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.
Yes, I’ve heard of christian and conservative youth groups doing this on campus – sad.
But I was thinking more of the leveraging of public funding and private donations to control curriculum, silence academics and end-run faculty associations. Something maga money us doing south of the border. Free speech and academic freedom are siamese twins.
Danielle Smith made a bill/policy that federal government grants for university research will have to be screened by the UCP, before it is handed out. If the UCP disagrees with it, no funding. So cancer research could be out the window. It is actually academics who control how these grants are administered, and it is a very strict process.
Saw that happen with the Klein government. A customer created some invention to help the oil industry and they were really impressed. His invention was approved for a patent and an approval to produce it was granted.
However he needed money and applied for a grant from the Klein Government and it was approved. He got a call from someone in the government to come down and get his cheque. When he got there they told him they had changed their minds and his grant had been denied. He wondered why?
He had a friend in the government so he talked to him and he said he would look into it.
He said they had discovered that he was a card carrying Liberal and that was a no, no. He said he would have changed his support to the conservatives for helping him out yet when his friends and relatives found out what they had done to him it cost the Klein government dozens of supporters instead.
That’s how stupid they were.
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
God will sort them out! Eternity is a very long time!
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.
Buying votes is what they do best, just like Ralph Klein did. My 95 year old dad told me once how clever Ralph Klein was for doing it before a provincial election. After he got back into power, the vote buying stopped.
I watched Klein , as a bank manager, convince the easy to fool beef producers with a $15 dollar per head cattle bribe and it worked to perfection.
Lawyers tried to sue Klein when some of them began realizing how badly they had been screwed but the courts found it legal what he had done, and most couldn’t get him re-elected fast enough they were to stupid to realize what he had done to them.
Now they don’t care that he had the oil industry dump their abandoned oil wells on their land with no hope of getting them cleaned up that’s how stupid they are, isn’t it?