Juno News - November 15, 2024


Shocking Remembrance Day scenes trigger backlash across Canada


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A Canadian high school played a Palestinian protest song during the official Remembrance Day ceremony. Is this a wake-up call to Canadian multiculturalism? Or is this just another example of Justin Trudeau's post-nationalism on steroids?

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00:00:00.000 If there was ever any doubt that we are living in the throes of Justin Trudeau's post-national
00:00:10.840 state in which Canada has no core identity and no core values, the events of this past week,
00:00:16.520 especially on Remembrance Day, should clear up any confusion. An Ottawa high school decided to
00:00:21.940 play a Palestinian resistance song in Arabic during the official school Remembrance Day
00:00:27.300 ceremony. A city of Toronto woke bureaucrat got up on stage at the official Remembrance Day ceremony
00:00:33.200 in Toronto and slandered this country for its role in slavery. A York University lecturer filmed
00:00:40.660 herself berating and swearing at veterans for marching on the street. A Nova Scotia high school
00:00:46.860 told veterans not to go to the school in uniform because it might trigger and offend foreign students
00:00:54.120 and just for good measure at the Saanich British Columbia Remembrance Day ceremony only one reading
00:01:00.020 from a holy book was delivered. Can you guess which book it might have been? I'll just tell you right
00:01:04.860 now it was the Quran. You know every single interest group in this country seems to get a month of 0.89
00:01:10.360 acknowledgement. Pride Month, Black History Month, Islamophobia Awareness Month, but in this country
00:01:16.600 we only get one day for the entire country to come together and honor the sacrifice of hundreds of
00:01:22.120 thousands of Canadians who died fighting for this country. And through Justin Trudeau's multiculturalism
00:01:27.080 on steroids, that one day gets hijacked by foreign interest groups, by activists, and people who want
00:01:34.120 to push foreign causes. To be quite honest with you, I find it absolutely disgraceful. The majority of 1.00
00:01:39.620 immigrants who come to this country clearly acknowledge and honor the sacrifice of Canadian soldiers.
00:01:45.780 They respect the military, they respect our veterans for what they have done. But there is a handful of
00:01:51.120 newcomers in this country, a growing handful at that, who use every opportunity they can in their new
00:01:56.040 country to advance their own foreign interests. Who want to turn Remembrance Day into a day for
00:02:01.460 Palestinian martyrs. It's really shocking that it even needs to be said. But Remembrance Day is for
00:02:08.020 Canadians. It's not for Palestinians. It's not for Israelis. It's not for Ukrainians. It's specifically and solely 0.94
00:02:15.120 for Canadians. Now, before you get into the show, be sure to drop a like on this video. Help us out
00:02:20.180 with subscribing to the True North YouTube channel. We're bringing back a ratio of the week because I
00:02:24.280 was able to ratio a particularly annoying person in this country who deserves to be shamed for it.
00:02:29.800 We'll get into that later on. But the common question for the episode is this. Were the scenes
00:02:35.540 that we have witnessed across our country on Remembrance Day a wake-up call for you, as they were
00:02:40.180 for me? Let me know your answer in the comments below. Let's get into it. Justin Trudeau's extreme
00:02:45.500 multiculturalism means less Canadian identity, less Canadian pride, and more pride and more 1.00
00:02:52.840 concern about whatever foreign cause you wish. I hope none of you were expecting Canada's 0.98
00:02:57.700 multiculturalism experiment to result in a reinforcement of Canadian identity, in a bolstering
00:03:03.280 of Canadian national pride, to result in more unity across our country. Because as we are seeing
00:03:08.940 right now, the exact opposite is taking place. On Remembrance Day, we learned that a high school
00:03:15.300 in Ottawa, Sir Robert Borden High School, which in itself is a disgusting turn of events. Sir
00:03:20.400 Robert Borden, of course, is the prime minister that led this country through the First World
00:03:24.160 War. I can only imagine that he is turning in his grave right now overhearing this news.
00:03:29.240 The principal at Sir Robert Borden High School decided that it would be appropriate to play
00:03:33.840 an Arabic-language Palestinian protest song during the official School Remembrance Day
00:03:40.200 ceremony. Because that is a good way, I guess, to honor our Canadian war dead. Or maybe it's because
00:03:45.300 he is caving to the pressure of a very loud minority of Muslim students who demanded that Remembrance Day
00:03:52.620 include something that specifically acknowledges them. That we take time away from Remembrance Day to give a
00:03:58.500 special shout out to Muslim students. You know, I bet when the tens of thousands of Canadian lads were dying in the
00:04:04.860 trenches in France, their last thought was, boy, I sure hope that in 100 years from now, they start playing Arabic
00:04:10.880 protest music on Remembrance Day. I sure hope that my country is unrecognizable for my great, great
00:04:16.420 grandchildren. That would be great. What a cause. The song was Hazam Salaam by Mahim Ahmed, a Palestinian protest song
00:04:25.940 often associated with anti-Israel imagery in the Gaza conflict. Pierre Polyev and local member of provincial
00:04:33.240 parliament Lisa McLeod have called on the principal to be fired. And to be quite honest with you, I think he should
00:04:38.600 be fired. This is a disgraceful decision. Either he did this on his own and thought that it would be a good
00:04:44.340 idea, which is a fireable offense. Or there is a group of Muslim parents at this school that have so much influence 1.00
00:04:52.020 over this principal that he caved the pressure, meaning he should be fired because he's too pathetic, 0.60
00:04:58.420 too weak, and too much of a coward to do the right thing and to stand up for Canadian values on the one
00:05:04.020 day that we're allowed in this country to fully honor our veterans. And if we're being honest, let's just
00:05:09.360 look at this principal here. He doesn't really strike the figure of someone who has a lot of courage and
00:05:14.180 backbone. Anyway, Principal Hobbs here was forced to apologize for the decision to play this absurd
00:05:21.040 Arabic language song, rightly so. But none of that sat too well with the National Council of Canadian
00:05:28.500 Muslims who felt that it is totally appropriate to play a Palestinian song on Remembrance Day.
