Exposing Mission School Board's Censorship
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss a public meeting that was held on Jan. 10th, 2020, in which a presentation about sexual orientation and gender identity and sexual identity was presented to the School Board of the Mission School District. The presentation was shut down at the end of the meeting because it contained inappropriate cartoon images.
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can we be guaranteed that in january this is specifically due to the resources in the mission
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education system that are causing a considerable amount of harm to children and families and it
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needs to be addressed we are happy to do that but what is what is transpiring is that the requests
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are either either being blocked by your screening you are screening the public from coming in and
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speaking about issues that are of great importance thank you well i'll hang on to this recording
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and we look forward in january to coming back and have this really critical information it's because
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we care about students and we care about families and we care about education and yes and we're a
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little bit tired of people implementing agendas that the public and parents had no part of so
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thank you very much at a public meeting on january 10th members from action for canada myself
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included made a presentation over zoom about soji or sexual orientation and gender identity
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and the inappropriate books we ended up at the meeting and i politely asked if i could share
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screen which they agreed to i am here today to ask the school board trustees what steps
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are being taken to remove soji 123 and the pornographic explicit books from the mission public libraries
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the notice of liability informed you of the serious concerns developing as the result of soji resource
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being incorporated into every section of the school curriculum including sexual health the notice of
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liability alerted you that being complicit to making available explicit pornographic books
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to minors and or facilitating in the exploitation and or sexualization of minors is unlawful
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christian can i just stop you for two seconds tanya can we please not have the pictures that you're
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are showing in a public meeting here i think that it might be i i get where you're coming from but
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please make sure that you're respectful with what you're showing for with with um graphics thank you
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the purpose of this meeting is you're offended and that's a good thing
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no i'm not offended i am not offended i'm just asking you to be respectful to all of the members
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that are on this uh call but i do not some of them i do not know so thank you so much
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i we we don't understand the pre the purpose of this was to discuss the pornographic books that are
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available in your public schools yes and so i'm very confused as to how this is okay that children and
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minors have access to this but we're not able to have it on uh display i mean this is this is what you're
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can i go to trustee karen's please he's got a point of order okay first of all i was told that this
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was a verbal presentation secondly you're not presenting soji one two three you're presenting
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something of your own thing soji one two three does not contain those pictures so point of order i'd like
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it brought back to being a verbal presentation and if these continue to be shown then i suggest that
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somebody stop the screen sharing thank you jacqueline you have a yeah i just wanted to point out too
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that in this presentation i have looked at some of these and they're including things that are
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incredibly misleading because they have listed a whole bunch of different elementary schools that
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aren't even our elementary schools for example when i was looking at one i took it down it only listed
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mckay elementary school so when you're giving us information and you're trying to say that this
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is a problem in the mission school district could you please make sure that you you actually tailor it
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to the school district so that we know that the information is correct um i'm finding that the
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information that you're trying to put out there to be incredibly misleading and purposely um disturbing to
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get people's reactions but the information is just factually incorrect and um i don't i mean it's nice
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to see that there's so many questions yeah anyway yeah thank you jacqueline so tanya if we could go back
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to a verbal which that is what you've put in for that would be great thank you um chair carter are you
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able to stop the screen share please i uh ilona could you start please
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tanya you're muted they had shut down the presentation saying that i hadn't followed proper policy
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procedure we had been approved to address learning resources and the books on february 21st 2023
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the mission school board trustees voted unanimously to ban action for canada from presenting at any future
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meetings they used inflated language and claimed that we are an anti-lgbtq group board chair shelley
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carter said the powerpoint contained some graphic and inappropriate cartoon images
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the cartoon images were from the book it's perfectly normal genderqueer and its new home
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further the school district had said that they do not carry these three books and they're correct
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had they allowed me to finish that presentation they would have seen multiple other books that
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the school district has that are extremely inappropriate sexually explicit vulgar language
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profane language incest rape and really on such a small technicality when we're talking about an
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issue of such grave concern over what our children are being exposed to why did they really shut this down
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why is it that the school board does not want the public to see what it is that our children are
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being exposed to within the school system it is just beyond me that the school district would be
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more concerned about policy than truly the welfare of our children let's meet mr karns let's see what he has to say
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soji 123 helps educators make schools inclusive and safe for students of all sexual orientations and
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gender identities at a soji inclusive school students gender does not limit their interests and opportunities
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and their sexual orientation and how they understand and express their gender are welcome without
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discrimination it aligns with our safe and caring school policy 62 percent of 2s lgbtq plus students
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feel unsafe at school we do not have a school system that allows students to be unsafe it's a curriculum
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mandated by the ministry of education i have not seen one instance of any book in mission school district
