Action4Canada - Critical Race Theory (CRT) With David Haskell

00:00:00.000 because right now in our schools, the ideas that we saw in social identity theory,

00:00:06.660 they're on display, but not as a deterrent to hate and division. It's as an accelerant.

00:00:14.280 Our educational leaders are pouring gasoline where water should be.

00:00:18.520 And the gasoline I'm referring to is critical race theory. Critical race theory divides students by

00:00:24.260 skin color. It attempts to convince them that membership in a particular racial group

00:00:29.240 is the single greatest way to know the essence of a person. It says your membership in a racial group

00:00:36.160 is the key to your identity. And if you're a white student, you're told that your identity

00:00:41.980 is that of oppressor and racist. Even if you don't say racist words or do racist deeds or think racist

00:00:49.260 thoughts, critical race theory still claims that you are unconsciously racist. Critical race theory

00:00:56.880 teaches certain things to white students. Let me just recap by telling you what critical race theory

00:01:02.260 teaches black students. It teaches that you are an oppressed minority. And it says that you're a

00:01:11.120 victim of societal forces outside your power. You're told that you have less personal agency than others.

00:01:18.980 And you're also taught that any white student, someone you thought was a friend, may be unconsciously

00:01:26.560 a racist. So critical race theory has now infiltrated every board in Canada and in many boards in the

00:01:36.380 United States. Although I will say that at last count, 35 states are outlawing it. In Canada, we've been

00:01:43.880 very slow to catch up.

00:01:48.980 I am so honored to introduce you to Dr. David Haskell this evening. David is a respected professor at

00:01:55.380 Wilfrid Laurier University, where his research examines cultural trends. Operating primarily within

00:02:02.140 the field of sociology of religion, as well as communication studies, his teaching and research

00:02:08.600 focuses on religion and media in Canada. He has studied the tensions between conservatives and the

00:02:15.260 country's cultural elites and has used his skills to expose false claims made by today's progressives.

00:02:23.580 Outside his job at the university, David leads a Parents Rights in Education group in the Kitchener-Waterloo

00:02:29.340 region. He is an active member of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship and serves as an

00:02:36.220 advisor to various conservative think tanks. He has also enjoyed careers as a journalist, high school

00:02:42.940 teacher, professional musician, motivational speaker, and TV reporter. Will you please

00:02:49.020 all help me welcome Dr. David Haskell. Welcome to the Empower Hour.

00:02:53.660 Well, thank you very much. And I want to also, I saw in the chat that there are a number of people

00:02:59.980 joining us from the U.S. And those would be my brethren in FAIR. So Foundation Against Intolerance

00:03:06.940 and Racism. I am a chapter leader of FAIR in Waterloo Region, and I think that a number of my

00:03:13.820 FAIR colleagues are here tonight, so welcoming them as well. So lovely. And it's my first time here on

00:03:18.940 Action for Canada and the Empower Hour. Tanya, thanks for having me. This is our first time with each other

00:03:25.100 ever. It is, yeah. We've only chatted via email and on text, so it's just a pleasure to meet you,

00:03:30.460 sort of in the person here on Zoom. And my apologies. Sometimes those, these weekly updates go out

00:03:36.940 separately from the Empower Hour, but this is a huge topic tonight. And you know, people are so used to

00:03:42.620 being brainwashed by the government that if we're victimizing a certain group, we got to go along with

00:03:46.940 that narrative. And so that's why I really look forward to the information that you're going to

00:03:51.180 share with us tonight to hope to bring a little unity and peace and all in the right direction,

00:03:57.420 Dr. David. So I'm just going to hand the floor over to you. Fantastic. And I'll let people know

00:04:03.340 that I'm going to be talking for probably about a half hour. And for many of us, I think that we know

00:04:10.220 something about critical race theory. We know something about anti-racism education. And as I was

00:04:15.660 putting together this presentation, as I was thinking about it, I thought, okay, I want to make sure I bring

00:04:20.540 some fresh ideas to this. Now that's not to say that I won't say some things that you already know,

00:04:26.540 but hopefully I'll hit on some new bits of information that'll make it easier to think

00:04:33.180 about this or give you the words that you didn't have. And for a start, for example, I want to talk

00:04:40.060 about a story. So my presentation tonight is going to be about the damage done by critical race theory

00:04:46.780 in our kids' schools. But I'm going to get to the meat of that discussion in a roundabout way. You see,

00:04:52.700 first, I'm going to review some history. I'm going to tell you a story. And then I'll mention

00:04:57.020 the social scientific research that is really important. This program is called the Empowerment

00:05:02.540 Hour or Empower Hour. So I want to empower you with knowledge and research. So as I say,

00:05:08.780 I'm setting the table right now before I lay down the main course. And I'll do that by way of telling

00:05:14.300 this story. So on April 5th, back in 1968, one of the most famous psychological experiments

00:05:21.980 concerning racism was conducted by a grade three teacher living in a small town in Iowa. And that

00:05:28.780 teacher was Jane Elliott. Now, the day before her experiment was April 4th, 1968. And Martin Luther

00:05:36.940 King Jr. had been shot. In the wake of that tragedy, Elliott decided to teach her students about the negative

00:05:44.060 effects of bigotry. Now, bigotry, let's just make sure we're all on the same page, is defined as the

00:05:50.940 unreasonable or unfounded disliking of a person or people based on their membership in a particular

00:05:58.460 group. But Jane Elliott, the teacher, wasn't going to provide a definition on the chalkboard to make her 1.00

00:06:04.380 point. Instead, what she wanted to do was have her students, her grade three class, enact the meaning

00:06:11.500 of bigotry. So she divided her class according to eye color, with the blue-eyed children separated

00:06:17.820 from those with the brown or hazel eyes. And then Jane Elliott, the teacher, explained. She said,

00:06:24.620 people with darker eyes, brown or hazel, are better than people with blue eyes. And to get her students 0.93

00:06:31.180 to believe her, she said that her claim was based on the science. She said that science showed that

00:06:38.140 dark eye color was caused by a chemical called melanin, which is true. But then she went further.

00:06:45.660 She said the science also showed that melanin caused intelligence and self-control. And therefore,

00:06:52.700 darker eyes signaled a smarter, more well-behaved person. Well, then after making the case that blue-eyed

00:06:59.340 children were inferior, Elliott proceeded to give the dark-eyed kids special privileges and also some praise

00:07:05.940 throughout the day. Now, as you'd expect, the children internalized the message that their

00:07:13.940 authority figure was sending. Despite having almost identical ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic

00:07:23.140 traits with their classmates, the dark-eyed kids, the dark-eyed group, came to see themselves as the

00:07:29.060 better group. And their behavior toward the blue-eyed classmates became harsh and even degrading.

00:07:35.860 Many of the blue-eyed kids began to lose their drive and they got depressed. Now, some of the blue-eyed

00:07:42.580 kids became self-deprecating and subservient. They wanted to curry favor. And they did so by lowering their

00:07:53.540 own status. And what I find so fascinating about Elliott's experiment is this. Even though she wasn't

00:08:01.220 a trained psychologist, she was able to capture all of the key ideas that would come to form social

00:08:08.980 identity theory. And she did that years before the theory was published. The full version of social

00:08:17.220 identity theory didn't appear until about a decade later at the end of the 1970s. Henry Tajfel, he was

00:08:24.260 at the University of Bristol, came up with the theory. Now, if you've studied psychology, you'll know that

00:08:31.220 social identity theory, it takes empirical research about group interaction and then it boils it down,

00:08:38.180 pulls out the themes, and then it explains how prejudice can be manufactured. The theory,

00:08:45.220 in large part, describes what Elliott observed in her grade three classroom. So let me go into what

00:08:51.540 the theory says. And again, my hope tonight is to give you some new ways of expressing what we're seeing

00:08:58.180 in our school system. So here's the theory of social identity. First of all, the theory insists that people

00:09:05.220 who are, I'm sorry, it insists that people are not naturally inclined to bigotry, but they can be taught to

00:09:13.620 be bigots. So according to the theory, the first step in manufacturing this bigotry is to have an

00:09:20.340 authority figure divide whatever population, it's a classroom or a country, into two distinct groups.

00:09:28.740 The division has to focus on some identifiable difference, but the difference doesn't have to

00:09:34.660 be significant. That's what's very interesting about this theory. This difference can be something as

00:09:40.260 inconsequential as eye color, or it could even be the hockey team that you support, but the difference

00:09:47.140 has to be made to seem important. In fact, to create the right conditions for bigotry, the difference

00:09:54.740 between the groups must be exaggerated. For example, in our own context, in terms of exaggeration,

00:10:04.900 it would be incredibly harmful if the mainstream media were to repeatedly report false exaggerated

00:10:11.780 information about racial tensions, because that exaggeration is key to manufacturing bigotry.

