In this episode, Action for Canada's National Chapter Leader Coordinator, Kim McBride, shares her story of how she and her husband, Tanya Gaw, founded Action Canada's first chapter in the early 2000s, and how they continue to impact the lives of everyday citizens through the work they do today. She is also joined by Tanya and Kim to discuss the impact Action Canada is making in their local communities, and the importance of standing up for and protecting our God given rights and freedoms.
00:03:00.220It's so good to have you back on the show.
00:03:02.440I am always super excited about Empower Hours, where we highlight the chapters.
00:03:07.740It's amazing to be working with you in the background and as well meeting with our chapters on Mondays and hearing about all the amazing work that they're doing, the delegations, the outreach to the community.
00:03:20.940And this is the perfect opportunity to ensure that the public can be welcome into this fold and see the work that we're doing as well, because we're working on behalf of all Canadians.
00:03:31.600But I just want to thank, give you a special, special tribute.
00:03:37.780And from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for being part of this team.
00:03:42.240As Heather had mentioned, you've been with us since 2021.
00:03:47.980I love your testimony of how God brought you to Action for Canada.
00:03:51.840And then you kind of rose through the ranks with those leadership qualities that are absolutely exceptional and meticulous.
00:03:59.540And you oversee, you're the national chapter leader coordinator.
00:04:04.740And I just want our viewers to understand when you have 100 chapters, you're managing people.
00:04:11.880We've got the volunteers, the co-leaders.
00:04:13.820It's hundreds, hundreds of volunteers that you are effectively managing, as well as the provincial leaders that have been put in place, the administration, the onboarding, the vetting, the offboarding.
00:06:14.760So buckle up your seatbelts, because there's quite a lot that we've been working on.
00:06:19.700And I just really want to showcase it as sequentially as I can.
00:06:23.740For those of you that are new to Action for Canada, welcome.
00:06:29.180So my testimony of coming into the fold with Action for Canada was simply that I heard Tanya at a rally on the West Coast.
00:06:40.820I once used to refer to it as the left coast.
00:06:44.520And I heard her say, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will hear their land, forgive them and heal their land.
00:06:58.720And it was really like a sonic boom had gone off in the spiritual realm when that happened.
00:07:04.980And I can give testimony today that the echo of that powerful declaration has gone from sea to sea and back again multiple times.
00:07:16.520And as I've been working in this role, which is a huge honor, privilege and challenge, you know, I just give all praise to God for how he works with imperfect humans, but ones that have a heart to serve him and to see righteousness restored.
00:07:37.540So I have a slideshow today and it helps keep me on focus because if I get talking about things I love, I could talk forever and I have a window of time.
00:07:48.080So I want to show this to you and then just kind of walk through all the different ways that Action for Canada is working.
00:07:56.340And as Tanya said, behind the scenes, but really not.
00:07:59.860We're just like salt that needs to be, you know, stirred into the mix.
00:08:04.920And so it's sacrificial work that's being done, but it's and it's also unseen work sometimes, but we're also called to be light.
00:08:13.960And so there are so many rock stars and wonderful human beings that, you know, I would never have had the pleasure of meeting except for these times that we're living in.
00:08:24.940Okay. So without further ado, I think Terenzio, I will share my screen and we'll just jump right in and I'll just share what we've been doing.
00:08:48.600So I, I, I, like I said, I, I'm honored and privileged to introduce the chapters to you, to introduce all the work that they're doing, but also to pay tribute to this wonderful organization I get to be a part of.
00:09:04.040So many times when I'm in the public, people say, oh yeah, I've heard of Action for Canada, but you have so much, I haven't done the deep dive yet.
00:09:11.400So I'm going to help you do the deep dive.
00:09:39.840And so I always make that declaration when I'm presenting Action for Canada.
00:09:44.000The other thing I want to make, and I know you've heard Tanya say this multiple times, our mission.
00:09:48.860We have a mission that we're on and it's to protect Canada's rich heritage, which is founded on Judeo-Christian biblical principles.
