crude surface investigation before searching for the death records and death certificates of any alleged missing reserve children who had attended the local boarding school is troubling.

If truth-telling were really the goal of this investigation, community leaders and their consultants would have started by digging into the archives at little expense to determine the fate of the 21 “missing” children on the Pine Creek section of National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation’s Memorial Register, a list compiled “to forever remember and honour the children who never returned home from residential schools.”

Had it done so, it would have found that of these students, 15 have been found by an independent researcher, only one of whom was listed as having died at the Pine Creek Indian Residential School.

This finding goes to the heart of the uncertainty surrounding both the thousands of missing children listed on the Memorial Register and those claimed, as in the case of Pine Creek, to be buried in unmarked graves near the residential schools.

These very different issues have been deliberately or negligently conflated: the hundreds of alleged but unproven burial plots “discovered” in mainly named reserve cemeteries by the error-prone technique called GPR have found not a single missing Indian Residential School student.

On the other hand, of the 4,115 students listed in Memorial Register, nearly all have a name and date of death attached to them. Invariably, these former students are also referred to as “missing.” But they are not missing because they are known to be dead. Their cause of death, place of death, and place of burial is slowly being revealed by impartial researchers.

The sole purpose of this conflation is to imply that many or most named Memorial Register children are lying in the newly discovered GPR soil disturbances and thousands more that are still to be found.

As for Pine Creek, with no accountability required and $320 million of federal funds to draw on, Chief Nepinak was justified in opening the excavation of the church basement represents no conclusion for his reserve: “This does not mark the end of our truth-finding project.”

What now needs to be joyfully shouted from the rooftops are both the unique police investigation and the ground-breaking discovery of no human remains under the Pine Creek Catholic church, hopefully marking the beginning of a truth-finding effort rooted in Western science, objectivity, and critical thinking rather than fanciful indigenous horror stories.

Hymie Rubenstein is editor of REAL Indigenous Report and a retired professor of anthropology, the University of Manitoba

LEVY: Richard Bilkszto remembered as “a gifted educator”

By
Sue-Ann Levy
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More than 200 educators, friends and family came out Sunday to honour Richard Bilkszto, described as a principal with a “generous nature” who had a “genuine desire to see his students succeed.”

“Richard believed teaching was a privilege and to deserve such a privilege required ongoing personal and professional development,” said his niece Kaitlin MacKay through tears at the Celebration of Life in a Hamilton event centre.

But sadly and ironically, it was ultimately that “professional development” — in this case by a Black Lives Matter (BLM)-supporting Diverity, Equity, Inclusive (DEI) trainer — that his family alleges ultimately led to his untimely death.

The 60-year-old Toronto District School Board principal took his own life in mid-July.

His lawyer Lisa Bildy and his family have said it was the stress and ongoing harassment from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) that contributed to the suicide.

In a court claim against the TDSB, filed in April, Bilkszto alleged he was treated abusively, bullied and harassed by DEI trainer Kike Ojo-Thompson, hired by black activist education director Colleen Russell-Rawlins and her acolytes.

Subsequent audio recordings of the April and May 2021 sessions, during which Ojo-Thompson called out his “white supremacy” repeatedly and said he should be removed as an employee, point to the accuracy of his claims.

Even after the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) found the treatment “egregious” and abusive, the black activists on the board’s senior management team cancelled a series of contracts they had with the popular principal and refuse to hire him for other jobs, as if he’d been branded a racist.

It is interesting to note that not one trustee, except for Weidong Pei, or member of the executive team from the TDSB — where Bilkszto worked for 24 years — turned up on Sunday to express their regrets.

It would have been a classy gesture by a board that is now dealing with a public relations mess of their own making as more and more principals and teachers come out of the woodwork to speak about the abuse they, too are, enduring under Russell-Rawlins.

Education minister Stephen Lecce has been silent since he announced a review of the circumstances leading to Bilkszto’s death in late July.

MacKay, who spoke for her two brothers, said her uncle always believed in them and believed in his students.

He loved his family and acted like a “second father” to her and her brothers.

He was also a politician in his early 20s.

“Uncle Richard meant everything to me and my brothers,” she said. ”Without Richard’s love and guidance, I wouldn’t be who I am today.”

His lifelong friend Robert McManus said Richard could always find fun in an everyday event, make one forget about their troubles on a difficult day and help change your life by finding a path not ever considered.

