Juno News - Human rights commission says Christmas is a ＂discriminatory＂ holiday

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00:00:30.000 Thank you.

00:01:00.000 welcome to canada's most irreverent talk show this is the andrew lawton show brought to you by true

00:01:20.380 north hello and welcome to you all this is canada's most irreverent talk show the andrew

00:01:30.640 lawton show on true north on this tuesday november 21st not to alarm you but we are one month and

00:01:39.100 four days away from christmas now this kind of was i i try to consider myself as someone who's

00:01:46.420 on top of the news, but the news doesn't always mean the calendar. So I was yesterday at the post

00:01:51.380 office, which is like always a miserable experience. And I was, you know, sending something

00:01:56.360 somewhere. It doesn't matter. I was going, I was actually, I was going to Montreal. So it was

00:02:00.000 international arguably, but I heard Christmas music above me as I was trying to fill out the

00:02:06.200 envelope. So that was what jarred me because like after remembrance day, we take like the solemn

00:02:11.840 moment of silence and then you just blink and it's Christmas decorations everywhere. We were

00:02:16.400 replace poppies with poinsettias,

00:02:18.400 solemnity with Christmas carols,

00:02:20.860 and here we are.

00:02:21.900 But nevertheless, it is a discrimination

00:02:25.200 for me to point that out, believe it or not.

00:02:27.100 The Canadian Human Rights Commission,

00:02:29.280 this grand body standing up for human rights

00:02:32.320 of all Canadians,

00:02:33.160 because we are a country based on rights and freedoms,

00:02:36.140 a liberal democracy and all that jazz.

00:02:38.640 But no, no, no.

00:02:39.640 Christmas is the source of discrimination.

00:02:43.500 Did you know that?

00:02:44.420 This is from a discussion paper

00:02:46.400 published by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, a discussion paper on religious intolerance.

00:02:52.620 And it talks about how the ability to practice your religion is a fundamental human right.

00:02:57.800 It's enshrined in international law and domestic law.

00:03:01.100 It's protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the UN Declaration of

00:03:05.600 Human Rights.

00:03:06.300 Religious tolerance is so important.

00:03:08.400 But Canada, the report says, is a systemically religiously intolerant place.

00:03:15.300 Religious intolerance impedes the ability of Canadian society to be democratic, welcoming, open-minded, and accepting, the report says, only by acknowledging how religiously intolerant Canada is can we begin to address it.

00:03:32.720 So the fundamental basis of this report is that Canada is an intolerant country.

00:03:41.360 Canada, now let's take Quebec out of the mix here. 0.98

00:03:43.620 I'm not a fan of Quebec's approach on forced secularism in some public spaces.

00:03:49.380 Canada is a country in which you are able to have tremendous recourse if you find yourself the victim of discrimination.

00:03:55.880 If you are told by an employer, say, or a prospective employer that you are not going to be hired for reasons that a Human Rights Commission might think have to do with your faith, maybe you wear a hijab or a turban, well, you are going to get a tremendous payout.

00:04:09.180 That commission is going to throw the book at the employer who did that to you.

00:04:14.200 We have, in fact, many policies that work against any criticism or skepticism you might have towards someone of another faith, towards someone of another religion.

00:04:26.660 So we've actually enshrined a great deal of forced religious tolerance, forced multiculturalism, forced pluralism.

00:04:33.360 If you look at where people face discrimination, I will say that there is a little bit of religious intolerance in Canada, but it works against Christians.

00:04:42.960 This is why, for example, the Law Society of Upper Canada, sorry, you have to call it the Law Society of Ontario now, was able to deny accreditation to a law school that Trinity Western University, an explicitly Christian university, was establishing.

00:04:59.660 You cannot now be a lawyer who's gone through that and be recognized by many of the bar societies.

00:05:06.120 And the Supreme Court said that was okay because they did not believe that Trinity Western had a right to be Christian.

00:05:12.220 So that sounds like religious intolerance to me, but that's not what the Canadian Human Rights Commission is referring to.

00:05:19.840 They discuss religious intolerance as evidenced by the fact that we have Christmas and Easter as holidays.

00:05:29.800 Yeah, let's take a look at this here.

00:05:31.900 An obvious example is statutory holidays in Canada.

00:05:35.140 The statutory holidays related to Christianity, including Christmas and Easter, are the only

00:05:39.900 Canadian statutory holidays linked to religious holy days.

00:05:44.060 As a result, non-Christians may need to request special accommodations to observe their holy 1.00

00:05:49.520 days and other times of the year where their religion requires them to abstain from work.