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that's pornographic that's pornographic and sex education is different than soji being educated in reading
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and writing we are educating global citizens and there's more education than reading and writing
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the school board trustee mr karns says emphatically that there is no books in the mission school district
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i'm going to read an excerpt from the book identical which is available at the equal mission senior
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secondary school it describes a father committing incest with his seven-year-old daughter while her twin
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sister watches the offense is narrated by the twin sister in another section of the book the father in
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graphic detail rapes little kayla this is child pornography he lifted her gently sat her down on the bed
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beside him then he opened the snaps on the fly of his flannel pajamas it stood up stiff as a stalagmite
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see how much daddy loves you show me you love me too touch it he closed her hand around it i know it sounds
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bad but i wanted to touch it too i didn't know what it meant only that it made daddy happy i wanted to
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make him happy too that's right that's right his voice rocked in rhythm with his body oh yes my kayla loves me
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my little flower beauty apart about living in canada is that this is still a democracy and that we need
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to respect the constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms which allows the freedom of
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speech thought and belief and uh right now um when i hear mr karns he wants to censor thoughts of um
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countering ideas or opposition there is reasons for parents to be concerned and oppose what is going
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on in our schools mr karns also refers to educating global citizens no we're not we're educating canadian
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citizens under the rule of law the constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms global
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citizenship is a un agenda and it is about uh transforming our children into what you say
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global citizens that are not uh sovereign citizens and so this also needs to be taken out of the school
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systems because the un as you know has agenda 2030 2050 and they want to remove all of our borders
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they want to take over our education system and they want to affect sovereign nations and so these
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legitimate these are legitimate concerns that we're talking about soji this is not without uh
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facts there is a 4 000 this is a 2019 figure there is a 4 000 increase in girls who are now saying
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they're no longer a girl but a boy they are fast tracking them there is a long list of uh children
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who are having their perfectly good body parts breasts removed when if left alone 95 of those
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children will move through this stage to live a heterosexual life or even if it was a lesbian
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lifestyle they would still have their body thank you canya we need to protect our children thank you
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for your time at the school board meeting where the vote actually took place the school chair
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and the superintendent had claimed that action for canada had not only not followed proper policy
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procedure on the january 10th zoom meeting but that we had also traumatized individuals within the
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community when questioned on that by somebody that was attending the meeting they asked is there evidence
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that trauma had taken place it feels like a little bit of a disconnect so it seems like there was a
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meeting in january and which i guess a bunch of us weren't at and we're confused as to what were the
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things that were traumatizing um or was it just the fact that there was a breaches protocol
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that has now abandoned groups yes sorry so so was it just a breaches protocol that has now
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abandoned group or was there a specific thing that was uh traumatizing yeah so there was the breach yeah okay
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um but we did actually receive a number of complaints from people uh participating in the meeting and
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i think communities affected by schools and what it boiled down to in testimony from mr wilson himself
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is that it was a matter that there were those that were attending that meeting that were in opposition
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to the presentation there were those from the lgbtq community who had complained to the school board
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trustees and possibly directly to superintendent wilson that they did not appreciate what was uh presented
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now is that trauma or are we in a world where we can't have open uh conversation if i were to say
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i'm traumatized and i literally am i'm traumatized i'm heartbroken to the core to see what it is that
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our children are being exposed to we are working so hard at action for canada to make sure that at
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every school district every school board we have the opportunity according to our democracy the freedom
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of speech thought and belief to be able to present to the school board and to make sure that these books
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we're going to take the drawings and make them identical but we're going to use photographs can i show
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those now that they're photographs instead of drawings can i show those books with the same images
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can i show those legally to those kids and you will have to tell me what you're going to arrest me
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for putting pornography in front of kids but as long as they are drawings now you're not going to touch it
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really law enforcement you know better because you know what sex offenders do and how they groom
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kids prior to arrest and in closing what i would say to a school board and this hopefully will be helpful
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for parents so if i'm a parent i'm going to say a couple of things uh mr mrs school board regardless
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of spectrum sort of because you've got about three four five six seven categories of folks that are
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going to be on a school board the well-meaning to the agenda driven okay um what i would say to every
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one of them is this which do you think should be the best approach for our kids in our district
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in our schools a high bar or a low bar approach to child protection if everybody's going to say hi bar
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okay well that's the case then why do you want to permit activities and materials in our schools
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that will not only sexualize kids and cause them to have a much more difficult time with their
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own sexual boundaries you will confuse them but here's my greatest concern so that sets them up
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to be preyed upon that also causes mandated reporters to have to reframe the nine key
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red flag clinical indicators of sexual predation a kid that's being perped on a kid that's being groomed
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different but here's my favorite panel so you're not just running out of person on an uh