00:05:34.040 The National Council of Canadian Muslims wrote this on social media, taking issue with the local member
00:05:39.820 of provincial parliament for daring to criticize a decision to play this Arabic song during Remembrance
00:05:45.240 Day. Send a letter to stress that this kind of divisive and deeply inappropriate rhetoric
00:05:50.560 coming from an elected leader is utterly unbefitting of anyone trying to lead the people of Ontario.
00:05:55.900 It fuels harmful stereotype. It marginalizes communities. There is no place for this behavior in Ontario.
00:06:01.940 There cannot be silence in the face of it. Of course, the National Council of Canadian Muslims would have a
00:06:07.300 typo in their tweet regarding this. It's only fitting for them. But even more so,
00:06:13.520 Mohammed Faki, I guess that's how you pronounce his name. I really don't care. 1.00
00:06:17.460 He also took issue with Lisa McLeod. Mohammed Faki, by the way, is a recipient of the Order of Canada,
00:06:25.220 and he leads Paramount Fine Foods. Mohammed Faki wrote,
00:06:29.520 let's be clear, at McLeod, Lisa has a problem with a children's song in Arabic that is literally titled
00:06:34.580 Peace. It's too bad that this unhinged puppet loser is getting out of politics. Her defeat would have 1.00
00:06:40.060 been a lot more fun. Mohammed seems to think that he and his fellow Muslims can insert whatever foreign 0.98
00:06:47.220 cause they wish into our Remembrance Day ceremony. Mohammed Faki was not born in Canada. He is a 0.99
00:06:53.680 immigrant to this country, and yet he thinks it's appropriate to shoehorn Arabic language music into
00:06:58.540 our Remembrance Day ceremony. I wrote the following,
00:07:01.160 Why is a foreign song being played on Remembrance Day, Mohammed? 0.92
00:07:04.860 This is the one day of the year when all of Canada honors our fallen heroes. This is not the day for
00:07:10.460 you or others to protest your foreign cause. Have some class and show respect for the people that
00:07:16.240 sacrificed their lives for the country you now call home. He only was able to muster 1.6,000 likes,
00:07:23.560 and I was able to ratio him with over 2,000 likes. In Toronto, the chief of protocol, Aretha Philip,
00:07:31.340 opened the official Remembrance Day ceremony with hundreds of veterans present
00:07:35.300 by slamming Canada for its role in slavery and colonialism. Take a listen.
00:07:41.980 The city of Toronto acknowledges all treaty peoples, including those who came here as settlers,
00:07:47.360 as migrants either in this generation or in generations past,
00:07:51.280 and those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly those brought to these lands
00:07:56.800 as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.
00:08:00.820 Former Chief of Defense Staff General Rick Hillier wrote the following on social media
00:08:04.660 in reaction to those outrageous comments.
00:08:08.060 We are nothing but sheep to put up with this condescending lecture at any time,
00:08:12.140 but especially today, a day devoted to those who served and sacrificed to build a country that
00:08:16.720 doesn't have that shame. Canada has no involvement in slavery and never has.
00:08:22.800 Our country was the first to abolish slavery in the British Empire.
00:08:27.300 We were the destination of the Underground Railroad.
00:08:30.240 The only reason someone would actually say something so disgusting and disgraceful at a Remembrance Day ceremony
00:08:35.920 is if they had a deep-rooted hatred for this country.
00:08:39.760 If they genuinely hated old-stock Canadians and wanted to make everybody feel bad 0.97
00:08:44.820 on the one day that we are supposed to honor our fallen heroes.
00:08:48.860 This is the kind of thing our veterans have to put up with.
00:08:52.100 The one day that they are honored across the country,
00:08:54.840 they get lectured to by a bunch of people who've never picked up a gun in their lives.
00:08:58.440 The closest thing that most of these condescending politicians have ever got to combat 0.67
00:09:02.160 is maybe playing a game of chess.
00:09:04.540 But yet, they think it's appropriate to speak at a Remembrance Day ceremony
00:09:08.680 and accuse veterans of being settlers?