00:10:19.620 Of course, you know that I'm being tongue-in-cheek here because that's exactly what the media does.

00:10:24.180 Now, related to the theory again, similarities between groups, even if they're more numerous and they

00:10:32.580 actually are significant. Well, those are downplayed or ignored. The insignificant differences are played

00:10:38.980 up, the real, the many ways that people are similar are downplayed. So, hostility and bigotry is being

00:10:49.140 manufactured and what's needed, if I could say it again, is that people who are actually very similar

00:10:55.620 are taught to see themselves as profoundly different. And then this inaccurate binary category replaces

00:11:04.980 the hundreds of valid categories into which individuals should actually fall. To manufacture

00:11:11.300 bigotry, the main nuanced categories that used to define individuals have to be rejected and they're

00:11:17.700 replaced by some kind of new overarching single category, like eye color, or as you've already intuited,

00:11:26.260 something like skin color. And for those who buy into this overarching category, the world becomes 0.91

00:11:33.620 split between us and them, between the in-group and the out-group. Now, finally, the theory of social

00:11:40.260 identity concludes with this. It says, once people are identifying as in-group versus out-group, human

00:11:47.860 nature takes over. Or maybe it's more accurate to say that tribal nature takes over. The theory explains,

00:11:54.740 and let's not forget that Jane Elliott saw this in her classroom, people who are convinced that their

00:12:01.140 core identity is linked to membership in some kind of in-group naturally start to belittle and show hostility

00:12:09.220 toward those outside the group. Putting the other group down is the way that they raise their own status

00:12:16.260 and the status of the group. And it's the way that they bond. And that's how they build unity with the members

00:12:23.060 of their own group. Now, this likely should go without saying, but neither social identity theory nor Jane

00:12:31.460 Elliott thought that manufacturing prejudice was a good thing. In fact, the whole reason that Elliott did her

00:12:38.180 experiment and the whole reason that Henry Toshfeld published his theory was to set an example of what

00:12:44.180 not to do. It was a warning. It wasn't a how-to guide. If they were alive today, they would tell us,

00:12:51.460 whatever you do, don't pick some kind of external characteristic and make that characteristic the

00:12:57.860 dividing line between the good guys and the bad guys. Don't do that because you will generate hate

00:13:04.340 and ultimately you will unravel society. Well, if you're here tonight, you probably feel that we are

00:13:12.820 already part of the unraveling. Because right now in our schools, the ideas that we saw in social

00:13:20.900 identity theory, they're on display. But not as a deterrent to hate and division, it's as an accelerant.

00:13:28.820 Our educational leaders are pouring gasoline where water should be. And the gasoline I'm referring to

00:13:35.380 is critical race theory. Critical race theory divides students by skin color. It attempts to

00:13:41.780 convince them that membership in a particular racial group is the single greatest way to know the essence

00:13:47.540 of a person. It says your membership in a racial group is the key to your identity. And if you're a white

00:13:55.460 student, you're told that your identity is that of oppressor and racist. Even if you don't say racist 0.81

00:14:02.020 words or do racist deeds or think racist thoughts, critical race theory still claims that you are

00:14:07.780 unconsciously racist. Racist. Moreover, as a white student, you're told that any success you experience

00:14:16.740 is not due to your own actions. It's due to unearned privilege due to your whiteness. 0.71

00:14:22.180 Now, at the end of this presentation, I'm going to go through several studies proving that critical

00:14:28.420 race theory and the ideas it promotes are scientifically false. As part of that later

00:14:35.220 discussion, I'll show that claims about unconscious racism are scientifically indefensible. But that's

00:14:41.460 going to come later. Now, I told you already that critical race theory teaches certain things to

00:14:48.580 white students. Let me just recap by telling you what critical race theory teaches black students. 0.58

00:14:55.860 It teaches that you are an oppressed minority. And it says that you're a victim of societal forces

00:15:03.380 outside your power. You're told that you have less personal agency than others. And you're also taught

00:15:11.300 that any white student, someone you thought was a friend, may be unconsciously a racist.

00:15:18.980 So critical race theory has now infiltrated every board in Canada and in many boards in the United

00:15:27.060 States. Although I will say that at last count, 35 states are outlawing it. In Canada, we've been very

00:15:34.500 slow to catch up. But the negative effects, the negative effects, as they become more well known,

00:15:42.340 has meant that the people who are propagating these ideas have chosen to hide them. In fact,

00:15:48.580 many school boards have now taken to lying about the presence of critical race theory.

00:15:53.860 And how do they do it? Well, they purposely avoid the use of the term critical race theory.

00:15:58.100 And instead, more often than not, they use the euphemism, anti-racism education. And sometimes

00:16:05.460 they'll use white privilege instruction. Of course, some school boards are so heavily stocked

00:16:10.980 with true believers. I'm thinking right now of the Toronto School Board. They'll actually openly confess

00:16:15.940 to their agenda of using critical race theory. But as I say, most boards of education obscure that

00:16:22.500 they're infusing their curriculum with the ideas of critical race theory. And instead,

00:16:27.140 they'll tell the public that they're implementing anti-racism education in their classrooms.

00:16:33.700 Now listen to that. Anti-racism education. Be looking for that. Be listening for that in your

00:16:40.260 schools. And remember, it's the same thing as critical race theory. It's critical race theory,

00:16:46.020 or CRT, dressed in camouflage. What I mean is this. The term anti-racism education is purposely

00:16:54.420 misleading. After all, who doesn't want to be anti-racist? But here's the truth. The ideas and

00:17:01.860 actions promoted by anti-racism education are not anti-racist, but they are explicitly racist.

00:17:10.340 Everything that CRT, critical race theory, promotes is promoted in anti-racism education.

00:17:16.740 Therefore, within this pedagogical movement, discrimination based on skin color is actually

00:17:21.540 encouraged. And if you doubt what I'm saying, I'll start throwing out my proof. The top-selling

00:17:29.060 instructional manual on the topic, it's actually called How to Be an Anti-Racist. And it's by the

00:17:35.300 American academic Ibram X. Kendi. That book and its author categorically reject the idea of treating all

00:17:42.660 people equally. Instead, Kendi insists that to make society equitable, again, equitable, not equal,

00:17:50.020 equitable, white people must be denied equal treatment. And they have to pay, they have to be 0.99

00:17:56.820 made to pay for any historical misdeeds that were perpetrated by those with similar shades of 1.00

00:18:03.780 pigmentation. In his book, he states, quote, the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist

00:18:12.580 discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.

00:18:20.980 Now, if this is the first time that you've heard a quote like this from Kendi, or maybe you've heard

00:18:28.100 books similar to this, Robin DiAngelo, for example, you may be shocked at how blatant the anti-white

00:18:36.020 racism is. Well, get ready to be horrified, especially if you live in Ontario. And for our

00:18:42.820 American viewers who are with us right now, just a moment, I want to let you know what can happen

00:18:49.460 if you fall asleep at the switch, if as parents you don't stand up for the rights of your own kids.

00:18:54.980 Because right now, in my province, the province of Ontario, all of Kendi's ideas are going to be

00:19:01.780 forced into every classroom with the passage of a new bill, Bill 16. Bill 16 is a provincial bill.

00:19:10.740 At the level of the province, that's where education is handled. And Bill 16, for those who haven't heard

00:19:16.820 of it, it's a repackaging of another bill, Bill 67, again, an Ontario education bill. Now,

00:19:22.660 that earlier bill, Bill 67, died on the order table when the provincial election took place back

00:19:28.340 in June of 2020. But now, Bill 16, this proposed new law, known as the Racial Equity in the Education

00:19:37.620 System Act, is back. And it's already passed first reading. Now, as I told you, for Kendi,

00:19:44.980 discriminating against whites is not racist. That's what he says. He says it's anti-racist.

00:19:51.220 And we see that same warped definition applied in Bill 16. Listen, I've got some quotes here. Listen

00:20:00.100 to how anti-racism is defined in this bill. Anti-racism is, quote, the policy of opposing racism

00:20:09.940 that includes anti-indigenous racism, anti-black racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia.

00:20:22.180 Now, in that definition, did you hear which group, which racial group is excluded? You see,

00:20:31.300 under this new law, it will be perfectly fine to be aggressively racist, as long as it's against white 0.80

00:20:37.100 people. This new bill also makes the case that whites can be accused of racism, even if there's

00:20:44.780 no external proof. As defined in this bill, and this is exactly what CRT claims, by the way,

00:20:52.460 racism can be completely subconscious or unconscious. It's written right into the bill.

