Action4Canada - Empower Hour with Tanya Gaw & Derek Sloan Oct-20-2021

00:00:00.000 To those of you who have just joined us, I want to welcome you.

00:00:07.540 It's Wednesday, October 20th, 2021.

00:00:11.140 My name is Heather Fournier and on behalf of everyone here at Action for Canada, I'd

00:00:15.720 like to welcome you to the Empower Hour.

00:00:20.540 Action for Canada is a grassroots movement reaching out to millions of Canadians and

00:00:25.720 uniting our voices in opposition to the destructive policies tearing at the fabric of our nation.

00:00:32.420 Through call to action campaigns, we equip citizens to take action.

00:00:37.000 We are committed to protecting faith, family and freedom.

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00:01:30.000 For those of you who are new to the Empower Hour, it's my very great pleasure to introduce

00:01:34.880 you to Tanya Gaw, the founder of Action for Canada.

00:01:39.020 For the past several years, Tanya has been working to expose destructive government policies

00:01:45.320 that affect all Canadians.

00:01:47.460 She's a champion of those who have been oppressed by the unlawful COVID-19 lockdown measures that

00:01:53.420 commenced in our nation last year.

00:01:56.000 Tanya is a woman of courage and faith, and she has a true servant's heart as she works tirelessly

00:02:03.200 to inform and empower fellow Canadians to stand up for our rights and freedoms.

00:02:09.000 Welcome, Tanya.

00:02:11.000 Oh, good.

00:02:17.900 All right.

00:02:18.900 Well, thank you, everyone.

00:02:20.240 Oh, I see that Derek is on as well.

00:02:24.020 Welcome, Derek.

00:02:25.020 I just have a few things to run over.

00:02:27.680 I look to be pausing on my end is is this rolling?

00:02:31.100 Okay, sir.

00:02:32.000 Tarenzio.

00:02:33.000 yeah all gold all good okay i've got a little bit of a pause on this end that's all right so

00:02:40.860 i'm just going to uh give us some updates and then i look forward to time with uh mr derrick

00:02:47.800 sloan um so i'm just gonna start the hour off with uh last week's empower hour we had over 1200

00:02:55.500 people attend and um we had david lindsey on along with our uh the lead of our business uh team

00:03:02.380 lonnie and i i just wanted to let you know that that empower hour has been posted to our empower

00:03:10.240 our page and in this description i have uh provided all of the resources that uh we had discussed

00:03:18.640 during that um during that uh meeting and i've also made a final statement near the end that i

00:03:28.260 have that somebody had requested they say what happens if you know we've done everything we can

00:03:34.640 we provided the notice of liability we've covered all of these issues throughout the video and we

00:03:40.140 spoke somewhat uh well really into detail about it and and uh so for the wording that you may need

00:03:47.220 in holding your employer or your whomever it could be a teacher an educator a school superintendent

00:03:55.980 fully accountable you need to let them know that this is personal we are not going after them as the

00:04:03.020 superintendent of xyz school district we're going after them as a citizen and so if there's any loss

00:04:11.440 of income um any harm that uh you know is uh as a result of their actions then we're going to go full

00:04:19.940 force uh because all of us every single citizen can't in citizen in canada must comply with the rule

00:04:26.760 of law and abide by the constitution and respect people's human rights and that is the virus right

00:04:33.880 now going on in canada because people are torn uh because of the misinformation coming from the

00:04:39.960 government and the media and their unions so i just want to say we're having absolutely uh great results

00:04:48.720 uh from the process that we are providing you um i did go to the rally on saturday for one of the

00:04:56.940 business owners and my heart was full because of the amount of people that showed up not only in

00:05:02.820 support of the business owner but in support of action for canada uh so much gratefulness so many

00:05:08.620 stories of success in using the notices of liability uh there was business owners there

00:05:14.500 was parents and and this is what we want to hear more of and for those of you who said i've used the

00:05:20.960 notice of liability it's just not working i can't get the masks off my kids well then we have those next

00:05:26.840 steps but but you got to get into the information that we're providing you and you got to take the time

00:05:32.460 to research and you've got to take the time to learn and we're providing you all those resources we

00:05:37.460 can't hold your hand all the way through it uh so i look forward to more more great reports and we're

00:05:43.800 actually going to be posting those uh good reports on the website to encourage all of you to let you

00:05:49.460 know that this is that is this is working and we're having an impact and that could not be more evident

