12 Apr 2025 7 min read

Hate is the Strategy

From Dog Whistle to Doctrine

Racquel Hilbert did not misspeak. She executed. Her use of the word “terrorist” to describe Jagmeet Singh wasn’t careless, accidental, or emotional. It was precise. It was scripted. And it was trial ballooned. Hilbert’s comment was not an aberration... it was a diagnostic. And the silence that followed was the answer.

We are not dealing with isolated incidents. We are dealing with a doctrine. The current wave of Canadian conservatism is not about fiscal restraint, national unity, or even ideological conviction. It's about permission. The strategic deployment of hate, wrapped in plausible deniability, is now a core operating system. The tactic is simple: inject the venom, apologize when caught, count the votes, and repeat.

Hilbert’s statement was not meant to persuade. It was meant to provoke... and test. Can you call a Sikh man a terrorist in a legislature and still keep your job? The answer, in Saskatchewan, is yes.

I wrote this article in January. I could have written one about Conservative misinformation, manipulation, and social terrorism, every day since. It is pervasive, penetrating poison on our culture and national mind.

System Insight:
This is the weaponization of discourse. What the American right perfected under Trump—fabricated reality, targeted misinformation, and rhetorical escalation—is now being refined in Canada. The architects of this strategy understand that if you control the narrative, you control the norm. What was unthinkable yesterday becomes part of the conversation today. Tomorrow, it becomes law.

Hilbert’s words are not just offensive... they're predictive. They signal what is being prepared: a legislative environment where language loses precision, facts become fluid, and racialized violence is politically incentivized.

This is not conservatism. This is cognitive warfare.

Deployment Path:
Here is how we respond:

Refuse Plausible Deniability: Hilbert’s apology is irrelevant. The words were written. The speech was approved. This was policy, not passion. Treat it as such.
Demand Structural Consequence: Apologies are theatre. Removal from caucus is governance. Anything less is complicity.
Codify Language Boundaries: Define what constitutes hate speech in policy discourse. Set legislative rules for rhetorical accuracy and require contextual definitions for politicized terms like “preborn” or “terrorist.”
Activate Civic Defence Systems: Media must stop reporting hate speech as “controversy.” It’s not a scandal. It’s a strategy. Build civic literacy, equip institutions to intervene, and expose the funding, lobbying, and communications infrastructure behind these incidents.
Frame Every Attack as a Test Case: Ask: What was tested here? Who benefited? What failed to trigger? Build a counterplaybook and distribute it to every journalist, educator, policy adviser, and voter.

This is not about Hilbert. It never was. It’s about the strategic normalization of violence. It’s about the data point that every Conservative campaign manager will file under: “No consequence for racial slur in legislature... proceed with broader roll-out.”

You want to stop this? Then stop acting like it’s random. It’s not. It’s the model.

Recognize the fascist playbook. Write a new one.

Codify consequence. Strip the oxygen. Define the words. And refuse to let silence make space for hate.

Oh, and there's also this...

Ms. Racquel Hilbert - Government Caucus
Humboldt-Watrous

Biography
Racquel Hilbert was first elected MLA for Humboldt-Watrous in 2024.

She is ”a founder of Wolverine Drilling Inc” a company based in Humboldt…

but...

“Hilbert has had a side-gig for many years working for Wolverine Drilling, a well drilling contractor in Humboldt. She answered phone calls and replied to emails in the evenings and on the weekends to make some extra money to supplement her teaching salary to support her family of six. Recently she decided to take the plunge and explore a water resources career. She completed her co-operative work terms with Wolverine Drilling and is looking forward to future opportunities with the company.”

Amazing how you can go from a side gig, answering phones in the evenings, to company founder, in less than 12 months.

Perhaps Brianna in media relations with SaskPolytech would be interested in correcting such an egregious error about our elected representative.

When the Saskatchewan Legislature can publish outright and blatant lies on the public profile of a sitting MLA... we're fucked.

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She didn’t misspeak. She deployed.

Racism isn’t slipping through the cracks... it’s being tested, measured, and normalized by design.

This wasn’t a gaffe. It was a probe. And silence is approval.

PS -

You want to know what Hilbert’s comment really was?

It was a stress test.

The Conservative machine doesn’t launch a new policy with a press release. It whispers it first. Wrapped in ambiguity. Then it sends out a low-level surrogate to say the quiet part out loud. Not by accident. Not emotionally. But strategically. To check... can we say this now?

And they wait.

They don’t watch the outrage. They expect it.

They watch the cost.

Will she be removed?
Will there be media backlash?
Will voters care?

And when the answer is no—when all that happens is a limp apology and a shrug from leadership—then they escalate. That’s the play.

This wasn’t about Hilbert. It was about preparing the ground. Softening resistance. Making hate digestible.

Letting “terrorist” mean Sikh.
Letting “preborn” mean property.
Letting “freedom” mean control.

And here’s the punchline: it works when we let it.

When we frame this as “inappropriate” instead of what it is, deliberate hate strategy. When we accept apologies without consequence. When we pretend it’s isolated.

It’s not. It’s the blueprint.

You want to stop it?

Then we need to name the play.

Expose the infrastructure.
Force policy consequence.
Build civic immunity.

Because if we don’t?
They will keep testing.
Keep injecting.
And keep winning.

No more gaffes.

No more probes without cost.

It’s time to cut the leash. Strip the mask. And fight the plan on the field where it lives... discourse, power, and law.

Welcome to the real conversation.

Now, decide if you’re in it.

ben@proconsul.ca

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