Juno News - Critical Race Theory comes to Canada

00:00:00.000 The woke left is taking over schools, they're poisoning the minds of children,

00:00:03.900 and they're destroying basic enlightenment principles like liberty, justice, and equality.

00:00:09.020 This needs to stop. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:17.560 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in today. Now we here at The Candace Malcolm Show

00:00:21.460 focus quite a bit on the threat that is posed from the radical left. We believe that the radical

00:00:26.920 left poses a real threat to our civilization, to our society, to our free and liberal order. They

00:00:32.900 reject basic principles like equality of opportunity, liberty, justice. Instead,

00:00:38.740 they opt for their own iterations of these principles. Instead of justice, which is the

00:00:44.020 rule of law applied equally to everyone, they believe in social justice. So they believe in

00:00:48.520 applying the laws differently to different people to engineer an outcome that they choose. They

00:00:53.740 don't believe in the concept of equality. They believe in the concept of equity, which means

00:00:58.120 that there is more equality for some and less equality for others. And when it comes to the

00:01:02.620 principle of liberty, they basically just don't believe in that. They believe that there should

00:01:07.380 be a heavy-handed government, re-engineering, social engineering, trying to change human nature,

00:01:13.360 trying to change the world that we live in to create some kind of a utopia, some kind of an

00:01:17.560 impossible utopia that we will never reach. And we talk a lot about this because it does pose a

00:01:22.380 threat. We see it in so many iterations so often. And today I want to focus in on this threat,

00:01:27.800 this group of people, this ideology, this poisonous, pervasive ideology that has captured

00:01:32.800 schools in Ontario. We see so many examples of it. I saw this over the weekend and I want to say

00:01:38.400 that I was shocked, but sadly, this kind of thing doesn't even surprise me anymore. It is so pervasive.

00:01:44.320 It is everywhere. It is everywhere. And sadly, it's not surprising anymore, but it's still

00:01:48.400 so disturbing and so up-putting. So our friend Jonathan Kaye, who is the editor over at Collette,

00:01:53.820 he tweeted this out. So on Monday, the Ontario School Teachers Federation District 20 announced

00:02:00.280 that their rules would be changed so that each non-white union member would have his or her vote

00:02:05.840 weighted more than white members. So if you're not white and you're voting, your vote is worth more 0.98

00:02:11.960 than white members. So here are the slides that they use to justify the decision to the rank and files.

00:02:17.820 So again, to go back to the concept of Western liberal democracy, Enlightenment values, the idea

00:02:23.320 that that was fought for for so long and that we at some point finally did achieve is that every

00:02:28.660 individual is equal. Everybody has equal moral weight. Everybody is equal before the law. One

00:02:33.940 person equals one vote. A citizen is a citizen and there are no distinctions. And so here we have,

00:02:39.800 in a free and fair country like Canada, we finally reach this place where we're all equal. And then

00:02:45.180 what do we have? We have this woke movement that come up and say, well, wait a minute,

00:02:49.680 we're not equal enough. Some people are more equal than others. And so if you're white, 0.76

00:02:53.960 your vote does not count the same as if you're not white. It's just so despicable in so many 1.00

00:02:59.260 different ways to divide people in Canada up by their race and determine that if they have white 0.73

00:03:04.540 skin somehow, they're not valuable, as valuable as if they don't have white skin. Like, how would they 0.99

00:03:09.940 even classify who is white? Who would count as someone who's white? Is someone from the Middle 1.00

00:03:14.620 East white? Is someone from Latin America white? It's just so icky and it's so strange and it's so 1.00

00:03:19.200 disturbing that this is happening. And so we see with these slides, with these images, the way that

00:03:25.260 they're using to justify, you know, it's just filled with this sort of Marxist imagery of a revolution

00:03:31.280 and trying to get, you know, celebrate this idea that they're dividing us by race and giving some

00:03:36.920 people more value than other people, all under the guise of social justice and trying to improve

00:03:42.680 representation for some over others. And so, you know, you can go on and on and on and see

00:03:47.980 the justification here. Here is their conclusion that they write,

00:03:53.120 anti-racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems,

00:03:58.160 organizational structures, policies and practices and attitudes so that power is redistributed and

00:04:03.700 shared equitably. And that is according to the Ontario anti-racism secretariat. Whoever knew that

00:04:12.220 such a position existed, they obviously have too much time on their hands. A couple more

00:04:16.220 interesting tidbits. So some people on the school board obviously didn't feel right about this. And so

00:04:21.960 hence this conversation about reverse racism. Is it reverse racism? No, no, I would say it's just plain

00:04:28.040 old racism. There's nothing reverse about this. It's just plain old racism, dividing people up by

00:04:32.960 race, saying that some people are inherently more valuable and some people are inherently less

00:04:36.860 valuable based on the color of their skin. That's pretty textbook racism here. But apparently at the

00:04:42.980 meeting, when some teachers sort of challenged this idea of weighted voting, the school said that

00:04:48.860 even the concept of reverse racism, even just saying the words reverse racism was a form of harassment.

