Canada's Conservatives lack 'cultural courage,' says academic Brock Eldon. In tonight's special edition of Hannaford, he talks in depth about the intellectual malaise that has turned Canada into a 'woke' shadow of its formerly robust character — and the depressing consequences of the failure of Canadian conservatives to address it."While conservatives talk economics, the left seizes culture — and with it, the future," wrote Eldon in a recent article in the Western Standard. Tonight he goes deeper — and offers what he believes Canada's Conservatives should do about it..Eldon says the majority Canadian worldview has fundamentally changed as a consequence of determined left-wing indoctrination since the 1950s. The change can be traced back at least as far as the influence of the so-called Frankfurt School, a group of left-wing professors and philosophers committed to 'critical theory,' that fled Germany in the 1930s..ELDON: Why the Conservatives keep losing.The group established themselves in New York's Columbia University, but their influence is now continent-wide and it's affected all of society— especially the fortified high points of government, academia, the schools, the bureaucracy.."And because their point of view is so widespread and so seldom challenged — least of all by the Conservatives, who just talk about economics — it affects our elections. In 2025, the election was not between the Conservatives and the Liberals. It was between the Conservatives and the Liberals plus the media, plus the schools, plus all captured federal institutions.".Is there a solution? Not an easy one. But, "Avoiding culture is risker than embracing it. The Left is not avoiding culture and I believe that costs Conservatives elections."Brock Eldon may have something there. The left has no problem talking about sexual minority issues, reproductive health and reconciliation.The Conservatives however reflexively recoil from discussing the very real harms from poorly-advised teenagers having sex-change operations, abortion and the fact that four years after allegations of bodies of indigenous children were buried in a Kamloops orchard, no proof has been offered.It's not that they don't believe what they say is true. It's that they're afraid to fight for it.Hannaford airs tonight, at seven o clock.
