Juno News - September 21, 2023


The #1MillionMarch4Children TAKES OVER Canada


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The Million Person March for Children is a protest against radical gender ideology in public schools across the country. Parents have come from all walks of life and political stripes to oppose gender ideology and the indoctrination that goes on in our schools.

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00:00:00.000 We are kids alone!
00:00:10.000 We are kids alone!
00:00:14.000 Alright, we're here in Toronto for the Million Person March for Children.
00:00:18.000 Toronto is just one of the stops of many across the country
00:00:22.000 where parents have gathered to oppose radical gender ideology in classrooms.
00:00:27.000 There has to be at least 2,000 people here opposing gender ideology in class
00:00:32.000 with a single and clear message, leave our kids alone.
00:00:36.000 This protest, the Million Person March for Children,
00:00:39.000 has been organized by a group of Muslim parents
00:00:42.000 who have been pushed to their limits with the gender ideology craze in schools.
00:00:47.000 I'm not exactly sure, but I have to believe that the origin for this protest
00:00:51.000 might have been when a video surfaced of Justin Trudeau
00:00:54.000 telling a group of Muslim parents that their concerns about what's been going on in schools
00:00:59.000 is actually just disinformation from the American far right.
00:01:03.000 Remember this clip?
00:01:04.000 People on social media, particularly tuned by the American right-wing,
00:01:08.000 are spreading a lot of untruths.
00:01:12.000 Protests against gender ideology in classrooms have been picking up in this country.
00:01:17.000 We've been on the ground to cover several throughout this year alone.
00:01:21.000 It seems as though parents are finally waking up to what is being put in front of children.
00:01:25.000 In Ontario, teachers are still withholding the social transition of children away from their parents,
00:01:31.000 keeping it a little secret between teachers and students away from parents.
00:01:36.000 Provinces, however, have started to turn this around.
00:01:40.000 New Brunswick was the first to introduce legislation to stop this practice.
00:01:44.000 Manitoba Premier Heather Stevenson announced that if re-elected,
00:01:47.000 she would introduce a bill to stop this practice, and Saskatchewan have ended it already. 0.98
00:01:52.000 Doug Ford last week said that schools need to stop indoctrinating parents
00:01:57.000 and that parents have a right to know what's going on with their kids.
00:02:00.000 Take a listen to this.
00:02:01.000 It's not up to the teachers, it's not up to the school boards to indoctrinate our kids.
00:02:07.000 According to union members who have organized a counter-protest called No Place for Hate,
00:02:12.000 this is apparently a gathering behind me of racists and fascists,
00:02:18.000 and people who are fundamentally anti-union.
00:02:21.000 Despite the fact that, of course, the people who have gathered here to oppose radical gender ideology,
00:02:25.000 just by looking at the crowd, appear to be far more diverse
00:02:28.000 than the people who have gathered to counter-protest this event.
00:02:31.000 We've been able to speak to several parents who have gathered here today
00:02:34.000 to ask them what brings them out and what they take issue with going on in Ontario schools.
00:02:38.000 Here's what they have had to say.
00:02:40.000 What brings you out here today?
00:02:41.000 Okay, I'm here to stand up for our children.
00:02:43.000 The Bible said the children are our future,
00:02:46.000 and we're here to protect the rights of spirits armed with our children.
00:02:51.000 Our children deserve to have the right.
00:02:54.000 The Bible said train up a child in the way they should be.
00:02:57.000 We're not troubling anybody.
00:02:59.000 We are just standing up for our rights for our children.
00:03:02.000 Doug Ford has said it two weeks ago that schools need to stop indoctrinating kids,
00:03:08.000 but as of right now in Ontario, a teacher can withhold the social transition of a student from their parents.
00:03:15.000 What do you make of that?
00:03:16.000 Why are politicians not willing to pass legislation to stop this?
00:03:19.000 You see, that's what politics do. 0.61
00:03:22.000 Politics pretend.
00:03:24.000 Politics try to win on both sides, so they're like bipolar.
00:03:29.000 All these parents out here today have nothing against any of the LGBTQ community.
