Dominion Society of Canada - August 11, 2026


The Battle Over Orillia’s Samuel de Champlain Monument


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

136.84

Word count

958

Sentence count

74

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

12

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Hate speech

12

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The question before us is not whether every chapter of Canadian history is perfect.
00:00:10.000 The question now is whether we're willing to tell the truth about Canadian history.
00:00:30.000 I will direct you guys to confer with your group leader for kind of where you guys are going.
00:00:37.080 If anyone's falling behind, we will get some help.
00:00:39.580 We do have extra maps down there if needed.
00:00:43.420 So, I heard that...
00:00:51.000 I heard... 0.99
00:00:55.000 I heard that you guys want to sweep away all the white people from Canada. 0.98
00:01:02.000 What? 1.00
00:01:03.000 Hey, give it up for the gentleman coming out here.
00:01:08.000 Thank you very much.
00:01:09.000 Thank you.
00:01:10.000 Thanks for coming out.
00:01:11.000 We appreciate it.
00:01:12.000 Hey guys, I just wanted to say thanks so much for coming out.
00:01:15.000 We appreciate the support.
00:01:16.000 Shame on you.
00:01:21.000 Shame on you. 1.00
00:01:23.000 Take your sh** and get out of our city. 1.00
00:01:24.000 Get out of our city. It's embarrassing. 1.00
00:01:26.600 They get worked up and they don't even know what we're about.
00:01:28.800 They don't even care to look into it. 1.00
00:01:30.600 You guys are losers. Do you understand that? 1.00
00:01:33.200 It's embarrassing your country. 0.97
00:01:34.800 Do you think this country is founded on only white people? 1.00
00:01:37.300 You're insane! 1.00
00:01:38.300 Get out of our town! 1.00
00:01:39.700 They're in your face and they try to intimidate you.
00:01:42.300 I think they're also aware that the majority of their neighbors
00:01:45.000 are supporting what we're doing.
00:01:46.800 Go away! We're bigger than you!
00:01:49.800 Shame on you! 1.00
00:01:51.200 If you are not Canadian, read the Constitution. 1.00
00:01:54.420 If you guys get out of town, can you go? 1.00
00:01:57.140 You know they're the kind of people that, they don't have that love for anything.
00:02:01.640 They wouldn't die for anything.
00:02:02.880 People are antagonizing Champlain, but he was one of the people who went and built those relationships with the natives.
00:02:08.480 History is complicated, and there's good things, and there's bad things that happen.
00:02:11.500 And if we aren't aware of our history, we aren't really aware of who we are.
00:02:14.420 This has nothing to do with hate and everything to do with love.
00:02:18.480 Monuments like this just remind us that we are a people, and we are a nation.
00:02:25.480 How you feeling about it?
00:02:36.480 You can take your bums now.
00:02:41.480 The fun is about to begin. We're going to get everyone to do what they're already doing right now.
00:02:46.480 We have a very important and proud mission,
00:02:49.060 and it's about getting the literature
00:02:50.800 in every single household before the end of the day.
00:02:53.240 It's 15,000 pieces of literature, 15,000 households.
00:02:56.640 Most conversations will be simple.
00:02:58.840 I got it.
00:02:59.680 Yeah.
00:03:00.580 That should be enough.
00:03:01.720 We got to do Mary, Mississauga, Colborne, and these three.
00:03:05.800 We did from Bay Street down, up, and we're about here now.
00:03:16.480 Yeah, it's like very east of O'Brien, all the way over, and then we're just gonna get
00:03:21.440 everything else down here south, okay?
00:03:22.940 Okay, sounds good.
00:03:23.940 I gave about two bundles per group of my guys, and I got six.
00:03:29.080 So about like 300 in total that we took.
00:03:46.480 One sector there had lots of retirees that are on board.
00:03:54.480 Sweet.
00:03:55.480 Yeah.
00:04:06.480 Aurelia, 15,000 pamphlets today.
00:04:16.480 Thank you all for being here today.
00:04:23.580 It's pretty incredible what we can accomplish, 70, 80 people with a bit of planning, a bit of coordination, and a bit of effort, a bit of sunlight, more than a few steps.
00:04:33.840 But an incredible accomplishment, as Ken said, we've never done anything like this before, so it was a big test for us.
00:04:39.780 We've done a lot of demonstrations and stuff like that, but this took a level of planning and coordination that's just head and shoulders above that.
00:04:46.780 According to polling that was done back in 2018, 70% of Aurelians support this monument, and yet it keeps coming down. 0.51
00:04:53.340 How do the 30% keep winning?
00:04:55.460 Because the 30% are loud, they're organized, they pressure politicians directly. 0.85
00:05:00.920 Well now we're here to do the same thing, but actually for the just right cause on behalf of the 70%. 0.64
00:05:07.300 So the 70% is great, but if they're not coordinated, if they're not organized, if they don't have a single message,
00:05:12.480 if they don't have a unified kind of brain operating the movement, it doesn't go anywhere.
00:05:18.240 So today we did an incredible thing.
00:05:20.180 We had 15,000 pieces of literature distributed to 15,000 houses all across the riding.
00:05:25.660 I've been watching the numbers roll in.
00:05:27.320 We cracked 1,000 signatures across the country earlier today.
00:05:30.220 But a big part of our movement is to protect Canadian history, to inform Canadians.
00:05:35.580 And statues like this, these opportunities to tear down monuments and all this stuff,
00:05:40.280 we have to take this as an opportunity to educate Canadians
00:05:43.100 because there's so few Canadians who know anything about Champlain.
00:05:46.680 He's a truly fascinating figure that does exemplify the Canadian spirit.
00:05:51.900 He represents compromise and communication.
00:05:54.260 He represents this sort of jack-of-all-trades mentality.
00:05:57.440 He could do everything.
00:05:58.260 He was a spy, a warrior, a leader, a diplomat.
00:06:01.360 He's a perfect example of a positive vision of reconciliation, an industry that has become so co-opted by these non-governmental organizations that just use it to sap money off of the government while whinging and framing anything European, anything from the Canadian settlers as inherently evil and anything that the First Nations do as inherently just.
00:06:23.380 our history is just more complicated than that and now we have an organization we have a platform
00:06:28.500 that we can share together to elevate that other side of the story which i think is so important
00:06:34.740 i want you all to give yourself a round of applause for the great work you did and the great
00:06:38.260 We continue to be who are going forward.
00:06:45.360 Over Canada!
00:06:46.400 Over Canada!
00:06:48.660 Over Canada!
00:06:50.660 Over Canada!
00:06:52.660 Over Canada!
00:06:54.660 Over Canada!
00:06:56.460 Over Canada!
00:06:58.460 Over Canada!