00:20:59.580 I'm not sure, but in fact, this may be the first piece of legislation in the history of Ontario

00:21:04.460 to say that mind reading, not a person's actions, can be used to condemn them guilty.

00:21:11.980 And as I hope you're beginning to appreciate, this entire bill, Bill 16, is a salute to every idea of

00:21:19.340 critical race theory. And if it passes, unity in my province's schools will be destroyed.

00:21:25.660 Unity will be destroyed because this bill insists that anti-racism education has to be worked into

00:21:33.580 every curriculum in every course. And this bill also insists that no one will be able to become a

00:21:40.700 teacher unless they write an exam showing fluency in anti-racism education. Furthermore, veteran

00:21:49.100 teachers won't be able to advance in their careers unless they, quote, demonstrate efforts to promote

00:21:56.620 racial equity in their schools. Now, listen to what that says. To advance in a career, a teacher must

00:22:07.260 actively promote this divisive ideology in their classroom. To advance in their career,

00:22:13.500 a person will need to promote lies and ignore evidence. But in this presentation tonight,

00:22:22.380 we're not going to avoid evidence because the evidence is on our side. The evidence clearly shows

00:22:29.020 that the ideas being promoted in our schools under the title of anti-racism education do harm to

00:22:35.740 students. And now I'm going to turn to that research evidence now. And in an effort to keep things as clear

00:22:42.460 as possible, I'll be moving from general to specific and I'll frame my research in terms of questions and

00:22:49.100 answers. So the first general question is this, does the research show that anti-racism instruction,

00:22:56.780 as is being practiced in many Canadian schools already, does the research show that anti-racism

00:23:04.060 instruction does any good? Well, the answer to that question is no. The research literature on

00:23:12.060 anti-racism education goes by several names. It talks about anti-racism education. It can talk about

00:23:22.380 white privilege instruction, but the more general category is diversity and equity training. So all

00:23:29.420 those are synonymous. So when we examine the research, it's going to refer to anti-racism education

00:23:36.380 or diversity training or white privilege. But the ideas in these materials promote the same.

00:23:43.020 And the research has found, getting back to this general question, has anti-racism education been

00:23:48.940 shown to do any good? The research has found that diversity training and anti-racism education

00:23:55.020 does not make people less racist. So I'm going to give you the best proof. There's lots of evidence,

00:24:00.940 but I'll give you the best proof. And I'll also, at the end of my presentation, I'll make it available

00:24:06.220 to Action for Canada so they can put it on their website. Let me talk to you about a great study.

00:24:12.140 A 2021 study was published in the Annual Review of Psychology. The lead author was Elizabeth Palak

00:24:18.940 from Princeton University. Now, Palak and her colleagues didn't do a single study. What they did was a meta-analysis.

00:24:24.940 And we love these. As researchers, we love these because it looks at the existing research and then

00:24:31.340 crunches those numbers. So this meta-analysis done by Palak looked at over 400 existing studies.

00:24:38.780 And their goal was to see if mandatory instruction in diversity, equity, and inclusion, that kind of

00:24:45.020 training, that anti-racism kind of education, if it works to decrease prejudice and increase harmony.

00:24:51.260 Well, after analyzing the outcomes of over 400 research papers, Palak and her team concluded,

00:25:00.060 despite the bold claims made by people developing and facilitating this kind of anti-racism instruction,

00:25:06.700 the average impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion training is zero. That is, it elicits no change.

00:25:17.340 So keep that in mind. The research is clear that anti-racism instruction and diversity type training 0.94

00:25:24.380 does not do any good. So now we come to our second question. Does the research show that anti-racism

00:25:31.260 instruction and diversity type training does harm? Well, yes, the answer is yes. And I'm going to begin with 1.00

00:25:39.660 part of the proof. And this is particularly good because it's done by an esteemed sociologist at

00:25:46.540 Harvard University. And again, in the best type of fashion, he's examined the existing literature.

00:25:53.500 So it's not just his study. He's looked at the existing literature on this particular topic.

00:25:58.220 And let me give you the details. In 2018, Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin reviewed the existing

00:26:05.820 anti, or sorry, existing research on anti-racism instruction. And he had a special emphasis

00:26:11.740 on the harm it does. That's what he was really looking for. And he relayed his findings in the academic

00:26:17.340 journal, Anthropology Now. And his article was titled, Why Doesn't Diversity Training Work? Which is a

00:26:25.020 pretty damning title in and of itself. While summarizing the conclusions of the pertinent

00:26:30.140 studies from the 1990s to today, Dobbin stated, quote,

00:26:37.740 This kind of instruction activates bigotry. Field and laboratory studies find that asking people to

00:26:46.060 suppress stereotypes tends to reinforce them, making them more cognitively accessible to people.

00:26:54.060 So again, in short, this kind of instruction, this anti-racism education,

00:27:03.020 in fact, activates bigotry. There's a strong chance that people will leave diversity training

00:27:10.700 or anti-racism instruction more racist, not less. Now, I said that Dobbin's research was part of the

00:27:19.740 proof that anti-racism education does harm. I said part of the proof. And here's some more of that

00:27:25.820 proof. I've got two more studies that deal specifically with that topic. But before I talk

00:27:33.340 about those, let me just refresh your memory. When we're talking about critical race theory,

00:27:38.380 it can go under the guise of anti-racism education. And it can also go under the topic or can also go

00:27:45.500 under the banner of white privilege instruction. So the studies that I'm about to look at now deal

00:27:51.500 specifically with white privilege instruction. And again, with white privilege instruction, the idea

00:27:57.180 is that students who are white are told that their successes, if they come, are primarily not due to

00:28:03.740 their own agency, but due to the color of their skin. Also in white privilege instruction, students

00:28:09.500 of color are told that they don't have the same agency as others and that the deck is stacked against

00:28:15.020 them. So when I'm talking about these studies, that's what they were looking at. What happens when you

00:28:21.420 teach students this kind of material? All right, so let's get to that.

00:28:25.820 The first study that I'm going to discuss is out of a journal called PLOS-1, or PLOS-1.

00:28:37.180 And it was done by a researcher at Michigan State University, and his name was Chris Quarles.

00:28:42.220 And Chris Quarles found, and again, I'll be reading directly from the study.

00:28:50.300 I didn't mention the date. It was published May 2022.

00:28:56.620 So the research involved an experiment to see how introducing the term white privilege

00:29:01.020 would affect online discussions. And these were online discussions related to

00:29:06.780 issues of racial equality. Now, the researchers found that introducing the concept of white privilege

00:29:13.260 shuts down discussion and lowers support for racial harmony. And they conclude, and here's the quote,

00:29:21.020 mention of white privilege seems to create discussions that are less constructive, more polarized,

00:29:29.820 and less supportive of racially progressive policies. Furthermore, they stated,

00:29:35.980 the concept of white privilege not only deterred supportive whites from engaging in the conversation,

00:29:43.180 it also led to less constructive responses from whites and non-whites alike.

00:29:50.860 So that's the study from PLOS-1 from May 2022. And now I want to talk about another study that was from 2019.

00:30:02.940 Now, this particular study was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

00:30:09.820 And the researcher was Dr. Aaron Cooley of Colgate University. And he was the lead researcher.

00:30:16.700 He had other colleagues. And let me just discuss what the aim of his study was.

00:30:22.380 The aim of his study was to measure the effect that lessons on white privilege would have on the attitudes

00:30:29.180 of students. The study found that teaching lessons on white privilege did not make students more sympathetic

00:30:37.180 to people of color. But it did increase hostility toward poor whites. And the researchers concluded,

00:30:48.140 quote, learning about white privilege reduces sympathy, increases blame, and decreases external

00:30:58.060 attributions for white people struggling with poverty. In short, these researchers found

00:31:07.740 teaching about white privilege does not do good, but it does do harm.

00:31:12.540 And so we look at these studies and we ask ourselves, are the people promoting critical

00:31:22.780 race theory in our schools unaware of these studies? I don't think they are. I think that what's actually

00:31:31.980 happening is they don't care. I think that some of them have a financial interest in making sure

00:31:38.620 that they can continue to promote these ideas. But the scientific evidence is clear.