00:03:35.000 I have friends.
00:03:36.000 I have co-workers that are part of the community, and we have all only love for them.
00:03:41.000 And I have nothing to say to whatever they're doing.
00:03:44.000 They can do whatever they want, but when it comes to my child, I have that right.
00:03:48.000 I have the right to teach my child what I want to teach them.
00:03:51.000 I have certain beliefs, and I want everyone to respect that.
00:03:54.000 Every one of us here today want our values to be respected.
00:03:59.000 That's all.
00:04:00.000 There's a large counter-protest on the other side of Queens Park, and one of the signs said that you don't own your kids.
00:04:08.000 What do you make of that?
00:04:09.000 What do you make of people saying that the parents seemingly don't own their own children?
00:04:13.000 And I guess, who do you think does it in their thinking?
00:04:17.000 Well, I suppose from their perspective, we don't own our kids because they want to be able to take control of our kids.
00:04:26.000 Okay?
00:04:27.000 When they try to separate the kids from the parents, you've got a problem.
00:04:31.000 What do you make of the news and the videos we've seen, and even images of material being sent to children in schools
00:04:38.000 that is extremely explicit and sexual in nature, being passed on as part of the curriculum?
00:04:44.000 What do you make of that?
00:04:45.000 No, actually, this is not appropriate.
00:04:49.000 If guardians are not comfortable, curriculum should not expose those things.
00:04:56.000 There's a very large Muslim contingent of people here.
00:04:59.000 They've shown up in numbers.
00:05:01.000 Counter-protesters, though, have labeled this protest as a racist and fascist gathering of ultra-conservatives.
00:05:08.000 Have you seen anything here that would lead you to believe this is a group of fascists and racists today?
00:05:13.000 No, actually, all groups are here to protest what's happening in the schools nowadays.
00:05:21.000 All kind of, like, all religious people are here.
00:05:25.000 Like, different religions, even some atheist people are here.
00:05:28.000 They want their rights.
00:05:31.000 Parents' rights is the main issue here.
00:05:33.000 I flew in from Nova Scotia because I wanted to be here.
00:05:39.000 And this is my sister. I came here with her.
00:05:41.000 And I'm very passionate. I want to protect my grandchildren.
00:05:45.000 My grandchildren are all school-aged now, and I'm afraid for them.
00:05:51.000 And they don't have a voice.
00:05:53.000 A lot of younger people, a lot of younger parents are afraid to say anything.
00:05:57.000 And I've been told that.
00:05:59.000 They're afraid.
00:06:00.000 Well, why aren't you doing anything about this if you know about it?
00:06:03.000 Well, because I'm afraid.
00:06:04.000 What if they take my child away from me?
00:06:06.000 What's your message to politicians who seem to be hesitant to approach this issue?
00:06:11.000 Well, I mean, I can't speak for people here in Ontario, but I'm just kind of...
00:06:17.000 I can't even believe this is a subject, you know?
00:06:21.000 Like, the politicians need to be here for the people.
00:06:25.000 Well, I think the education system is one-sided, and Canada is not about taking care of one group or one faith group or one ideology.
00:06:36.000 Canada is supposed to be inclusive, and the Charter of Rights and Freedom of Religion include that.
00:06:42.000 And we believe that our children, our community, the faith-based community throughout Canada,
00:06:49.000 and particularly in Ontario, has been ignored and have been walked over by the new curriculum behind the scene.
00:06:57.000 And that is not right.
00:06:58.000 We are fighting for our rights.
00:07:00.000 We are fighting for the Canadian value.
00:07:03.000 We are fighting for freedom of religion.
00:07:05.000 We are fighting for Charter of Rights.
00:07:07.000 And that is what Canada makes the best country in the world.
00:07:10.000 In schools right now, in Ontario schools, a teacher can withhold the transition of a child from a parent.
00:07:17.000 What do you guys make of what's going on in schools right now?
00:07:20.000 Which is absolutely wrong, which is against democracy, which is against Canadian value, which is against the value of every Canadian.