00:05:55.240 than by what is going on in bc so uh we filed the statement of claim in august on august 16th

00:06:03.460 the uh one of the defendants named is our minister of education and in bc right now uh of course with

00:06:11.540 the federal instructions to mandate federal employees all of the teachers who is uh you know

00:06:18.060 that's oversight by the province we're very very concerned like we're going to be next uh you know

00:06:23.680 when are they going to mandate the uh vaccines for us well because i believe because the minister of

00:06:30.260 education is named as a defendant she understands or at least she's beginning to understand uh the

00:06:36.400 liability that she's facing and so she instead has put it on the school board trustees on the school

00:06:43.260 boards to mandate that the teachers get vaccinated but we served all 60 school board superintendents

00:06:51.180 months ago to let them know that they'd be held liable for any of the harms that would result from

00:06:56.920 their actions and and so the school board trustees association actually sent them a letter misinformed

00:07:04.020 them say they're saying they were protected under the school act and as we dissected that last week

00:07:10.260 and i've provided that information you can see that they neglected to uh follow through with the

00:07:15.900 sections uh the subsections two and four in that particular act which said you know that uh subsection

00:07:23.340 one said you know what you don't have to worry about liability you're all immune from it no problem

00:07:28.920 just carry on with the directives of the health order but section two and four told a different story

00:07:34.060 and for that reason we ended up doing a call to action uh campaign which has been incredibly

00:07:41.640 successful we're hitting every single school board trustee in bc and we're having reports not only from

00:07:49.080 school board trustees but from teachers saying we want to get served because we don't want any part

00:07:55.320 of this and then the media ones that are not particularly friendly to us have honestly reported

00:08:02.080 uh results from school boards um who have had the meetings as to whether or not they were going to

00:08:07.820 decide to mandate uh vaccines for teachers and they are they are irate with our health officer in bc

00:08:15.460 they said this is not the position of school boards to make these decisions and they follow through with

00:08:21.540 the final statement that they are actually concerned about liability and this is what we've been saying

00:08:27.620 right we've got a shift from the the fear of the government and what would happen to us personally if

00:08:34.100 we don't follow through with their orders to the reality of they need a greater fear and nobody wants to be

00:08:41.540 dragged into court because there's such great uncertainty as to how that's going to go for an

00:08:47.380 individual and and so not only are we empowering people that were serving the notice of liability to

00:08:53.720 say i am not going to support these unlawful orders but we're also applying the right pressure to say

00:09:00.540 you need to weigh your decisions very carefully right now and and this was an incredibly necessary shift

00:09:07.840 now our business owner lonnie came on and lonnie has very effectively been following the process that

00:09:16.340 action for canada has has been providing to business owners to educators to teachers whomever and

00:09:24.120 and so ronnie has sorry lonnie has gone in he has had conversations with his city council he has met with

00:09:32.060 his local police he has put a no trespass order up uh outside of his building and when the environmental

00:09:39.080 health officer came to try and she came to uh attempt to interfere with his business he served her notice of 1.00

00:09:46.500 liability she again turned around and said uh came back and said nope i'm protected under the health act

00:09:54.340 um i'm immune from any liability and so we're going to proceed i'm going to come in to your place of

00:10:00.560 business uh and i'm going to be talking you know we've had many many customers of yours that have been

00:10:06.560 complaining which i think is a total and outright lie i think that he should request that information

00:10:12.620 um i think they knew in advance who lonnie is and that he was not going to comply with unlawful

00:10:18.700 orders and so therefore they wanted to get him real fast when bonnie henry put in this fake vaccine 1.00

00:10:25.220 passport mandate and so um he came back and told her he educated her he went into the health act

00:10:31.940 and he as well showed her the sections that proved that she was not immune from liability and so she

00:10:38.920 changed her tune real quick and uh decided to have a very brief meeting with him in a park in the parking

00:10:45.420 lot and left so lonnie's business is successfully maintains he's continued he's up and running and

00:10:52.620 um this did did not bode well now on another situation there's a restaurant in hope you may know hope bc

00:11:00.720 that's where rambo was filmed so so they're a little bit famous for that they're a quaint small town with a

00:11:07.520 small community and uh raleigh raleigh's uh the owners decided that they could not comply with

00:11:15.500 orders that were going to violate the rights of privacy for their customers and and so they drew the

00:11:22.840 line they were trying their best to go along with whatever other orders bonnie henry had put in place 0.67