00:05:55.180 But the fact that it says that means that people who are Jewish, people who are Sikh,

00:06:00.020 people who are Hindu, whatever the case is, they have that right.

00:06:03.420 You cannot, as a Jewish employee, be forced to work on Shabbat.

00:06:07.700 You cannot be forced to work on the High Holy Days because even if you have an absolute 0.96

00:06:11.800 jerk of an employer, you have the ability to go to a Human Rights Commission and they 0.88

00:06:15.800 will say, or to a tribunal, and they will say, well, you've discriminated against this

00:06:19.500 person, you've got to pay them $20,000.

00:06:21.940 This is because we have baked in religious tolerance to the system.

00:06:27.020 Now, if we're being really technical, non-Christians get more holidays than Christians because 0.98

00:06:33.360 they still get the statutory holidays of Christmas and Easter and so on, but they are also entitled

00:06:38.760 to the days off that they're wanting to take off for their religious beliefs. So it was like when

00:06:43.940 I used to work in Ottawa, all of the non-Quebeckers would get Canada Day off, but the Quebecers would 1.00

00:06:49.760 get Canada Day and Saint-Jean-de-Baptiste Day off because that was like, they didn't care about

00:06:55.360 Canada Day, but they'd take the holiday and then take their bonus holiday on top of that. So the

00:07:00.280 idea that the Human Rights Commission is pushing here is just fundamentally flawed, but they explain

00:07:05.800 what they mean by this because they say this is perpetual and systemic discrimination against

00:07:12.480 religious minorities grounded in Canada's history of colonialism. They say our history with religious 0.67

00:07:20.480 tolerance is deeply rooted in our identity as a settler colonial state. And there's another

00:07:27.200 section where it talks about how it was colonizers that brought this tradition of violence and

00:07:33.460 discrimination to Canada. The Canadian Human Rights Commission has a genuine contempt for Canada,

00:07:41.140 genuine contempt for Christianity. If we are to say that there are going to be statutory holidays

00:07:46.540 in Canada, they have to be based on what it is that most Canadians are observing. And I hate to

00:07:51.920 break it to you, but even a lot of non-Christians, look, I'm a Christian. I believe Christmas and

00:07:56.920 Easter are Christian holidays, but with Christmas especially, there's an argument that this is a

00:08:02.200 far more cultural holiday to a lot of people than a religious holiday. There are far more

00:08:07.120 non-Christians that put up Christmas trees and exchange Christmas presents than there are 1.00

00:08:11.540 Christians who celebrate Hanukkah or Diwali or Ramadan, simply put, because Christmas is a 0.98

00:08:17.920 cultural fixture of the West. And Easter, very similarly, I mean, all of a sudden, are we going

00:08:23.740 to hear from the commission that when a big store plays Christmas music, that that's discriminatory

00:08:29.040 because I might be able to get on board with that one actually. If the Human Rights Commission

00:08:32.700 could like crack the whip on anyone that plays Christmas music for too long, that might be

00:08:36.960 something we could all find some common ground on for secularism insofar as Christmas tune

00:08:42.520 selections in retail outlets are concerned. But there is another side of this, which is that I

00:08:48.160 mentioned a few moments ago, the religious intolerance that exists in Canada in a systemic

00:08:53.040 way is against Christians. That's the position I would have always taken up until about six weeks 1.00

00:08:59.540 ago. There's an argument now that we have tremendous religious intolerance towards

00:09:03.820 Jews. I wouldn't necessarily say it's systemic in nature, but certainly it is cultural and societal.

00:09:10.380 We've seen since October 7th rampant anti-Semitism, not just people saying,

00:09:15.220 well, I've got some issues about Judaism or some issues about Israel, but people

00:09:19.200 explicitly making calls for violence against Jews and Jewish people.

00:09:24.920 Take, for example, this charming young lad speaking at a protest over the weekend. 0.82

00:09:49.200 well I'll say he gets points for timing and rhythm a lot of the time these rabid leftists don't know

00:09:56.580 how to chant in rhythm and chant to a beat but when we hear one solution does that remind you

00:10:03.480 of anything perhaps a solution that is final in nature when we hear a call for revolution resistance

00:10:09.740 and intifada this is a call for violence it's a call for annihilation of the state of Israel

00:10:15.940 which means annihilation of the Jewish people living in the Middle East. 0.99

00:10:21.200 That is hate through and through. 0.86

00:10:23.140 Now, I would say that is defensible under free speech grounds.

00:10:27.200 I would say that is very concerning.

00:10:29.520 It's very uncomfortable, but that is freedom of expression in my view,

00:10:32.740 unless it goes to the point where it is an explicit and direct threat.

