Teachers are betraying their students when they inject activism into the classroom

Teachers are betraying their students when they inject activism into the classroom COMMENTARY 22 MAY 2026 i ARTICLE SUMMARY QUOTES When I was in high school, I was taught that every single Canadian adored Pierre Elliott Trudeau. I learned that when the rose-pinned prime minister winked and pirouetted, the whole nation swooned. It wasn’t until first-year university that I was first exposed to the fierce Western backlash to his National Energy Program. It wasn’t until I graduated that I learned about any opposition to his Charter of Rights and Freedoms, his policy of national bilingualism, an…