00:11:28.280 and uh so when it came to this they drew the line and they decided that they were not going to be

00:11:33.640 asking for vaccine personal information so we went out there on saturday and rallied hundreds of people

00:11:40.220 showed up in support the place was full everybody was having a meal and it was lovely it was a lovely

00:11:47.320 peaceful uh um gathering of canadians who are concerned not only for this restaurant owner but for

00:11:54.840 themselves there was professionals business owners there were teachers there were nurses and so uh what

00:12:02.620 transpired after that is i guess the government doesn't like to see anybody that is not complying

00:12:09.860 and they were going to bring the hammer down and so they got a heavy load of lawyers that are connected

00:12:15.880 to fraser health and to uh the provincial health officer and they decided to put an injunction in place

00:12:22.960 against this business owner and so like late uh last night uh she was called into a court proceeding today 1.00

00:12:31.780 and i can tell you that these they were lawyered up and ready to go i've spent pretty much my whole

00:12:39.200 day in court uh in support for her uh she she she wanted it to she was calling for an adjournment 0.88

00:12:46.640 because she absolutely 100 has a right to have counsel there and to be advised and uh they they would

00:12:54.480 not permit her to do that and uh as a result the lawyers continued to proceed with their case and i

00:13:02.860 tell you they were well prepared unfortunately um in my opinion it was incredibly biased of course

00:13:10.920 the lawyer for fraser health came in and uh he had a long time of promoting vaccines saying that they

00:13:20.000 were safe and effective i mean these individuals took everything that they possibly could put a twist

00:13:27.180 on uh to the uh scenario that uh the governments across canada uh you know are standing on and quite

00:13:35.500 honestly they lied through their teeth they misinformed the court and anything that was in support of

00:13:43.520 our constitution they twisted around to say that bonnie henry had the right under certain matters that she 1.00

00:13:50.400 could uh sidestep and trample on the constitutional rights of individuals and and so um it was a sad state

00:13:59.720 of affairs today as we proceeded through this uh the final decision will be tomorrow at two o'clock

00:14:07.400 people can attend that actually and uh we are going to continue to help and fight the battle uh this

00:14:15.540 lady has already served the notice of liability she didn't know about action for canada prior to this

00:14:21.420 she was just trying to do the right thing and i tell you i'm so proud of her because she went before

00:14:27.520 the judge near the end when he was giving her a few minutes he would not permit me to come and speak

00:14:32.720 he he said that i wasn't a lawyer and and so that i i couldn't help to speak on her behalf and which is

00:14:39.680 completely false and they're relying on business owners who are doing their best to make ends meet

00:14:46.400 and attacking them full force heavily loaded up with lawyers who have had he said he spent the weekend

00:14:55.900 preparing but i can bet you that he spent the last couple of weeks preparing what he presented today

00:15:02.340 and um anyways i was very proud of this lady because she said she had she had quoted

00:15:09.960 uh the portion of the law where it says that mandates uh vaccines can't be mandated in canada

00:15:17.160 and she said to him so what is it i'm supposed to do they're compelling me to break the law and violate

00:15:27.200 the rights of my fellow canadians and of my customers and she says this is ethically wrong

00:15:33.780 it's immoral and there was a long pause you could hear crickets and so i'm going to be very interested

00:15:40.480 to see what this judge rules tomorrow uh but there will definitely be an opportunity this is not the

00:15:47.880 end of this story for this particular business owner and that is why we are asking any business owners

00:15:54.820 that are attending tonight to come to our tuesday business meetings so that you can be prepared

00:16:00.540 when environmental officers or government officials come knocking on your door they should

00:16:06.520 have had never have had the opportunity to get this far but it was because she didn't have the

00:16:11.520 information that action for canada is providing so we're going to fight fight hard on her behalf to

00:16:17.420 get her back in line um now on for some back to some good news uh the um longshoremen are going to be 0.99

00:16:27.620 having a very large rally in vancouver and i'm extremely excited about this because i've been dealing with

00:16:35.160 one of the heads of the of the uh longshoremen uh division for many months and they are ready to come

00:16:42.080 out they're going to rally they're in opposition but gratefully their union is also um in support of

00:16:50.160 them worldwide uh what they have basically come out and said and i know sorry terenzio i went in the

00:16:56.180 wrong order is the longshoremen union has come out and said we reject these dictatorial policies