00:10:37.320 But there's no denying it's hate.

00:10:38.560 And you know what?

00:10:39.060 I have not seen any condemnations from the Canadian Human Rights Commission

00:10:42.220 against that hate, nor any of the hate we've seen in the last six weeks, except for one

00:10:48.520 single tweet. I looked back and I scrolled before going on air manually to October 7th to find every

00:10:56.480 single tweet posted by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. And I found one that said the CHRC

00:11:02.980 is deeply concerned by the dramatic rise in Islamophobia, antisemitism, and racism-fueled

00:11:10.340 hate in our country. Now is the time for new legislation to address hate in Canada with a

00:11:16.340 coordinated and comprehensive approach. Now that came November 10th, one month and three days

00:11:20.980 after the attacks, after the anti-Semitic protests started. And even then it's a condemnation more of

00:11:26.680 Islamophobia and even more a call for regulation of speech, which is a perpetual hobby horse

00:11:32.760 of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Now to put this in contrast, I found about a dozen tweets

00:11:38.680 that mention trans people. I found six tweets that mention asexual people. I found one honoring

00:11:44.900 World Lesbian Day, which I didn't even know was a day, just a few days after October 7th. So this

00:11:50.680 is all dwarfing the interest in the Canadian Human Rights Commission in condemning this form of hate.

00:11:56.860 But now we have a full discussion paper on the perils and systemic discrimination of Christmas

00:12:02.820 and Easter being holidays.

00:12:05.680 Ezra Levant is the founder of Rebel News,

00:12:08.260 and I will say the historic slayer of human rights commissions.

00:12:12.160 He went toe-to-toe with the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal

00:12:15.100 in something you absolutely must go and watch the footage of

00:12:19.000 because he understood early on that you should always bring a camera

00:12:22.120 to these star chambers.

00:12:23.800 Ezra, always good to talk to you.

00:12:25.440 Thanks for coming on here.

00:12:27.080 I don't look to the Canadian Human Rights Commission

00:12:29.460 as a moral authority on anything,

00:12:31.060 So I couldn't care less about what they condemn or denounce.

00:12:34.560 But it is so revealing that they're silent on this explicit hate that we've seen every single day, but find the real culprit to be Christmas.

00:12:43.600 You know what? They take a magnifying glass and a microscope to find hate in the goofiest things, like the hand symbol, OK, that every human being does.

00:12:53.880 Or I think of the cabinet minister, R.S. Sachs, who said, honk, honk is code for Heil Hitler.

00:13:02.120 Like they were so absurd.

00:13:03.680 And there was one agent provocateur at the trucker convoy in Ottawa who briefly unfolded a swastika flag.

00:13:10.020 Someone took a photo of it.

00:13:11.000 Then it was put away.

00:13:11.900 Mission accomplished.

00:13:13.000 My point is they would look for any trace, any hint of something they could take offense to that was fake.

00:13:21.680 But here we have actual swastikas, people chanting death to the Jews, and in some places they actually use that language, in some places they use it slightly more coded, like that youngster you just showed, Intifada Revolution. Intifada is an Arabic word for a pogrom, really, a riot.

00:13:38.080 I have a harder line than you, Andrew. I not only think that the diversity, equity, and inclusion

00:13:46.120 people, the anti-hate people, the human rights people, not only are they not looking for hatred

00:13:52.260 when it's staring them right in the eye, I think they're a large source of it. Think of this,

00:13:57.580 Laith Maroof, the guy who got a half a million dollars from Trudeau to fight racism, he was one 0.80

00:14:03.240 the worst racists you'll ever find. And the DEI, the equity, the inclusion, the diversity,

00:14:09.060 theology is based on hatred. Give me one second on this, Andrew. Critical theory, cultural Marxism,

00:14:17.700 whatever, wokeness, whatever you want to say, it's, this is how it works. Someone walks into a room

00:14:22.420 where there's harmony, and they think, how can I divide this group into oppressors and the

00:14:27.700 oppressed. Can I do it based on class? That's what Marx did. The innovation of the last 50 years was

00:14:35.000 doing it based on gender. Men are the oppressors, women are the oppressed. Transgenderism, straight 1.00

00:14:40.760 people are the oppressors, trans people are the oppressed. Race, Black Lives Matter, I don't know 1.00

00:14:46.480 more. And so the critical theory, the leftists look at the whole world in terms of oppressed

00:14:53.000 and oppressors, and they say anything is, any means necessary to go to war against the oppressors.

