Why bring up Charlie Kirk in the House of Commons?
By Lethbridge Herald on September 19, 2025.
Editor,
An open letter to MP Rachael Thomas:
I was deeply troubled by your decision to use time in the House of Commons to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk.
I want to be clear: I agree that political violence must always be condemned, and I support protecting freedom of expression. But I cannot accept the whitewashing of a figure whose career was built on spreading hate, misinformation, and division. Mr. Kirk’s public record includes:
• Consistently dehumanizing LGBTQ+ people and dismissing their rights.
• Promoting racist tropes and minimizing systemic injustice.
• Exploiting Christianity for political gain while ignoring its central message of compassion.
• Contributing to a climate of hostility in which vulnerable people, including youth, have been harmed.
This is not “defending free speech.” It is platforming an American extremist whose rhetoric undermines democracy, emboldens bullies, and spreads fear. Elevating him in Canada’s Parliament risks importing the very worst elements of U.S. political culture into our own democratic life.
As your constituent, I want to know:
1. Why did you believe it was appropriate to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk in Canada’s House of Commons?
2. Do you recognize the harm his rhetoric has caused to LGBTQ+ people, racialized communities, and others?
3. Will you commit to focusing your platform on Canadian issues and leaders, rather than amplifying divisive figures from abroad?
Canada has urgent challenges to address here at home. Honouring Charlie Kirk does nothing to solve them. Instead, it signals that our Parliament is willing to celebrate someone whose legacy is tied to exclusion, intolerance, and the erosion of public discourse. I also found it embarrassing for Lethbridge to be represented in this way, as if our community’s priorities are best served by celebrating a polarizing foreign figure rather than focusing on Canadian voices and challenges.
I urge you to clarify your reasoning and reassure your constituents that you do not intend to normalize or endorse extremist U.S. culture-war politics in Canada.
Isaiah Chadney
Lethbridge, AB
18-17
Nice try. Actually go watch some videos and re-evaluate your comments. The “I don’t condone violence, but I object to anyone who stands up and decries it”. Ha
Mr. smarmy at it again ….you’re such a treat.
No one is requiring you to mourn Charlie Kirk.
They’re asking you not to be a satanic piece of _______ who celebrates brutal murder. The bar couldn’t be set any lower and it is still too high for thousands of you. Get lost lumpy. Grow some civility.
Oh yes, civility.. preach it, buckwheat, preach it.
pfffffft!
Duhh! That was almost intelligent Lumpy brain!
Lumpy brain are you at it again? Trying to post something intelligent? Hahaha!
It is quite shocking how readily Canada is capitulating to the onslaught of fascism, and the hollowing out of democracy. Watch, as we celebrate the free speech of bigotry, the stifling of it everywhere else – mainstream media, universities, etc.
Yeh Carney and Trudeau (with Singh support) are/did wonderful things. Blah.
I agree but it is also at universities that I have seen students take down posters of scheduled events from those of opposing views. Shocking at a venue of so called higher learning.
Good reading. Nothing more needs to be said. Covers the bases. Pick your lane.
https://c2cjournal.ca/2025/09/on-the-murder-of-charlie-kirk-the-left-and-the-loss-of-the-tragic-sensibility/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025email
Thank you for this, Isaiah Chadney.
These Reform Party members and their ignorant supporters have proven time and time again about how much they love these Right – Wing Extremists that Donald Trump caters to while he screws Canadians out of millions of dollars that’s how stupid they are. They don’t care, do they?
There has never been anything conservative about them, the more money they waste of taxpayers money the happier they are.
You can bet Smith and Moe are thrilled that China is putting tariffs on our Canola. Not only does it give them someone to blame now that Trudeau’s gone it gives them an excuse to pour millions of dollars into the farm communities to buy votes from these ignorant farmers who are so easily fooled.
China warned Canada on March 8th what they would do ,yet Smith and Moe never bothered to warn the farmers to grow something else, and they saw it as a wonderful opportunity to screw taxpayers once again and help them buy votes.
The UCP are becoming so similar to the Social Credit Party, which Peter Lougheed worked so hard to replace. Also, the UCP are like the Reform Party. Peter Lougheed didn’t like the Reform Party, because he said it reminded him of the Social Credit Party that he fought to defeat. In fact, during the 1960s, Preston Manning tried to get Peter Lougheed’s Alberta PCs to merge with Ernest Manning’s Social Credit Party. Peter Lougheed was wise and declined.