(LifeSiteNews) — Has Canada become a two-party system? This is one of the key questions political strategists and MPs have been asking each other in Ottawa. In the past federal election, the New Democratic Party’s (NDP’s) support collapsed, with the progressive standard-bearer securing only 7 seats (12 are necessary for official party status) and getting only 6 percent of the popular vote. Both the Liberals and the Conservatives wonder—one with glee, the other with concern—if the NDP will survive.
The NDP, however, is filled with self-loathing for its blue collar, labor roots. It is now the party of “sexual diversity.” In September, interim leader Don Davies admitted that the party needed to recognize that there were differences between the interests of straight, white male workers and a non-white lesbian; the party then promptly demanded that at least 50 percent of the signatures collected for the leadership race be from NDP members who do not identify as a “cisgender male,” but from “equity-seeking groups” such as non-white people, Indigenous members, LGBTQ+ people, and people with disabilities.
“Cisgender” is LGBT-speak for someone who has a “gender identity” that “aligns” with their body; basically, it means someone who is not transgender. Or as the comedian Norm Macdonald noted, “cisgender” is a term used to stigmatize normal people.
The NDP did not learn from the combination of chortling and contempt that greeted this story; they take themselves far too seriously for that. In fact, they have lurched directly into another gender scandal. According to the UK Daily Mail, the NDP “has come under scrutiny for an email that appeared to be sent to members, announcing newly elected leaders as ‘non-male’ and ‘male.’” The email was shared on X by journalist Jonathan Kay:
The @NDP now apparently classifies its executive members in two categories: (1) NON-MALE, and (2) MALE pic.twitter.com/0S8Kq4kbRx
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) October 25, 2025
The email, which Kay screenshotted, was sent by the New Westminster-Burnaby-Maillardville chapter of the NDP and “detailed highlights from the party’s last annual general meeting. The new members who identified as ‘non-male’ were listed as Doris Mah, Alodie Yen, Agnes Jackman, Penny Oyama, and Marla Penner. The ‘male’ members were listed as Dante Abbey, Eric Van Fleet, Aidan McDonough, Peter Julian, and Kebebe Abate.”
Hilariously, the NDP—which struggles not to say that they resent being the party of the white working man and desperately want to be the party of intersectional two-spirited lesbianism instead—is now being accused of “erasing women” due to their linguistic kowtowing to the transgender movement. What is a woman? Well, the NDP can’t quite say. And so instead, they simply refer to “non-males,” which I’m sure seemed quite an efficient way to solve the problem to whoever made the list. Doris, Agnes, Marla, and Penny did not say whether they appreciated being downgraded from “women” to “non-males.”
This is all very amusing, but it poses a problem for the Conservative Party. With the NDP determined to offend as many voters as possible in their search for intersectionality, the Liberals—who are, in practice, just as woke but far more powerful—actually manage to look somewhat moderate. Mark Carney may show up at Vancouver Pride and hug a near-naked LGBT activist wearing nothing but a thong, but he doesn’t use the term “cisgender” or refer to women as “non-males.” But like Trudeau—who has left politics for Katy Perry—he does raise the LGBT flag over Parliament Hill every June.
The NDP continues their freefall. The Liberals are close behind them, but with an adult-looking central banker in charge. The Conservatives need to provide an alternative. If they need ideas, they might look to Premier Danielle Smith in Alberta, who, despite being non-male, has more guts than any of them.
