PP has vowed to end the liberals ‘radical woke agenda’. He has also referred to the liberal-NDP agreement as a ‘radical woke coalition’.
The word “woke” in politics originated with the black activist movement in the US. Terri Givens, who is a political science professor at McGill University, says that she is very familiar with the term having grown up as a Black woman in the US.
“I’ve heard this term throughout my life,” she said. “It’s a term that means, ‘We need to wake up to the fact that [discrimination is] happening to us.’”
“Givens said that while the term has been used within Black communities in North America for decades, it gained prominence in the wider public discourse during the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.”
However, now it has become a pejorative term. It has been repurposed by figures on the political right to discredit policies and politicians they consider too progressive.
WR Foster 