Juno News - September 12, 2025


Trump vows ＂radical left＂ crackdown in response to Charlie Kirk killing


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00:00:00.000 Following the assassination of U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk,
00:00:09.580 President Donald Trump has pledged to hunt down his killer
00:00:12.860 and crack down on, quote, radical left political violence.
00:00:17.420 Controversial critical race theory lessons at a Hamilton, Ontario school board
00:00:21.760 are now being implemented in 33 schools across the region.
00:00:26.380 Canada's public safety minister claimed that the Liberals' gun ban
00:00:30.240 and confiscation program has, quote, always been voluntary.
00:00:34.820 Hello, Canada. It's Friday, September 12th.
00:00:37.500 This is the True North Daily Brief. I'm Cosmin Georgia.
00:00:41.920 And I'm Clayton DeMaine.
00:00:43.160 We've got you covered with all the news you need to know.
00:00:45.940 Let's discuss the top stories of the day and the True North exclusives
00:00:49.560 you won't hear anywhere else.
00:00:51.080 U.S. President Donald Trump promised a sweep.
00:00:57.560 U.S. President Donald Trump promised a sweeping response
00:01:01.440 to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk,
00:01:06.080 pledging to hunt down not only the killer,
00:01:08.640 but the networks and organizations that enable, quote,
00:01:11.940 radical left political violence in America.
00:01:14.580 In a somber Oval Office address,
00:01:16.880 Trump said Kirk's murder is the latest in a string of attacks
00:01:21.120 driven by years of left-wing demonization of conservatives.
00:01:25.360 It's a long past time for all Americans and the media
00:01:28.600 to confront the fact that violence and murder
00:01:31.920 are the tragic consequence of demonizing those
00:01:36.140 with whom you disagree day after day, year after year,
00:01:39.840 in the most hateful and despicable way possible.
00:01:43.060 For years, those on the radical left
00:01:46.180 have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie
00:01:49.340 to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals.
00:01:54.720 This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible
00:01:58.240 for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today,
00:02:02.380 and it must stop right now.
00:02:05.280 Trump declared, quote,
00:02:07.380 my administration will find each and every one of those
00:02:10.560 who contributed to this atrocity
00:02:12.460 and to other acts of political violence.
00:02:15.040 He continued saying, quote,
00:02:17.120 that includes the organizations that fund and support it,
00:02:20.520 as well as those who go after our judges,
00:02:23.020 law enforcement officials,
00:02:24.240 and everyone else who brings order to our country.
00:02:27.640 Trump tied the killing to a broader pattern
00:02:30.540 of political violence,
00:02:31.840 pointing to the assassination attempt
00:02:33.760 against him in Butler, Pennsylvania,
00:02:36.800 the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise,
00:02:40.400 attacks on ICE agents,
00:02:42.360 and the murder of a New York healthcare executive.
00:02:45.300 He said, quote,
00:02:46.340 radical political violence has hurt too many innocent people
00:02:49.580 and taken too many lives.
00:02:51.160 It must stop right now.
00:02:53.400 Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA,
00:02:57.080 was shot during a student town hall
00:03:00.160 at Utah Valley University.
00:03:02.100 Videos show him collapsing from his chair
00:03:04.820 after a single gunshot rang out.
00:03:07.940 He later died of his wounds, Trump confirmed.
00:03:11.180 Clayton, as people are processing this news,
00:03:16.000 I think one of the things that's becoming apparent
00:03:19.240 is this awakening to how many people out there,
00:03:23.560 people on the left mainly,
00:03:25.340 who are celebrating this and reacting to this,
00:03:30.140 relishing in it almost,
00:03:31.980 and using it to score political points
00:03:35.100 or downtalk Kirk's own legacy.
00:03:38.360 What has been the reaction to this
00:03:41.280 from the left so far in the Canadian context
00:03:45.100 that you've seen, Clayton?
