Madam Speaker, with the Trump election, I hear the words of Antonio Gramsci: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” It is a time of monsters when the world watches a genocide in real time and does nothing. It is a time of monsters when our world is on fire and our government bankrolls the planet burners.
The Trump election was all about empowering the monsters, about validating blame and hate in order to ignore the immense challenges we face. However, Canadian democracy is also toxified by those who would chase the algorithms of rage rather than doing the hard work of building community.
Evil has always fed on stupidity, and they only succeed if we give them space, so stay focused. A new world is being born. Our job is to birth that world into a better place, to step up and resist the monsters. No pasarán.