00:07:30.000 And we need to understand that this group or these people are not against other value system, but that value cannot walk over my value on us.
00:07:41.000 And what they're doing in the school system behind parents' back, which is wrong, illegal, and it should be stopped.
00:07:49.000 I'm here to protect my son's identity.
00:07:51.000 Like, my kid is five years old.
00:07:52.000 He keeps changing his idea of a birthday every single, like, 15 minutes.
00:07:57.000 So I don't think he's capable of making a decision like that for himself.
00:08:00.000 I'm his mom.
00:08:01.000 He has a dad.
00:08:02.000 We're the ones who's responsible for whatever decision he needs to make.
00:08:05.000 Not the school.
00:08:06.000 Not the teachers.
00:08:07.000 Us.
00:08:08.000 Our.
00:08:09.000 His parents.
00:08:10.000 I think that Kathleen Wynne is the one that kind of got this all started in terms of changing the sex curriculum. 1.00
00:08:17.000 And I think we were all a little bit not paying attention.
00:08:22.000 Parents need to find their voice.
00:08:24.000 Politicians, they hear silence.
00:08:27.000 They don't do anything.
00:08:28.000 We also wanted to make sure that we were able to cover the other side of the story, cover the counter protest.
00:08:33.000 When we tried to speak to them, however, they didn't really seem that interested in speaking to us.
00:08:38.000 A few people did, however, in good faith answer our questions.
00:08:41.000 But most of them responded by swearing at us and encircling us with their signs and umbrellas.
00:08:46.000 At what age should a child be able to transition, to be able to transition their gender, you think?
00:08:51.000 Gender is a social construct.
00:08:53.000 There shouldn't have been gender placed on a child. 1.00
00:08:57.000 So every child should just have no gender, in your opinion?
00:09:00.000 So are you saying that toddler clothing should be sexualized?
00:09:03.000 No, quite the opposite.
00:09:05.000 It is.
00:09:06.000 So when you can change the systems that are already in place, then we can have this conversation.
00:09:11.000 We've heard from people who are organizing the counter protest that the people on the other side are fascist and even racist.
00:09:18.000 What do you guys make of that?
00:09:19.000 Is that your guys' opinion, that the people on the other side here are indeed fascist and racist?
00:09:24.000 I don't know whether they're fascist or racist.
00:09:26.000 I know that they're confused.
00:09:28.000 And so we're here to educate and to help clear their narrowness from their mind. 0.98
00:09:32.000 I'd like to ask you about your sign, you don't own your kids.
00:09:34.000 Could you explain that for us?
00:09:35.000 Um, no.
00:09:36.000 Don't talk to them.
00:09:37.000 So who does own the kids then?
00:09:38.000 I want to talk to you.
00:09:39.000 Behind me you can see a sign that says, you don't own your kids.
00:09:43.000 I tried to ask what that means and nobody told us, you don't own your kids.
00:09:48.000 Well, if parents don't own their kids, who owns the kids? 0.60
00:09:52.000 Trans folks are welcome here.
00:09:53.000 Listen.
00:09:54.000 Trans folks are welcome here.
00:09:55.000 Trans folks are welcome here.
00:09:56.000 Trans folks are welcome here.
00:09:57.000 All for asking a question about somebody's sign at the protest.
00:10:01.000 You don't own your kids.
00:10:03.000 Counter protesters organized this event saying that the protesters on the other side of Queens Park are racist and fascist.
00:10:09.000 In reality, that protest was organized by an elderly Muslim woman. 0.83
00:10:13.000 And when we've been asking people if that elderly Muslim woman is in fact a fascist and a racist, 0.75
00:10:18.000 well, they don't have much of a response. 1.00
00:10:22.000 I take it you're not with our side, so you can go f*** off right now. 0.99
00:10:25.000 Bye. 0.97
00:10:26.000 Thank you very much, miss. 0.95
00:10:27.000 You guys are exactly the same as the fundamentalists in Iran that persecute people, that kill people, murder people. 0.96
00:10:34.000 Exactly the same.