00:17:04.580 and they are rallying in opposition around the world like you should see if italy it's fabulous

00:17:11.120 so watching these men all you know singing in the streets and standing up there for their rights and

00:17:17.420 these are vaccinated people along with the unvaccinated saying this is tyranny and we're not

00:17:23.020 going to permit this to happen in our country choice matters around the world uh the last thing i want

00:17:29.000 to just bring to your attention is the qp uh union in chilliwack has come out and they have said i love

00:17:38.220 it they say that qp411 does not believe that an employer political body government or agents thereof

00:17:46.840 should have the authority to mandate any person to be vaccinated full stop we see any such mandate to be

00:17:54.600 a grotesque misuse of power and will continue to oppose any and all directives of this nature

00:18:01.620 so we are having an impact we need everybody on board rising up in opposition the whole point is

00:18:10.940 is that we are not reclaiming any of our rights they were never taken from us we capitulated and handed

00:18:18.280 them over none of this has been lawful they've had no power to interfere with our rights that were

00:18:24.320 constitutionally guaranteed to us there is no order that can supersede any right that we have under

00:18:31.740 the charter of rights and freedoms anyway so that's just my update i'm a little bit off tonight i'll be

00:18:38.960 honest with you because this was a full day you know before the courts you kind of felt trapped because

00:18:44.960 you don't have an opportunity you know to speak i wanted to defend this lady outright and uh they they

00:18:52.040 were very well strategized for this attack today but uh i just see it as a win we have to focus on

00:19:00.740 the wins the win is that the minister of education is a defendant uh you know what she is on notice

00:19:06.940 the bc fairies have backed off and said they're not supporting the vax passes they are a defendant in

00:19:13.860 our claim and the qp unions and all of them are responding to the notices of liability and they're

00:19:20.800 trying to cover their butts right now they're desperately trying to misinform their members

00:19:25.340 to stop them from standing on their rights but the more we are educated i always say knowledge is power

00:19:31.480 we're providing it we're sharing it you now have it and you have an obligation as well to share it with

00:19:37.240 friends and family so just be bold this courage is contagious and and we just want you to feel

00:19:43.560 so filled up when you come to our empower hours um because uh like i say we've got to spread the news

00:19:50.800 and help canadians uh really really embrace their freedoms all right so i'm going to give this back

00:19:57.480 to heather please bring derek on i want to hear all about you know where derek is going what he's got 0.59

00:20:03.900 planned for the future and we just so much admire him uh he has been boldly speaking out uh against the

00:20:11.880 tyranny and giving a voice to those who the government is trying to shut down so heather i give

00:20:16.820 it back to you thank you tanya for that so joining us this week is our special guest

00:20:23.920 excuse me just a moment our special guest derek sloan derek is a former mp and he is the leader of

00:20:34.040 the true north party in his speech at the worldwide freedom rally last month in calgary derek explained

00:20:40.600 that what we are witnessing here in canada goes beyond questions of science medicine and safety

00:20:47.380 it's light versus dark it's good versus evil and we are in a spiritual battle for the heart and soul

00:20:55.160 of canada if you've ever had an opportunity to listen to any of derek's speeches you'll know that

00:21:02.000 he's a bold patriot and a freedom fighter and he isn't afraid of identifying the tyranny that is

00:21:08.740 taking place in canada his mission is to defend canadian freedoms and to fight for true conservative

00:21:15.840 values tonight derek and tanya will be discussing many important issues including the current political

00:21:23.260 landscape exposing the corruption and rising up in defense of faith family and freedom welcome derek

00:21:31.320 you're on mute

00:21:37.860 sorry about that okay great yeah thank you for that intro that was a great intro and um yeah so i've uh

00:21:47.720 i've been on here before and it's always a privilege to come and speak to everyone here

00:21:51.460 and um i just uh i just actually happened to just be looking at the chat and i noticed

00:21:57.620 i don't know if you get trolls on this chat or not but someone was claiming there that i've been

00:22:02.420 double vaccinated not true uh not even been single vaccinated so uh you've heard it from the horse's

00:22:10.280 mouth and and unfortunately i will be subject to the same you know travel bans and all that that are

00:22:15.820 going into place uh shortly and uh it is what it is and that's what we have to fight and and so i'm glad

00:22:22.920 to be here to talk about it so many of you know that i was a member of parliament up until the the

00:22:28.900 most recent election and um unfortunately i was not re-elected we live in a a country where