00:09:11.320 Oh, but if you weren't fully aware of what multiculturalism really means,
00:09:14.420 it gets a lot worse.
00:09:15.980 A Nova Scotia high school told veterans not to show up to the school in uniform
00:09:20.460 because it might offend foreign students.
00:09:24.080 The school had to backtrack due to a public outcry over this decision,
00:09:27.800 but originally the school wrote that they had requested that veterans
00:09:30.620 and serving members of the military wear civilian clothing
00:09:33.240 because the Sackville Heights Elementary community is extremely diverse
00:09:37.840 and some students who have come from countries experiencing conflict
00:09:41.340 have expressed discomfort with images of war,
00:09:44.680 which includes those of individuals in military uniforms.
00:09:47.940 The Canadian military uniform is one of the few remaining national symbols
00:09:52.880 that young people in this country can look at
00:09:55.100 to figure out what it means to be a Canadian.
00:09:57.140 The uniform is a national symbol.
00:09:59.420 It represents everything about this country that makes it great.
00:10:02.140 And yet these woke schools are trying to appease foreign students, 0.86
00:10:07.960 trying to appease the needs of foreign students over honoring our veterans,
00:10:13.780 presumably because foreign parents went to the school
00:10:18.440 and said they don't want to have any celebration of the Canadian military.
00:10:23.140 These things don't just happen out of nowhere.
00:10:24.800 Oh, and how about this little video in which a York University lecturer and PhD candidate,
00:10:31.060 Aaliyah Khan, decided to film herself rolling down a window 1.00
00:10:35.460 while she's driving past a group of veterans marching on the highway
00:10:38.600 and shouting F you to them.
00:10:40.900 She eventually deleted her entire social media over this
00:10:51.920 because the Canadian people don't take this disrespect to our veterans too well.
00:10:56.440 But before she did that, she actually doubled down on her comments. 0.81
00:11:00.680 She wrote, F the military and F the police for real.
00:11:04.120 At the National Remembrance Day ceremony,
00:11:06.960 as well as the Queen's Park Remembrance Day ceremony, which I was at,
00:11:10.360 there was no reference to Jesus Christ.
00:11:12.400 There was no Christian prayer,
00:11:13.620 despite the fact that likely 99% of the soldiers that died in the First and Second World War
00:11:18.880 were Christians themselves.
00:11:21.160 No Christian prayer allowed. 0.97
00:11:22.900 No reference to Jesus Christ.
00:11:25.140 However, in Saanich, British Columbia, over on Vancouver Island,
00:11:28.840 there was a reading from a holy book.
00:11:31.280 And it turned out to be from the Quran.
00:11:33.420 How many Muslim Canadians died in the First and Second World War?
00:11:36.140 Just curious.
00:11:37.120 I'd like to know the answer to that.
00:11:38.680 And check this out.
00:11:39.500 There was a pro-Palestinian protest at the Remembrance Day ceremony in Kingston as well.
00:11:45.100 So, is multiculturalism everything it's cracked up to be?
00:11:47.880 Was it everything you expected it to be?
00:11:49.840 Is it as great as Justin Trudeau promised it would be?
00:11:52.700 I was already convinced that multiculturalism in this country is a real failure, actually. 0.99
00:11:57.620 That the decision to embrace foreign cultures at the expense of Canadian culture,
00:12:04.640 at the expense of Canadian unity, has been an abject failure.
00:12:08.820 But this Remembrance Day has really woken me up.
00:12:10.780 And I think it's woken up millions of other Canadians.
00:12:13.460 Watching that woman shout down veterans marching on Remembrance Day,
00:12:17.600 and hearing the news of an Arabic Muslim song being played on Remembrance Day at an Ottawa high school,
00:12:23.620 I just really couldn't get over it.
00:12:25.560 It's hard to put into words how it makes me feel.
00:12:28.020 And it might be dangerous to say it out loud on the show, to be quite honest with you.
00:12:32.840 One thing I did think about, however, was Don Cherry.
00:12:35.920 When Don Cherry pointed out the fact that many newcomers to this country come for the milk and honey of our country,
00:12:42.740 they come for the benefit of this country, they come to take the benefit,
00:12:45.660 but on the Remembrance Day, on the one day of the year that we are allowed to honor our veterans,
00:12:50.680 they don't seem to care very much.
00:12:52.480 In fact, they actually use it as an opportunity to shoehorn in their own personal and foreign protests,
00:13:01.060 foreign causes.
00:13:02.640 You see many of them wearing poppies these days?
00:13:05.020 It's important to stress that millions of newcomers into this country do respect our heroes,
00:13:08.920 do respect our fallen veterans.
00:13:10.620 They understand Remembrance Day.
00:13:12.200 But let's also not pretend that this is not happening.
00:13:14.740 Let's not pretend that there is not a growing number of new immigrants into this country
00:13:18.380 that seem to have absolutely no respect for our values, for our way of life, and for our flag.
00:13:25.420 All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show.
00:13:27.460 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:13:28.600 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.
00:13:44.740 Thank you.
00:13:56.520 You're welcome.