Dominion Society of Canada - April 17, 2026


Immigrants to Canada need to be able to speak English (or French)


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51

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00:00:00.000 We have another article here from our friend Jamie Sarkanek, one of the best journalists in Canada
00:00:05.060 covering immigration related things on a daily basis. Just a ridiculous story. I should put it
00:00:11.820 on the screen instead of just pretending it is on the screen. Jamie Sarkanek, serving Starbucks in
00:00:17.160 English might be racism according to a Saskatchewan court. So this story is out of Saskatchewan where
00:00:24.520 a Filipino lady tried to order in the Filipino language of Tagalog. Vanessa Casilla tried to 1.00
00:00:37.080 order in Tagalog. I would imagine the employee that she was ordering from is a fellow Filipino 0.83
00:00:43.840 or else why would she be speaking a foreign language to her? She was told that they can
00:00:50.180 no longer do business in Tagalog. I guess this has been a persistent problem at this Starbucks
00:00:55.560 location. And as a result, she launched a human rights tribunal charge calling this discrimination,
00:01:05.360 enforcement of language restrictions in Canada, speaking our official languages, English and
00:01:13.940 French. You have two of them. We have two of them. You don't have to choose English,
00:01:17.020 but you have to choose English or French. She calls this discrimination. This was initially
00:01:21.580 thrown out by the Human Rights Tribunal, but it was appealed to the Court of King's Bench
00:01:28.100 there in Saskatchewan. And they found that throwing it out was illegitimate and that the
00:01:33.400 Human Rights Tribunal would need to hear this case. It was thrown out because she wasn't actually
00:01:37.660 denied service. She was just required to order in English. So it wasn't really a drastic case
00:01:44.780 of discrimination, but the courts are so dysfunctional in this country that they think
00:01:49.520 demanding that business be done in official language is an unacceptable level of discrimination
00:01:54.960 that needs to be, and we need to waste money on going through this convoluted process to determine
00:02:00.440 whether or not it's a human rights violation. This is a perfect example of how dysfunctional
00:02:08.120 ridiculous our court system is there are we've inverted this whole system so that it's all about
00:02:16.040 cutting down on discrimination without realizing that there are legitimate forms of discrimination
00:02:22.200 in our society having standards for how businesses are how businesses are run what language business
00:02:29.160 is conducted is a very reasonable form of discrimination we can't have a cohesive society
00:02:35.720 if we're not at least speaking the same language. This is such a reasonable baseline and our courts
00:02:42.680 are, they need to view things abstractly. Everyone's a liberal individual. Everyone has a right to do
00:02:50.920 things based on their own cultures and so on. It's ridiculous. We need to speak English in this
00:02:58.120 country, our French, depending on where you are. And honestly, we need to import more of these
00:03:03.940 kind of standards from our brothers in Quebec. For a long time, they've been imposing French
00:03:08.840 language laws. Yes, this is more to limit the amount of English that's been going on because
00:03:13.360 the driving force behind Quebec politics has been preserving their unique French identity
00:03:18.720 surrounded by English provinces, states, and so on. But we need to learn now we in English Canada,
00:03:29.000 we don't have to worry about, you know, French colonization or whatnot. We have to worry about
00:03:33.780 colonization from the entire world. There's parts of this country where you can't, like you'll go
00:03:40.780 into stores and you'll struggle to order in English because everyone there speaks a foreign
00:03:44.260 language. You'll see signage at businesses that's totally in foreign languages, complete regions
00:03:50.580 that are dominated by these foreign ethnic groups, and it's not acceptable. Not only do we need better 1.00
00:03:57.560 from our courts, we need to enforce language standards across this country. No more doing
00:04:04.580 business in Chinese, in Mandarin, in Hindi, in Tagalog, so on and so forth. It's English or 0.99
00:04:12.840 French. If you don't like it, you can go back home. If you want to order Starbucks in Tagalog,
00:04:17.900 there's a whole country where you can do that. It's an absolutely ridiculous standard. We need
00:04:22.560 to enforce our own cultural standards here in Canada. And language is just a baseline.
00:04:30.600 But this is a great example about the problems that we will face as we try and advance
00:04:35.440 our vision of Canadian nationalism and remigration in Canada. The courts are going to be 0.94
00:04:42.060 the biggest problem, to be honest. It's not going to be the public. They're going to come on our
00:04:46.360 side very quickly. It's going to be these ideological activist judges that push back on us
00:04:50.960 every step of the way and the reality is a lot of these judges are going to have to be impeached
00:04:56.160 they these people are working against the canadian interest and if they're going to obstruct
00:05:01.140 basic standards like having a cohesive language to bind the country together then they're going
00:05:08.040 to have to get out of the way this is what we've seen in countries like el salvador that have
00:05:11.760 rapidly improved their their national identity their their their social cohesion their the safety
00:05:17.740 in their country they had the same problem they had activist judges getting in the way that were
00:05:22.360 brought in by the previous regime and what did they do they impeached the judges got them out
00:05:27.480 of the way and kept pushing forward so this is an example we can't expect the judges to wake up
00:05:34.560 tomorrow and have a completely different view on things we're going to have to step over them
00:05:39.380 fortunately in Canada we have things like the notwithstanding clause we have things like the
00:05:43.380 peace order and good governance clause we have ways to subvert the charter uh and to to to avoid
00:05:51.400 the courts in in imposing our vision but ultimately we're going to need to get rid of all these judges
00:05:57.060 and replace them with actual uh professionals that respect canadian identity that respect
00:06:03.940 that canada is not just a economic zone where abstract liberal economic units can do business
00:06:11.380 No, no, no.
00:06:12.380 Canada is a home for the Canadian people.
00:06:15.180 You're going to respect our culture.
00:06:16.880 You are going to respect our identity or you are going to get fired from your job or you
00:06:20.980 are going to get re-migrated to your country. 0.99
00:06:23.740 That is the reality. 1.00
00:06:24.980 That's what we're bringing forward. 0.94
00:06:27.420 Canada is for Canadians. 0.97
00:06:41.380 You 0.99