00:09:56.640That's a, that's just a, that's where we start.
00:10:00.280Everything we do, we start out of that.
00:10:02.220And, and Tanya has said multiple times, it has a system of governance that gives us the freedom to believe or not to believe.
00:10:09.680But more than that, it's a sound system.
00:10:13.040Not just that it's, you know, been better for thousands of years than other forms of government, the tyrannical forms.
00:10:21.700So we actually inherited that through the, through the British Commonwealth and embedded in the Magna Carta.
00:10:27.300So these principles form our laws and values and are the basis of a system of government, governance that sets us apart from totalitarian extremist and communist regimes.
00:10:37.260And so that's really what we're up against is that level of tyranny.
00:10:42.380All those other systems have failed and we have a, maybe a country we've taken for granted, a system of government, governance we've taken for granted.
00:10:51.620But we as Canadians have the freedom to believe or not to believe without fear of persecution, oppression, or even death.
00:11:47.880But some chapters have a particular passion in some of their leadership or the volunteers that have stepped up to contend for some of these things, these issues here.
00:11:58.300They focus on that more so than others.
00:12:04.400So you don't take on every single thing if you don't have the capacity to do it.
00:12:08.140But knowing that across the country, there are other chapters that are working on one or more of these initiatives and we share it out with each other.
00:12:16.960So if you haven't seen that, that comes right off of our landing page or homepage.
00:12:22.620So just, you know, go on to one of those things, poke around, get lost in the rabbit hole with all that really good, sound, researched information.
00:12:32.620And you really don't need to go anywhere else.
00:12:34.620It's a one-stop shop, I would say, for all the things that we need to focus on at this present time.
00:12:41.880So the thing about Action for Canada, there's kind of two main components.
00:12:47.280And so we have the battling side and we have the building side.
00:12:50.700And, of course, our fearless leader, Tanya, has shown us both.
00:12:56.160I was looking for that hand to go out.
00:12:58.500You know, I was looking for that one when she says, I'm calling on you today.
00:13:01.980And I don't believe this is the one that I heard, but it was a similar one where just this gentle, wonderful spirit just was calling out into the ether, I guess, and said, come, we got to fight this.
00:13:17.720There's something that we have to fight for.
00:13:19.540But we can't always fight if we don't have something to replace what's so bad right now as it's coming apart.
00:14:52.780This sort of, it's all nonsense, of course.
00:14:54.820But that fight has really become quite insidious.
00:14:57.360And it's in every single document at almost every single municipal level.
00:15:01.840When you start looking at your own documents in your local area, you will see how these words, these buzzwords have been moving through.
00:15:11.520So those two that we are most particularly fighting at this time.
00:15:16.600Then there's the side of it where we have to build up.
00:15:19.140And so we need the communities to build up in especially our churches.
00:15:23.660And so, yes, we're in the middle of a walk for revival.
00:15:26.240That's through the pastor's department.
00:15:29.420And that pastor's department is headed up by, you know, Pastor Dan, who's also Prepper Dan, and Chapter Leader Dan, and Provincial Leader Dan.
00:15:38.960And so we wear many hats here at Action for Canada.
00:15:41.640But that has just been a really beautiful campaign that we've taken on.
00:16:05.500It's actually exhorting people to good works.
00:16:07.320And then the other one that we are actively involved in with our chapters is building up the family, building up parents, and giving them alternatives with homeschooling and suggesting homeschooling, strongly encouraging, don't have your kid in public education or any state-funded education of any kind at this time because of the level of indoctrination that's there.
00:16:48.900And the reason for that is because it's much like this beast.
00:16:52.780Whether you want to think about it as, you know, many-headed hydra or an octopus with many arms, this is where the same evil, tyranny, control, and anti-human spirit is coming through.
00:17:07.160And so it comes through and it has an arm that goes one way.
00:17:10.580So we're not fighting one distinct thing.
00:17:13.500It's not just one thing you can boil it down to.
00:17:16.220So that's the beauty of our chapters is that people that have the passion for it will take off the head of the one guy and then someone will be working on the head of another.
