On Feb. 10, 2026, Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old transgender male, attacked the community of Tumbler Ridge and its Middle School, whereupon he brutally murdered 8 people and wounded 27 others, before he subsequently divorced himself from all existence in the “deadliest school shooting since 14 women were killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.”
Predictably, countless left-wing political actors and pundits have already leapt to reflexively condemn the tragedy as a result of mental illness, in an effort to distract Canadian society from the hyper-liberal political ideology and propaganda that ultimately culminated in Van Rootselaar’s massacre of innocent children in Tumbler Ridge. (RELATED: Transgender Ex-Student Identified as Suspect in One of Canada’s Deadliest School Shootings)
Unfortunately, although it is easy to blame mental illness for the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, it is utter sham to suggest that Van Rootselaar’s murderous rampage and suicide are anything but the culmination of Canada’s current political climate and the hyper left-wing ideology that has been forcibly imposed upon the Canadian people over the course of the past decade.
In fact, it is clear that the recent massacre of innocent lives in Tumbler Ridge is a direct consequence of the modern advent and onset of identity politics in Canada throughout the Liberal era.
Due to the modern advent of identity politics, every Canadian has been robbed of all personal agency and transformed into little more than a convergence of various identities and social circumstances.
Due to the modern advent of identity politics, every Canadian has been robbed of all personal agency and transformed into little more than a convergence of various identities and social circumstances. (RELATED: Behind Canada’s Sealed COVID-19 Reports)
For example, the socio-political paradigm and perspective that every person inhabits, as well as the products of their labor, have all been rendered solely on the result of their location on the so-called ‘spectrum of identity’ within society. In fact, any action, no matter how great or terrible, has been rendered a mere by-product of ‘identity’ and its interaction with the nation-state’s political structures.
Even Shakespeare’s work has recently been deemed naught but the result of his “whiteness,” and the Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust has actually been called upon to “present Shakespeare not as the greatest, but as part of a community of equal and different writers and artists from around the world.”
Furthermore, the legitimacy of any person or people’s respective social plight and perspective, indeed their ability to suffer itself, has become contingent upon their ability to immediately display the requisite “diversity criteria” and intersectional location upon the “spectrum of identity.” In truth, it has become nigh-inconceivable that any person or community might suffer or become marginalized and oppressed at all in Canada, without explicitly exhibiting any of the necessary “diversity criteria.”
As a result, specific identities have been rendered right or wrong, rather than actions.
For instance, any person who is even inadvertently guilty of male birth, and not also somehow ‘diverse’ in race or sexuality, has been rendered simultaneously both the author and issue of The Patriarchy, as well as an active agent of its oppressive assault against all that is not unequivocally Male.
In addition, the modern gospel of identity politics and its intersectional apostles have decreed that anyone who is sufficiently un-diverse or “white” is not merely incapable of any socio-political suffering, but is actually themselves a source of socio-political malaise and a locus of oppression.
In fact, throughout the modern era, it has subtly become commonplace and even acceptable for “intersectional” identities and “diverse” peoples, such as black women and trans individuals, to commit explicit hate crimes and openly abuse anyone who is sufficiently “white” or un-diverse without consequence
Even Black Lives Matter (BLM) itself explicitly stated, “We have a right to violence [against Whites]. All oppressed people have the right to violence. It’s like the right to pee. You gotta have the right place, you gotta have the right time, and you gotta have the appropriate situation. And I am absolutely convinced that this is it!”
More importantly, Canadians have been forced to participate in a society wherein any person who desires to in any way transform their lot in life, or even be permitted the luxury to suffer, must inevitably engage in the fiction of “diversifying” their superficial identity, rather than improving their actions and progressing in character.
Consequently, the number of Canadians who now seek to diversify and modify their gender and race has exploded. For example, in 2021, “one in 300 people” in Canada self-identified as “transgender or non-binary.” Furthermore, the number of self-identified transgender Canadians has increased exponentially over the past five years, and “Generation Z Canadians, aged 17 to 24 years” are now “seven times more likely to identify as trans or non-binary than those in the oldest generation.” (RELATED: Of Lobotomies, Anorexia, and ‘Gender-Affirming Care’)
And yet, despite the fact that the gospel of identity politics and its false martyrs all variously insist that a better future and vastly improved social prospects lurk just beyond the veil of a more “diverse” ethnosexual identity and ideology, any person who seeks to transform their current socio-political context or at all escape a beleaguered, broken, existence without immediately modifying their actions is inevitably doomed to fail and summarily plunge their already fragile existence into an abortive spiral of hopelessness and violence.
Unfortunately, although it is easy to blame mental anguish for Van Rootselaar’s caustic rampage and suicide, it is evident that the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge is a macabre result of the hyper-left-wing ideology and propaganda that has been forcibly imposed upon the Canadian people over the course of the past decade.
In fact, it is clear that the recent massacre of innocent lives in Tumbler Ridge is a direct consequence of the modern advent and onset of identity politics in Canada throughout the Liberal era.
More importantly, it is readily apparent that, until diversity of thought and virtuous action are once more prized ahead of non-white skin tones and “intersectional” sexualities, Canadian society will continue to be inundated with left-wing terrorism and brutalized by the cohort of hopeless liberal extremists that have been led astray and cast aside by The Left’s abortive modern ideology.
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William Barclay is an award-winning political theorist and policy expert, as well as one of Canada’s leading conservative voices. Follow him on Twitter/X @WillBarclayPCBG.
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