Parliament is in recess this week and I am currently taking some time off with Catherine. But I really had to send you this quick note about something crazy that happened on Twitter these past few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen both implied I was a racist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Why? Because I said I want people to be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, like Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yep. Apparently, that\u2019s being racist nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It started when the Minister praised his government\u2019s budget in a tweet, saying it was a historic one for \u201cracialized Canadians.\u201d That\u2019s the new politically correct jargon to mean Canadians belonging to cultural minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I tweeted that I thought the ultimate goal of fighting discrimination was to create a colour-blind society where everyone is treated the same. Not to set some Canadians apart as being \u201cracialized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s the purpose of this awful jargon?, I asked. To create more division for the Liberals to exploit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems I was right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those Liberals answered that by saying I wanted a color-blind society, I was \u201cdenying the experience of people who live with racism\u201d and I was \u201ccontributing to racism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n MP Caesar-Chavannes even added: \u201cPlease check your privilege and be quiet.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You read that correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess she wasn\u2019t aware that we lived in a democracy with free speech as one of its building blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It provoked a major backlash on Twitter and she later almost apologized by tweeting that telling me to be quiet \u201cwas not cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am grateful to all those who defended me and expressed their support on Twitter during this controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I tweeted later, we should certainly do everything possible to redress injustices and give everyone equal opportunities to flourish.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And we should recognize that Canada is big enough to contain many identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But that doesn\u2019t mean the government should define us on the basis of \u201cintersectional race, gender and sexual identities\u201d and grant different rights and privileges to different groups thus defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This radical left-wing fad, now officially adopted by the Liberal government, will only create more division, more injustice and will balkanize our society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s time we conservatives stop being afraid to defend our vision of a just society made up of free individuals equal before the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have to start pushing back against those who want to silence any opinion that differs from theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you agree that we should defend free speech and equal rights for all Canadians, no matter what their race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation are?<\/p>\n\n\n\n