Dominion Society of Canada - April 17, 2026


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

Topics
language standards in Canada
Hosted by
Daniel Tyrie
Mentioned
Jamie Sarkonic Vanessa Casilla
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6 minutes

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1,046

Sentence count

52

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2

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3

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In this episode, we talk about a Starbucks employee who was discriminated against when she tried to order in Tagalog, and the ridiculous way our courts handled the situation, and why we need to enforce our own language standards across the country.

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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 0.73
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 0.98
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 0.93
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