00:17:25.880But ultimately, this beast will go down.
00:17:27.980So I'm just going to run through really quickly.
00:17:29.840Not going to belabor the point of the problem because you've seen many in Power Hours.
00:17:34.420And so you know there's a lot of problems.
00:17:35.980So I'm just going to distill this really quickly.
00:17:38.960It's basically this, global control through local governance.
00:17:42.760So there is a master plan at work, and whether you want to call that conspiracy or whatever, it's becoming conspiracy fact rather than conspiracy theory.
00:17:53.800And so we are seeing that these are the elements that are working all together very strategically.
00:17:59.840So when they start to embed themselves in school boards, in municipalities, in the legal system, in the law enforcement, in the health care system, you'll see that there is this really neo-Marxism that is embedded throughout.
00:18:50.360So they have unlimited money to do all that they want to do.
00:18:53.920That's why it encompasses the business community.
00:18:57.340And then they take over the bureaucracies and they institute their policies along the way.
00:19:01.940And ultimately, if you looked over the 45 goals of communism, which are on our website, you'll see that it's truly just divide and conquer.
00:19:11.660So these are the various theaters of battle.
00:19:14.160Each one of those is an issue that we have to take on.
00:19:17.100So the school boards, the elected officials, regulatory bodies, financial institutions, and then the surveillance city where they track and control everything at that local level.
00:20:07.980Again, the indoctrination in schools comes in multiple forms.
00:20:12.480Again, the 17 unsustainable goals, really trying to create a global citizen that has no loyalty to the land, to the people that they have been born into.
00:20:27.040They are seen as just an agent of change that will go over the globe and they have no attachment anywhere.
00:20:36.880And that is something that really got embedded into the curriculum for many, many years.
00:20:43.840So this comprehensive sexual education, the critical race theory, and this UNDRIP, all of those things are what we're fighting in the schools on.
00:20:52.520So this is a battle, a battle for the hearts and minds of the kids.
00:20:55.540So I wanted to put up here, just again, just to summarize, what's this all about?
00:21:00.780Well, this is literally their own propaganda.
00:21:17.220Oh, they want to do away with stable, neurologically typical, without any disability people, heterosexual people, male, cisgender men, white people, whoever they call colonizers and settlers, Canadian citizens.
00:21:34.580Those are all privileged and rich people and people who own property.
00:21:39.220All of those people in the center are in the bullseye.
00:21:42.820Well, that's almost everybody in some way or form.
00:21:46.500But then who do they want to keep around?
00:21:49.040And you go to the outer rim and you see where exactly they're embedding themselves.
00:21:53.840That's why this front takes on so many different avenues.
00:22:41.080That's what this global agenda wants to use to weaponize so they can take the power, as they see it, from the people in the middle.
00:22:50.460That's not the Canada I want to live in.
00:22:52.220And that's not the Canada that most people and all of our chapter leaders, they don't want to see that.
00:22:57.400They want to see that we are people that are people that share and welcoming and open and inclusive in a way that doesn't make everyone monolithic.
00:24:57.200So, this is action for Canada from sea to sea.
00:25:00.580And so, when I said there was that sonic boom that went from east to west and west to east, or west to east and east to west, that's what we see here as a result.
00:25:11.040And these all represent people that said, yeah, okay, I'll try it out.
00:25:14.520I don't know what chapter leadership's all about, but I'm going to give it a go.
00:26:26.400And I just absolutely love this image right here.
00:26:28.720And I won't read all that's on the side there.
00:26:31.520But the part that I think is most important for us to remember, and I often give this as a little bit of a, you know, rally cry or whatever, and hoorah for our team to just encourage that, you know, we can't take it on all the time.
00:26:50.500And sometimes it does feel like it's raining down fire, but don't be scared for your children.
00:26:56.840Don't be scared for your children, but be honored that God chose you to parent the generation that is facing the biggest challenges of our lifetime.
00:28:04.640So what I want to get into is the nitty gritty now.