“These qualities helped to make him a successful politician … but more these talents made him a gifted educator,” he said. “Richard changed so many lives for the better.

“We have a lot of reasons to cry but if you gave Richard the choice to cry or celebrate, he’d tell us to focus on the wonderful memories,” added McManus.

A vice principal wrote a rhyming ode to him indicating, quite rightly, that he was “taken by hatred aimed at him” and his “heart must have broken losing faith” in his life’s mission.

“All of those years of dedication and saving souls of your own volition,” she said. “Please know that those of us who loved you will continue to question omissions.”

She got tremendous applause.

Lawyer Lisa Bildy said she doesn’t yet know whether the family intends to carry on with Bilkszto’s lawsuit — that they needed time to grieve.

Nonetheless, Pei said he’s bringing a motion to the next TDSB board meeting to cancel any further dealings with Ojo-Thompson.

It remains to be seen whether Russell-Rawlins and her acolytes will allow that to happen.

Trudeau won’t investigate foreign interference because it benefits him: Poilievre

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of wanting to avoid a public inquiry into claims that China interfered in Canada’s elections because he benefits from Beijing’s meddling. 

Poilievre made the comments during a press conference on Monday regarding the Liberals’ cabinet retreat in Prince Edward Island.

In response to a question about a lack of a consensus on a foreign election interference inquiry, Poilievre claimed that Trudeau “benefited from (interference) twice.”

“I’ve made my suggestions and I’m now waiting for him,” Poilievre told reporters.“You almost wonder if Trudeau doesn’t want the truth to come out about Beijing’s interference in our democracy before the next election so that he can allow that interference to happen all over again. He benefited from it twice.”

Poilievre went on to say Trudeau was “blocking the inquiry.”

“He didn’t introduce a foreign influence registry to identify those paid agents who work for foreign dictators to manipulate our politics,” Poilievre said. “It seems to me Trudeau is fine to allow the foreign influence to continue as long as it benefits him.” 

The Conservatives have led calls for the federal government to immediately announce a sweeping public inquiry into reports that China has interfered in Canada’s last few elections.

Trudeau has yet to commit fully to a public inquiry, although in June Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc said that he hasn’t ruled out appointing another special rapporteur to replace former governor general David Johnstone. 

Earlier this year sources from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) claimed that the Chinese government saw the re-election of Justin Trudeau an ideal outcome during the last election.

According to the sources, the Chinese government oversaw a campaign to undermine the chances of a Conservative victory in the 2021 election. 

It is alleged by media reports that up to 11 candidates benefited from China’s interference and they were mostly from the Liberal Party of Canada. 

Other allegations include illicit donations to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation under the direction of Beijing and the Chinese government bussing supporters to a Liberal MP’s nomination meeting. 

According to Poilievre, if elected, his government would create a foreign agent registry, hold a public inquiry and clamp down on China’s extralegal police stations in Canada. 

Ratio’d | Excavation of residential school site finds nothing…what a surprise

By
Harrison Faulkner
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An excavation at the site of a former residential school in Manitoba over the weekend has turned up no evidence of human remains after a First Nation announced the apparent discovery of remains using ground penetrating radar technology. This is the third excavation of a site that ground penetrating radar has flagged as a potential burial of Indigenous children that has turned up nothing.

You might think that not finding the remains of Indigenous children in a mass grave would be good news but the activists and the legacy media don’t seem so happy to report the good news. Instead, the First Nations Chief who oversaw the dig immediately began discussing how the excavation would “feed a denialist narrative about residential schools.”

Despite making baseless claims about unmarked graves in 2021 and causing a reign of terror against Christians in Canada and triggering a prolonged state of unnecessary and cringeworthy national mourning, so far, no remains have been found in any capacity.

Tune in to Ratio’d with Harrison Faulkner

Jamil Jivani wins Conservative nomination in Durham

By
Noah Jarvis
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Former talk radio host Jamil Jivani has won the Conservative Party of Canada’s nomination for the Ontario riding of Durham.

Jivani will seek the seat of former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, who resigned from the seat earlier this summer.

Jivani defeated the race’s other candidate Theresa Corless – an Oshawa-area school board trustee who had received attention for supporting Covid-19 restrictions and social causes like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Upon winning the nomination, Jivani thanked his supporters, volunteers, and family, and reflected on his journey from a rocky upbringing to possibly becoming a member of parliament.

