midcenturylegs
I have really wondered this.
One reason is that a lot seemed to go under the radar in terms of the legislative stuff. It was accomplished and no one really even knew about it, and anyone who noticed at all assumed it was part of gay rights which was unquestionable.
The first many people heard of it to worry at all was C-16, and it was too quick to really get any momentum behind it. God bless Murphy and Peterson they were on before most people had even thought it through. In general though, universities are completely in thrall to identity politics.
A bit like the UK, all of the left political parties have supported it all, and there seems to have been very little internal controversy. I was a bit shocked the Green leader Elizabeth May did, she struck me as someone who might be GC, but nope.
The CBC has completely buried it all. Up until recently they were implicitly trusted, if not as unbiased, as being fair and honest in their reporting. Not many people realise the degree to which they have suppressed these things.