Juno News - June 24, 2021


The woke left hates Canada and nobody is standing up to them


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9 minutes

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162.37196

Word count

1,527

Sentence count

82

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Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

6

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The woke mob wants to erase our history, tear apart our country, and even cancel Canada Day. Candace Malala explains why this is a bad idea, and why we need to fight back against it. She also asks if the far-left is allowed to be angry and violent because they are allowed to express their frustration through the destruction of property.

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00:00:00.000 The woke mob wants to erase our history, tear apart our country, and even cancel Canada Day.
00:00:06.120 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:13.400 Sir Winston Churchill has become just the latest victim of the deranged mob here in Canada.
00:00:19.240 Churchill joins an esteemed club of historical figures who have had their statues defaced or
00:00:24.400 torn down in recent weeks and months in a fit of criminal rage by a nameless, faceless mob.
00:00:32.340 Canada's founding prime minister, Sir Johnny MacDonald, early advocate for universal education,
00:00:37.500 Egerton Ryerson, and Canada's founding monarch, Queen Victoria, have all become the target of
00:00:43.020 cancel culture and woke leftist vandals. And while there is some feigned condemnation from left-wing
00:00:48.840 leaders over the destruction of private property, there's also a growing political and intellectual
00:00:53.800 movement that seeks to legitimize this woke worldview. When news broke that Winston Churchill's statue had
00:01:00.800 been defaced and doused with red paint in Edmonton, Edmonton's wannabe woke mayor Don Iveson failed
00:01:07.420 to condemn the mob. Instead, he sort of promoted this idea that we should apply today's hyper-politicized
00:01:13.520 speech standards to historical figures in the past. Iveson said that he welcomed the discussion of
00:01:19.940 quote, addressing historical wrongdoings and inequalities like systemic racism, unquote. And
00:01:26.740 then he simply said that there's better ways to do this than vandalizing city property. So in other
00:01:31.960 words, he's okay with the concept of tearing down statues, of removing and canceling historical figures
00:01:38.860 who weren't adequately woke, but he just wants to do it through the government, not through mob rule.
00:01:43.620 And he believes that our society is systemically racist and needs to be dismantled. This is critical
00:01:49.480 race theory to a T. But Iveson is far from the only woke public figure promoting this divisive
00:01:56.160 race-based politics. He isn't even the wokest government official in Edmonton City Hall. I think
00:02:02.800 that award might go to Nisha Patel, who is the City of Edmonton's Poet Laureate, a taxpayer-funded
00:02:09.480 government position. And she openly voiced her support of the vandals and their political tactics.
00:02:16.620 If this is what it takes to reach a critical point where opposition is taken seriously by people who
00:02:22.800 are bigoted, this is what we have to do. We shouldn't build statues of anyone. We should take
00:02:27.640 these statues down and show that we are brave enough to embrace that we have new understandings. Not
00:02:34.440 standing up for living people as we exist today shows that you don't care about the people around
00:02:39.900 you. You care more about a name on a plaque than you do about the people who live in your own city.
00:02:44.340 She told Global News that the vandalism simply shows that any attempt at dialogue or outreach has
00:02:50.460 truly failed, and that there are angry people with valid feelings who want to express their frustration.
00:02:58.300 According to Global, she also added that it's important to note that the people who vandalize
00:03:03.560 the statue did not harm anyone. You get that? If you're on the far left, it's perfectly reasonable
00:03:10.760 for you to be angry and for you to express that anger and that frustration through the destruction
00:03:16.280 of property. I wonder if she would apply that same logic to people on the right who are angry about,
00:03:22.220 oh, I don't know, high taxes or mismanaged immigration policies. Would she also be okay with them expressing
00:03:27.860 their anger and their frustration through the destruction of property? Or is it only the far left
00:03:33.560 who are allowed to be angry and violent? Patel goes on to say, I think if this is what it takes to
00:03:40.160 reach a critical point where opposition is taken seriously by people who are bigoted, then this is
00:03:46.500 what we have to do. So in other words, if you oppose the woke mob tearing down statues or erasing our
00:03:53.540 history, it's because you're a bigot. And that only further justifies the woke mob tearing down statues
00:03:59.560 and erasing our history. Must be nice to be a poet laureate. Why does the city of Edmonton even have
00:04:06.740 to have a government poet? Look, Patel is just one of many public figures today who seem to just hate
00:04:13.680 Canada. They hate it so much they want to destroy every institution in our country. In the aftermath
00:04:19.780 of the alleged terror attack in London, Ontario, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh told us what he really thinks
00:04:25.520 of Canada. The reality is our Canada is a place of racism, of violence, of genocide of indigenous
00:04:32.960 people. And our Canada is a place where Muslims aren't safe. They aren't. They aren't safe. 1.00
00:04:38.880 Muslims are not safe in this country. Muslims are not safe in this country. You know, that would be 1.00
00:04:45.060 news to my husband's family who escaped real tyranny in Iran. And they found a peaceful, welcoming
00:04:51.100 community and home filled with opportunity and freedom in North Toronto. I guess they didn't get
00:04:56.280 the message from the NDP and Jagmeet Singh that one politicized tragedy in London, Ontario means that
00:05:02.700 Canada's one million Muslims are no longer safe in the world's most diverse, tolerant, and open society. 1.00
00:05:11.100 A 27-year-old MP in Singh's caucus echoed her hatred for Canada in her farewell speech in the House of
00:05:17.940 Commons last Tuesday. Momilek Kakak, NDP member for NDP, blasted Canada as a colonialist hellhole built
00:05:26.260 on the oppression of indigenous people and whose history is stained with blood.
00:05:30.800 Every time I walk onto House of Common grounds, speak in these chambers, I'm reminded every step of
00:05:37.740 the way I don't belong here. I have never felt safe or protected in my position, especially within
00:05:45.380 the House of Commons. When I walk through these doors, not only am I reminded of the clear colonial
00:05:51.620 house on fire I am willingly walking into, I am already in survival mode. Since being elected, I expect
00:06:00.180 to be stopped by security at my workplace. I've had security jog after me down hallways, nearly put their
00:06:07.380 hands on their hands on me and racial profile me as a member of parliament. People like me don't belong here
00:06:14.820 in the federal institution. I'm a human being who wants to use this institution to help people, but the
00:06:21.700 reality is that this institution and the country has been created off the box, trauma, and displacement of
00:06:30.500 indigenous people. There is nothing, nothing to take pride in, in the legacy this institution continues to 1.00
00:06:40.500 not only maintain, but to build and fuel." Her angry rant, which was filled with baseless accusations and 0.63
00:06:48.660 fanatical hyperbole, was applauded and promoted by the legacy media. I've yet to see a single public figure
00:06:55.540 in this country counter her radical claims or refute her fevered dream excoriation of this country.
00:07:02.500 And as for her weird claim that security stopped her from entering parliament, maybe that has more to
00:07:06.980 do with the way that she presents herself and not because of her race or her skin color. Look, when I
00:07:11.700 was her age, 27, I worked as a political staffer on Parliament Hill. And let me tell you, I too was
00:07:17.620 stopped and asked to show ID every single time I entered the building. Sure, I wasn't an MP, but I worked
00:07:23.540 there. I was there every day. And I never ever once thought it had anything to do with my skin color.
00:07:29.300 I just assumed it had everything to do with security. But the media and her political opponents 0.70
00:07:35.460 across the aisle let her have a pass. No one asked her about this. No one pushed back. I mean, she was
00:07:40.580 only taking a shot at security guards. And in the woke's ladder of oppression, security guards rank
00:07:46.500 just slightly above police officers. So obviously, they deserve all the criticism in the world, according to
00:07:52.500 the left. Instead of pushing back, media and political leaders now allow the radical woke left
00:07:58.900 to use Canada as a punching bag. The latest news today is that the to come loops chief has called
00:08:04.660 on all Canadians to cancel Canada Day and instead use the day as a quote, learning opportunity, end quote.
00:08:12.260 So instead of trying to keep things in perspective, realizing that Canada is a great, albeit imperfect
00:08:17.540 country that is always learning from past mistakes and constantly striving to do better, we ought to
00:08:22.420 just cancel Canada altogether. Defending Canada is just now so passe. It's much more fashionable to
00:08:29.540 condemn Canada as a uniquely terrible, systemically compromised, failed state built on irredeemably
00:08:35.940 horrendous leaders who committed unspeakable atrocities and crimes against humanity. If that's your
00:08:42.500 worldview. And it seems like that is the legitimate worldview held by today's cultural elites. Well,
00:08:48.660 then it's no wonder that they want Churchill's head on a platter. Sure, he beat Hitler, he defeated
00:08:54.260 the Nazis, he stamped out fascism across Europe and potentially save the West from that fate. Yeah, 0.59
00:09:00.580 he did all that. But you know, Canada and probably all of Western civilization is just as bad as the 0.97
00:09:06.580 Nazis. So why should we celebrate him anyway? That's the worldview of the left. And nobody is
00:09:12.100 standing up to it. I'm Candice Malcolm. And this is the Candice Malcolm Show.