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