Action4Canada - Grooming A Nation with Pronouns and Land Acknowledgements

In this episode, I talk about how important it is to stand up and speak out against the land acknowledgements and pronouns that are being used in public schools and public spaces across the province of British Columbia. I also talk about the need to stop waiting for someone else to do something you can do it and just do it.

00:00:00.000 The sound of my heart pumping is so loud sometimes I feel like everybody must be able to hear it

00:00:05.200 because I never even felt this way when I was in court but you get in there and the energy is so

00:00:09.460 toxic and you know and whenever I stand up the whole place goes totally quiet.

00:00:18.240 So not in a good way not in a good way so I stand up and I say my point and it's really but I do it

00:00:29.440 and as soon as I stand up I notice that my fear just drains out of me and I stand and it's amazing

00:00:36.640 once you're in action the fear goes away it's the sitting cogitating pondering worrying upset

00:00:45.760 complaining like and the and the contemplating the doing once you do it it's incredible how much you

00:00:52.340 feel stronger because you're in action so as soon as I stand up I say I'm at work now I'm a lawyer and

00:00:58.500 my client is the province of British Columbia and I'm going to speak.

00:01:06.960 So there's an amazing undercover journalist in the states whose motto is be brave do something I love

00:01:13.860 that one that's a good one and and stop thinking someone else will do these things okay it's it's

00:01:20.300 up to each of us uh just so whichever way you find you can do it do just do it and don't wait for

00:01:28.320 someone else to do it because you're all more powerful than I can be by myself um the land

00:01:33.300 acknowledgements and pronouns that is a way of grooming you and um the land acknowledgements are

00:01:38.860 grooming make no mistake about it when I've heard the first time I heard one I was like this is not good

00:01:44.580 I remember being alert to it right away I'm like what the heck are we doing here do you know that

00:01:49.600 they're now doing the land acknowledgements ahead of the national anthem at hockey games I've heard

00:01:53.540 I mean and it's it's incredible so um I don't go to the hockey games but apparently that's what

00:02:00.640 they're doing and um every day every day telling children they're on stolen land and that they should

00:02:10.320 be ashamed of their history it's so damaging to the kids morale we are an amazing why do you think

00:02:16.040 people want to immigrate here because we're a horrible country we're a great country but we're

00:02:21.200 being we're it's it's a way of lowering your um dispiriting you it's it's a way of bringing you

00:02:29.260 down and making you feel just like what's the use it's futile okay who cares anymore if they tax me

00:02:35.840 more it's it's really intended to take the joy out of you and to um disempower you and these land

00:02:44.300 acknowledgements have got to stop if I were premier I would immediately say no more land

00:02:49.440 acknowledgements at any publicly funded institution

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Action4Canada - March 06, 2026

Grooming A Nation with Pronouns and Land Acknowledgements

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