00:15:00.460 So these DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion officers in every university, in every woke

00:15:05.860 corporation, in every bank, in every government agency, their job is actually, A, to foment

00:15:12.900 discord and division, and B, to do it on explicitly racist lines. In conclusion, Andrew,

00:15:19.260 I put it to you that in the last six weeks, the DEI and human rights industries not only have not been stopping the hatred we've seen in our streets, they have been the participants and the leaders and the volunteers and the organizers of it.

00:15:36.220 We have a big problem with people who come here from endemically anti-Semitic places, Syria, Jordan. 1.00

00:15:43.540 These are places where, according to pollsters, people hate Jews.

00:15:47.260 But not just hate. I mean, want to kill in a large way. And that's the point here. I don't like the moral equivalence of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism from these people, for example, because when someone is Islamophobic, oftentimes it's very bigoted. When someone is anti-Semitic, oftentimes it's very violent. 1.00

00:16:07.400 It's a very good point. And we've seen Molotov cocktail at a Jewish synagogue in Montreal. Twice the same school in Montreal was shot up, Jewish school, big Jewish high school in Toronto. There was threats, three people were charged. And then last week, there was a bomb threat, the whole school evacuated. 0.89

00:16:26.700 And I think they're doing almost dry runs. They're testing what they can get away with. It's two parts. One is endemically anti-Semitic mass immigration. And the second part, though, is their tag team partner, their maitre d', their concierges, the woke white Canadians who look at it.

00:16:50.180 You know, I was in London a couple of weeks ago for the huge, huge anti-Israel rally.

00:16:56.100 There was more than 100,000 people on the streets of London.

00:16:58.680 And I spent hours in this crowd.

00:17:01.400 And I was very careful, by the way, because the police were far away.

00:17:04.780 And I'd say it was about 70 or 80 percent immigrants to the UK.

00:17:13.240 But I'd say it was about maybe 5, 10 percent were woke college kids.

00:17:17.340 But about 20% were all British Marxists, communists, socialist workers party, hardline trade unions, labor party activists, because they just want to smash the system. That's what I say, the critical theory of a Marxist approach to the world. And so 30 years ago, it might have been, well, like 40 years ago, it would have been disarmament, let's say. 20 years ago, it would have been. And so the thing of the day.

00:17:39.560 Well, it's whatever the trendy thing is, right?

00:17:41.640 Yeah, whatever smashes.

00:17:43.540 It's all about the revolution.

00:17:44.920 As James Lindsay always says, the issue isn't the issue.

00:17:48.480 The revolution is the issue.

00:17:50.480 And same thing in Canada.

00:17:52.320 You've got Iranian government activists.

00:17:54.860 You've got DEI activists.

00:17:58.660 You've got garden variety leftists.

00:18:01.120 You've got, there are some just plain old anti-Semites there.

00:18:04.140 It's this weird stew.

00:18:06.320 And it's a big problem.

00:18:08.420 To talk about the Human Rights Commissions here in context, I mean, you've been in this fight since before most people started paying attention to it.

00:18:15.760 And it's unfortunate that Section 13 is rearing its ugly head again, you know, a decade after the Conservative government repealed it.

00:18:23.640 But the one thing we've seen through the Federal Human Rights Commissions and the Provincial Commissions and Tribunals is that they do exactly what you're talking about.

00:18:32.700 They take this very radical approach, and it necessarily and inevitably puts group rights against each other in very confusing ways. 0.98

00:18:41.000 I mean, the hilarious cases are when a transgender biological male wants to get her penis waxed by a Muslim waxologist. 1.00

00:18:51.340 And it's like, well, hang on, whose rights matter more here, the trans rights or the Muslim rights? 0.98

00:18:55.220 When we saw massive protests against gender ideology a few weeks back in Canada, it was, you know, very much this industry said, okay, when Muslim parents who have been the victim under the oppression realm for years are up against trans people, no, no, no, the Muslims are now the oppressors, the trans people are the oppressors. 0.81

00:19:13.440 And then a few weeks later, Israel comes up, okay, now Muslims are the oppressed and Jews are the oppressors. 0.98

00:19:19.740 So it's shifting here, which I think shows how inconsistent it is.

00:19:23.160 But when human rights commissions and tribunals are given power, they're the ones who adjudicate this.

00:19:29.420 They're the ones who have tremendous power and influence in society to really stoke these divisions.

00:19:35.960 Yeah, you know, I think it was LaVrenti Beria, the founder of the KGB and the FSB, who said, show me the man, I'll find you the crime.

00:19:44.300 And what he meant by that is, I'll get you somehow.

00:19:47.120 There's so many laws and the application laws are so vague.

00:19:51.160 You show me anyone and I'll get you.

