U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made for Canadian post-secondary schools.

But so far, the Conservative leader has been sparse on details of exactly what kind of action he might take.

Poilievre, meanwhile, has also threatened to defund universities over what he perceives as their ideological slant. In a Christmas Eve tweet on X, formerly known as Twitter, Poilievre said he would “defund wokism and fight antisemitism.”

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
    33·
    6 days ago

    The hell is the title of the article…

    "Poilievre, meanwhile, has also threatened to defund universities over what he perceives as their ideological slant.

    Literally in the body of the article is a quote of him saying he will do exactly what trump is doing.

    • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      The only difference between PP and Trump is PP has a maple leaf in front of his racist maga platform.

    • DonkMagnum@lemy.lol
      1·
      4 days ago

      Of course. MAGA-conservatives have no original ideas. This is all the IDU playbook, PP is just playing his part in the human centipede, hungrily gobbling the shit out of Trump and Harper’s assholes and then shitting it into the next mouth behind him. Russia, America, Hungary… it’s all the same playbook: demonize minorities, demonize academics, silence scientists, bully the press, turn as against each other so we don’t notice they are eroding our freedoms and giving our countries away to the oligarchs and technocrats.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    15·
    5 days ago

    Didn’t Harper, who is actively campaigning for Pollievre, do the same with muzzling scientists?