Christian Style Fascism Isn’t Just at Our Door — It’s in the House
A Canadian Wakeup Call
On July 4, the Alberta government signed a ministerial order banning “explicit sexual content” from school libraries — an order shaped, in part, by research from U.S. extremist groups and Canadian religious‑nationalist organizations.
If this isn’t setting off alarms, it should.
Because the playbook here is not just conservative or “pro‑parent.” It is explicitly authoritarian. And it is being imported — wholesale — from the American far‑right, where the same script has already gutted queer rights, suppressed education, and legitimized Christian nationalist control of public policy.
Alberta didn’t come up with this on its own.
Copying from the American Fascist Playbook
In drafting this order, the Alberta government consulted U.S. “research” on book bans — including lists of “inappropriate” titles compiled in Republican‑led states like Texas. These lists are not neutral or scholarly. They come straight from groups like Moms for Liberty, a self‑described parental rights organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has formally designated as an anti‑government extremist and hate group.
Moms for Liberty’s tactics — demanding bans on books about queer youth, accusing educators of grooming, shutting down discussions of racism and consent — have swept through Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and now Alberta.
At the same time, Alberta’s education ministry sought guidance from Action4Canada and Parents for Choice in Education, two Canadian groups that mirror their U.S. counterparts in strategy and ideology.
Who Are Action4Canada and Parents for Choice?
These groups market themselves as defenders of parental rights and religious freedom. But under the surface, they advance a rigid Christian‑nationalist agenda that is deeply hostile to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, public education, and multicultural democracy itself.
Action4Canada, in particular, is notorious:
It has ties to white supremacist networks and anti‑immigrant rhetoric.
It explicitly calls for government and education to reflect “biblical principles.”
It claims Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms was meant to enforce Christianity, and uses “freedom of religion” as a justification to impose it on others.
It takes credit for anti‑queer legislation in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick.
Both groups have long sought to dismantle protections for queer and trans youth, to roll back human rights gains, and to insert their brand of theocracy into Canadian law.
This is not just fringe activism anymore — it is now driving government policy.
The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, and What’s Coming Next
The same ecosystem that powers Alberta’s book ban is behind the United States’ Project 2025, a sweeping plan by the Heritage Foundation and other Christian‑nationalist think tanks to dismantle secular democracy and enshrine a White Christian ethnostate.
Project 2025 lays out how to:
Purge civil service of anyone deemed “woke” or disloyal.
Attack reproductive and queer rights.
Rewrite education to reflect “biblical” values.
Centralize authoritarian power in the executive.
These ideas are already crossing the border — not metaphorically, but literally — through coordinated networks, shared talking points, and even the same activists.
The question Canadians should be asking is not whether fascism is coming here.
The question is whether we’re willing to notice that it’s already arrived.
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Why Canadians Should Care
We are lulled into complacency by the idea that “this is just Alberta” or “that’s American politics.” But fascism doesn’t announce itself with jackboots and flags anymore. It shows up in school board meetings, in ministerial orders full of biblical language.
It shows up in demands for parental “rights” that actually strip queer kids of safety agency, and dignity.
It shows up when politicians, knowingly or not, hand power to groups whose goals are explicitly anti‑democratic.
This book ban is not about protecting children. It is about controlling them — about denying them the tools to understand themselves and others. It is about legislating a single, narrow vision of morality.
And it is the same vision that fuels Project 2025, Moms for Liberty, and the Christian nationalist right in the U.S.
Shine a Light
The Alberta government has allowed itself to become the Canadian franchise of a larger authoritarian movement. It has welcomed white supremacist, theocratic ideology into its decision‑making.
The light is on now.
We see it.
We name it.
And we must not look away.
Fascism is not just at our doorstep.
It’s in the house.
The question is:
What are we going to do about it?
Here’s an online petition you can sign on to asking the Alberta government to ban the Bible from public school libraries in keeping with the spirit of the ministerial order:
Remove the Bible from Alberta School Libraries Under New Government Book Review Guidelines
Reading List & Citations
Alberta Ministerial Order No. 030/2025 banning “explicit sexual content” in school libraries:
Government of Alberta – Ministerial Orders (PDF)Edmonton Journal coverage of the ban and its connections to U.S. activism:
Alberta’s Book Ban draws on U.S. lists of banned booksMy Substack article that contains a link to the ministerial order:
Does Alberta’s Education Minister Need an EducationMy Substack article: The Bible which contains questionable sexual content isn’t banned:
Alberta Protects Children from Books — But Not That Book
Action4Canada & Parents for Choice in Education
Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s exposé on Action4Canada’s white supremacist, anti-LGBTQ+ agenda:
CAHN: Action4Canada’s Conspiracies and HateMedia coverage of Action4Canada’s interference in public education and political campaigns:
PressProgress: Action4Canada behind anti-LGBTQ campaigns in Canada
Thank you! Very few are sounding the alarm about this in Canada.