Canada

"Woke" in university research, as conservatives use the term, means a good chunk of all science, most social science, and pretty much all of the arts and humanities. "Woke" in public services means anything that does not make the lives of the poor, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, non-white people, everyone except wealthy cishet white men, more miserable.

Do we want Canada to capitalize on the opportunity of attracting the USA's smartest scientists and academics, looking forward, supporting its people, defending its independent existence and pursuing what makes life better for everyone, or do we want to send Canada down the same drain of ignorance, unemployment, superstition, disease, regressive thinking and hatred the USA is plunging down, while inviting the USA and Russia to attack us? That's what is at stake in this election.

A healthy society invests in science, arts and the humanities, to better understand the world and be prepared for the future. It invests in public services because it understands that the function of government is to improve the lives of all the people, and that short-term savings are long-term losses. An unhealthy society cuts all of these because in its ignorance and short-sightedness it can't see the use of them, and then it wonders why it isn't doing well and starts looking for scapegoats. Which one do we want to be?