00:31:50.780 Teaching critical race theory ideas, anti-racism education does harm. Now, before I leave the studies

00:32:00.700 themselves, I do want to just talk about one more thing. And I had mentioned earlier,

00:32:06.300 at the beginning of my talk, that it's often said that there is unconscious bias. The unconscious bias is

00:32:16.060 often attributed to whites who, even though they don't do racist actions, they don't say racist things,

00:32:24.380 they're said to be unconsciously biased. I want to show why that idea, too, is just not backed by the science.

00:32:31.340 So unconscious bias. So unconscious bias, to clarify, is the concept that promotes

00:32:38.380 that even if you don't say racist things, or commit racist acts, or consciously think racist thoughts,

00:32:45.020 if you are white, you are likely racist unconsciously. Where does that concept come from? Let me explain.

00:32:53.660 The justification of that concept, that is the proof that this unconscious bias, which is often called

00:33:00.220 implicit biased, the proof that it exists, rests on experiments that were done using a research tool

00:33:07.660 called an implicit assessment test. So these IATs, or implicit assessment tests, involve reading words

00:33:17.420 and looking at pictures to gauge one's unconscious biases. Now, based on the results of thousands of

00:33:23.420 IATs, some researchers have claimed whites harbor bias against non-whites. The idea, of course, has been 0.90

00:33:31.340 picked up and amplified in schools across North America. It's even in Bill 16. Bill 16 claims that

00:33:38.460 there is unconscious bias. In the Canadian military, incidentally, if I can just mention this,

00:33:42.620 yes. Recently, the Canadian military just put out its anti-racism training. And in it, it says,

00:33:50.940 if you do not agree that unconscious bias exists, you are racist. Now, of course, that's a catch 22.

00:33:58.220 It's a tautology. But the point that I'm making is this notion of unconscious bias, even though it's

00:34:03.260 promoted in our school system, even though it's promoted in legislation, even though it's promoted

00:34:07.100 in our military, it actually has no scientific backing. So let me get to that then. I've said that

00:34:15.340 the idea of unconscious bias rests on these implicit assessment tests. Well, let me tell you what people

00:34:23.420 have found about those results. And I won't go into all the studies, but they are numerous.

00:34:28.780 The numerous studies show that scientific backing is lacking, but I want to talk about one meta-analysis.

00:34:38.380 There was a 2019 study. It was a meta-analysis of implicit association test measures.

00:34:47.740 And it was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. So the researchers reviewed the

00:34:53.180 findings of 426 studies that had used some variation of the implicit association test.

00:34:59.820 And remember, that's the test that was used to prove that implicit bias exists. Well, here's what

00:35:06.140 the researchers discovered. The correlation between implicit bias and discriminatory behavior is almost

00:35:14.060 non-existent. Put more simply, if you took the implicit association test and the results came back

00:35:21.660 suggesting that you have a very high unconscious bias against people of a certain race. Well, those

00:35:28.700 results in no way correlate to how you interact with people of that race in the real world. There's 0.67

00:35:34.140 just no bearing. And the researchers also found that how you score on the implicit association test can

00:35:41.660 change dramatically from day to day and even hour to hour. It's completely inconsistent. But despite the

00:35:49.020 lack of scientific backing, our schools are convincing our kids that this nonsense is true. So I've spent a lot

00:35:56.540 of time outlining the lies being told to our kids, but I'll finish my presentation with an important truth.

00:36:03.660 And it's backed by plenty of evidence. And this truth is something that can give us hope.

00:36:08.060 So yes, there is racism in our society, and it is terrible. But the fact of the matter is racist

00:36:17.420 attitudes in Canada at the level of the general population have never been lower. Even in the

00:36:24.620 United States, the sociological measures surrounding racist attitudes in the general population,

00:36:30.620 well, they point in a very positive direction. Let me give you some some places to look. The latest figures

00:36:39.100 from Statistics Canada, for example, and the latest figures from Gallup, Poland in the US, they all show

00:36:46.620 that acceptance of people of other races is at its highest in history. And this is shown in the high levels of

00:36:55.100 acceptance for racially mixed marriages, the high level of acceptance for racially diverse neighbors,

00:37:00.860 all of them are at the highest they've ever been in the history of our countries. And there are many

00:37:06.460 other survey variables that are equally, equally pleasing. So we do have reason to celebrate. But to

00:37:16.460 conclude, I will forgive you if you don't rush to break open the champagne. Because the message that

00:37:22.540 things are pretty good is getting suppressed. And it's up to all of us to speak out loudly,

00:37:30.380 to make sure that the truth is heard. So thank you very much.

00:37:37.180 Well, David, thank you. I was sitting here writing notes and just really absorbing what you had to say.

00:37:44.540 It is quite a state that we're in in this country right now. You know, I was brought up,

00:37:50.380 you know, with my parents, I have one of my closest friends, he's Filipino, and I met him in grade six,

00:37:56.860 he was a year ahead, but there was a bit of a language barrier and never did, you know,

00:38:02.460 even in talking to him, you know, there's going to be some kids, you know, that might have made

00:38:06.300 comments growing up, but he was a close friend of my brother's and the relationship was good. And

00:38:11.740 I never would have considered racism being part of the scenarios in Canada, to the degree of what,

00:38:20.460 as you term you used have manufactured today. And, and it is so sinister, but people don't understand

00:38:28.700 that, you know, with this global agenda, with the agenda 2030, they want to the sustainable development

00:38:35.500 goals to remove all of our borders, to flood us with immigrants. And we've always been a very 0.90

00:38:41.660 compassionate and very generous country as far as allowing people to immigrate here from different

00:38:49.420 cultures. But the difference is that once upon a time, those people were expected to come in and

00:38:56.140 integrate and assimilate. And now they are no longer expected to do that. Canadians are being forced to

00:39:03.580 celebrate and, and, uh, foreign cultures. And, you know, these are failed foreign systems of beliefs 0.88

00:39:10.940 and cultures that they're now bringing into our country. And we're no longer going to be a beacon 1.00

00:39:15.500 of hope for people around the world anymore that are fleeing persecution. Right. And, and so to me,

00:39:22.940 this is one of the factors I look at is that if we were under the governance of a country that was

00:39:29.900 embracing as I opened on our Christian heritage and that like-minded, you know, people were coming here

00:39:38.060 and appreciating that, but, but that's no longer what's happening. It's becoming a pitting of developing

00:39:45.660 communities, uh, that are sort of living within themselves and, and to trying to, you know, communicate.

00:39:54.060 But there are of course, those who have immigrated here who are grateful. And the difference is

00:39:59.100 the integration and assimilation, the learning their language, the becoming westernized. And,

00:40:04.860 and so even those cultures, I have friends that are in the Indian culture and one of them was, uh,

00:40:10.780 a neighbor and she was walking by one day and she was getting pressure from the older people that are

00:40:16.300 now that the government is flooding Canada with that aren't willing to learn the language and then are

00:40:21.900 berating them for not maintaining the culture in Canada. And they said, we don't want to be part of

00:40:28.220 that culture. We came from that and we wanted to live in freedom. So what do you, what do you have to

00:40:34.700 say, you know, regarding, uh, the fact that Canada isn't expecting people to integrate and celebrate

00:40:43.020 Canadian culture and society anymore? Oh, that's an interesting topic. I mean, I, I sort of was more,

00:40:49.980 um, I guess I'd done my background research on critical race theory, but I'm happy to,

00:40:56.460 uh, opine just for a moment on the immigration issue. Um, I have a good colleague who's at the

00:41:02.860 University of London and his name is, uh, Eric Kaufman and Eric Kaufman has studied this issue,

00:41:08.380 uh, in, in, in, you know, extensively. And what he would say is that, um, in terms of immigration,

00:41:19.100 immigration works best when, when definitely the people who are coming to your country have a chance 1.00

00:41:25.820 to acclimatize to the culture. It actually makes them feel more welcome. And I think that the,

00:41:32.860 the argument from compassion could be that if we really did care about the people who are coming to

00:41:37.820 our countries, whether it's the United States or Canada, we want to bring them in at a level

00:41:42.220 where we can make sure that they're taken care of just like everyone else. And so when you get to a

00:41:47.900 point where your, your numbers exceed your ability to care for people, then you're going to get

00:41:54.700 enclaves where people don't, uh, want to become neighbors with one another. Uh, then you're going to

00:42:00.220 see the systems breakdown, whether it's, um, the availability of housing or the availability of

00:42:05.580 medical care. And in fact, we are beginning to see that even now. And that's where hostility arises.

00:42:12.620 And I would say that the majority of people in Canada, they, they really don't give two wits about

00:42:18.940 your skin color or anything like that. Uh, but what they do care about is to make sure that we all get

00:42:25.420 along. And so I think that, uh, government has an obligation to make sure that they have immigration

00:42:33.740 policies that certainly allow people to get along as best they can.