00:28:08.240So we've got this big mission, this big call.
00:28:10.800It can feel overwhelming, but the work of the chapters, we really break it down so that anybody can get in at any level and just start helping somewhere.
00:29:13.840And then people step up and they're excellent.
00:29:15.660But flyers, writing letters, serving notices of liability, go on social media and spread the education, research evidence and collect all that you're finding.
00:29:27.960Feed it back so that we all know what's going on and deliver information packages.
00:29:32.800That's our boots on the ground level work within the chapter is simply getting this information.
00:29:39.040And I'm going to go through the information really quickly and it's all on our website, but I just want to kind of put it in front of you.
00:29:44.200This information needs to be packaged and sent out with as many people who are willing to do that into the places that people need it.
00:29:53.640So one of these things that we do when we're educating is we have the flyers.
00:29:57.480And so the did you know flyer really spells out in bullet point form kind of the issue we're facing as it relates to the children.
00:30:08.040People don't like it, you know, to have to look at it and then deal with it.
00:30:14.140But then actually when we've done, and chapter leaders have done campaigns, they have found that some of the parents, many of the parents come back actually.
00:30:21.940I would say more often than not, many of the parents come back and say, thank you.
00:30:26.140I had no idea this was going on in my child's school.
00:30:29.300I'm going to be more aware now and I'm going to make sure that I'm staying on top of things.
00:30:35.600We have flyers and then we have notices of liability.
00:30:37.960The purpose of a notice of liability is simply to give notice.
00:30:43.080We're not necessarily saying I'm suing you for damages at this point.
00:30:47.740But what you're doing with your notice of liability is you're creating a paper trail of evidence that elected officials have seen the information that you're providing and they can excuse themselves by saying I had no idea because we've informed them.
00:31:03.200And so if you haven't read through our many notices of liability that we have for many different issues that we contend for and try to educate people on, do look at them and all the links on them are really well researched.
00:31:17.440So, again, you don't really have to go anywhere else.
00:31:40.100Our last business package was on mostly the COVID and staying open and trying to protect small businesses.
00:31:48.540But at this point here, we're finding that we need to contend with the CBDCs, the ESGs, the DEIs, the CEIs, and all of that is to undermine the middle class of the small and medium-sized businesses, which are the backbone of our society.
00:32:04.860So some people, you know, maybe dealing with the kids, maybe it's too traumatic to try to deal with that.
00:32:11.580Lots of people come from backgrounds of trauma.
00:32:59.540So at our local level, we have that as a core of who we are as well, is to being a place of community for people who are feeling quite isolated by all the division that's been created by people that don't mean us any goodwill.
00:33:15.540And so, again, further to the church package, we also do give them a church-friendly version of the Did You Know flyer so that they're aware of what their parishioners, their children in their parish, as well as their parents, are contending with in the culture war.
00:34:08.720And we have somebody at the national office sitting in that chair, and that's Doris.
00:34:13.140And so if you've seen some of the webinars, you've met Doris, and we also have a parent team lead at the national office for the whole country dealing with issues relating to parenting and protecting kids while they're in school, if they have to be, or in just society at large to be on the lookout for certain things.
00:34:30.100So we have these webinars that are really instructive.
00:34:33.420It's all part of the education that we give and we provide to people and we share out.
00:36:56.960And so many of our chapter leaders have stepped up.
00:36:59.680You're going to hear from a couple of them that have done delegations that would never have thought that they would have stood there to do it.
00:45:13.640And I just love the joy that this brings.
00:45:16.040And when I watch those videos, it's just so heartwarming.
00:45:18.500And we have a flyer that you could take to your own community, your own church.
00:45:23.100Even if you don't have a chapter in your neighborhood, you could take this to your church and say, hey, let's three of us go out and let's do this.
00:45:30.800Let's empower ourselves to pray and ask God to move in our land.
00:51:34.660We need you to step up and help build out the core teams in every chapter.
00:51:39.800So even if there's a chapter somewhere, they probably need some more help in some way, shape, or form.
