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Caroline Elliott

By Caroline Elliott

Caroline Elliott is a political commentator and a PhD candidate in Political Science at Simon Fraser University. She runs a consulting firm specializing in strategic communications, public policy and political advice for a broad range of clients.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joined by Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson, left, and Minister of the Environment Steven Guilbeault during a press conference outside the GLOBE Forum at the Convention Centre in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press.
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It's true: gatekeepers are keeping Canada dead last

Young Canadians used to be able to look forward to growing real incomes over their working lives, but that’s no longer the case. If the OECD is right, Canadians can instead expect stagnating incomes with a declining standard of living.

Caroline Elliott - Posted on April 25, 2022
The CBC-Radio Canada building is seen Thursday, January 28, 2021  in Montreal. Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press.
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We don't have to go full woke to fight racism in Canada

We need to do what we can to address racism in meaningful ways, but that does not mean we need to accept the woke idea that Canada is a country defined by race, comprised of racists.

Caroline Elliott - Posted on January 10, 2022
A memorial on Parliament Hill continues to be displayed in Ottawa on Monday, July 19, 2021. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press.
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Reckon with our past, but don’t descend into flawed moral equivalencies

When residential school deaths are described as mass murder and Canada is portrayed as on par with Hitler’s Germany or Pol Pot’s Cambodia, any moral high ground Canada might occupy in advocating for international human rights is undermined.

Caroline Elliott - Posted on July 27, 2021
People take part in a demonstration following a Superior Court ruling on Bill 21 on April 20, 2021. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press.
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Caroline Elliott: Quebec’s Bill 21 forgets the ‘liberal’ in liberal democracy

Cultural and religious minorities are not the only ones who should be worried about Bill 21. Anyone who believes in liberal democracy ought to vigorously oppose it, too.

Caroline Elliott - Posted on June 22, 2021
A sign reads "where is the love?" as thousands of people demonstrate in Cologne, Germany, Saturday June 6, 2020. Martin Meissner/AP Photo.
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Caroline Elliott: Identity politics are unhelpful in the fight against injustice

The growth of identity politics in mainstream discourse threatens to replace the cohesive power of commonality with a politics of resentment. This only deepens our divides, undercutting progress from a time when diversity wasn’t valued and otherness was a sure path to exclusion.

Caroline Elliott - Posted on June 1, 2021
Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau waits for a virtual meeting to begin on Feb. 26, 2021. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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Caroline Elliott: Defending individualism and objectivity from Global Affairs

By identifying widely-accepted principles as “characteristics of white supremacy,” the government may inadvertently trivialize and even perpetuate the abhorrent reality of racism itself.

Caroline Elliott - Posted on May 5, 2021
Pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan holds placards as he arrives at a court in Hong Kong this month. Vincent Yu/AP Photo
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Caroline Elliott: Let’s harness dissent, not hide it

Tocqueville was writing 200 years before social media and cancel culture became features of our own political conversations

Caroline Elliott - Posted on April 14, 2021
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