00:19:52.900 And frankly, there's other government institutions that work that way. I think the IRS and the SEC in the United States are the similar way. My point is these people, whoever they choose to go after, they will convict because to call these things legal, you know, to compare them to courts, they're kangaroo courts. They're not bound by precedent. They're not bound by the same civil procedure. It's basically who gets to sit in those chairs that can smear their enemies.

00:20:20.140 I'll give you the example of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, the laughably named anti-hate group that decided to simply go silent for the first world.

00:20:31.440 And whose founder, Bernie Farber, explicitly said, no, no, no, we're only interested in hate from the right, so we're not going to cover the anti-Semitic left.

00:20:39.500 We don't have the resources to tweet our opposition to it.

00:20:42.900 But you know what?

00:20:43.500 The Human Rights Commissions were on holiday for three years during the worst civil liberties bonfire in our country's history, the pandemic.

00:20:49.340 So they have to be absolutely pulled out by the root. And I think I see in some U.S. states, for example, Florida, the government is taking a position against DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, against ESG, environmental, social governance, and basically saying we won't fund these things.

00:21:13.100 We won't do business with these things. It must be eradicated. And even in the private sector,

00:21:18.900 remember that company, I think it was Coinbase, if I'm not mistaken, that said to its staff a few

00:21:23.620 years ago, if you want to be woke, if you want to be an activist, that's not on here. So we're

00:21:29.560 going to buy you out. We'll give you a nice severance payment now. And if being political

00:21:33.800 is important, you go somewhere else, go work for Google. But here at Coinbase, we're about

00:21:38.380 doing Coinbase stuff. And people took the buyout and they saved themselves not only so much woke

00:21:45.060 BS, but just someone who thinks that's important, they're going to be an HR problem. We have to

00:21:50.580 root these things out of our larger society. These are the troublemakers. Canada is actually a warm

00:21:56.480 and welcoming and loving and friendly place. These DEI activists have to whip up hatred to keep

00:22:01.860 themselves in business. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people with a lot of hatred right now.

00:22:06.020 And the DEI folks are pretty silent about it, or like I say, they're participating in it.

00:22:10.300 Just on the COVID era, I would disagree with you ever so slightly on one thing you said.

00:22:15.180 You said the Human Rights Commission was on vacation.

00:22:17.380 I would say they were not on vacation.

00:22:19.260 I think they actively and deliberately picked a side.

00:22:21.820 And I had pulled up before I spoke to you the FAQ that the Canadian Human Rights Commission published on vaccine mandates.

00:22:27.980 The question, is requiring vaccination for federally regulated employers and employees a discriminatory practice?

00:22:34.440 No, requiring that an individual be vaccinated

00:22:37.260 to work or travel is not a discriminatory practice

00:22:40.080 because they are intended to protect

00:22:42.380 public health and safety.

00:22:43.700 So again, this commission picks its side.

00:22:46.700 If you are going to lose your job

00:22:48.800 because of a personal medical decision,

00:22:50.960 you have no rights.

00:22:52.220 If you are wanting to take a Christian legal education,

00:22:56.560 you have no rights.

00:22:57.780 But if you are, on the other hand, 0.99

00:23:00.100 wanting to chant death to the Jews, 1.00

00:23:02.360 Well, you have the human right to free speech. 0.99

00:23:05.060 You know what?

00:23:05.700 I stand corrected, and I'm glad you reminded me of that.

00:23:08.400 And by the way, they made that decision without a hearing, without having facts tested, without

00:23:13.480 having advocates on each side arguing it back and forth.

00:23:16.360 That's what a real court would do. 0.98

00:23:18.100 A real court would have a neutral decision.

00:23:18.760 Just as a technical matter here, the commission decides on its own whether to take up a case

00:23:24.960 of a human rights nature.

00:23:26.580 So the commission decides before it even gets to a tribunal, if you have a human right.

00:23:33.780 You know, I can go one better than that.

00:23:35.760 And by the way, someone who worked at the Supreme Court told me this.

00:23:42.240 When vaccines were first deployed, the chief justice of the Supreme Court himself commanded

00:23:48.680 that everyone at the Supreme Court be vaxxed.

00:23:52.900 And they announced this publicly.

00:23:54.860 So the Supreme Court of Canada has yet to weigh in on any lockdown case, any pandemic case, any vaccine mandate case. I guess they've been busy with other things the last three and a half years.

00:24:05.340 But what's the point? Because no one less than the Chief Justice himself, based on his own hunches and biases and intuition, decided to implement a mandatory vaccine requirement at the Supreme Court.

