Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he can vanquish “woke ideology” from Canada if he gets elected. Can he really do that? Probably not. At least not any time soon — or on his own.

Addressing a crowd at the Calgary Stampede last week, Poilievre elicited cheers and frenzied clapping when he took shots at our current government: “Justin Trudeau and the NDP took office and instituted a weird, woke ideology that not only seeks to take our money, punish our work, tax our food and undermine our entrepreneurs — but also destroys our education, dishonours our history and divides our people. But the good news is: life was not like this before Justin Trudeau and it won’t be like this after he’s gone!”