“The ‘wokes’ want to get rid of Mother’s Day,” said Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, after an elementary school in Quebec proposed replacing Mother’s Day with “Parents’ Day” with the justification “the family heterogeneity.
“This bizarre ideology – which Trudeau endorsed at his party’s convention – wants to erase everything except the state, which would control everything and everyone,” Mr. Poilievre accused on Twitter.
The idea, put forward by some teachers from the school of La Chanterelle, had aroused many reactions on social networks, even going so far as to react to the Minister of Education Bernard Drainville.
“There was never any question of removing mothers or fathers from our schools. And there will never be any question of it either,” he tweeted on Wednesday.
The school later reversed its decision.
“The teachers concerned have reconsidered their decision and will suggest that the students make a craft to give to their mother or to a significant maternal figure on the occasion of Mother’s Day,” said the spokesperson for the service center in writing. school in the capital.
The leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, Éric Duhaime, also protested against the idea of transforming Mother’s Day.
“It’s wokism at its worst,” he commented on LCN on Wednesday.
At least one other school would have tried to follow in the footsteps of the Chanterelle teachers, before changing their minds after an outcry from many parents.
With Daphnée Dion-Viens