00:04:55.260 It was harmful. So if you have any complaint, if you have any pushback about this, they again just

00:05:00.680 use all of these terms to weaponize against you. If you speak out against this nonsense,

00:05:05.580 they accuse you of harassment. So that's the world that we live in. That's the stranglehold

00:05:11.140 that the woke left have over institutions. And you can just see the way that this woke ideology is

00:05:16.180 being infused into the school district. This is out in the Halton district, by the way. And let me tell

00:05:20.380 you, if I had a child in the Halton school district, if I had a child in public school out there, that

00:05:25.200 child would not be going to school anymore. I think that the only way that we can push back and fight

00:05:29.620 against this nonsense that's being so infused, I mean, look, someone tries to fight back, teachers

00:05:33.780 try to fight back against it, and they get accused of harassment and saying harmful things. It's just

00:05:40.020 beyond the pale. I think at this point, there's perhaps two ways to get out of this mess.

00:05:44.880 One, elect a whole bunch of conservatives to school boards, elect a whole bunch of conservatives, 0.98

00:05:49.400 not even conservatives, just sane-minded people who oppose the woke left. Elect them onto school

00:05:54.460 boards, change the culture, change the representation on those elected boards. Or second, pull your kids 0.85

00:06:00.580 out of public school. Take them out of public school. Do not consent to the system. Say no. There

00:06:05.180 are enough options out there. There are enough ulterior options out there that you do not have to send

00:06:09.440 your children to these government schools where they will be brainwashed with this ideology.

00:06:14.020 I don't know what else to say at this point. It is just so outrageous. There is no way in hell

00:06:19.060 my children will be going to a public school that pushes this kind of woke ideology. And to help us

00:06:24.720 break this down even further today, I'm delighted to be joined by True North investigative journalist

00:06:29.700 and columnist Sue Ann Levy. Sue Ann, thank you so much for joining us.

00:06:33.660 Oh, you're welcome, Candace.

00:06:35.200 So I just want to start by talking. I know you've been doing some great reporting on this topic,

00:06:39.660 and we'll get to some of your reports, Sue Ann, but this Twitter thread from Jonathan Kaye,

00:06:44.480 I mean, it's so wild. It's something that you just wouldn't even believe if someone told you about

00:06:48.620 it. Or if you heard about it in another country, you would say, this has got to be some kind of a

00:06:52.940 joke. So can you help us understand what is going on in, it's District 20, I think that's Halston,

00:06:58.580 Ontario. What is going on? Are they an outlier? Or is this something that sort of exists

00:07:02.520 throughout the school districts?

00:07:04.360 Well, you can be bound and determined that if it's happening there, it's going to happen

00:07:08.080 or has happened elsewhere. It's a teacher's union, a high school teacher's union of about

00:07:13.200 1400 members. And apparently they've passed this policy that when they take a vote, even

00:07:19.860 if they're not represented in the, in the union, actual caucus of presidents from various locals,

00:07:27.620 if they're not represented by visible minorities, particularly blacks, then they are required to,

00:07:34.820 to weight the vote as if they had an equal number of blacks and whites or visible minorities. So

00:07:43.480 if say, for example, there were five people voting and four of them were white and one was black,

00:07:49.440 they'd waited as if there was 50-50. It was 50-50. It doesn't matter how the vote turns out. It's just

00:07:57.020 allowing for these ghost diverse voices to vote or to have a say.

