OTTAWA—Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre levelled criticism at the “woke” movement and the corporations that have adopted the ideology to further their interests at a conference on March 23.
“This is Woke Inc. It’s about large corporations in regulated oligopolies winning political favour by throwing around politically correct statements, and advancing an agenda that makes no sense to anyone but them,” Poilievre said.
The Tory leader was delivering a keynote address at the Canada Strong & Free Network conference in Ottawa, an event presided over this year by Jamil Jivani, a former radio host on a Bell Media platform.
Poilievre’s comments on “Woke Inc.” were in relation to Jivani’s situation who was fired by Bell last year for his “open disdain” of the company’s diversity initiatives and his work surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Post….