“If you told me I was going to make it to a point like this, where I get to be part of a team that’s going to kick the Trudeau Liberals out of Ottawa, I wouldn’t have believed you,” said Jivani.

Jivani warned that Durham’s byelection, whenever Justin Trudeau calls the election, will not be “normal,” and that the Liberals will do everything in their power to tarnish his reputation.

“This is not going to be a normal byelection,” warned Jivani.

“The left is going to have a conniption fit, they are going to freak out. They are scared of me and what we’ve built in Durham.”

Jivani, the former president of the conservative advocacy group Canada Strong and Free Network, resigned his position in April to campaign for the Conservative nomination.

Jivani was fired as a talk radio host with Bell Media’s Newstalk 1010 in Toronto. Jivani has claimed he was fired for his political beliefs.

Jivani is in the process of suing Bell for wrongful contract termination and for refusing to “play the company’s identity politics and play the role of a black stereotype.”

O’Toole congratulated Jivani on winning the nomination, posting a 2018 picture on X (formerly Twitter) of O’Toole discussing Jivani’s book Why Young Men with him.

Conservative politicians and members of the conservative movement congratulated Jivani on his nomination including Saskatchewan MP Garnett Genuis, Conservative Party President Rob Batherson, and Ginny Roth of Crestview Strategy.

Editor’s note: Noah Jarvis, the author of this article, previously worked with Jamil Jivani through the Canada Strong and Free Network’s Conservative Values Tomorrow internship program.

Catherine McKenna calls carbon tax opponents “arsonists”

By
Quinn Patrick
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Former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna had harsh words for Conservatives who oppose carbon taxes.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), McKenna called them “arsonists” responsible for the growing number of wildfires across Canada. 

McKenna formerly served as a cabinet minister under Trudeau from 2015-2021 first as minister of environment and climate change and then as minister of infrastructure and communities from 2019 to 2021, when she didn’t seek reelection.

“Conservative politicians want to fight about a price on carbon pollution? You want to make it free to pollute while Canadians pay with their lives threatened, homes destroyed and their communities obliterated? So what are you going to do? You are the arsonists,” McKenna wrote on X.

Several wildfires have broken out across Canada this summer, most recently in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. RCMP are currently investigating the possibility of arson as the cause, though nothing has yet been proven.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre responded to McKenna’s comments after being asked about it in a press conference in Ottawa Monday afternoon. 

“What I really worry about is the increased radicalization of rhetoric by liberals, particularly Justin Trudeau, but the nastiness and meanness that they’re directing at people who disagree with their policies, whether it’s true, those nasty comments directed at Muslim parents, or whether it is him jabbing his finger in people’s faces, and now a former Liberal minister, saying that anybody who doesn’t want to pay higher taxes is an arsonist,” Poilievre said.

“Really, really, as if we paid higher taxes, we’d have less for forest fires. Come on. Let’s get back to some common sense in this country. And let’s start to bring our people together instead of tearing the country apart.”

The Conservatives under Poilievre have repeatedly stated their opposition to a carbon tax. Poilievre has been touring Canada giving a series of “Axe the Carbon Tax” speeches in recent weeks.

McKenna’s comments started a fiery debate on X with one user writing, “If I can’t afford to drive my Dodge Ram 4×4 Crew Cab to the Dollar Store to get a deal on drink’n boxes for my kid’s soccer team then this isn’t a Canada I want to live in.”

Manitoba residential school excavation turns up nothing

By
Quinn Patrick
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WCMB News

No human remains were found in the excavation of a church basement in Pine Creek, Manitoba, which was formerly part of a residential school run by the Catholic Church from 1890 to 1969.  

The four-week excavation was conducted after Minegoziibe Ashinabe, a first nations tribe northwest of Winnipeg, hired a team of archaeologists to dig up the church basement following 14 abnormalities that were detected in the soil by ground-penetrating radar equipment. 

The archaeologists were from the University of Brandon and have regularly assisted police on excavations throughout Manitoba.

In his response to the dig’s results, Chief Derek Nepinak said it takes, “nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek.”

“As a community we were preparing for more than one possible outcome, which meant we would prepare for the worst but hope for the best,” said Nepinak.