00:51:45.680So do reach out to the chapters that are existing.
00:51:48.540And if there isn't one, reach out to us, and we will do our best to get you plugged in with a group of people in your community and or start a chapter.
00:52:05.180We need parent teams to focus on confronting those issues.
00:52:08.180We need prayer teams that will go to the church or just pray.
00:52:11.120And we need homeschooling networks that can get together and provide a place where we can help.
00:52:16.400People never thought about homeschooling before to get the mentorship of the parents who have done it for many years.
00:52:22.200And maybe also to have places where our children can meet together and play and find people from diverse backgrounds and share the good news of the gospel.
00:52:34.180So we support our Christian homeschooling networks.
00:52:51.280We need to rise up, parents and leaders.
00:52:54.080Even if you don't think you are, from all faith groups and backgrounds, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
00:53:05.640And that's been repeated so many times.
00:53:07.360So join organizations, join us, actually, join us who are working to make a difference and volunteer, donate, write letters, do what you can.
00:53:18.240And thank you from us at Action for Canada for helping us protect the rights and freedoms of Canadians.
00:53:24.400Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
00:53:30.680And you know these famous words from Tanya, freedom of speech, thought, belief, and the right to life, liberty, and security of the person are guaranteed.
00:53:42.480We do not need to beg, barter, or ask for them.
00:53:46.140They're ours for the taking or the keeping.
00:54:21.100And so this is Sandra, and I was so, so glad that Sandra joined our team.
00:54:26.980I remember meeting Sandra in a couple of our chapter meetings, and it was just at the end, the tail end.
00:54:34.460We got talking, and of course, Sandra shared a bit of her testimony, and she has a story and a particular passion why she's joining in on this issue.
00:54:42.680She's joined us on our team as the SOGI campaign lead, and we're working together on a special project to help deal with that issue in Alberta.
00:54:51.800And I'm just so grateful to bring you on, Sandra.
00:54:54.280So what I want to do is just really invite you to share what's on your heart to share, maybe a little bit of your background, what brought you to Action for Canada, but also, you know, why you chose Action for Canada over all the different groups that could be out there.
00:55:12.980And that was one of the things that I thought was so compelling when you joined, as you said, you know, you had to pick a lane, and you had to pick a group.
00:55:21.400So I'm just going to let you speak for a little bit here, and you just share a little bit what's on your heart, and away you go.
00:55:30.180I certainly haven't really prepared anything, so it's all from the heart.
00:55:36.700I consider myself a Christian, Caucasian, conservative Canadian, which used to be a good thing.
00:55:47.300Nowadays, it's controversial to say that, but I also think that I'm, like I say, I'm red-pilled living in a blue-pilled world.
00:55:56.960I sort of started, I guess you'd say, waking up during the, as many people, during COVID, and I was going to rallies and getting involved with Freedom, a Freedom Network during the COVID circus, and meeting like-minded people.
00:56:22.920And I sort of got an awareness of Action for Canada during that time, Tanya's speeches at rallies, Rocco's legal workings.
00:56:38.840And then I started to, as I just got into more freedom-minded networks, and the world started to kind of advance away from the COVID circus, but that was the foundation for the more circuses to come.
00:56:59.140Like the transgender circus, the climate circus, the smart city circus, it's all kind of, like you say, tentacles of the same monster.
00:57:14.520So, the thing that really made me, I prayed about it, I felt like I was doing the emails, writing the emails, doing the rallies, doing the research, but I felt like I had, there wasn't momentum.
00:57:39.020I needed to, I needed to, I didn't see that the rallies were necessarily going to do any more.
00:57:50.280I couldn't keep lacking all these moles.
00:57:52.020And so, what really drew me to Action for Canada, besides Tanya's great leadership, was the fact that it was so based on Judeo-Christian beliefs, values, and the foundation.
00:58:08.000And I think that we, the world can use more God to get out of these circuses.
00:58:15.960And I only saw love from those in the Freedom Network, in the Action for Canada.