00:42:39.660 Right. And the reason I was bringing up immigration is because that is really what is fueling

00:42:46.620 the critical race theory. And so for the last couple of decades, they've been, uh, bringing

00:42:52.620 individuals into Canada, especially under Trudeau's rule with the open border at Roxham Road. I understand

00:42:58.780 they've closed it now. I'm not a hundred percent sure of that. And, um, of course these were people

00:43:03.260 coming from, uh, third world countries, America, you know, was their first safe stop. There was no 1.00

00:43:08.620 reason they needed to come in here. We know that, but it was done intentionally. And, and so they've

00:43:13.980 got, uh, I think it's six or eight pilot project, uh, pilot count, uh, towns across Canada. Like Vernon was a

00:43:22.700 small one here in BC that they were going to flood with immigrants, particularly, um, Islamic, uh, in

00:43:30.940 immigrants. And then, um, it, it was intended to disrupt and, and those reports are coming in.

00:43:38.300 And so what happens is, is then you've got individuals who aren't coming in and expecting

00:43:43.660 to integrate and assimilate. They pass an Islamophobia motion, which you mentioned. And then the Islamic 0.98

00:43:51.420 community, I'm not talking about the moderate Muslims. Please understand that I'm talking about

00:43:55.420 wherever the moderate Muslim, uh, moves to integrates to is the radicals have the time, 0.66

00:44:00.860 the money, and the power to come in and push their objective. They are a, they have a third of the UN

00:44:06.860 seats. Then they start pushing Islamophobia. Then they make, start making these demands. We want

00:44:13.180 prayer in schools. So they're taking over half of the lunchroom, setting up prayer mats and tents, 0.98

00:44:17.700 or, you know, uh, sheets or whatever blockades to give them these demands. And then, you know,

00:44:23.940 as far as the hijab is concerned. So it's starting to, uh, fester right within communities. And then

00:44:30.580 they start pushing critical race theory that because we would object to that, we're not allowed to have

00:44:36.100 Christian prayer in school, but now you're setting up prayer mats. Well, now you're a racist and we've got

00:44:41.700 to come against this white supremacy. And, and so that's what I'm referring to as a danger is that 0.99

00:44:48.420 Trudeau is now, uh, maximizing like a half a million, uh, immigrants to come in to Canada,

00:44:54.580 but they are coming in from these regions where throughout history, the West and these particular

00:45:01.780 individuals have never been able to integrate and live at peace together. There has to be a ruling.

00:45:08.420 There has to be a belief system in a country that's respected. And, and so that's where I'm

00:45:14.900 getting at. This is that I, this is a very intentional thing that is in line with the

00:45:20.020 sustainable development goals to dissolve our borders and then create this agitation in the

00:45:24.900 minds of our kids so that they will carry this on to into the next generation.

00:45:31.060 So, so I, I, I get where you're going with this. I, I'm going to tie it into the critical race 0.92

00:45:37.540 theory because I see how you're connecting it. There really is, uh, there is a problem

00:45:46.100 when, when a newcomer to Canada or anyone else, uh, when, when a person of color is convinced

00:45:52.900 that the, the white majority is out to get them, that is going to create problems, right? 0.69

00:45:59.780 And, and, and that's going to unravel your society, especially when it's not true.

00:46:05.860 I mean, if we look what's going on right now in Canada, the, the, the level of acceptance

00:46:12.820 among white Canadians for people of color is higher than it is for people of color, for white people,

00:46:19.780 even at this point, there's a 10% difference. In fact, uh, with, with white people being more

00:46:25.540 accepting. So as the media promotes this idea, as critical race theory promotes this idea that,

00:46:34.660 that there's this tension that really isn't there, that the perception can lead to a reality

00:46:42.820 of giving another example about where this perception leads to reality.

00:46:46.820 If we looked at what was going on in the mainstream newspapers in terms of their coverage of race

00:46:55.700 between 2014 and 2019, this is even before the George Floyd riots, riots, the coverage of racial

00:47:04.740 issues saying that there was racial tension increased at the New York times and, and the

00:47:11.220 Washington Post, the main newspapers, the leading newspapers in the United States by a thousand,

00:47:18.420 I'm sorry, a thousand and four thousand percent. Was it no, sorry, a 400 and a thousand percent

00:47:24.340 respectively. Now it's Zach Goldberg who did this study. My point here is that this increase in coverage

00:47:31.460 about racial tensions happened at a time when things were actually getting better in terms of racial

00:47:38.100 tensions. So it creates this perception that things are getting worse. So if you're someone

00:47:44.340 coming from a new immigrant coming to the country and you come in and at the moment you come in,

00:47:50.180 you're just grateful to be in that country, but you enter a school system that says you shouldn't be

00:47:55.700 grateful. You're not welcome here, which again goes against the reality of the situation. Well,

00:48:01.940 that does, that does create a very strong case of cognitive dissonance. And ultimately it could lead

00:48:08.340 to feelings of hostility that weren't there in the beginning.

00:48:14.260 No. And you know, when I'm, as you're, as you're speaking and I'm thinking about these things

00:48:18.260 and how the globalists have so been so clever about, uh, victimizing certain groups in order to

00:48:25.540 move their campaign forward. So people don't actually see what is going on. What is the purpose?

00:48:30.420 Why is the government victimizing individuals? Uh, I mean, Justin Trudeau is white last time I looked 0.56

00:48:36.660 and, and so what's going to happen to his white privilege. Like you talk about white privilege,

00:48:41.780 Justin Trudeau has had white privilege. He's had all the money in the world. And, uh, you know,

00:48:47.220 when they talk about white privilege, as far as my family's concerned, my mom's from the Netherlands

00:48:51.540 and my dad is from England and their houses were blown up. They didn't have the food. My

00:48:56.580 mom lost her teeth from lack of nutrition and diet. Uh, there was abuse. It was just horrific.

00:49:02.020 Uh, so she and her four brothers and my grandmother came to Canada. Uh, you can, in my hallway, there's

00:49:07.620 pictures of my dad in this little sweater as a little boy and it's all tattered. And you know,

00:49:11.860 the same with my mom. But when they got here, they were those immigrants that were so grateful. They were

00:49:17.700 learning English before they came to Canada and they were determined. They were committed to not speak

00:49:23.780 Dutch while out in public. And I said, why, why did you do that, mom? She says, 0.99

00:49:27.620 out of respect for Canadians, we were so grateful to be here. They never received a penny from the

00:49:33.060 government. You know, my dad had a grade six education. He ended up getting his grade 12.

00:49:37.700 He ended up getting becoming an electrical and electrician and then ended up having his own company

00:49:43.380 and nothing was handed, you know, to my family. And, and so then you're, they're talking about,

00:49:49.620 you know, they were the ones that helped build this country. And now we're being told that,

00:49:54.660 you know, we're racist and white supremacist. And, and that's why I, with Wilbur, uh, William Wilberforce,

00:50:00.340 I mean, this was a Christian man who fought against slavery, slavery. And in those Christian 0.92

00:50:08.420 communities, those are the ones that are doing the greatest good in community.

00:50:12.660 And you've got the Filipino Christians, et cetera, that are all part of the society. Now,

00:50:17.940 uh, there was a fellow Ian in the chat who was a bit trying to chastise me again,

00:50:23.060 a bit for mentioning 56 Islamic majority countries. And I've provided a link in the chat to show that,

00:50:30.260 uh, the persecution of Christians in the majority of those nations, we're talking about being burned 0.97

00:50:35.460 alive and beheading and raped. And, um, you know, it's very, very serious, but the UN refuses to say 0.90

00:50:41.540 anything about it. So why isn't Justin Trudeau committed to bringing the Christians into this,

00:50:47.860 into Canada from those nations where we would at least be like-minded, get them out of murderous

00:50:54.020 and desperate situations. And those people would appreciate coming to this country and living in

00:51:00.340 freedom. And, and it's, so it's just really shocking to me. And, and like I say, we don't care

00:51:05.620 about the color of anybody's skin. We care about the condition of the heart and the mind. And I

00:51:10.420 think that it isn't intolerant to expect that people come to Canada, they integrate and assimilate

00:51:16.420 and embrace our culture. Otherwise, why are you, why are you here? And, and, um, anyways, it's,

00:51:22.580 it's a, it's tough. Sorry, go ahead.

