Canada is becoming less accepting of gender diversity, new Statistics Canada data shows
(theconversation.com)
I mean, both can be true. Reminds me of an “All lives matter” type argument.
Yes, both can be true. However, the government studies / funding / attention is focused on genderised issues and promoting certain narratives -- ex. "We need to fund programs for women because they're in precarious work situations up north". Such programs shift the focus from "workers in precarious positions need help" to virtue signaling nothingness. It inflates the impression that there's a huge gap in how the two genders are treated, even though talking to people 'on the ground', they readily/openly say it impacts everyone, and everyone needs assistance, not just one gender. One of the likely reasons 'men' are veering hard to the right, is that the left is viewed as following this genderised approach, funding initiatives / programs based on gender or racial lenses, none of which tend to benefit 'men'. And our acceptance of our government being so heavily entrenched along gender/racial lines, is so complete that even when a study is shown to be blatantly biased towards highlighting just women's issues, ignoring the larger issue, the default response from folks is "both can be true", an inference towards anyone noting the discrepancy being a bigot, and a shrug.
Many polls are anonymous and/or online
True, but this one was online and by phone with interviewer, as per the article. Still, the broader point is that people will answer survey questions based on what they "think" the right answer "should" be, based on things like gov / social media site influences, rather than what they actually think/how they actually would act. If you have no "skin in the game", certain questions don't matter to you, so you'll provide whatever answer is the least likely to get you in trouble at the time. In prior years, saying anything negative about certain topics would get you reprimanded. Not so much these days, in some areas.
Noting Alberta's gov actions in the article, I wouldn't say is/was a 'cause' of the sentiment changing, though it'd prolly be correlated. You could just as reasonably say that the Schools in BC where they've cancelled things like track competitions, eliminated boys/girls races, as a response to the inability to square the gender circle, could also be prompting parents/kids to say "enoughs enough already, we can't change/turf every aspect of social life to accommodate a tiny minority, there need to be limits".
No, this simply isn’t true. Most schools just teach acceptance, nothing to do with politics or ideologies.
Seems fitting to point this out, seeing as we're Canadian and it's a Canadian heritage moment: the medium is the message. Having things like drag story time's become widely discussed news items, you could argue that the news media was complicit in fanning the flames -- but the act of specifically having people from marginalised, adult life-styles with sexual connotations, interact with kids in an effort to normalize those sorts of lifestyles is a message that's not lost on more conservative folks.