00:03:46.860 Well, we at True North have compiled a list
00:03:50.320 of many unhinged statements from leftists online
00:03:54.020 over the following hours after the news broke
00:03:57.300 that Charlie Kirk was killed.
00:03:59.640 But more recently, on Thursday morning,
00:04:02.240 in response to those Trump statements
00:04:04.200 we just aired a clip of,
00:04:06.720 the legacy media appointed expert on hate,
00:04:10.520 Barbara Perry from Ontario Tech University,
00:04:13.520 came out and claimed that
00:04:15.380 when Trump laid the blame on the radicalization
00:04:18.960 that led to Kirk's assassination
00:04:21.160 on a constant vilification of those
00:04:25.480 who disagree with the left,
00:04:27.320 calling them Nazis or literally Hitler,
00:04:29.580 as we've all, I'm sure, heard be said before,
00:04:33.220 she said that Trump was in line with his,
00:04:36.020 quote, politics of vengeance
00:04:37.560 and punishing his enemies.
00:04:40.200 She later went on to say
00:04:42.180 the exact kind of disinformation
00:04:44.280 that Trump was talking about
00:04:46.320 by claiming that Kirk labeled queer people
00:04:48.880 as defective and dangerous people
00:04:51.300 who should be, quote, executed.
00:04:54.400 Now, we did receive a response from the CBC
00:04:57.520 that said, well, Kirk has referenced Bible verses
00:05:02.240 that denounced homosexuality
00:05:06.320 and call for the death of those as a punishment,
00:05:12.340 and now that's the Old Testament Jewish law.
00:05:15.560 But Charlie Kirk has never said anything of the sort.
00:05:19.020 In fact, he's often advocated for free and open discourse
00:05:22.880 in a peaceful, democratic fashion.
00:05:25.500 He's never advocated for that law
00:05:28.320 to be put in place in government.
00:05:30.240 Now, Perry also used her time
00:05:32.480 on the CBC's live broadcast
00:05:34.680 to espouse worries
00:05:36.980 that the attack would be used
00:05:39.080 to further vilify the left, liberals, and Democrats.
00:05:42.140 And in a similar way,
00:05:43.520 Canadian TikToker Rachel Gilmour
00:05:45.400 used the moment as a springboard
00:05:47.440 to denounce the specter of right-wing violence.
00:05:50.560 And when she got pushback from conservatives,
00:05:53.000 including Andrew Scheer,
00:05:55.560 conservative MP Andrew Scheer,
00:05:57.420 she claimed that Scheer was trying to get her killed
00:06:00.300 by criticizing her insensitive take
00:06:02.260 at a moment where many people
00:06:04.920 in the Western world are mourning.
00:06:07.120 One of the Hilltimes contributors,
00:06:09.260 Eric Ithil,
00:06:10.500 called Kirk a host of vile and vulgar names
00:06:13.280 and was surprised that people cared
00:06:15.620 about a conservative debater and speaker
00:06:17.240 being shot in front of his kids' wife
00:06:19.720 and thousands.
00:06:21.340 She said he was a big reason
00:06:23.220 for the supposed rise in fascism.
00:06:25.740 You know, and one more,
00:06:27.060 I got a U of T professor,
00:06:29.080 Dr. Ruth Marshall said, quote,
00:06:31.180 shooting is honestly too good
00:06:33.040 for so many of you fascist C-words,
00:06:35.800 just hours later.
00:06:37.200 But honestly,
00:06:37.960 there are too many unhinged responses
00:06:39.620 from the righteous left
00:06:41.160 to be able to say on this podcast.
00:06:43.520 And I do recommend listeners
00:06:44.900 take a look at our coverage
00:06:46.920 on this tragic event for more.
00:06:52.140 A Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board program
00:06:55.600 that drew controversy
00:06:56.960 when it launched in 2021
00:06:59.580 has now expanded to 33 schools.
00:07:03.300 The lessons rooted in critical race theory
00:07:05.640 are delivered under the guidance
00:07:07.100 of equity consultant Nicole Westburns.
