By appointing a raving gender ideologue to the Senate, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did nothing wrong. But boy, is the upper house of Parliament going to be a pain for years to come.

This new Alberta representative in the upper house is Kristopher Wells, MacEwan University professor, Pride Tape inventor, Canada Research Chair and on-call academic activist. He can reliably explain to the uneducated public that all conservative parties in Canada have “been hijacked (by) far-right extremists”; that the federal Conservative party “is now a party of hate, extremism and division”; and that any talk of restricting cosmetic cross-sex hormones amounts is evidence of a “conservative agenda” to “restrict access to life-saving health care for anyone they don’t agree with.”