Canada Is A Christian Nation With Tanya Gaw & Hon Brian Peckford, Dec. 4, 2024
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1 hour and 29 minutes
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151.36586
Summary
Brian Peckford was the third Prime Minister of Newfoundland since Confederation. He was also involved in the constitutional patriation process, the political procedure that led to full Canadian sovereignty, culminating with the Constitution Act, which was signed by Queen Elizabeth in 1982. In 1982, he was sworn to the Privy Council by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. Although officially retired, Mr. Peckford continues to fight for Canadians' rights.
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All of the people who were involved and were crucial to getting this passed, and all of us, were Christians.
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And we knew, as I keep saying in my essays and my articles, we knew no other God.
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There was only one God for us, and that was a Christian God.
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Our whole history, our whole education, as individuals, as people,
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this business of somehow trying to say something anti-Christian about the Charter is so, so terrible.
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I'm so pleased to introduce tonight's guest speaker, the Honourable Brian Peckford.
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Mr. Peckford was the third Premier of Newfoundland since Confederation,
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with an impressive list of accomplishments during his time in office.
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He was also involved in the constitutional patriation process,
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the political procedure that led to full Canadian sovereignty,
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culminating with the Constitution Act, which was signed by Queen Elizabeth.
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Mr. Peckford is now the only living First Minister of that constitutional process.
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In 1982, he was sworn to the Privy Council by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
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Although officially retired, Mr. Peckford continues to fight for Canadians' rights,
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and he's well-known as a man of integrity, as well as a fearless freedom fighter.
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Will you all please help me welcome the Honourable Brian Peckford.
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Welcome, Mr. Peckford. We're so pleased you can join us on the Empower Hour.
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Thank you very much for having me. I'm pleased to be here.
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Okay, so thank you, Heather, so much for the introduction of Brian.
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It's just an honour to have you on the show again.
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It's been a little while, and I was listening this week as I was preparing to one of the interviews.
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You've been on a couple of times, so one of the interviews that we've done previously,
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and at the time, we were again talking about Canada being a Christian nation,
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and the purpose of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
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you so nicely went through explaining how the Bill of Rights differs from the Charter of Rights,
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and I think it would be good to go over those things again,
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because the people following us now have increased from those following us a couple of years ago,
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as many more Canadians have woken up, which I'm quite excited about.
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And you must be as well, but we for sure are in a battle,
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and as I was preparing as well, I was really thinking about the fact of
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how you personally would feel about the Charter being used in the way that it is,
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not according to the design of the Charter, but being exploited in such a terrible way.
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So, Brian, where would you like to start tonight in the conversation?
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Well, I think it may be really worthwhile to do what you just said,
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and that is to, a lot of people get confused between Canada's Bill of Rights and Canada's Charter of Rights.
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So, let's clear that up, or clarify, or elaborate on that for any new people who are not familiar.
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The Bill of Rights was an act of the Parliament of Canada by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker back in 1960,
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Everybody has to remember that from 1867 to now,
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from the first Constitution Act, 1867, we are a federal nation.
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We're not a unitary state like England, or like France.
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We're like the United States, or Germany, or Australia.
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And that means that these countries are made up of a central government,
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And the power is shared between the central government
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and the state governments or provincial governments.
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That being said, this federal act, therefore, in the federal parliament,
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In other words, federal employees, people under federal jurisdiction.
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But as we know, a lot of Canada, through education and health and natural resources,
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Therefore, the federal act, the Bill of Rights, does not apply.
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It was a good start in that it started to recognize individual rights of Canadians,
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but it was limited because it only applied to federal area of jurisdiction.
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And Canada is more than a federal area of jurisdiction.
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The powers are shared between the two governments.
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So, therefore, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was necessary
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which covered both federal jurisdiction and provincial jurisdiction.
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We have to understand, also, that when you hear,
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and this is a very easy mistake that everybody makes,
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that means it includes both the federal government
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All the other acts are going to be provincial or federal
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It takes a Constitution to have a national act.
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this act only applies to the federal jurisdiction.
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Or just amending the conflict of interest that's
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And, you know, it's only then that God will heal our land.
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By the way, I mean, to your viewers out there, I hate to say this because I was, you know,
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I supported the Conservative Party of Canada all my life, okay?
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But during the last Conservative Convention, National Convention, Conservative Party of Canada,
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Some local district association, I don't know if it was through reading my stuff or somebody else's stuff,
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They proposed to amend the Conflict of Intersect,
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And they came up with a watered-down resolution,
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But he can get a second chance and a third chance.
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then they would take a look at what they would do,
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whether he should stay in the parliament or not.
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Mr. Pallieff, he's never, ever answered me back.
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Go in the House of Commons when it opens tomorrow,
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the non-conference resolution you need to do next week.
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Whereas Trudeau has broken the contract of interest law,
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Be it therefore resolved that this House of Commons
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well, you never took it to the Supreme Court of Canada,
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and they did the same thing as the other two courts.
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and they just kept going down further and further.
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the Conservatives are going to win in a landslide,
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This is sort of that Christian nationalist movement
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No, and he, I met with him in 2018 for the first time
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And I sat down and I brought these files with me,
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and understaffed intentionally, of course, right?
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And we built our friendship and our working relationship.
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that he didn't see all these social agendas going on.
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And so he's not like existing political leaders