John Robson: In a Sign of Our Woke Times, Parks Canada Cancels Learn-to-Camp Lesson After Activist Complains

John Robson: In a Sign of Our Woke Times, Parks Canada Cancels Learn-to-Camp Lesson After Activist Complains
People gather next to the Lachine Canal in Montreal in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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Nothing, not even maple syrup, can rival the cottage as a Canadian icon. But lately our love affair with nature is becoming a bit of a non-country song because we overwhelmingly live in big cities where a sterile monocultured lawn is as green as it gets. And when you try to put kids back in touch with real trees, lakes, birds, and bugs instead of this abstract “viyerminn” teachers keep urging them to save from capitalism, guess what.

John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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