00:07:10.580 In 2021, the HWDSB rolled out a, quote,
00:07:14.800 learn, disrupt, rebuild lesson package
00:07:17.800 described on their website
00:07:19.620 as a means for, quote,
00:07:21.580 students to understand who they are,
00:07:23.960 speak up when things are unfair
00:07:25.380 and to help create
00:07:26.640 a safer learning experience for everyone.
00:07:29.160 The lessons attracted attention
00:07:30.700 from parents and members of the public.
00:07:33.120 In a interview with True North,
00:07:34.960 a Hamilton teacher said that,
00:07:36.900 quote,
00:07:37.560 teachers were directed to teach LDR.
00:07:40.720 In fact, many teachers were warned
00:07:42.560 that principals were checking
00:07:44.060 whether teachers had accessed the modules.
00:07:47.280 A handful of downloadable lessons
00:07:49.060 were provided, but, quote,
00:07:50.860 principals had a hard time
00:07:52.340 advocating for the program
00:07:53.740 because they really didn't understand
00:07:56.080 what the board was actually
00:07:57.380 asking teachers to do, they said.
00:07:59.720 The teacher asked to remain anonymous
00:08:03.480 due to fear of reprisals from the board.
00:08:06.000 A True North investigation found
00:08:08.080 that the program developed
00:08:09.500 by equity consultant West Burns
00:08:12.160 has since expanded in scope
00:08:14.360 and is being developed
00:08:15.320 across 33 schools in the region.
00:08:17.680 After learning about this expansion,
00:08:19.780 the teacher said, quote,
00:08:21.000 I had no idea that the program
00:08:22.820 had continued past its initial rollout
00:08:25.120 from about four years ago.
00:08:27.360 West Burns joined the Ontario Institute
00:08:29.180 for Studies and Education
00:08:30.460 in the early 2010s,
00:08:32.680 where she developed equity frameworks
00:08:34.420 that later became known as, quote,
00:08:36.540 culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy.
00:08:39.280 According to her consultancy website,
00:08:41.440 West Burns was hired
00:08:42.660 by the Ministry of Education
00:08:44.080 between 2013 and 2019
00:08:45.880 to design diversity, equity,
00:08:48.120 and inclusion frameworks,
00:08:49.660 later delivering, quote,
00:08:51.420 professional learning tied to CRRP
00:08:54.620 for 39 school boards across the province,
00:08:58.320 often branded as, quote,
00:08:59.860 critically conscious practitioner inquiry
00:09:02.000 or disrupting and dismantling anti-Black racism.
00:09:06.320 Despite the different names,
00:09:07.560 these frameworks and resources
00:09:08.840 are fundamentally based
00:09:10.260 in critical race theory
00:09:11.720 and the revolutionary Marxist philosophy
00:09:14.000 of education scholar Paolo Freire.
00:09:18.200 West Burns did not respond to requests
00:09:20.380 for comment regarding her programming.
00:09:22.020 So, Cosmin, I've been hearing about this
00:09:24.160 for at least five years now.
00:09:25.720 Maybe it's been a problem longer than that.
00:09:28.620 But what is critical race theory
00:09:30.280 and why is it such a controversial
00:09:32.180 education program?
00:09:34.920 Yeah, you're right.
00:09:35.660 Critical race theory,
00:09:37.040 it was actually more in the news,
00:09:38.960 I would probably say,
00:09:40.300 in 2021.
00:09:43.200 Prominent U.S. influencers
00:09:45.080 like Chris Ruffo
00:09:46.620 were talking about it
00:09:48.120 and really popularized attention
00:09:50.220 to what was an unknown
00:09:52.620 sort of academic practice before then.
00:09:55.700 But essentially,
00:09:57.120 critical race theory
00:09:58.720 originated in U.S. legal scholarship
00:10:02.300 and it sees all institutions
00:10:04.280 as being systemically racist
00:10:07.920 and needing to be dismantled.
