Loading ...Ordinary working Canadians are not buying into transgender identity politics
Progressives don’t seem to understand that most people simply trying to make a living aren’t interested in being hectored about their insufficiently up-to-date views on however many genders the Canadian establishment currently believes in.
A couple of weeks ago, I made the mistake of turning on the news on my car radio. It was the CBC, and a panel was discussing Canada’s housing crisis. According to the experts brought on by the CBC, this crisis was accompanied by a shortage in tradesmen, and this shortage was in part due to the fact that construction sites were hostile environments for women and “non-binary people.” This, the panel opined, was a huge problem that needed to be fixed. It reminded me that the salaries of Canadian tradesmen are garnished to pay for this garbage.
Interesting. I walk by a building site across us. Getting to recognize some of the trades just by a wave. I don’t know them. They work long hours and sometimes on the weekend. Who are they? Mostly from India, Sikhs. Just the demographics in Vancouver. Very friendly and appear happy to work.
I may have mentioned before that I was threatened by a traffic control flagman for the dog peeing on a pile of drainage pipes that had long grass growing around indicating they were there for a long time. It rains frequently and the pee would be rinsed away.
The flagman was very hostile. I apologized but that wasn’t good enough. So I walked away as he was yelling at me. He was likely twice my size.
Another flag person came up and apologized for “her” behaviour. Apparently she is trans undergoing the transition and has been taunted by the construction workers at times. I guess they felt she had mental illness. It’s cultural and they do not accept this as normal.
So it may be true that many new Canadians are shocked at what is happening here, so there is likely truth to the verbal abuse at the sites.