00:51:24.260 Well, no, you, you, you made me think about Justin Trudeau for a second and you talked about his white

00:51:29.620 privilege. Uh, well, definitely he had privilege. He was born to a family that had millions and even

00:51:36.980 now he has millions, but I want to just, I want to just talk about that notion itself. So I've,

00:51:44.200 I've made the claim that white privilege is being taught. And then I said that when it is taught,

00:51:49.540 that it does harm, it actually makes students who learn about white privilege, it doesn't make them

00:51:55.160 feel more sympathy toward people of color. Uh, but it does make them more hostile toward poor white 0.66

00:52:02.060 people. So it, it does harm that way. But let's just talk about that generally. When, whenever they

00:52:07.820 teach about white privilege, uh, they always forget, I I'm using quotes here. They always forget

00:52:15.020 to mention the success of East Asian Canadians, for example, um, or Canadians from East Asian

00:52:24.540 ancestry, because in Canada, and this is the most current stats, Canada figures here, people of East

00:52:33.200 Asian ancestry, uh, in Canada have the highest educational attainment. They have the highest incomes,

00:52:40.960 uh, per family, far more, not far more, sorry, but more than the average white person in the United

00:52:48.700 States. Um, Americans of Asian ancestry have the highest income and the highest educational

00:52:56.840 attainment. In fact, Asian women in the United States now make more on average than white men.

00:53:04.860 So the reason I put that out there is this notion of white privilege suggests that people with white

00:53:10.780 skin will be able to, or, or have more success because of their white skin. And that's simply

00:53:17.180 not true. That that's simply not something that's backed up by the evidence. And I'll give you a really

00:53:22.880 good example for your audience as well, because I I'm someone who sticks close to the data and here's

00:53:29.320 some, some great research in March of 2021. There was a report that came out from the United

00:53:36.900 Kingdom. It was the UK commission on race and ethnic disparities, the UK commission on race and ethnic

00:53:45.760 disparities, March, 2021. And the reason that this is such a profound study is they wanted to see to

00:53:52.520 what extent does your race impact whether or not you move ahead educationally or you move ahead in

00:54:01.500 a career. So they brought together all of these esteemed scholars from the UK and, and they looked at, uh,

00:54:11.100 at the evidence and what they found was the evidence showed that geography, family structure,

00:54:19.240 uh, culture and religion, all those things had far more significant impact on life chances than the

00:54:28.800 existence of racism. So I put that out there. Uh, and this wasn't the only study that found this

00:54:36.080 Roland Fryer at Harvard, who's a black scholar. He found the identical, uh, the identical findings. He

00:54:44.280 found that in fact, it isn't race and the color of your skin that holds you back very often. It's,

00:54:50.780 it's home life and habits. If we want to talk about privilege, one of the greatest privileges that

00:54:57.220 anybody can have is a mom and a dad in their home. Two parent privilege is really the key to success.

00:55:04.220 If you've got a mom and a dad who, uh, who love you and are in your home and, and they, uh, nurture you,

00:55:11.540 that is key to success. And in fact, you can correlate the success of, for example, Asian Canadians,

00:55:19.700 uh, to their two parent families. They have the highest level of two parent families. They also have

00:55:25.960 the highest levels of educational attainment and income. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I can see that where the

00:55:33.780 focus should be rather than where it is. And with the Asian, uh, you know, community, we know, 1.00

00:55:38.940 you know, that they're raising brilliant future leaders and in, in Canada, you know, they're teaching

00:55:45.700 kids not to know what, you know, if they're born in the right body, in the right gender. And it's just

00:55:51.360 so diabolical. Um, David, what I'd like to do is there's a few questions that have come in. I'd like

00:55:56.500 to, uh, maybe go through those as quickly as we can. Uh, Betsy has, okay, super. Uh, Betsy has asked,

00:56:04.080 what is your advice? And I really like this question. Good question, Betsy. What is your

00:56:07.960 advice on dealing with anti-racist and anti-racist bias, social, emotional learning programs in schools?

00:56:14.020 Is this a big problem in Canada as is in the U S? Well, it's, it's a huge problem in Canada. Um,

00:56:24.240 in the U S they do, as I've mentioned already at last count, 35 States had outlawed the teaching

00:56:30.760 of critical race theory in Canada. We're fighting a rear guard action. My advice, if, if Betsy has, uh, 0.82

00:56:41.120 kids in school at this point, I would advise not sending them to public school. Um, that's the

00:56:49.800 safest answer at this point. Um, one teacher could, could ruin your child. We, we have a case for

00:56:57.680 example. And, and again, I like to just stick with the reality of things. Um, we had a teacher in the

00:57:05.240 Ottawa Carlton board who told her class of six-year-olds that boys and girls do not exist in

00:57:12.660 reality. And, and she taught this to these children and the children, especially one of them

00:57:22.200 was extremely traumatized by this. Uh, this young girl, six-year-old went home and said to her parents,

00:57:28.500 is it true that, that I might not be a girl? I mean, how do I know the teacher says it's how I

00:57:35.560 feel? What if I, now I'm, I'm exaggerating here or a paraphrasing, you know, what if I like baseball?

00:57:40.920 Maybe I'm not a girl. Well, the parents, um, they said to the teacher, stop it. The teacher said, no,

00:57:45.700 they went to the principal. They said, will you please stop this kind of teaching? The principal

00:57:49.500 said, no, they went to the superintendent. The superintendent say, no, they finally went to

00:57:53.140 the human rights commission. The human rights commission said, you don't have any rights.

00:57:58.500 So, so knowing that this can happen and that parents have no recourse any longer,

00:58:05.020 uh, and in terms of racism, uh, racial education in my own board, the Waterloo board of education,

00:58:12.380 public board, we had a trustee who is conservative leaning and she, she was getting complaints from

00:58:21.420 parents and the parents were saying to her, listen, my, my son is, is a young man and he's white and he's

00:58:28.280 being told that he is an oppressor. Can you check this out? Can you find out what is being taught to

00:58:34.780 our kids about this critical race theory stuff, this anti-racism education? Well, this trustee,

00:58:41.080 and again, she's one of the few trustees who are conservative leaning. She brought a motion before

00:58:46.000 the board and it was very innocent. She just said, I'd like to know what is being taught to our students

00:58:53.800 about critical race theory and anti-racism education. What's actually being taught?

00:58:59.420 Well, the other trustees with, with the support of the director of education voted it down.

00:59:07.420 They would not allow parents in the Waterloo region public school board to know what was being taught

00:59:14.400 about critical race theory and anti-racism education. In fact, they vilified the trustee who

00:59:21.400 brought forward the motion. They suggested that she had done harm. They implied that she herself was a

00:59:28.820 racist. So we look at these examples and there are so many, but we look at these examples and we have

00:59:36.320 to, we have to admit the public school system is lost, at least in Ontario. And I think in BC and I think

00:59:44.040 elsewhere, and certainly our politicians are not doing anything, uh, or, or, or the things they do

00:59:51.460 are so minuscule. It's like putting a bandaid on a sucking flesh wound or sucking chest wound.

00:59:57.600 So my advice would be, uh, until there is a complete overhaul, I don't think public schools are safe for

01:00:05.400 kids. No. And it's wonderful. There's so many new people on the call. So I just want to make sure

01:00:10.900 if they're not aware when I showed all those chapters across Canada, one of our campaigns

01:00:15.220 is going exactly after you were talking about in, uh, the West, it's called SOGI one, two, three,

01:00:21.440 sexual orientation, gender identity in Ontario. It's called the wind sex ed. And we have notices

01:00:27.320 of liability that we've created and we're serving every single school board, uh, throughout the

01:00:32.780 country. And we're having a major impact now because there's enough pushback. Parents are,

01:00:39.520 we're, we're, we're really motivating parents to go into the school board meetings and call out

01:00:44.280 these books. And so because we're making such good progress with that, our goal is that because all

01:00:50.100 of this is a Marxist agenda that includes the sexual orientation, which at the UN level is called

01:00:55.660 the comprehensive sexuality education to sexualize children at the earliest age possible. That's the 0.96

01:01:02.160 goal through all of this, which we see it happening to confuse them world population control, et cetera.