00:08:04.900 It's so wild too, that even the concept of just like breaking populations up into blacks and whites, 1.00

00:08:11.020 it's, it's such an uneasy concept in Canada because we're a country of immigrants, right? So it's not

00:08:15.400 like there's like two homogenous populations here. It's like, you know, you could have someone who's

00:08:20.720 been in Canada for like five generations and they may just happen to, you know, come from African

00:08:25.920 ancestors or have one African ancestor out of like, you know, 16 versus someone who could be a very new

00:08:33.180 immigrant from Eastern Europe or from Israel or from the Middle East. And they would be considered

00:08:38.640 why. I just, I have a very hard time wrapping my head around this and, and, and even trying to

00:08:43.820 understand like why they thought it was a good idea, how it got implemented, how it got to the stage

00:08:48.300 where it's actually like out there and they're doing it. Like, like, are there not any sane people,

00:08:52.880 Sue Ann, that are on these school boards to stop this kind of stuff? I just, I'm having

00:08:55.900 a really hard time with the story. There are none left. I'm convinced there are none left and they

00:09:00.800 all talk within this bubble and they're not connected to the world. I feel sorry for the,

00:09:05.620 for the, uh, the kids in the school system, but you know, in some ways the parents are to blame

00:09:10.540 because they have absconded the responsibility, uh, in large part to the school system. You know,

00:09:17.560 I understand people have to, you know, carry two or three jobs and they're busy and, but the kids

00:09:24.320 have become the latchkey kids of the school system. And this is all, you know, been happening behind

00:09:30.820 closed doors. And then all of a sudden people wake up and think, oh my God, what's going on? But this

00:09:36.140 has been percolating for a number of years. Now, the one comment I would have about the, uh, OSSTF in

00:09:43.200 Halton is, well, if you aren't adequately represented by various visible minorities, then you do your part

00:09:49.900 to get people to be part of your caucus. Don't do this ridiculous, these ridiculous mental, uh, and 0.98

00:09:57.780 math gymnastics, um, to, to make it appear like you're really diverse. The other interesting thing 0.98

00:10:03.840 is the person who's reporting or, or being allowed to speak about this is a white woman. Her name is

00:10:11.040 Cindy Gage. She's president of the, over the umbrella local, and she's the only one who's allowed to talk 0.67

00:10:17.280 about this. So I guess irony was lost on her that a white woman is declaring the policy and only allowed 1.00

00:10:24.720 to speak about the policy. I mean, I mean, it is, you, you make a good point that if they want more true

00:10:31.500 diversity, they could go out and recruit it. But in my mind, if you were in that situation where

00:10:36.500 there's sort of one person who's a minority, who's black and five people who aren't, I don't think

00:10:42.520 that that one black person would feel empowered by the idea that they have as much of a say as all

00:10:48.320 the other people. Like it doesn't really, uh, lend well to like an idea of collaboration. It's like

00:10:52.680 one person has all the power. Everyone else is sort of stuck. Like what trying to convince this one

00:10:57.400 person, it would create an uncomfortable imbalance that, that, that's the opposite. And, and you say

00:11:03.320 the mental gymnastics that they have to jump through. It's like, it's, it's kind of the opposite

00:11:07.500 because at the end of the day, they don't believe in equality. They don't believe in individual

00:11:10.960 liberty. They believe in their own concepts like equity and social justice, where everything in

00:11:16.280 the system needs to be manipulated. Um, so we get this sort of artificial equity or equality that,

00:11:22.000 that that's, that's not, that's not even natural. And, and that, that, that ends up again,

00:11:26.300 having the reverse reactions, but you, you've seen this kind of stuff in other, uh, in other

00:11:31.080 school districts and you've been reporting on it with True North, uh, around Ontario. So,

00:11:34.820 so let's talk about a few of those reports. So, and can you walk us through this Hamilton

00:11:38.380 school board pushing anti-black racism agenda for kindergarten kids story?

00:11:43.100 Well, this, again, this was happening during, uh, COVID. They put together this policy

00:11:47.980 and every school board is blaming COVID as they suddenly realized that, uh, I guess in their

00:11:54.720 minds, black, uh, students weren't getting a fair shake during COVID. I don't understand why COVID 1.00

00:11:59.900 made the difference, but it's a good excuse. So they put together this policy. It's, uh, a new

00:12:05.620 series of modules to teach kids as young as kindergarten. And I went through the module

00:12:11.660 extensively, uh, about racism, the understanding of racism, race theory, and to talk about anti-black

00:12:20.660 racism. And in particular, there's entire module dedicated, you know, get this, these are five-year-old

00:12:27.020 kids. So kindergarten to grade three would learn this module. Uh, it was put in place last year

00:12:34.340 during COVID. And now, um, I, I tried to get out of them, well, is this required? Uh, do the teachers

00:12:43.780 have to teach it? Uh, and I was told that they could edit it in their own way, but as part of the

00:12:50.820 equity, um, there, they always use legislative, uh, you know, means as, as pushing the envelope,

00:12:59.140 like saying that these people are required legislative, these teachers to teach this under

00:13:04.820 their human rights policies and the policies of the province of Ontario. So I, I didn't really get an

00:13:12.180 answer, but I think probably teachers have been guilted into teaching this. So the, they teach, uh,

00:13:18.900 anti-black racism based on this very dangerous critical race theory. And I think we've talked

00:13:24.420 about that critical race theory is, is a theory that came through several decades ago in the states.