00:24:20.140 You don't think every lower judge in the country, every prosecutor, every politician in the country got the message, oh, so without a hearing, without the evidence, without a back and forth, the judge has prejudged the key question of our age, which is probably why there hasn't been a single significant constitutional remedy that has overturned any of these outrageous laws.

00:24:43.400 Just today, one of our reporters, we just got the judgment today from a Quebec court.

00:24:50.520 Our reporter was out on the streets covering the curfew.

00:24:54.600 Was this Yankee? 0.58

00:24:55.880 Yeah, I know it was Sidney Fizzard, but Yankee had – so they're literally prosecuting our journalists, who had a journalistic exemption for being on the streets, by the way.

00:25:05.280 But those, I mean, it's a great ruling and the judge just tore a strip off the cops and

00:25:11.660 the prosecutors, as happened in Yankee's case, too.

00:25:14.980 But we forget, like, imagine a curfew for grownups, vaccinated or not, sick or healthy.

00:25:21.360 You were treated like a prisoner.

00:25:23.160 You were under house arrest from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.

00:25:25.720 That is what happened in our country.

00:25:28.200 And not a single significant lockdown was ever overturned.

00:25:31.720 And why would it be?

00:25:32.480 Because the chief judge himself basically said, I'm a full locker downer. Don't even bother coming to court. I'll show you what I stand for before a hearing. And by the way, he showed contempt for the system because he put his thumb on the scale and said to the whole world, hey, everybody, look at me.

00:25:49.180 like they literally put out a press release announcing their own vaccine mandate, telling

00:25:54.200 every lawyer and judge in the country, don't even bother, don't even pretend because the chief judge

00:26:00.600 is the tyrant. And it was, there were a lot, you know what, the anti-hate industry are the haters,

00:26:08.680 the diversity industry are the ones who are whipping up division. And frankly, I think the

00:26:15.480 courts have a lot to answer for. And when I went to law school, I was told that the Charter of

00:26:21.580 Rights was second only to, they wouldn't have even said second only to the Bible in terms of 0.90

00:26:26.800 holiness. And that Charter of Rights was shown to be worthless during the lockdowns. Go ahead.

00:26:34.120 No, I was just going to say on Richard Wagner, the Chief Justice, this was also the man who will

00:26:38.780 at some point have to preside over a case about the Emergencies Act, who in an interview,

00:26:43.500 which is not really part of his job description said that the convoy held Ottawa residents quote

00:26:49.540 hostage and unleashed anarchy on the city so again sending a signal to people before ever

00:26:56.400 looking at the law and the facts that uh ripples through the rest of society and the judiciary I

00:27:01.780 am glad you brought that up well you know this employee at the supreme court filed a judicial

00:27:06.700 complaint against the chief justice for that uh the the complaint was thrown out and she was thrown

00:27:11.360 out too well absolutely terrible well i suspect you will continue to hold the human rights

00:27:16.840 commission to account ezra levant founder of rebel news and i know it came out what 15 years

00:27:21.600 ago but your book shakedown was absolutely phenomenal on this so i think it's still

00:27:25.900 available on amazon people should check it out there ezra thank you so much thanks my friend

00:27:30.300 bye bye all right it's great when he talks about he's not great i mean it was that it was apt and

00:27:34.720 i think accurate when he talked about how these dei people look around and find a peaceful loving

00:27:39.940 tolerant society and have to whip up and gin up hate and hatred to make it work. And I, sometimes

00:27:47.100 I watch bad movies. In fact, I'd say most movies I watch are bad movies. Like all of the great,

00:27:52.100 like fantastic, uh, award-winning movies I've never seen, but like, you know, crappy, you know,

00:27:57.420 teen comedies like Euro trip and slasher films like saw and the purge I've all seen, but there,

00:28:03.400 I watched, I don't think I'm giving you a spoiler alert here, but it came out a few years ago. So

00:28:07.680 sucks to be you if it is. But there was this movie called The First Purge, which was like a prequel 0.97

00:28:12.700 to The Purge movies. And the premise of The Purge is that every year for 12 hours, all laws are

00:28:18.340 suspended and you can do whatever you want. You can kill, you can pillage, you can kidnap, you can

00:28:23.740 burgle, you can do whatever you want. And The First Purge went back and showed the genesis.

