When Canadian progressives talk about “inclusion,” you can be sure that Christians are about to be excluded.
When the Canadian Armed Forces issued a directive instructing chaplains that they must be “inclusive” at Remembrance Day ceremonies, for example, they meant that Christian prayers and traditional symbolism were to be excluded, especially because, as a 2022 report from the Defence Department noted, Christianity is “a source of suffering and intergenerational trauma” for many Canadians, with this being “especially true for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirited members of Canadian society.”
When progressives speak of “inclusivity,” they expect people to understand that this means aggressively celebrating physical differences while aggressively enforcing ideological conformity. Comfort Sakoma-Fadugba, the former vice-chair of the Vancouver Police Board, found this out the hard way. After Sakoma-Fadugba posted comments to her social media decrying the deliberate removal of Christian values from Canada’s public square, she was promptly asked to resign.
Sakoma-Fadugba is a Nigerian-Canadian, and when she was hired in 2022, the Board celebrated her “impressive background” in “expanding equity, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of life”—but she seems to have made the mistake of being too inclusive and assuming that the word “all” meant, you know, “all.” In a series of comments posted to her social media, she decried the systematic erasure of “Christian values from the lives of our children,” noting that they are being “replaced by those of a new dominant group.” She cited the example of her son being asked to participate in a Hindu Diwali celebration at school.
Sakoma-Fadugba has nothing against Hinduism per se—she emphasized that “what I want is for Canada to remain true to its own roots—rooted in its unique values and identity, which is what has always made us who we are,” and that as such Christianity should remain “dominant”—that is, the core identity of the country. “We need to move past the woke culture that has led to the removal of Canadian heroes like Terry Fox from our passports, and the erasure of veterans from the same,” she stated. “It’s time to return to the moral fabric of Canadian society.”
