Stephen Harper: Western Democracies Need to Fight Far-Left ‘Wokeism’ Amid Economic Recovery

Stephen Harper: Western Democracies Need to Fight Far-Left ‘Wokeism’ Amid Economic Recovery
Former prime minister Stephen Harper speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington on March 26, 2017. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
Andrew Chen
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As vaccination rates in Canada and the United States increase, governments should focus on economic recovery but at the same time be wary of the far-left elements in society that seek to tear down Western democracies, says former prime minster Stephen Harper.

“This crisis really has been unique and very different and more complicated than [any] time before. This is a combination pandemic and an economic crisis, the solutions for one often being contrary to the solutions for the other,” Harper said on American Optimist, a podcast hosted by U.S. entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale.