Juno News - July 02, 2021


The activists don’t just hate statues. They hate Canada.

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Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth Elizabeth II Nicky Ashton Les Majestés
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4 minutes

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696

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39

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An activist mob took down the statue of Queen Victoria and later took down another statue of the reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, all steps away from Manitoba s legislature. It was just about six months ago that desecrating a house of government was seen as an act of insurrection. Now, it s seen as something to be celebrated.

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00:00:00.000 For weeks, the activists behind the movement to cancel Canada Day told us it wasn't about
00:00:10.860 cancelling Canada, just about a more muted approach to the holiday of celebration for
00:00:17.160 this country. What we saw in Manitoba on Canada Day, if we can still call it that,
00:00:22.280 proved that this was not in fact the case. A shameful display as an activist mob took down
00:00:28.040 the statue of Queen Victoria and later took down another statue of the reigning monarch Queen
00:00:34.640 Elizabeth II, all steps away from Manitoba's legislature. It was just about six months ago
00:00:41.760 that desecrating a house of government was seen as an act of insurrection. Now it's seen as something
00:00:47.520 to itself be celebrated. If you don't believe me, just take a look at this tweet from Manitoba
00:00:53.140 Member of Parliament for the NDP, Nicky Ashton, who shows a picture of Queen Victoria's statue
00:00:59.620 being taken down and says, decolonization on the grounds of our legislature on Treaty 1 territory,
00:01:05.760 the homeland of the MĂ©tis, with an orange heart and the hashtag, no pride in genocide.
00:01:13.860 As is the case of pretty much anyone who's lived in a time before now, Queen Victoria's sin is that 0.99
00:01:19.880 she doesn't cut the mustard for 2021's standards of how a historic figure should be.
00:01:25.480 But what's the excuse for Queen Elizabeth? She's not even a historic figure. She is the reigning monarch.
00:01:31.000 She is the current head of state of Canada, the Queen of Canada. And her statue now lies on the ground
00:01:38.360 in Manitoba. No one charged for these acts of vandalism. In fact, police charged someone who was angry
00:01:45.080 about the vandalism. And in Manitoba, it's been illegal to, oh, I don't know, go to a church service
00:01:51.000 for most of the past year. But if you want to take down the statue of the Queen, if you want to take
00:01:55.960 down another statue that has been there for decades, that is all fair game. You see, it was never about
00:02:02.360 the statues, not in the least. It was always about tearing down the very foundations of this country.
00:02:08.760 By tearing down a statue of Queen Elizabeth II, they're in effect saying that they want regime change.
00:02:13.740 They do not respect the legitimacy of Canada as a country. In some countries,
00:02:19.260 Les Majestés is a capital offense. But you would say, well, not Canada. We have freedom of speech.
00:02:25.420 We're better than that. That is the point. These activists have a freedom and a latitude in this
00:02:31.820 country they do not have anywhere else. Yet they use that to piss all over this country that is a free
00:02:38.860 place that is giving them something they don't have anywhere else in the world. And that's precisely
00:02:45.180 the cognitive dissonance at play here. These people have no idea how great a country Canada is.
00:02:52.460 When the activist mob can go around and tear down statues with impunity, including
00:02:57.420 ones that cut at the very fundamental identity of what Canada is today, not just what Canada was
00:03:02.700 in the United States. We cease to be a country that values or even acknowledges the rule of law.
00:03:08.620 To go back to Nikki Ashton for a moment, this is a four-time member of parliament,
00:03:13.260 which means she has taken by my count at least four oaths of loyalty to the sovereign of Canada,
00:03:20.380 whose statue now sits on the ground and whose dismantling of that statue Nikki Ashton celebrated.
00:03:27.340 So was she lying when she took those oaths or has she simply changed her mind? Either way,
00:03:31.580 it doesn't seem too becoming of a member of parliament to be in office based on an oath
00:03:35.420 taken dishonestly or an oath that has since been recanted. These people do not like Canada. They do
00:03:42.460 not want any part of making Canada better because they fundamentally believe Canada is itself evil.
00:03:49.820 This visceral loathing of the country cannot be combated by reason. That's the problem with this. So
00:03:55.020 anyone saying we need to sit back and listen and hear them out, anyone thinking that by not standing
00:04:00.460 up for Canada Day, they are advancing dialogue, they are sorely mistaken.