Nepinak said that he knows the results of the Pine Creek excavation will further the narrative that claims alleging mass burial sites of Indigenous children who died while under the care of former residential schools are false. 

“The results of our excavation under the church should not be deemed as conclusive of other ongoing searches and efforts to identify reflections from other community processes including other (ground-penetrating radar) initiatives,” said Nepinak.

Nepinak has asked that people continue to search for truth and not compare the results of their excavation to others across Canada.

“This does not mark the end of our truth-finding project,” said Nepinak.

This isn’t the only residential school excavation that have concluded with no findings of human remains. 

In August, 2021, a team of researchers in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia conducted an excavation at the former Shubenacadie Residential School in search of clandestine burials but to no avail. 

In October of 2021, an excavation was conducted for unmarked graves on the site of former Camsell Hospital in Edmonton. The hospital used to treat Indigenous people who suffered from tuberculosis and some believed that the dig would uncover patients that had been buried there, however no such evidence was discovered.

The calls for these and other excavations at former residential schools came in early 2021 after First Nations in Kamloops, B.C. claimed that the remains of 215 children were buried at the Kamloops Indian Residential School based on soil disturbances detected by radar.

The Kamloops First Nations said that they couldn’t say for sure just how many potential burials are at the school with certainty because they have no intention of conducting an excavation at the site. 

Ford CEO confronted with reality of EV charging unreliability during attempted road trip

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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An attempted cross-country trip in Ford’s electric F-150 has led to a “reality check” for the company’s CEO as he grapples with the lack of reliable charging. 

According to The Epoch Times, Ford CEO Jim Farley admitted in a video posted to X (formerly known as Twitter) that taking the electric vehicle across the country was a challenge in itself. 

“Charging has been pretty challenging,” said Farley. 

“It was a really good reality check of the challenges of what our customers go through and the importance of fast charging and what we’re going to have to do to improve the charging experience.”

Farley said that he often had to wait up to 40 minutes for his truck’s battery to charge to only 40% at certain charging stations. 

Last week, Quebec and Ottawa announced a pledge to fund a new Ford electric vehicle plant to the tune of $644 million. 

The funding is part of a $1.2 billion project to create a plant in Bécancour.

“We’ve come here today to show … that we’re now capable of attracting big players like Ford. And for me, that’s a source of great pride. It confirms that Quebec is truly positioning itself as a world leader in the green economy,” claimed Quebec premier Francois Legault. 

Farley isn’t the only one frustrated with the charging capacity of electric vehicles. 

Winnipeger Dalbir Bala recently made the news after he abandoned his Ford F-150 Lightning EV for a gas-powered rental car while on a road trip to Chicago, Illinois.

According to Bala the promise of long-range electric vehicles was “the biggest scam of modern times.” 

“It was in [the] shop for 6 months. I can’t take it to my lake cabin. I cannot take it for off–grid camping. I cannot take for even a road trip,” wrote Bala. “I can only drive in city – biggest scam of modern times,” said Bala. 

While traveling with his family, Bala had to drop the vehicle off at a Ford dealership in Elk River after consistently running out of power and failing to find nearby charging stations on his route. 

“The actual thing they promised is not even close. Not even 50%. And once you buy it, you’re stuck with it and you have to carry huge losses to get rid of that. And nobody is there to help you,” said Bala. 

The Daily Brief | Singh gets slammed for wife’s rental property

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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After NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre for favouring “rich investors” in the housing market, Canadians are blasting the NDP leader because it turns out Singh’s wife owns a rental property in Burnaby that is earning income.

And Liberal MPs are not happy with the current status of the Liberal Party under the leadership of Justin Trudeau.

Plus, will you be eating some Bill Gates-funded soil fungus?

Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Elie Cantin-Nantel!

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Women’s rights advocate urges Conservatives to protect women’s spaces and categories at upcoming convention

By
Elie Cantin-Nantel
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A women’s rights advocate is urging the Conservative Party of Canada to support the protection of women’s spaces and categories amid them being compromised by rampant gender ideology. 

Dr. Linda Blade, who is also an author, athlete and coach, is hoping to enshrine women’s sex-based rights into the Conservative Party’s Policy Declaration through a resolution that will be debated at next month’s national convention. 

The “Protecting Female Sports, Intimate Spaces and Women’s Rights” resolution seeks to have the party endorse the notion that women’s sports, change rooms, shelters and prisons ought to be sex exclusive spaces. 

