The culture wars have come to Canada
Scott Moe invokes a rarely used clause to impose his pronoun policy
On October 10th Scott Moe, the conservative premier of Saskatchewan, Canada’s breadbasket province, summoned lawmakers back to their legislature two weeks early to deal with an emergency. No withering blight had tainted the province’s vital grain stores. There was no looming peril to its vital potash industry. The threat was more mundane: that pupils under 16 can choose their preferred name or pronoun at school, without having to get the consent of their parents.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Pronoun politics”
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