00:58:25.040It's just so much love, so much support.
00:58:28.600So, then I decided, well, I'm going to, that's going to be my lane.
00:58:36.020And, of course, like you say, there's lots of issues.
00:58:39.720And Action for Canada has something to do with all of the issues.
00:58:43.540But because I have a particular situation in my own personal life where I have a son who is now 22, but when he was a teenager, like 16, it was perfectly timed.
00:59:06.780And when I think about the SOGI coming into Alberta in about 2016, my son eventually has been captured by that cult-like transgender movement.
00:59:22.640And, I mean, it was a variety of things, too.
01:00:05.780And so, I started attending, I actually forgot, the meetings, and then stepped up a little bit and helped you deliver some notice of liabilities.
01:00:18.140And then, next thing you know, I'm co-lead.
01:00:21.520So, but I just think that it's so important because it's all about the children.
01:00:33.060It's all about waking up and educating parents, other grandparents, other people in the city, and the politicians, and the ministers, and the priests, and the people that need to take, to start being the adults in the room because our children need us.
01:00:59.640And I just, that's how I, I guess that's my testimony, how I came to Action for Canada and how I've been into this role working with you on this topic.
01:01:13.780And I just want to say, working with you has been fantastic.
01:01:19.440And I'm so grateful for the work and the effort of all volunteers for Action for Canada and the leadership that Tanya gives is just amazing.
01:01:31.540So, it's, that's, it's worth joining and I could use some help.
01:03:02.060So my next guest coming on and she, oh, she's just such a splash, splash of passion and love.
01:03:08.380And I get so many emojis on my phone and texts from this lovely lady.
01:03:13.600And I just think, you know, when I introduce her to you and she shares a bit of the testimony specifically, I want her to share a testimony of how just an ordinary day in the life of Action for Canada.
01:08:32.140Tanya was in our home not too far after that Jerry brought her.
01:08:35.460But the relationship that has come forth in Action for Canada is powerful.
01:08:41.940And before I share what happened with what we have done so fast is the relationship that is being built within the family in Action for Canada is what's keeping it going so well.
01:08:59.040Everyone's hard working, real, real, you're available, you can send a text late at night, you can pick up the phone call.
01:10:29.180And, wow, couldn't believe, we couldn't believe what we had to learn.
01:10:37.040And he said, no, I brought you for all of these years to learn now and now go into the system.
01:10:42.380And Tanya knows when she was here in our home, I shared with her what happened in Terrace when we had to go right into the system and give up everything for the purity and the integrity of this nation.
01:10:53.760To give up our jobs because they asked us to compromise and we said we won't.
01:11:00.160So that's what we love about Action for Canada.
01:11:52.380Very encouraging to the other two people who were with me who were getting trained to really be bold about your passion in your heart, which is the truth.
01:12:00.920You've got to be ready to have the truth and speak the truth.
01:12:07.820When we started listening, Matthew and I said, wow, this is good.
01:12:12.200She's just so strong in her passion for the Lord.
01:12:15.400And that's where we all come from in Action for Canada.
01:12:18.440You've got to know who you are in Christ.
01:12:21.320And so now we take these flyers out, give it, and it was a rainy day.
01:12:25.900So we were going to have a break for lunch and we went into a restaurant, a big restaurant in Parkesville, really a large space.
01:12:33.220And we were sitting there and we went over what we did and our experiences.
01:12:37.140And then I said, halfway through our meal, I said, would you girls like to go now to the tables over here in the restaurant because it's raining outside.
01:12:47.520I don't think we can carry on with our afternoon project outdoors.
01:12:50.620And so they said, okay, Indu, you know, let's do it.
01:12:56.340So I said, okay, you go to that table, you go there, I'll go there.
01:12:59.920And the table that was on my left had four people.
01:14:52.880And I know from there, you also, you got another divine appointment to meet with an MLA in your local area who's sitting as an independent.
01:15:01.120And so you just, very briefly, if you could just summarize that, because I think in that meeting, that's where you had asked a very good question after all the presentation.