00:22:38.000 uh independence and non you know non sort of establishment parties are not um you know really

00:22:46.200 given the attention they deserve by the average canadian and so we need to obviously as a political

00:22:52.220 leader we we need to work hard to change that and hopefully um you know what we're what groups like

00:22:58.680 action for canada are doing and others are going to be opening canadians eyes to think about politics

00:23:03.940 in a different way and so um my my goal of course is to to be uh uh you know the the political leader to

00:23:15.120 have a party that canada needs and so you you may uh remember those that follow me that i announced

00:23:22.180 that i was starting a new federal uh political party and uh nothing has changed so the papers were

00:23:30.440 submitted in the spring of this year and unfortunately they were not um approved in time for the the the

00:23:38.920 election this year so uh some people say maybe elections canada had an agenda i don't know one

00:23:45.520 way or the other i know that obviously they when an election is coming or there's rumors of an election

00:23:50.040 they focus on that uh more than anything else but we are now at the point where um our party will be

00:23:58.840 approved uh very likely within the next probably four to six weeks and uh so we don't have an exact date

00:24:06.600 but but we know the process and we're kind of at the last stages of that so really excited to see our

00:24:12.780 party come to fruition and we have some exciting things planned we're we're we're dealing with some

00:24:18.200 exciting friends both in this country in the united states and there'll be a lot of exciting

00:24:23.140 announcements that that will be coming so i just wanted to address uh some issues and then later on

00:24:29.440 we'll have time for some questions so maybe the first question is you know can politics

00:24:35.660 change anything and um i believe the answer is yes and in in your in in your sphere action for

00:24:44.480 canada you guys have been more um sort of involved in the league or the legal sphere of things so you

00:24:51.180 guys are uh tanya and and the organization are are doing a court challenge right now you also have

00:24:56.480 various other notices of liability which uh basically you know threaten as a consequence

00:25:03.520 legal action if if certain things are not done and so i think the the legal system is kind of

00:25:09.860 analogous to the political system because we could all say well you know the legal system is corrupt and

00:25:15.800 you know judges are not um you know the judges are not listening to the arguments they're not ruling the

00:25:21.880 right way but at the end of the day we still have to we still have to move forward and we still have to

00:25:27.800 we still have to fight in the legal system and one of these days we're going to win something and there

00:25:33.000 have been minor victories here and there but you know you could just as easily say the legal system

00:25:38.880 is corrupt as as is the political system but those are the systems that we have and the great thing

00:25:45.800 about the political system is you know not only not only do you um get to play in the game you get to

00:25:55.420 change you get to change the team so when tanya is doing a court action which i think she should do and

00:26:01.320 i wish wish her all the best she doesn't get to run to be a judge she has to deal with the judges that 1.00

00:26:07.060 are there in politics you actually can be the person that you want to see elected you can you can

00:26:14.100 you can change the choices that people have of who to vote for so i think that politics is very

00:26:19.420 important i do agree that there are a lot of uh uh cowards there's a lot of people in politics that

00:26:26.380 are not uh you know awake or concerned to what's going on but that's that's precisely why we have

00:26:31.560 to get involved and to change it now for those of you who you know uh believe that we should get

00:26:39.260 involved in politics but are but are wondering well derek you know why are you doing something new you

00:26:44.480 know we have the conservative party we we have the people's party we have some options

00:26:48.660 why are you doing something new and so as far as the conservative party is concerned i was a member

00:26:56.240 of the conservative party for for many years i was a member of parliament for for several years as a

00:27:01.640 conservative there is there is we don't have hope in the conservative party um unfortunately well

00:27:09.400 there are some good mps the leadership of the party is not willing to stand up and to and to do what

00:27:17.940 needs to be done and and the way that politics works today is that you know if you're an mp even a good

00:27:24.940 one you have to do what the leader of the party tells you to do and if you don't then there can be

00:27:30.500 consequences and that's uh what is what happened to me and what has happened to other mps who have

00:27:35.900 tried to um you know stand up and be counted so we need we need we need an option that's not a

00:27:42.720 mainstream party so not the liberals not the conservatives not the ndp and with respect to

00:27:49.500 the people's party um i have nothing against the people's party but the problem that we have with them

00:27:56.680 is that they do not have any democratic mechanisms within the party itself so they don't have you know

00:28:04.600 leadership reviews constitutions ways in which the actual membership can be involved and it is true

