(LifeSiteNews) — It is difficult to explain to non-Canadians how thoroughly Canada’s establishment has been captured by the LGBT movement.
Many Canadians no doubt assumed that Mark Carney, who very much presents as an adult, would be less prone to the sort of exhibitionist “peoplekind” LGBT activism of Justin Trudeau. But as Amy Hamm noted recently in a grim National Post editorial, “our national fealty to gender ideology remains the same as it was during the Trudeau years. Canada is no less woke under Carney.”
Her laundry list of examples makes for exhaustive and exhausting reading. Another recent example would be the coast-to-coast media garment-rending over the concert tour of Sean Feucht, a long-haired singer of the sort of anodyne praise and worship songs favored by evangelicals. But because Feucht is pro-life and opposes the LGBT agenda, the Canadian press turned him into a grim Goldilocks fundamentalist coming to threaten the Canadian way of life, making him far more famous in the process.
The Canadian media outdid itself, however, with an August 7 report published by CTV titled “‘Sign of concern’: Lawyers sound alarms after Canada updates its Nexus card gender policy.” The lede paragraph should be studied by ideologues and propagandists everywhere:
Immigration lawyers are sounding off alarms over Canada’s decision to strong-arm people into choosing either male or female when applying for, or renewing their Nexus travel cards, raising potential constitutional challenges. The decision means [so-called] non-binary or transgender Canadians crossing the border into the U.S. can no longer choose the X gender marker.
Go ahead and re-read that a couple of times if you need to. This is an almost hilariously heavy-handed attempt to herd readers to CTV’s desired conclusion: that the decision, based on which IDs are accepted in a different country, to remove the “X” marker – which means virtually nothing to anybody, raising far more questions than it answers and rather defeating the purpose of “identification” – is an attempt to “strong-arm people into choosing either male or female.”
Ask yourselves this: Would any Canadian, circa 1990, have had any idea whatsoever of what that paragraph is driving at? Nope. But because over the past decade transgender activists have managed to get a stranglehold on most Canadian institutions – including and especially the press – we are supposed to read this and nod, as Canadians, at the grim news that men and women are being “strong-armed” into revealing, on their identification, whether they are men or women.
CTV notes that the move “comes on the heels of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order, which states that the U.S. government will only recognize the male and female sex, terminating any U.S. passports and identity documents issued with an X gender marker,” but that “Nexus card holders who had their card issued before the executive order took effect will not be impacted and their membership will remain valid without any change.”
New applicants, however, will have to select either male or female to acquire NEXUS membership, and Joycna Kang of the Toronto-based Battista Migration Law Group told CTV that this is downright “cowardly” because “It’s dictating the complete erasure of non-binary identities from a Canadian legal perspective, and it also raises constitutionality concerns.”
But it doesn’t, does it? This is about a few select Canadians being outraged that the gender madness gripping our country is not shared by our neighbors south of the border. It’s not enough that the options for Canadian government ID continues to lengthen (my personal favorite, which I encountered recently, is “prefer not to say” – you’re allowed to do that?), but the United States must also play along with all of this. CTV continues:
Sarah Mikahil from the Toronto-based Smith Immigration Law firm, which specializes in LGBTQ2S+ immigration law, says the policy is “invasive.”
“The fact that the Canadian government is going forward with this is a sign of concern about what else could happen in the future,” Mikhail told CTVNews.ca on Tuesday.
She points out that [so-called] non-binary and trans people can still apply for a Canadian passport with a non-binary gender designation. However, it could become a serious problem if the Nexus card contains a different gender designation from the passport and the identity documents are inconsistent at the Canada-U.S. border… Furthermore, the CBSA has stated that Canada’s recognition of the X gender identifier cannot guarantee entry or transit for Canadians in other countries.
CTV then notes, with breathless outrage, that some nations are … different from Canada:
According to the statement, each country has a different value and legal system than the one in Canada, and Canadian travellers are subject to following the local laws of the destination country. “It is important for travellers to be informed about the legal framework and social customs governing sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics in the destination country.”
Well, I have it on good authority that diversity is our strength, and all that. So isn’t it a good thing that “each country has a different value and legal system”? Not in this case, it turns out. CTV reports that both lawyers “are anticipating a wave of fear and concern from [gender-confused] clients about travelling to the U.S. amid these new restrictions,” and Kang warns that: “It makes you question what other encroachments on our rights our government is going to be willing to concede to when they’re faced with pressure from the U.S.” It’s not enough that the LGBT movement wants to force all Canadians to affirm their identities. The American government has to do so, as well.
The closing line is almost as good as the lede: “Meanwhile, no travel advisories to the U.S. have been announced by the Canadian government.” Traveling to the U.S., which uses the same ID style we did less than a decade ago, is now apparently just like the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea – because Canadians must select “male” or “female” to sign up for an optional program to speed up their border crossings by a few minutes.