01:01:07.060 But then there is the, uh, uh, climate propaganda and the critical race theory. All of these Marxist

01:01:15.720 agendas are working together to, uh, confuse children, get the hearts and the minds of theirs

01:01:21.300 so that they can change the trajectory for the future of Canada. We are pushing very, very hard

01:01:27.900 against the sexual orientation. We are gaining, uh, ground and we're taking back ground. I say that 0.99

01:01:33.680 the enemy is stolen. And with that, we believe that the rest of this Mark Marxist agenda is going to

01:01:38.920 come crashing down. And that is the reason why we're encouraging as many people as possible to get

01:01:44.100 their kids out of the education system for all three of these reasons and more. And then we have a,

01:01:50.200 um, homeschooling, uh, coordinator Doris. Uh, we're working with churches and we've got, uh, vetted

01:01:57.340 homeschooling organizations across the nation, which is all on our website. And so we're helping

01:02:02.820 people pull their kids out. And then as well, while we're doing this frontline battle in the

01:02:08.220 schools. And, and so I believe that is the way the, um, uh, seats, you know, bums in the seats in

01:02:15.840 the schools, uh, uh, register registrations are starting to drop. There's a 3% decline last year in

01:02:23.140 one of the Catholic schools in Ontario. It's $14,000 that a school receives for a child's bum

01:02:31.000 to sit in one of those seats, $60,000 for a child with disabilities. So if parents pull their children

01:02:37.860 out of a school, that principal doesn't get funding. So you want to take us on us as parents

01:02:43.660 as the majority, go ahead, but we're going to do everything we can to fight on behalf of our kids.

01:02:49.120 And this is one of the best solutions that we're coming up with at this point. We have parent

01:02:54.600 webinars every second Tuesday. We just had an amazing one yesterday and, uh, you know, trying

01:03:00.240 to facilitate and educate everybody. So, um, anyways on that, let me ask you a couple of questions and

01:03:06.080 then we'll bring this program to a close. All right. Somebody has asked, um, what would be the

01:03:11.940 response to the argument that the Gallup poll showing the highest acceptance rate of other races

01:03:18.480 being highest in history could be due to the current progressive DEI and anti-racist approaches?

01:03:26.820 I haven't seen the poll, but I understand the question. I just can't imagine that poll is honest.

01:03:32.260 Yeah. So they're referring to, um, the Gallup poll that, uh, now shows that, uh, acceptance of

01:03:40.700 interracial marriage is at its highest in the United States. And, and the second part of the

01:03:47.560 question was they're wondering, is that because of some kind of progressive agenda? Was that what

01:03:54.680 they were saying? I kind of missed that Tanya. Is that, do I get that right?

01:03:57.700 Yeah. So it said there was apparently a Gallup poll showing the highest acceptance rate of other

01:04:04.740 races being highest in history. Could it be due to the current progressive DEI? Yeah. So it's the

01:04:10.660 highest acceptance and they're saying it's due to DEI, uh, and the anti-racist approaches. They're

01:04:16.400 giving credit to that. Yeah. Well, then I would say what we have to do is we look at the trajectory

01:04:21.340 and, and before 2014 and 2014 is often used as a marker of where the DEI explosion happened.

01:04:31.120 The trend was already there. The trend was already, uh, moving exactly in that direction.

01:04:38.100 And now, and so just to pour water, cold water on that idea that DEI is helping for the first time,

01:04:45.560 we're actually beginning to see in the last three years, an increase in hate crimes related to race

01:04:53.020 from 2014. We were seeing it down, down, down, down, down. And now as race has become the focal point

01:05:01.720 of almost every class piece of classroom instruction, we are now seeing that racial tensions are at least

01:05:09.700 in terms of hate crimes beginning to have an uptick. And I think that that is what you see because of DEI

01:05:17.960 initiatives. Right. And you had mentioned that in your presentation that it, uh, it was proven to fail,

01:05:24.840 right? That there was, uh, scientifically. Yeah. Yeah. DEI doesn't make you, doesn't make you less

01:05:31.060 racist. What was making people less racist was, um, the ideas that had come through the civil rights

01:05:37.840 movement and Dr. Martin Luther King. And people were beginning to accept that let's treat all people

01:05:43.220 equally. And, and here's, here's what works. So again, I'm a researcher. So let me talk about the

01:05:50.180 research. Here's what we know works from a sociological perspective. And it, this is a work

01:05:57.840 that was done by a Princeton sociologist and political scientist. And his name is Russell Neely.

01:06:02.320 Now, Russell Neely, he, he looked at why societies thrive when they are diverse. How does a diverse

01:06:11.200 society thrive? So he looked at the historical data. He looked at the economic data. He looked

01:06:16.840 at the sociological data and he boiled it all down. And he came, came up with this. He said,

01:06:21.280 it's the reciprocity norm. He says, the reason that the West in particular has gone as far as it has in

01:06:28.340 terms of its successes is it has embraced the reciprocity norm. And the reciprocity norm is

01:06:33.600 this idea that I will not show favor to my tribe. If you don't show favor to your tribe. And instead,

01:06:40.900 we're going to let merit and competency decide who benefits. Now there was a lot of fits and starts

01:06:47.880 and stops, and there was prejudice, but, but ultimately we kept moving toward this notion of,

01:06:53.580 well, I'm not going to advance my tribe if you don't advance yours. And in the West,

01:06:58.440 we did that really well. And we began to say, let's just judge people by the content of their

01:07:02.600 character, not the color of their skin, which I know gets overused again and again, but a fancy

01:07:07.040 way to say that is embrace the reciprocity norm. Well, what Russell Neely found was when you start

01:07:13.960 inserting things like affirmative action, diversity, equity, and inclusion ideas,

01:07:20.000 all these, they call it positive discrimination, whatever you want to call it. Suddenly you begin

01:07:27.260 to see an unraveling of society. And so that's what happens. That's, that's the explanation.

01:07:34.420 Do you know, Jim, a knows president of the Hamilton Wentworth family action council. And he's also the

01:07:41.360 Christian heritage party leader in Ontario. And there was an article in the, in the newspaper,

01:07:47.720 the local newspaper that said equity is missing from education announcements. And, uh, the individual,

01:07:54.220 it's Mr. Chica. So he goes in this piece, he states that back to basics rhetoric sounds like

01:07:59.980 dialing back the clock 30 years and expresses his concern that what is missing is any mention of

01:08:05.440 equity dialing black back the clock 60 years to when students learned cursive writing respect for

01:08:11.100 authority and were only given the score they earned would even be better in my thinking. This is Jim,

01:08:16.860 uh, responding to this nonsense in the article. The real meaning of equity is fairness where people

01:08:24.040 receive only that which they earn rather than a socialist concept, which aims for equal outcome

01:08:29.280 regardless of effort. And then he gives this example in a soccer game run by a socialist referee.

01:08:35.040 Every time team a scored in team B's net, the referee would take the ball and kick it into team A's net

01:08:40.940 to even the score. The result of this was that team B learned that they need not play the game.

01:08:46.840 Instead, they could just play the victim. Team A learned that there was no point in trying when

01:08:51.700 winning and abled team B to label themselves as oppressor. Nobody won. Everybody lost. How is this fair? 0.96

01:08:59.220 How is this equitable? And I just, I just thought it was a really good, I like a good example of while

01:09:07.580 when you're talking about this equity and you're not, uh, uh, you know, expecting that, that people

01:09:13.940 come to the table and be, you know, willing to put forth their gifts and talents. Everybody needs to work

01:09:20.740 for what it is they gain in life. There shouldn't be this free pass. There shouldn't be the victimization.

01:09:25.880 And I've always said, when do people really achieve their ultimate when they're being

01:09:32.200 victimized? And so we just need to knock all this off and not go along with the government corruption.

01:09:37.800 Tanya, you're thinking about, you're thinking as a sociologist right now, there's really good data

01:09:42.160 that's come out of the United States that shows that, for example, immigrants who believe, and again,

01:09:48.220 who believe that the, the system is fair and that they can be successful actually are successful.

01:09:55.220 And, and so it's very important. Uh, now mind you, part of that has to be that the system does have

01:10:02.520 to be fair. I mean, you have to be able to do it. And I think for the most part, we know that our laws

01:10:07.280 are fair now. Um, but, but that perception is really important before we go Tanya, there were two things

01:10:12.880 that I did want to quickly mention. One thing that I wanted to mention, I said, you know, that I don't

01:10:18.000 think that for most people, the public school system is good for their kids, but at the same time,

01:10:23.560 there are a lot of people who have their kids in public schools and I don't want us to abandon

01:10:28.040 them. Um, I think that it's more important now that we do stand up for those kids that are in

01:10:34.700 the public schools. They're, they're vulnerable, they're defenseless and adults need to be doing

01:10:39.540 something to protect them. And that means that we actually do have to stand up and we have to with

01:10:46.000 our feet, we have to stand outside of these school boards. We really do. We have to be in the

01:10:52.060 trustee meetings. We really do. Uh, the, the, the world is run by the people who show up and sad to

01:10:58.560 say, most of us have not been showing up and it's time, especially for the, for our kids sake. The

01:11:04.040 next thing that I'll say in the last thing that I'll say is that we need to look for political

01:11:07.800 solutions. And I think that, um, in Canada, um, each province is different. So I'm just going to talk

01:11:15.320 about Ontario in Ontario right now, our progressive conservative government under Doug Ford has been

01:11:21.400 just an abysmal failure when it comes to protecting kids. And so people have to begin to look to see

01:11:28.240 if there's an alternative party that really will make a difference. Now I know we always talk about

01:11:33.460 vote splitting and things like that, but we need to get behind somebody who's willing to make a

01:11:39.660 difference. Um, I've looked at the different political parties. Uh, the Ontario party, for

01:11:44.720 example, has a platform for K to 12 that would remove all critical race theory completely. So I

01:11:52.480 would suggest that people look for those parties that they might be, they might be on the outside.

