by Jo Bartosch, spiked
Nurse Amy Hamm has been financially ruined for daring to criticise gender ideology.
Canada likes to present itself as America’s friendly neighbour to the north, a paragon of kindness and inclusivity. But beneath the flannel shirts and wholesome, outdoorsy image, it has turned into a laboratory for woke extremism. This is the nation where ‘compassion’ means ushering citizens towards state-assisted death, and where the bank accounts of anti-lockdown protesters are frozen to ensure public safety. The latest victim of Canada’s smothering embrace is nurse Amy Hamm.
A single mother with 13 years’ unblemished service, Hamm has been suspended from her post and slapped with a $94,000 (£50,000) bill by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). Her offence? Daring, in her own time and away from patients, to criticise gender ideology.
Her ordeal began in 2020, when she helped fund a Vancouver billboard declaring ‘I ♥ JK Rowling’. That modest act was enough to spark a complaint and set in motion years of persecution. From there came a 332-page report cataloguing her social-media activity, which the BCCNM branded ‘discriminatory and derogatory’.