How Indigenous activists are repeating a key gay-rights mistake
The Indigenous movement faces a choice: declare victory, or risk becoming the villain of its own success story.
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Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra highlights how public goodwill is not an unlimited resource and both the LGBTQ movement and now Canada’s Indigenous rights movement are burning through it fast.
Did you know public support for LGBTQ rights has fallen in recent years? Not plateaued — fallen. Even left-leaning outlets like The Guardian and PBS have admitted it. After decades of growing sympathy, something shifted. And the explanation is hiding in plain sight.
It isn’t about gay marriage, that’s been settled law in Canada for 20 years, and for over a decade elsewhere in the West. Gay rights activists won. They secured legal equality, broad cultural acceptance, corporate backing, parades, media representation ... everything imaginable. That should have been the moment to declare victory.
But instead of concluding their successful mission, the LGB movement bolted on the “T.” And that addition fundamentally rewired the movement from a campaign of tolerance and privacy into one obsessed with compulsion and intrusion.
Transgender activism isn’t about “consenting adults” or “live and let live.” It’s about forcing others to participate, whether they like it or not. We’ve seen male athletes self-identify into women’s sports. We’ve seen biological men transferred into women’s prisons. And we all remember the most grotesque example: a teacher nicknamed “Busty Lemieux,” parading absurd prosthetics in front of children. These moments weren’t fringe outliers, they were the inevitable result of a movement that refused to stop at equality and instead pivoted into coercion.
And this is exactly where Canada’s Indigenous rights movement is now stumbling.
For decades, Canadians of every political stripe supported reconciliation. More funding. More opportunities. More respect. Even Stephen Harper increased Indigenous affairs budgets. But gradually, the tone shifted from cooperation to accusation. From a shared project to a punitive ideology borrowed from America’s racial politics.
Suddenly Canada was branded a “genocidal” nation, statues toppled, historical figures erased, and violent offenders released back into communities under the guise of cultural sensitivity. Land acknowledgements became compulsory rituals, even in regions where treaties had long since settled ownership.
A new bridge nobody can pronounce with two upside down e’s. Anyone else tired of the virtue signaling? pic.twitter.com/vWk4tiio0s
— Steve Saretsky (@SteveSaretsky) December 9, 2025
And now we’re seeing the same overreach that doomed the LGBTQ movement’s public support. The recent B.C. court ruling suggesting First Nations may hold title beneath hundreds of suburban homes rattled people. So did the renaming of an important Vancouver bridge using a linguistically manufactured orthography that no ordinary citizen, Indigenous or non-Indigenous, can read, write, or pronounce. This isn’t about honouring heritage. It’s about asserting dominance. It’s symbolism meant to exclude, not unite.
And here’s the warning: goodwill is eroding. Not because Canadians suddenly dislike Indigenous people, but because activists, bureaucrats and political handlers are turning reconciliation into a weapon.
Just like the LGB movement was hijacked and pushed into extremism, the Indigenous rights project is drifting from unity into supremacy. It’s not too late to reverse course, but it requires stopping the overreach now.
GUEST: JCCF's John Carpay joins the show to discuss standing up for women's sex-based rights and the ongoing battle for free speech.
COMMENTS
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Fran G commented 2025-12-11 14:41:58 -0500Thanks to John Carpay for helping these vulnerable women in prison get rid of these idiots portraying as women. How disgusting. -
Fran G commented 2025-12-11 14:40:21 -0500Reconciliation has been a gravy train for high up Indigenous, lawyers etc. The little people get nothing. If this was genuine why is there still 60 indigenous communities that still have unsafe drinking water? trudumb started this and now carnage continues. Us taxpayers have spent millions. We need to put an end to Reconciliation. Even before Reconciliation I felt some of the handouts went too far, we have just created many generations of some Indigenous that are dependent on the govt.
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John Williams commented 2025-12-10 00:07:48 -0500Thank you for exposing the ridiculous white, self hating idiots making up a language that niether english speaking canadians nor Indigenous people understand with regard to bridges, libraries or anything else. An upside down e represents all this moronic self flagelation they demand we adher to. This political correctness needs to go away.
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Paul Scofield commented 2025-12-09 22:55:28 -0500Excellent point, Ruth.
Here is hoping at least one Canadian province steps up, calls the Indigenous shakedown artists’ bluff and tells them, in no uncertain terms to et gay ent bay. Hopefully the Chiefs understand Pig Latin, even if they prefer not to use English or French. -
Ruth Bard commented 2025-12-09 21:49:07 -0500Trouble is, Indigenous mouthpieces seem to define “reconciliation” as “give us everything we demand or else.”
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-12-09 21:25:00 -0500It won’t matter in B. C. The NDP provincial government has let the U. N., through its UNDRIP, run it.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-12-09 21:19:16 -0500Like the LGB folks, leftists in general are becoming censorious thugs. Their messiah complex makes them constant scolds. Who wants friends like that?