00:10:35.000 I did find it interesting, however, that on the counter protest side, a group of Marxists with their Marxist banner were shouting,
00:10:42.000 whose schools, our schools, whose kids, our kids.
00:10:47.000 Whose kids?
00:10:48.000 Our kids.
00:10:49.000 Our kids.
00:10:50.000 Our kids.
00:10:51.000 Our kids.
00:10:52.000 Our schools.
00:10:53.000 Our schools.
00:10:54.000 Our schools.
00:10:55.000 Our schools.
00:10:56.000 It seems they may be mistaken because the last time I checked, the schools belong to the public and children belong to their parents,
00:11:01.000 not Marxists and counter protestors.
00:11:04.000 We also want to catch up with Tammy Peterson, the wife of Jordan Peterson.
00:11:08.000 Back in 2015, Jordan Peterson was one of the first in this country to raise the alarm about compelled speech and the use of pronouns in schools.
00:11:16.000 My, how things have changed since then.
00:11:18.000 We went from concerns over pronouns in schools to what we're seeing now in schools.
00:11:23.000 Here's what Tammy Peterson had to say about what's been going on in this country since 2015. 0.91
00:11:29.000 Your husband was really the first, I think, to raise the alarm about the use of pronouns in school.
00:11:36.000 And now we're here with a major protest happening across the country.
00:11:39.000 What do you make of the progression of how everything has been unfolding?
00:11:42.000 Well, things have happened just like he said they would.
00:11:45.000 They said that, he said that this would progress.
00:11:48.000 It would, everyone said, oh, you know, what are you worried about?
00:11:51.000 Why aren't you letting people do whatever they want?
00:11:54.000 And he said, no.
00:11:55.000 When you tell people that they have no agency over what they say, if they're told to use words that they don't want to use,
00:12:06.000 this is going to go places that we shouldn't go, that people have gone before in history.
00:12:12.000 We know it's not a good idea to compel speech.
00:12:15.000 And now they're, now they're compelling what we learn in the schools.
00:12:20.000 You know, it's gotten more complicated.
00:12:23.000 And now it's, it's our children that are at risk.
00:12:28.000 And I think in times of history, it always comes down to the children.
00:12:35.000 And that's when we've gone too far.
00:12:38.000 We have to see that the children are at risk, that they are going to be confused by all of this and they're vulnerable.
00:12:49.000 And so it's up to us, all these people here that are gathering today, to just do the next right thing and say, say no to all of this stuff that's going on at school.
00:13:01.000 One of the things that parents are really upset about, and we're starting to see provinces make legislation to stop it,
00:13:07.000 is this, is this practice of socially transitioning children behind the backs of parents,
00:13:12.000 allowing a child to use a different name and a different pronoun and not telling the parents.
00:13:16.000 We heard Doug Ford speak out about it, but he has yet to introduce legislation like Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick.
00:13:23.000 Is it, is it political correctness that's holding politicians back in this province from, from following the wishes of parents?
00:13:30.000 What, what do you make of the fact that politicians seem to be afraid to approach this issue?
00:13:34.000 Well, I think that politicians use polls.
00:13:38.000 They use polls to decide what they're going to do.
00:13:41.000 And who are the people that respond to the polls?
00:13:46.000 Are they busy, hardworking people that have kids to take care of and jobs and households to run?
00:13:54.000 Or are they people who are trying to put their time into activism and responding to that?
00:14:02.000 And if that's what politicians are going to respond to, polling, then they're not going to be moving in the right direction of the citizens of the town.
00:14:11.000 And last question. I mean, there's a large counter protest on the other side of Queen's Park right now.
00:14:15.000 There was a Zoom video of union leaders, uh, labeling this protest that's happening across the country as ultra conservative, as fascist.
00:14:24.000 Um, what do you make of the fact that so many unions are involved in, in trying to oppose this protest and, and labeling it a fascist gathering?
00:14:33.000 I watched that little video. It was very interesting that the people in the video, everything they talked about was we and them.
00:14:42.000 There was never any individual accountability.
00:14:45.000 And that makes it easy to point fingers if there's no one person that you're pointing a finger at.