01:15:12.060And I believe Tanya was in on that one via Zoom.
01:15:15.220And you'll have to let me know if that's the case.
01:18:14.680And I'm so honoured and privileged to work with such fine people.
01:18:19.000And Donovan, you most recently have been dealing with City Hall on so many issues.
01:18:26.060Well, I guess two main issues is the contending at the city gates for the children, as well as for the bylaw changes and different sustainable development stuff that's coming into your community.
01:18:42.620You're in a small town, so you get to know the people.
01:18:45.120So I just wanted to turn it over to you also just to share what brought you in, what's motivating you.
01:18:51.520I believe also you had a billboard put up in Trail for promoting Action for Canada.
01:18:57.360And so you've got quite a big territory to cover.
01:19:02.320And so people come from far and wide to get involved.
01:19:04.860And there's quite a good freedom community kind of in that southeastern corner of BC.
01:19:10.040So I'll turn it over to you and just share what's on your heart to share and how you got involved.
01:20:07.340And so I went down and visited the principal and fell out, I don't know, maybe mid-20s, seemed really young, right?
01:20:13.240Of course, I'm not young anymore, as I once was.
01:20:17.800So everyone seems young to me these days.
01:20:19.760So I told the principal that I send my son to school to learn reading, writing, arithmetic, to be educated, not to be indoctrinated with this gender theory stuff.
01:20:31.660And I was rather upset because, you know, they're forcing this on him and he wasn't good with it.
01:20:37.620And I gave him permission to remove himself from any class that presented that to him.
01:21:08.100And so a few years later, during the lockdowns, I don't say COVID, I say lockdowns, the government intrusion of our lives.
01:21:18.840I somehow stumbled across Action Canada.
01:21:21.780I don't know how, just online and seeing all these different freedom groups.
01:21:25.620And seeing Tanya stand for Canada being a Christian nation, I was captivated by that.
01:21:33.180But most importantly, I think, was the literal notices of liabilities that actually gave, empowered the people, the citizens to say, you know what?
01:21:53.980So since then, so last year in June, 2023, our team and a bunch of other concerned parents went to the school board meeting, the last meeting of the year.
01:22:09.300We wanted to address parental concerns with the SOGI.
01:22:12.680We'd already served the NOLs to all the schools in the area, principals in this school board.
01:22:18.400So we went to the meeting expecting to get it on and be able to talk during open question period.
01:22:24.140Of course, we were shut down saying, no, it's you have to get on the agenda.
01:23:31.440So it's almost a year from the June meeting.
01:23:35.040However, they felt that it was for their safety better that they meet via Teams, like an online meeting, not in person, because they are concerned about aggressive behavior, which is a farce.
01:23:49.800Also, I was not permitted to read my presentation.
01:23:56.520It was determined that, according to this letter they sent me, three statements in my presentation do not create an inclusive learning community.
01:24:07.880It doesn't align with their strategic policies.
01:24:11.800These types of comments in a public meeting are not consistent with our commitment to ensure that students and school community members with diverse gender identities feel welcome and respected when they attend school or district events.
01:24:25.660And I'm thinking, well, this is a school board meeting for adults, not students necessarily.
01:24:30.440So I found this whole thing pretty insulting.
01:24:33.400Now, here are the three items, the statements that I made that they deemed inappropriate.
01:24:51.440Number two, it used to be that when an adult attempted to have a child keep secrets from their parents, these people were correctly labeled as child predators or pedophiles.
01:25:00.860And now it seems they're in our schools.
01:25:04.800Number three, this is highly controversial.
01:25:07.860I said there are only two sexes, male and female, not 19 different genders, and that biology should be taught in school, not the religion of sexual gender ideology.
01:25:19.760So for those three reasons, I was not allowed to read the presentation.
01:25:24.440They had received copies of the letter.
01:25:26.440However, the board was instructed, the trustees, to read it and come prepared to ask me questions.
01:25:32.240So my 10-minute period presentation time was reserved for them to ask me questions.