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(LifeSiteNews) — If the seriousness of a country can be determined by the seriousness of the debates held by its elites, Canada is in deep trouble.

On August 30, Prime Minister Mark Carney issued yet another expression of his support for the LGBT movement. “Pride is a promise – that every Canadian can live safely, openly, and proudly as themselves,” he wrote on X. “To the 2SLGBTQI+ community in Nepean, and across Ottawa: Happy Pride!”

This itself is hardly news; Carney’s pride posts – there was an English and a French version – are the seventh and eighth such posts he has made since June. Carney’s commitment to incessantly congratulating the LGBT movement for their public antics is just how the Liberal Party recognizes the summer months.

But Carney’s posts highlighted a current debate over the Canadian government’s official federal term 2SLGBTQI+ as opposed to the French designation 2ELGBTQI+. The English acronym stands for Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, plus others; the French begins with 2E for “deux esprits / bispirituel.” The government adopted their designation in 2022 as part of the Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan.

READ: Canada’s bizarre ‘2SLGBTQI+ monument’ designed to ‘glow like a disco ball’

The acronyms were adopted in order to fuse Canada’s indigenous history with the current LGBT movement by putting “Two-Spirit” first; as I noted last week, the phrase was first coined in 1991. Indigenous leaders now get to see their history constantly refracted through the lens of LGBT ideology and interpreted by activists who seek to use their indigeneity to promote a very modern agenda. Indigenous people who object to these postmodern characterizations of their past have been studiously ignored. 

In the meantime, this ongoing historical revisionism is unlikely to stop anytime soon. The needs of the present demand that activists be constantly amending the past in order serve the current agenda. In 2016, for example, the Canadian government was using the phrase “LGBTQ2,” and the acronym was used by Justin Trudeau, the most powerful LGBT activist in Canadian history. Trudeau appointed a Special Advisor on LGBTQ2 issues and the LGBTQ2 Secretariat, who proposed that the acronym be scrambled and changed.

Even the initial acronym was so unwieldy that even Trudeau had trouble getting it out:

NDP MP Leah Gazan, however, showed him how it was done earlier this year when she unveiled an entirely new acronym, sparking widespread hilarity online:

This acronym “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” refers to “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and more.” It has not yet entered Canadian elite parlance, but the government has already used five different official acronyms, so no doubt Carney is already practicing this one in the mirror. He might be somewhat hesitant to call Canada a genocidal state while in a trade war with the United States, but who knows? Dumber things have happened.

Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.

His insights have been featured on CTV, Global News, and the CBC, as well as over twenty radio stations. He regularly speaks on a variety of social issues at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

He is the author of The Culture War, Seeing is Believing: Why Our Culture Must Face the Victims of Abortion, Patriots: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Pro-Life Movement, Prairie Lion: The Life and Times of Ted Byfield, and co-author of A Guide to Discussing Assisted Suicide with Blaise Alleyne.

Jonathon serves as the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.

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