00:13:30.420 It's been throughout the states. Parents are finding out in the school system that it is being in fact

00:13:36.020 taught critical race theory says that all blacks, uh, are victims of a white dominated system. They

00:13:44.020 haven't been able to move ahead in life because whites dominate all our institutions. And, um, and now, 1.00

00:13:50.900 you know, the expression white fragility, now they're upset because blacks are suddenly becoming 1.00

00:13:55.460 empowered, but it's the whole victim mentality. So here we are trying to indoctrinate kids as young as

00:14:01.220 kindergarten and the Hamilton school board at grade three, after grade three, they learn about

00:14:06.420 black lives matter. They have a whole module on black lives matter, an activist organization that

00:14:12.900 is proven in the States to be violent and antisemitic, I might add, and, you know, anti-white.

00:14:18.980 Well, I, yeah, like you, you, you can, you can sort of teach the basic concept that everybody is equal.

00:14:24.740 Everyone matters, obviously black, black lives matter, white lives matter, everybody matters.

00:14:28.660 But the idea of the political component of it, like you said, that you devolve into looting,

00:14:33.940 rioting, even shooting police officers, uh, it, it, it's a really heavy subject to be teaching

00:14:39.940 little kids. And, and to your point, it, it, it kind of, it, it creates this idea that,

00:14:45.940 that some people are permanent victims, no matter what they do, no matter how hard they work,

00:14:50.340 no matter how smart they are, how competent and how capable they are, that, that, that they're going

00:14:56.180 to be held back because of their skin color. And conversely, it, it tells some children that,

00:15:00.900 no matter how hard they try to be nice and to be good, um, that, that, that they're bad,

00:15:04.820 that they're a bad person and that they're part of a system that, that it is, it's a horrible thing

00:15:08.900 to be teaching little kids. I, I just, I can't, I can't get over the fact that this is already

00:15:13.220 happening in our country. It is. And, you know, I'm a graduate of the Hamilton public school system,

00:15:18.020 and I didn't do too badly. And back then, okay, I'm going to talk about the dark ages now,

00:15:23.220 back then, but my public school still exists. I looked it up. Um, we were taught citizenship.

00:15:28.340 We actually got grades in citizenship and respect all that kind of thing. And why don't they teach

00:15:34.340 kids about respect and citizenship and learning to respect others. But what this does is it provides

00:15:39.860 people between the good guys and the bad guys. And that to me is, is bordering on obscene,

00:15:46.500 actually what you do, you know, how you'd indoctrinate kids. Um, so, you know, I have

00:15:52.100 a real, real problem with it, a real problem. And then why don't you tell us a little bit,

00:15:56.340 Suen, about what's going on over in Hamilton, because it looks like they have similar program

00:16:01.460 focused on uprooting discrimination. What, uh, what's going on over in Hamilton?

00:16:05.780 This was Hamilton. And you want to know about Peel. Oh, Peel. Sorry. What's going on in Peel? Yeah,

00:16:09.940 that's right. Peel, Peel is terrible. It's absolutely. So they had the, the school board

00:16:16.100 was taken over by the province, uh, about a year and a half ago, because there were, um,

00:16:21.460 allegations of racism within the board and this group called parents of black children basically

00:16:27.060 took over the board and they brought in a provincial, uh, supervisor who, uh, was working

00:16:34.340 with the equity unit at the province of Ontario to bring in all these crazy, again, critical race 0.99

00:16:39.860 theory, um, black lives matter, anti-racism initiatives. What I did was I looked up the 0.73

00:16:47.780 demographics and as with other school boards like Hamilton, the number of black students, uh,

00:16:55.700 ranges in about six, less than 6% of the population. In fact, in Peel, there's a large, uh,

00:17:02.820 a number of the demographics skews towards Muslim students, um, Asian students, but here they are

00:17:10.900 selecting black students, um, and selectively focusing on. So what they did recently, uh, it was

00:17:17.540 part of a bunch of initiatives is they said that teachers could not progress into vice principalships

00:17:26.260 or principalships unless they had, uh, equity training, uh, training in equity and diversity

00:17:33.940 and were shown to have some experience stopping some oppression incident. I kid you not, they had to

00:17:41.300 provide evidence that they had stopped an oppression incident, identified it and dealt with it. And that