00:28:28.820 Yeah, Sean's complaining that they made The Purge films go woke. They did. The first one was this

00:28:33.060 great like slasher flick and then the next ones were all about like the oppression of racialized

00:28:37.980 minorities by rich white people but nevertheless when I start a series I have to see it through

00:28:42.160 to completion so excuse me see I need like my 19 straws now I didn't bring them today

00:28:48.000 the the first purge goes back to the genesis of it and the theory from these like government

00:28:54.100 experts was that we can let people just have an outlet for their rage and they'll get it all out

00:28:59.920 on this night and then that'll be fine. And what actually happened was they had this purge and no

00:29:08.340 one did anything. People just partied in the streets. They just had a grand old time. No one

00:29:11.900 actually wanted to go around and kill people. So what they had to do was insert all of these

00:29:17.620 basically government agents to go and commit and perpetrate acts of violence because no one was

00:29:23.300 doing it. And it was a parallel I sort of drew to the DEI industry, admittedly a less exciting and

00:29:29.320 less riveting one, where they go around and people are getting along and people of different

00:29:34.560 faiths and races are having fun. And Muslims are saying, oh, Merry Christmas. And Jews are saying, 0.93

00:29:39.660 oh, happy Ramadan. And Christians are saying, oh, have a blessed Diwali and all of that. And

00:29:45.080 then they're like, we have to find oppression here somewhere. You know, my parents love their

00:29:50.980 coffee. So there used to be a little tradition where when I'd go over there on Christmas morning,

00:29:55.240 I'd stop at one of the only coffee shops that was open and pick them up Starbucks.

00:29:59.240 And, you know, there was one time where I went and the Starbucks drive-thru was being

00:30:03.000 helmed by a hijab-wearing Muslim who had a Santa hat on top of her hijab and wished me a Merry

00:30:09.400 Christmas. And I was not offended by it. I think I instinctively said, you too. And she said,

00:30:13.980 thank you. That was the society we live in. That's not to say there aren't people who are hateful.

00:30:19.660 It's not to say there aren't people that are going to do terrible things, but these are outliers.

00:30:25.780 And when they arise, they are condemned by people in this country.

00:30:29.680 So when the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which is the latest example, comes out as an institution and says Canada is a deeply intolerant place, it's simply not accurate.

00:30:39.740 when all of these government institutions a few years ago responding to American news which is

00:30:45.880 the greatest Canadian pastime start saying that everything in Canada is systemically racist the

00:30:50.620 government systemically racist academia systemically racist the RCMP systemically racist

00:30:55.600 that Starbucks is probably systemically racist it's just not true and when you have these DEI

00:31:01.720 trainers that come into these groups and say if you do not think that is the case it's because

00:31:07.760 you have white lenses. You're basically being blinded by your white privilege. This is what 0.62

00:31:13.480 happened with that Kike Ojo Thompson woman, that Toronto DEI trainer. And my colleague, 1.00

00:31:19.460 Sue Ann Levy, had a piece. She found all the invoices for Kike Ojo Thompson's work and found

00:31:25.260 she had collected like $300,000 telling everyone they're racist. That's basically her business

00:31:30.220 model. And when she did this in one session with that Toronto principal, Richard Bilkstow,

00:31:35.900 she's trying to tell everyone that canada is this deeply racist country worse than the united

00:31:40.560 states he gets up there and says well i've lived and worked in the u.s and i've worked with

00:31:44.900 underprivileged racialized children and i dispute that and what does she do she accuses him of

00:31:51.080 upholding white supremacy so there's no winning in these situations there's absolutely no winning

00:31:58.020 in these environments and all of us all of us are being told that we have to view the very

00:32:05.420 worst of our country of our society and of our institutions and the canadian human rights

00:32:11.980 commission this is by the way a government appointed body that i mean this is not just

00:32:15.660 some woke ngo like the canadian anti-hate network albeit one that gets government funding this is a

00:32:20.940 an organ of the government and it was doing this even when the conservatives were in power

00:32:26.060 and stephen harper had appointed everyone at the commission including the commissioner who took it

00:32:31.020 it upon herself to be this like tremendous race prosecutor of sorts the late Jennifer Lynch so 1.00

00:32:37.320 this is one thing and I had a few conversations over the weekend with some folks about this this

00:32:41.880 is where if there is a change in government and let's be real looking at the polling Pierre

00:32:46.560 Polyev looks likely to form the next government it's not enough just to be in power and pass a

00:32:53.100 conservative budget and some conservative bills you have to root out all of these hate mongers

00:32:58.520 in these institutions and appoint replacements that take a freedom lens to these situations.

00:33:06.340 You need to basically do a hostile takeover of the CBC board, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

00:33:12.280 board, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and all of this, because otherwise these institutions

00:33:16.560 are going to continue to do exactly what we've been talking about. And this report that I

00:33:21.100 mentioned is a silly one saying Christmas and Easter are systemically discriminatory,

00:33:26.180 But underlying that is a very real and very dangerous, and I would say, to use the left's

00:33:32.480 word, problematic view about the function of society.

