This is nothing other than neo-Lysenkoism. In the Soviet Union as the party become more and more religiously devoted to its own ideological theory, they began to reject reality itself. Lysenko became convinced, in line with the party philosophy, that natural selection did not exist, but rather "natural co-operation". He rejected the concept of genes, and of Mendelian inheritance and eventually promoted the idea that rye could transform into wheat, and then into barley and that weeds could spontaneously transform into food grains.  Stalin supported the campaign, over 3000 dissenting biologists were fired put into prison or executed. Entire fields of biology were banned from practice for decades.

The parallels  today with the Canadian Left are obvious, we are living in very dangerous times.