00:14:52.000 And that makes you feel like you're not offending anybody because you're offending everybody.
00:14:57.000 And I think that the, um, the unions, they've always been organizing.
00:15:04.000 They've always been protesting. They're very good at this. This is what they've done.
00:15:09.000 But now they've latched onto something that I think is going to bring down the school system.
00:15:15.000 And, you know, in the, in the States, we've been talking and hoping that the, the teachers federation and the ability for the education department to decide who's going to be a teacher or not should be taken away from the universities.
00:15:33.000 It's time that the teachers are, their power is taken away from them. And I'm, it's afraid there's many good teachers, but the way that they're chosen now,
00:15:44.000 is it's been politicized and we have to let that go and start again.
00:15:51.000 Thank you so much, Tammy.
00:15:53.000 Thank you.
00:15:54.000 Counter-protesters decided to encircle the Million March for Kids group here in Toronto outside of Queen's Park.
00:16:01.000 Queen's Park is separated in two and the counter-protesters were originally stationed on the South Lawn with the million-person anti-gender ideology protest on the North Lawn.
00:16:10.000 Eventually, the counter-protests came over onto this side and encircled the protest.
00:16:15.000 You can see some of what that looked like now.
00:16:17.000 Despite all of that, the event went off peacefully and without a hitch.
00:16:21.000 It was smooth.
00:16:22.000 It was clean.
00:16:23.000 And it was clear.
00:16:24.000 The message from these protesters was clear.
00:16:26.000 Leave our kids alone. 0.91
00:16:29.000 Ratio of the week time.
00:16:30.000 The winner this week is QP Ontario, one of the many labor unions who organized the No Place for Hate counter-protest to the One Million March for Children.
00:16:41.000 This ratio is absolutely brutal.
00:16:44.000 7,346 replies to only 4,441 likes at the time of this recording.
00:16:52.000 The ultra-conservative right has organized nationwide events under the pretext of protecting children while their true aim is to protest the teaching of 2SLGBTQIA plus content in schools. 0.84
00:17:04.000 Yes, the ultra-conservative right led by a group of Muslim parents.
00:17:08.000 Our mission is clear.
00:17:09.000 To counter these protests and demonstrate unequivocally that there is no place for hate within our society.
00:17:14.000 We shall stand together, resolute in our commitment to combat lies and misinformation while championing love, care, and respect.
00:17:22.000 Oh, and as you can see over at the QP counter-protest, love, respect, and care were on full display.
00:17:29.000 We are calling upon every QP Ontario member to take action.
00:17:33.000 Mass participation in these protests is essential to our cause.
00:17:37.000 Together, let's make our presence felt, countering false rhetoric, exposing lies, and proudly declaring that Canada has no tolerance for hate or discrimination.
00:17:45.000 Aren't you supposed to represent your members, not be a mouthpiece for the state, one user writes?
00:17:50.000 I'm a QP member and you do not speak for me.
00:17:53.000 I'm also a liberal, as in liberalism, not a, quote, liberal party voter, as they are not truly liberals.
00:18:00.000 Anyway, on this issue, I stand 100% behind the so-called ultra-conservative right, parental rights over state rights.
00:18:08.000 And another user writes,
00:18:09.000 QP, the same union that sat on their hands and allowed me and anyone else who refused the jab to be fired.
00:18:15.000 I lost all respect for unions then, so thankfully, there's no respect for you left to lose. 0.56
00:18:21.000 Truly pathetic from these labor unions, but like many have noted, not that surprising.
00:18:27.000 The majority of Canadians, based on what we've seen from the One Million March for Children, stand on the side of parental rights. 0.90
00:18:34.000 Not the side where people are waving pictures of Karl Marx and the hammer and sickle,
00:18:39.000 while shouting, whose children? Our children. And whose schools? Our schools.
00:18:44.000 Our kids! Our kids! Our schools! Our schools!
00:18:48.000 Go figure, who could have possibly guessed?
00:18:50.000 Alright everyone, that's going to do it for us this week on the show.
00:18:53.000 Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.