"wokism" is also known as Identity Politics.
In case you are not familiar with this, I would look it up. It's where people think about things and play politics based on a particular identity bucket, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social and economic status, etc....
So people look at things as Rich People Bad, Poor People Good...Man Bad, Woman of Color Good...... and the result of this thinking is instead of judging someone on their particular merits, you judge them based on their "bucket".... so for example when Trudeau criticized Americans in December for "rejecting two women president candidates" and linked that as an attack on women's rights.... instead of framing the discussion as, Harris the candidate lost to Trump the candidate based on the merits of each candidate and campaign.
I lived for 12 years in a nation where identity politics resulted in the death of 80 million to 100 million people over the past 100 years at the hands of government. And globally I would say it contributed to the deaths at the hands of government of 150 million, depending on what statistics you look at. Marxism is based on Identity Politics - "All Rich people are evil and bad" for example. Canadians and Americans have not faced this type of darkness in their history, so they are not aware the path this type of thinking leads to when you look at politics in terms of Identity Politics - eg. "this person is trans so they must be correct", or this is a "white man so he cannot be allowed to take this position"
Canada is a very progressive society.... but that progressiveness can continue based on the merits of individuals.... and not just because they belong to a certain identity to label who they are. If that makes sense.