00:33:36.500 And I know there are people listening to the show that, for whatever reason, do not

00:33:39.540 celebrate Christmas.

00:33:40.880 These people are never the ones offended by displays of Christmas and Yuletide greetings.

00:33:47.540 It's always like the white secular liberals that wage, insofar as it exists, the so-called

00:33:53.120 war on Christmas.

00:33:54.180 So that's my TED Talk on here. As I said, I'm okay with the war on Christmas music, but I am not okay with the war on Christmas. And just in closing on this, let me play this clip. This was Justin Trudeau speaking, I think it was this morning, it might have been yesterday afternoon, making his dramatic defense of freedom of expression. Let's roll that clip.

00:34:15.500 The people are forgetting a little bit that we're a country that protects the freedom of expression, that protects liberty of conscience, that respects and supports people even when we disagree with them across various points of view.

00:34:33.540 That has been one of the strengths of Canada for our entire existence.

00:34:37.400 We're a place that does diversity better than just about anywhere else.

00:34:40.320 it's great to say we're a place that does diversity when pro-Hamas protesters are yelling

00:34:47.060 about revolution and intifada against the Jews that's like you know you don't mess with the 0.99

00:34:51.240 Zohan without the redemptive arc at the end of it see like I said bad movies I know front to back

00:34:56.420 but the was that a bad movie it was Adam Sandler so it's not you know exactly cinematic excellence

00:35:02.040 but I'm a big Adam Sandler fan so uh never that yeah better than the love guru Sean says I haven't

00:35:06.980 even seen that one but it sounds oh is that the one with mike myers i don't think i've seen it but

00:35:11.260 i i like i recall from the old blockbuster seeing the the really hokey uh probably vhs at the time

00:35:17.120 cover of it so uh nevertheless that was i lost my train of thought on that damn it sean the the love

00:35:23.040 guru is uh not justin trudeau we're not talking about him anymore but he gets up there and says

00:35:28.340 the uh you know this great line that i agree with oh we respect freedom of expression and freedom

00:35:33.780 of speech. There's a bit of an asterisk there, except when we're freezing protester bank accounts.

00:35:39.700 That's the point that I would raise here, is that, you know, it's all about free speech when it's the

00:35:44.700 left that's using their freedom to say heinous and horrible things. But if someone on the right

00:35:48.660 wants to get up and say, oh, I don't know, I like JK Rowling, or I think biological sex is real,

00:35:53.960 all of a sudden it's, well, your freedom of expression has to be balanced against tolerance

00:35:59.180 and diversity and that.

00:36:01.060 But if you want to say, 0.99

00:36:02.020 gas the Jews, 0.99

00:36:03.280 it's, well, you know, free speech.

00:36:05.200 What can we do?

00:36:06.380 So the liberals, you know,

00:36:08.080 they started off saying the right things.

00:36:09.720 They started off with explicit condemnations of Israel.

00:36:12.620 The longer it goes on,

00:36:14.140 the more they're seeing how many voters they have

00:36:16.480 that are jumping up and down

00:36:18.420 in those pro-Hamas or anti-Israel protests.

00:36:21.620 And the liberals have started to get a lot more critical

00:36:23.660 of not Hamas violence,

00:36:26.360 but of Israel and of anyone who is opposing these calls to arms and calls for violence that we are

00:36:33.300 seeing. So that will do it for us there. We were supposed to have a chat about central bank digital

00:36:38.240 currency, but we've been unable to get our guests connected. So hopefully everything's okay there

00:36:42.500 and we will be able to reschedule that at the next available opportunity. But I will leave you there.

00:36:48.100 My thanks to all of you for tuning in. I am in Vancouver tomorrow, Burnaby specifically. I don't

00:36:53.440 know how, I don't know if the de-amalgamated BC gets like, if people get angry when you start

00:36:58.800 naming the wrong suburb. But I'll be in Burnaby tomorrow for the Justice Center for Constitutional

00:37:03.900 Freedom's George Jonas Freedom Awards dinner. And I was speaking and I knew I was going to be

00:37:08.640 speaking, but I thought I was going to be on a panel. I've just been told now I'm like speaking

00:37:12.120 for 20 minutes. So I'll have to come up with some good jokes on the flight over there. But

00:37:16.400 I'm actually on the way to the airport right now. So I'm going to race out the door here. My thanks

00:37:20.060 to you all. If you are at that dinner tomorrow, do come over and say hello, and we will have a

00:37:24.460 grand old time. This is The Andrew Lawton Show. Thank you, God bless, and good day to you all.

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Juno News - November 21, 2023

Human rights commission says Christmas is a ＂discriminatory＂ holiday

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