Kamel El-Cheikh, the Ottawa businessman and Muslim activist who inaugurated the Million Person March for Children (#1MillionMarch4Children) in September 2023, is deep in the planning stages for a second annual march, planned for Sept. 20.
Kamel El-Cheikh, the Ottawa businessman and Muslim activist who inaugurated the Million Person March for Children (#1MillionMarch4Children) in September 2023, is deep in the planning stages for a second annual march, planned for Sept. 20. He told The Post Millennial in an exclusive interview that he fully expects to exceed the 1.5 million that he says the march attracted last year from coast to coast in Canada.
El-Cheikh organized the demonstration to support parents who are often frustrated with school boards and governments that push gender ideology and the LGBTQ agenda on children and won’t even allow parents to be informed if their kids decide to change their pronouns.
Some provincial governments are pushing back against the gender ideology agenda. Last February, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced that teenagers under 17 would no longer be able to access sex change operations and those under 15 would be banned from being prescribed puberty blockers.
“Our team has actually quadrupled in size,” El-Cheikh says. “We had people working with us indirectly in New Brunswick. We didn’t have officials in New Brunswick [last year]. We have officials now. We had people in Saskatchewan the same way.”
He says that much more organization should result in even more people participating on the ground. “This year, we actually have First Nations officials from BC like Colin Big Bear,” who wears “his heart on his sleeve.”
“Okay, so we are in our infant stage. We’ve been around for 14 months. That means we’re still babies,” he says. “I like to build things because, you know, as a CEO, I take things from a business perspective, and I apply them to charity somehow. And for us, we’ve attracted some of the best people in the country. And this thing we want Canadians to know, this is yours. This is a non-partisan movement. We all have different opinions, but one thing we have in common is we are one nation, one flag,” El-Cheikh says.