00:28:12.260 that now there there's many of their policies are good but to have a lasting and enduring party that

00:28:18.320 can that can outlive any particular leader you need to have a strong democratic framework and mechanism

00:28:25.020 within the party itself and the ppc has has not done that they they initially said that they would

00:28:32.260 you know have a constant have a convention and a constitution and so on and they haven't and i don't

00:28:37.360 expect them to and that's fine but we do need to make a party that can outlive uh leaders that can

00:28:45.000 outlive uh periods of time and we need to have a party that is uh democratically structured and the

00:28:53.820 democratic the importance of that of course is important from a membership perspective where your

00:29:00.120 membership actually means something you can you can vote uh for example for who you want to represent

00:29:06.120 you locally you can vote for policies that you want to be adopted by the party you can vote for the

00:29:11.100 leader of the party it's important on that level but it's also important to have a constitution

00:29:15.420 that mandates that members of parliament are free for example to vote according to the wishes of their

00:29:22.320 constituents or according to their conscience so i'm glad that you know the people's party says that

00:29:28.900 they're in favor of these things but you need to have a a constitution that mandates these things

00:29:34.780 because you know the fact is is that there is you know there's a lot of wishful thinking even in the

00:29:41.520 conservatives a lot of what they they say and used to say is good but when the rubber hits the road and

00:29:46.960 crises come you need to have uh assurance that they're they're not going to cave in because we've seen

00:29:53.220 so many poly good politicians or supposedly good politicians cave in on important issues so we need

00:30:01.180 to have founding documents that govern the party so that it's more than just kind of a personality cult

00:30:08.680 or more than just uh based on the leader of the day it's it's a it's something that can outlast

00:30:15.220 any particular leader so that's one reason why i felt that you know the ppc notwithstanding its

00:30:22.060 strengths and in fact in this last election it was the best option but i felt that it wasn't enough

00:30:28.740 for for canadians and i also felt that it wasn't enough with respect to having definitive stands on

00:30:35.960 value issues and the people's party has stands on certain issues but for other issues relating to

00:30:42.780 you know values and life and family values and so on they don't have any stance on it and i felt that

00:30:48.780 we needed to have a party that had a definitive stance on those issues so that's why i decided to

00:30:55.760 to make a party i called it the true north party of canada because i like the symbol of sort of the

00:31:03.520 compass sticking to the north pole it's not left it's not right it's true north it's it's not about

00:31:11.880 an ideology one way or the other it's about canada it's about canadians about it's about canadian

00:31:17.340 families canadian citizens and it also indicates that we know where we're going we have a compass

00:31:23.360 and we know exactly what direction we're going we're not swaying in the wind to the left or to

00:31:29.480 the right or or whatever direction the wind is going we're going true north we're going directly north

00:31:35.540 and this is and this is something that really can only happen if you recognize the founding values

00:31:43.220 of canada and one of the founding values of canada yes it is true that western um democracies western

00:31:51.960 governments are more free individually and politically than other parts of the world

00:31:57.540 but the question is why are they so and i believe personally and i i think that this is this would this

00:32:05.540 would have been a common understanding in society even 30 years ago but i believe that all of that

00:32:12.980 comes from our cultural history as a christian country now i know that not everyone on this call

00:32:21.940 tonight is a christian i am a christian but i fully understand that many aren't but we we have to

00:32:28.560 understand that the very framework the very fabric of our country is in fact predicated on christian

00:32:37.300 values and whether we um actually subscribe to them or not i know many people that don't call

00:32:44.680 themselves christian but understand the positive effect that christendom so christianity writ large the

00:32:51.380 the the the general affinity to christianity has had in western nations and if we were to take a look at

00:32:59.680 the way our country is structured it was structured with with christianity in mind that's why for example

00:33:06.360 our um organizations at the government level that deal with things are called ministries they're called

00:33:12.220 you know the ministry of health or the ministry of the environment or uh all these different ministries

00:33:17.660 there are so many things in our society that are predicated on a christian understanding and

00:33:23.400 frankly i believe that the reason why our cultures are so civil is because we've had

00:33:31.720 2 000 years nearly of christianity in our dna and it's hard to shake that and so we need to recognize as

00:33:41.120 a country and and i and i fully respect and in fact promote religious toleration and i fully respect

00:33:50.580 a freedom of religion i don't believe the government should ever be forcing you to go to church or