01:11:57.160 They might not be the elite parties, but we have to start working toward a political solution as

01:12:02.260 well. So that's really the last thought from me. Thank you. Uh, cause, because I was going to ask

01:12:08.040 you, did you have any final words in closing and, and on that, David, I really want to encourage

01:12:12.320 people to join. We've got something like 30 chapters in Ontario, and this is part of our

01:12:17.920 campaign. We're asking people to show up at every single municipal meeting. We're asking them to show

01:12:24.180 up at every school board trustee meeting until we get the results. Uh, because as we say, as we're

01:12:30.660 encouraging people to make this mass exodus out of the education system, that includes private and

01:12:36.480 public schools because the private schools have been infiltrated as well. As that mass exodus is

01:12:42.580 happening, we've got single moms, we've got low income families, we've got these kids, these most

01:12:47.440 vulnerable kids that are still in these education systems. And so that's why our chapters, um, are

01:12:53.760 creating, uh, parent groups and making sure that they're committed at, to be at every single meeting

01:12:59.500 and to apply all of the, uh, pressures to, uh, express the liability that these school board

01:13:06.260 trustees are putting themselves in because they, as an individual, not trustee Susie Smith, but as a

01:13:12.640 citizen of Canada, if you are putting children in harm's way, you could be held criminally liable.

01:13:19.000 And, and these school board trustees need to understand that. And as this begins to unfold

01:13:24.160 and potential legal actions happen, uh, we, we've just got a young boy in, uh, eight years old in

01:13:30.960 Durham district. And, uh, he came home last week saying that he's no longer a boy, he's a girl because

01:13:36.480 of what they've taught him in the class. Um, I've got, uh, documentation that I was pouring through

01:13:41.620 today, criminal code offenses, visiting with the RCP, et cetera, to make sure that we get to the bottom

01:13:47.380 to prove I've got evidence to prove that they are indoctrinating our children. And, and it is just

01:13:53.660 so radical and that these school board, they're supposed to be the protection front to our

01:13:59.960 children. And they, they do have the ability and the power to do that. But since they're not acting

01:14:05.660 quickly, then we need to get involved. And several of our chapter leaders get so well informed being

01:14:11.620 part of action for Canada that they are ready to run for office. And several of our people stepped

01:14:16.960 away at the last election and actually got elected as school board trustees. And that's what we're

01:14:23.080 developing. That's the future goal. And, and I think it's an awesome campaign. So I just want to

01:14:28.540 thank you again from the bottom of my heart for coming tonight and spending time with us and, uh,

01:14:33.180 sharing of your, uh, wisdom on this topic. And we're going to make sure that we get this out far

01:14:38.860 and wide so that, uh, people are more well-educated on what's behind it. Well, thanks very much. I really

01:14:44.940 appreciate it and, uh, keep up your good work. Thank you. You too. We very much, uh, are grateful

01:14:50.740 for you using your voice and, uh, and informing others. Thank you again.

01:14:56.200 My pleasure.

01:14:57.700 All right. Wow. That was incredible. I've been really looking forward, uh, to Dr. Haskell coming

01:15:03.060 on the show and talking about this really important issue. Uh, so many people have been silenced out of

01:15:08.940 fear of, uh, you know, being called racist or being called intolerant. And, and yet, uh, you know what,

01:15:15.360 that's part of the master plan. Uh, we have a reason there is a, there is a limit to tolerance

01:15:20.460 and especially when it's coming in and harming our children at the rate that it is.

01:15:24.820 Okay. Um, Terenzio, could we bring up, uh, the image for next week? We have, uh, I'm very, very,

01:15:31.380 uh, much looking forward to this as well. Pastor Matthew Tuella will be our guest next week.

01:15:36.580 And he wrote the book. You've heard me talk about it often, the doctrine of the lesser magistrate.

01:15:41.700 It is, uh, the doctrine of the lesser magistrate is back from the 1500s. He's going to give us

01:15:46.600 some history and it is, uh, it, it, it just really provides the message that when there

01:15:53.860 is a corrupt government, a tyrannical government passing laws that are causing harm, that are

01:15:59.820 in violation of God's law, that the, uh, magistrate, which are, are, uh, RCMP elected officials,

01:16:07.620 pastors, they must put God's law against a, uh, a head of corrupt law and that they must

01:16:14.960 act on behalf of the people. I think you're going to find that this show very, very interesting.

01:16:20.060 Um, I've been reading through this book and every time I'm, I'm reading through it, I want

01:16:23.460 to get on the empower hour and just start reading to all of you. So I highly recommend that you

01:16:27.440 order the book, the doctrine of the lesser magistrate by pastor Matthew Turella. And then, uh,

01:16:33.760 Terenzio, will we go to the Bible verse please?

01:16:37.620 All right. Isaiah 61, one, the spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has

01:16:44.000 anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

01:16:49.680 to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. And of course,

01:16:55.420 what Isaiah is talking about when he talks about freedom for the captives is for those who don't

01:17:00.900 know the Lord Jesus as their personal Lord and savior that are, are walking in, in, I don't know how

01:17:06.100 people, uh, you know, exist without God in their life because, uh, you know, I'm, I'm walking

01:17:11.800 through this time of darkness, but I don't have fear. Uh, I have a heavy heart. I have a heavy heart

01:17:17.860 for those who are being persecuted in our very own country. I have a heavy heart over, you know,

01:17:23.500 the fact that we've allowed such ungodly tyrannical leaders to get into office. I have a heavy heart

01:17:30.920 for, for, for people in this nation. And, but the one hope that we have is in Jesus Christ. So I just

01:17:36.940 want to encourage you, um, that this is where our freedom comes from on, on more levels than you can

01:17:42.440 even imagine. So if, uh, I also want to announce that we have a prayer available. Uh, Sheila will put

01:17:50.760 the, uh, prayer email link into the chat. We'll make sure that's in the description of this, uh, video as

01:17:57.080 well. If you're in need of prayer, please reach out. Or if you want to make a decision and the

01:18:02.120 Lord's been, you know, touching your heart and you say, I want to know more about accepting Jesus

01:18:06.900 into my heart, then I want you to reach out to us as well. So thanks so much for joining us tonight.

01:18:11.720 We look forward to seeing you next week. God bless you. And God bless Canada.

01:18:15.700 That's what I got to say. Look at this crowd. I'm going to thank God and God alone for the ground

01:18:33.840 that I'm standing on. I'm going to thank our founding fathers for giving their lives and sacrificing

01:18:45.860 so much for our freedom. And I'm calling on you today. Don't put them to shame. Don't waste

01:18:57.220 what they did. We have guaranteed rights in this country.

01:19:09.220 We're putting chapters across the nation. We are going to be in every town and every city.

01:19:16.420 And we are going to build communities within these communities of like-minded people who are

01:19:21.540 actually going to care for one another again and love on each other and give each other the

01:19:26.180 help when they're down. We are going to use the teams and the people that build within chapters

01:19:32.900 to support our businesses. The government's actions are completely 100% unlawful. Judgment

01:19:42.900 will again be found on justice and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it. You have a virtuous

01:19:51.960 heart if you are here today pursuing freedom and righteousness. And then verse 23 comes along

01:20:00.680 with a promise. God says he will turn the sins of evil people back on them. He will destroy

01:20:10.040 them for their sins. I take great comfort in that because I serve a mighty living God who has allowed 0.80

01:20:20.760 us to go through this season of discomfort because we as a nation have turned our backs on him and we

01:20:30.760 get right. So I am just going to thank you so much. I'm going to say God bless you and God bless Canada.

01:20:49.480 Thank you very much.

01:21:15.640 Thank you.

01:21:45.640 Thank you.

01:22:15.640 Thank you.

Action4Canada - April 27, 2023

Critical Race Theory (CRT) With David Haskell

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