“The Conservative Party of Canada believes that women are entitled to the safety, dignity, and privacy of single-sex spaces (e.g., prisons, shelters, locker rooms, washrooms) and the benefits of women-only categories (e.g., sports, awards, grants, scholarships),” reads the resolution.

Blade’s resolution would also make the Conservative Party adopt a definition of woman – “(a) female person.”

In an interview with True North, Blade said the Conservatives need to have a “pro-female, pro-women stance” and need to have the courage to present Canadians with “a true conservative alternative” to gender ideology.

Blade’s policy resolution comes amid several reported incidents involving biologically male transgender individuals in women’s spaces.

This August, a trans powerlifter set the unofficial world record in women’s powerlifting at Canada’s national championship in Brandon, Manitoba, while a trans runner won a women’s 1500-meter run in Toronto back in March. The Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington also reported that a trans rugby player on Ontario’s Fergus Highland RFC women’s team has been unintentionally injuring female players amid being about 5-foot-10 and weighing up to 220 pounds. 

There have also been multiple reports of male to female transgender people exposing themselves to women and girls in ladies’ change rooms.

In April, a trans-identifying biological male was let into a Windsor, Ontario women’s shelter and was subsequently accused of sexually assaulting a woman living at the shelter. A similar incident happened in Parry Sound, Ontario after a convicted trans sex offender was let in. It is alleged that the individual sexually assaulted a woman at the shelter, in addition to allegedly making sexually inappropriate comments to staff and clients.

The Trudeau government is also allowing biologically male inmates to be transferred to Women’s prisons, including those who have been convicted of sex crimes. According to Heather Mason, founding member of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights, 44% of trans-identifying male inmates are sex offenders. A government research brief also found that “gender diverse persons” have been instigators of sexually coercive and violent incidents in Canadian prisons.

Blade fears some Conservative delegates will be hesitant to support her resolution due to the anticipated reaction from the Liberals and the legacy media – who are likely to label the resolution and the party as transphobic.

She however insists that her policy proposal is not anti-trans in any way, shape or form. Its only goal is to support and protect women.

“You’re gonna notice when you read my policy that I never once said the word ‘trans’ in there,” she said. “Single sex spaces is not about ‘anti-trans’ at all, (in fact) we have trans (people) that we’re supporting in the women’s spaces, that are female.” 

“You can be as a female anything you want to be; non-binary, trans… we are on your side because we believe that there has to be distinct sectors and spaces for people born female.”

A poll conducted by the Macdonald Laurier Institute found that 62% of Canadians believe it is unfair for biological males to compete in women’s sports. 

Blade also believes that the Conservatives Party, which has traditionally struggled to win support of women, would increase its vote share among female voters if it championed the protection of women’s spaces, noting that there are many feminist groups willing to support whichever party plans to defend sex exclusive spaces. 

“Those are the women who are going to come out and vote for Conservatives if we have this position.”

It should be noted that resolutions passed at the convention are non-binding, meaning if the resolution were to pass, Poilievre would not be obligated to include it in his campaign platform and a Conservative government would not have to enact it into law. 

Blade believes Poilievre should be a leader and champion women’s sex based rights, amid the gender critical mouvement continuing to gain momentum. She predicts “we’re gonna to come to a point, a tipping point in society, where the politicians are gonna have no choice but to acknowledge that biology is real.” 

“So… does the conservative party want to lead or follow?”

True North reached out to Poilievre’s office to ask if he had a stance on the resolution and if he would include the policy in his platform if it is passed at convention. They did not respond in time for publication.

Blade’s policy resolution is not the only one aiming to tackle gender ideology. As previously reported by True North, several anti-woke policy resolutions will be debated at the Conservative convention. 

A policy proposal sponsored by the North Okanagan—Shuswap EDA seeks to have the party support a ban on life altering and irreversible gender transitions for children and teenagers, while encouraging “positive mental and physical health support for all Canadians suffering from gender dysphoria and related mental health challenges.”

Blade is the former president of Athletics Alberta and author of the book Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport. She is also a Canadian track champion and a professional elite coach. 

The Conservative Party of Canada convention takes place Sept. 7-9 at the Quebec City Convention Centre. True North will be on the ground to bring you independent coverage. 

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