00:33:56.320 anything like that what i'm talking about is an ideological understanding of where we come from

00:34:02.100 because you if you if you try to rip that out which it's impossible to do you create a vacuum that is

00:34:08.960 filled with other ideologies and we're seeing uh the effect of that in our society right now we're

00:34:15.580 seeing the rise of all kinds of radical ideologies whether it's um you know identity politics or gender

00:34:21.020 gender ideology these are new um ideas and philosophies that are trying to supplant our our western christendom 0.96

00:34:30.980 approach and so what what what what that is what what we're doing by trying to get away from our past

00:34:37.740 is we're supplanting new ideas that have not held the test of time and are and are and are more radical

00:34:43.820 and if we if we take a look at our history christianity as such has been the um the impetus for many many

00:34:54.560 positive things now of course there's been people who have done you know who have called themselves christians

00:34:59.180 and so on and official policies by certain church groups that have been negative but if you take a

00:35:04.880 look at the the history of europe as soon as europe european kingdoms became christianized they moved in a

00:35:12.920 direction that we would all agree is positive um for example in uh in england and in in the in the area

00:35:20.940 now that would be considered great britain when the the local kings accepted christianity they began to do

00:35:28.060 things like make agreements that that uh they would not you know kill women and children they would 0.68

00:35:34.100 only fight with soldiers and things like this um you know if you can if you compare a a christianized

00:35:41.140 england to a viking scandinavia or or a post viking christian scandinavia the the differences are huge

00:35:50.160 and i don't i'm not i'm not going to bore you all with with with you know a multitude of details

00:35:54.940 but all the policies that we sort of uh uh you know view as um positive today with respect to

00:36:04.160 you know uh rules with warfare and promoting education and helping the poor and providing

00:36:12.620 uh equal opportunities for citizens whether they you know are rich or poor or or men or women

00:36:20.020 all of these things increased uh with the adoption of christianity in europe and i believe that that

00:36:26.480 these things along with many other reasons are the the bedrock of why we are what we are you you can't

00:36:33.400 explain what can it is without understanding our christian past and how that reflects on a government

00:36:40.240 is simply to understand that and to respect the role of faith in the development of a country

00:36:47.840 so you can't expect canada to get back on track if you don't understand why you know why we became a

00:36:56.920 great country in the first place so this is this is you know a complicated topic and i'm not

00:37:02.540 for those for those who already agree with me obviously you agree with me and for those that maybe

00:37:08.040 have issue with that i'll deal with this more in another time but the fact is is that you need to have

00:37:13.500 a founding set of values and if you and and if at the basis of that you don't have kind of respect for

00:37:19.180 god and respect for uh your nation you'll never uh succeed and and right now what we're seeing is

00:37:27.620 a um a tendency to sort of supplant faith with sort of uh the church of science and the church of

00:37:36.880 radical secular humanism as well as supplanting the nation state with globalism and you know erasing

00:37:44.440 borders and things of this nature so it is absolutely uh critical that we have at least some respect for

00:37:51.800 faith and so it's it's interesting that i would have to go through this long talk you know even in

00:37:57.840 the even in the 1980s when they were bringing in the charter of rights and freedoms initially pierre

00:38:04.140 trudeau did not want to have the preamble to the charter of rights and freedoms which recognizes

00:38:12.640 that canada is founded on values that recognize the uh supremacy of god and the rule of law

00:38:19.420 and pierre trudeau made a comment along the lines of uh and forgive my language here but something like

00:38:27.120 i don't believe god gives a damn whether he's in the charter or not and at the time his party

00:38:33.280 basically said uh you know many people in his party said listen it's a common understanding that

00:38:38.880 canada is is more or less a christian country and we need to have some reflection of that so it's a

00:38:45.440 very uh uh you know what i'm saying is not new it's it's maybe sounds radical in the day in which we

00:38:52.480 live but that's just due to uh the the degree to which we've moved away from our traditional

00:38:58.260 understandings so it's it's imperative that a party that is governing canada has a respect for faith

00:39:04.340 and has a respect not just for any faith that of course i'm in favor of freedom of religion whatever

00:39:10.060 religion you want to have is your business but we need to recognize if you go to any other country in

00:39:15.320 the world and you say hey if you go to the

00:39:17.680 you

Action4Canada - October 23, 2021

Empower Hour with Tanya Gaw & Derek Sloan Oct-20-2021

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