00:01:59.460And I've always known Don Cherry was a big veteran supporter and soldier supporter and all this.
00:02:06.460What does Don mean to you, would you say?
00:02:09.460Because I really feel he's a staple of the program, a staple of Canada really in terms of Canadian pride.
00:02:15.460I think he's a mascot to the military. Yeah. Absolutely. I've been reading online. I didn't know he went to Afghanistan during Christmas and apparently they were like under fire.
00:02:39.460And he was still like, no, I'm going to stay here. I'm going to hang out and I'm going to find all the troops and eat their shitty meals.
00:03:09.460What are your thoughts and feelings on the people that are upset? Like, do you have some sympathy for maybe it was phrasing correctly?
00:03:15.460No, I don't have any sympathy because it's just generalizing. You people means generalizing. It's not specifically.
00:03:27.460Yeah, no, I totally agree. People say it's a specific group and it's like, no, you people who weren't wearing poppies. That was my understanding.
00:03:34.460Yeah. But, and I got to ask, do you like, do you love the milk and the honey?
00:03:44.460So you helped kind of organize this process a little bit.
00:03:48.460Yeah, I did. I did. The idea sold itself. When you get good, you know, loving people and promoting unity and stuff like this, it, you know, falls together by itself.
00:03:58.460What does Don Cherry mean to you? Don Cherry to me means a lot about Canadian identity and free speech in the sense that Don Cherry coming off the air is the end of an era in Canadian broadcasting.
00:04:12.460I mentioned that he was a voice that regardless if you agreed with him or not, was talked about at home, talked about at work. He got people talking.
00:04:23.460Which is the point here is that you don't always have to agree with what's going on, but the intellectual discourse helps bring us to a better place than sitting here divided.
00:04:33.460I mean, we all, we are all talking about it.
00:04:45.460What are your thoughts on the people that are upset and they're saying, you know, he should be fired?
00:04:49.460I think that, I mean, I really don't have sympathy in my personal opinion for the people who, you know, are okay with him being fired because I think that that's just cancel culture and not what free speech is.
00:05:02.460You know, I just want to add that this is an example to people that stuff like this can be done and that your voice can be heard.
00:05:10.460The, the way things are set up now that the, the people like us are so voiceless in a sea of biased media.
00:05:19.460And what we've done here today is really show the rest of the country that this can be done.
00:05:45.460That man has been standing up for veterans for what, maybe like 40 years or something.
00:05:49.460So the way how I see this is that this is an attack on a strong supporter of veterans, which is pretty much an attack on veterans at that point.
00:05:57.460So, you know, if he's doing a lot of good work, they can't fire him for saying, hey, I think Canadians need to be wearing their poppies more often.
00:11:25.460But I, I think the way he worded it was very wrong because it really sounded like he was just directing it to newcomers or immigrants only.
00:11:53.460But in all, in all full respect, I think that the government has let, uh, the newcomers down.
00:12:00.460The government has let them down because when they come into this country, uh, all they have to do really is pass this test and, and, you know, and name the, the provinces and the territories.
00:12:10.460And it's a very simple test, which should be done also.
00:12:13.460But they should also, I think, I think newcomers should go to, uh, the, the government should be providing a class where they provide information, just simple stuff.
00:12:21.460Like Canadians are very, uh, friendly people.
00:12:24.460Like they say please and thank you a lot.
00:12:52.460We are here with Nicholas Sertiak, PPC candidate for, uh, Etopicoke Center.
00:12:58.460What is, what does Don Cherry mean to you?
00:13:00.460When I was growing up, he was one of the standard bearers of our culture.
00:13:04.460It's what everybody talked about on school Monday, at school on Monday morning, and it's really sad that things have gotten to a point where you can't even show support for our veterans without the politically correct, uh, manufactured outrage mob attacking you.
00:13:21.460For somebody who's saying he should be fired and saying it's racist, like, how would you respond to somebody who holds that opinion?
00:13:26.460I mean, I'm looking at his comments where he referred to, uh, newcomers to Canada and also those who are already here but don't wear the poppy for whatever reason.
00:13:38.460Um, the way I look at it is he needed to be blunt in a way just to get people to wake up to, you know, the reality that's going on in our culture and in our society.
00:13:50.460And I don't see where he singled out any identifiable group whatsoever in any of his comments.
00:13:57.460So, all of this inference about what he supposedly meant is coming from, you know, a highly partisan, far-left perspective that is not in accordance with the majority opinion of Canadians.
00:14:11.460This is Tyler Russell, the Tyler Russell. He's gonna give me an update of what I missed because I showed up a little late to this protest.
00:14:16.460Yes, okay. So, earlier on in the protest, uh, we had a specific character come through.
00:14:22.460And, um, at first we thought that he was an Antifa guy.
00:14:26.460Uh, he was causing trouble, kind of, like, rubbing up against people, you know, like, pushing into people.
00:14:30.460Um, it turns out that he was actually a neo-Nazi.