00:17:49.460 was on the resume, on the, um, resume that they had to send in. Nothing about leadership, uh, potential,

00:17:58.340 nothing about handling different situations like violence in the school system. Uh, I've also heard

00:18:04.420 since then that this Peel board is turning a blind eye to some really serious violent incidents if they

00:18:10.820 involve, uh, visible minorities and not reporting them to the police, which makes me very, very worried about 1.00

00:18:18.180 the future of that system. Well, and it's really interesting because in your, in your article

00:18:22.820 here, you have some reports from the census and the Peel district, and it's incredibly diverse

00:18:27.460 and not, not even diverse in the ways that you would think. So 40, a full 48.8%. So nearly half of

00:18:33.460 all students come from a South Asian background. So they're, they're either from India or, or Pakistan,

00:18:39.620 I guess, and followed by white students, which, which is a mix of like, you know, everybody from all over

00:18:45.860 Europe, people who've been in Canada for a long time, people just come that's 13%, almost 10% are

00:18:51.540 black, almost 6% are Middle Eastern and about 5% are East Asian. So, so, so, so all of this mindset

00:18:59.140 is, is really kind of geared towards demonizing one small group of students. I can't imagine that

00:19:04.740 that would be comfortable for any of the students to be sit, you know, sitting in a very diverse

00:19:08.500 classroom, divided up based on how they look and their, you know, characteristics that they're born

00:19:13.700 with. They can't do anything about like what a terrible, terrible way to be organizing a classroom.

00:19:19.300 So what, what, what can parents do about this or what, like to me, I'm at such a breaking point with

00:19:23.380 this stuff. Like there is no way I would be sending my kids to a public school that does this kind of

00:19:28.100 stuff. But I fear that it's, it's everywhere, even, even perhaps in private schools. So, you know,

00:19:32.500 what, what can we do to, to just say enough is enough and, and, and stop pushing this hatred and, and

00:19:38.340 start promoting the kinds of values that you talked about respect, citizenship, citizenship,

00:19:43.780 you know, unity, liberty, all, all these kinds of like basic principles that we hold dear as

00:19:50.420 Canadians, that these sort of woke leaders just completely reject. And, and, and I mean, it's

00:19:56.100 terrible. What, what, what do you think people should do?

00:19:57.940 Well, I think first of all, there's this organization called parents of black children

00:20:02.740 who are very activists. They're a real activism organization. And I think what parents have to do

00:20:09.620 of other children of other minorities, and I understand there's sometimes a language barrier,

00:20:14.340 they have to get more involved. As I said before, I blame some, sometimes the parents because they've

00:20:19.620 left the school system to take care of their kids and they're not involved as involved as they, as they

00:20:24.660 should be. And the more they get involved in, the more they form a group of, you know, there's,

00:20:30.740 there's safety in numbers, so to speak, the more they speak out, probably the more that these things

00:20:38.020 will be exposed and come, come to everyone's attention. The problem is that some of these

00:20:43.140 school board directors drift from school board to school board, spreading their woke theories.

00:20:48.420 Now call the woman who headed up the Peel board, who started, put all this in motion is now at the

00:20:53.220 Toronto school board wreaking the same havoc. So I think parents have to be a lot more aware

00:20:59.780 about what's going on. Stand up for free speech. And don't accept the fact that school boards are

00:21:06.100 saying, you entrust us, you know, this kind of patriarchal thing to you and trust your kids to

00:21:12.180 us, we'll take care of them. No more, no more. And I mean, for those who can't pull them out of the 1.00

00:21:17.140 school system. I mean, people have talked about homeschooling, push for charter schools. I mean,

00:21:22.980 I can't believe the Ford government, the Doug Ford government is allowing this to happen. It's just

00:21:30.340 beyond my comprehension that they're allowing this to continue within the school boards or

00:21:35.220 actually flourish. Right. And if this is all happening under a conservative watch,

00:21:39.860 I can only imagine how much worse it could get when liberals come back into power in Ontario,

00:21:44.500 which I'm sure at some point they will. Well, Sue Ann, thank you so much for your great reporting on this

00:21:48.580 topic. And thank you for keeping us informed because, you know, if it weren't for your reporting

00:21:52.980 and some of the other reports that are out there, we wouldn't even know this stuff was going on because

00:21:56.500 it all happens behind closed doors. So we really, really appreciate your reporting on this, Sue Ann.

00:22:00.180 Thank you. All right. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:22:02.980 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

Juno News - November 24, 2021

Critical Race Theory comes to Canada

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