00:10:11.040 That is, the hierarchies
00:10:12.880 that they view to be
00:10:14.360 based on racism
00:10:16.300 and white supremacy
00:10:17.700 need to be dismantled
00:10:19.500 for these institutions
00:10:21.140 to operate
00:10:22.180 under this equity
00:10:24.200 framework
00:10:25.720 or worldview
00:10:26.900 that the proponents espouse.
00:10:30.260 Now, that equity framework
00:10:32.620 doesn't mean
00:10:34.700 that it views everybody,
00:10:36.600 every race as equal.
00:10:38.460 It doesn't,
00:10:39.380 it actually discounts
00:10:40.640 color blindness.
00:10:42.000 So, the idea that
00:10:43.280 when you're treating
00:10:44.180 other individuals,
00:10:45.100 you shouldn't be looking
00:10:46.340 at their ethnicity
00:10:47.520 or race
00:10:48.380 and basing
00:10:49.900 your treatment of them
00:10:51.040 or your value
00:10:52.040 and opinion of them
00:10:53.060 based on that.
00:10:54.260 It's rather that
00:10:55.400 there are certain races
00:10:57.280 that are disadvantaged
00:10:58.540 and therefore
00:10:59.680 they deserve
00:11:00.620 better treatment
00:11:01.760 or rather
00:11:02.680 a surplus
00:11:03.460 of advantages
00:11:05.180 to level
00:11:06.420 the playing field.
00:11:07.420 And that comes
00:11:07.960 with all sorts
00:11:08.840 of problems
00:11:09.620 when it's enacted
00:11:10.700 into policy,
00:11:12.160 especially in education.
00:11:13.320 but you've seen it
00:11:14.300 in places
00:11:14.820 that have,
00:11:15.640 you know,
00:11:16.480 opportunities
00:11:17.160 or even granting
00:11:18.500 access to certain spaces
00:11:20.300 to Black identifying patrons
00:11:23.360 while not explicitly,
00:11:26.000 they say,
00:11:27.140 excluding others.
00:11:28.460 But in practice,
00:11:29.120 that's what it amounts to.
00:11:30.980 And it's even been ruled
00:11:32.660 in Ontario,
00:11:34.060 I think,
00:11:34.800 at the Human Rights Tribunal
00:11:36.360 level
00:11:37.400 that this somehow
00:11:39.240 falls in
00:11:40.460 to being
00:11:41.980 within the scope
00:11:42.800 of human rights law
00:11:43.840 in Canada,
00:11:44.340 that you can actually
00:11:45.520 do reverse discrimination
00:11:47.640 as it's sometimes called
00:11:49.400 and that
00:11:50.500 Caucasian
00:11:52.260 or white Canadian people
00:11:53.800 don't necessarily
00:11:55.020 have a recourse
00:11:56.240 when they're confronted
00:11:57.700 with something
00:11:58.360 that says,
00:11:59.360 oh,
00:11:59.500 you're not allowed
00:12:00.260 in here
00:12:00.720 because you come
00:12:02.220 from,
00:12:02.920 you know,
00:12:03.680 a ethnicity
00:12:04.920 that historically
00:12:06.560 is known
00:12:07.700 to be
00:12:08.420 excluding of people
00:12:10.320 as participated
00:12:11.220 in some sort
00:12:12.160 of historic wrong.
00:12:13.580 So it's,
00:12:14.640 to put it
00:12:15.600 in brief,
00:12:17.260 it's essentially
00:12:18.200 an ideological position.
00:12:20.520 It's a worldview position,
00:12:22.400 but like a lot
00:12:23.360 of these left-wing
00:12:24.840 dogmatic
00:12:25.940 philosophies
00:12:27.260 or theories,
00:12:28.360 it just lumps
00:12:29.700 a bunch of things
00:12:31.040 together
00:12:31.600 and uses it
00:12:33.300 as a
00:12:34.440 academic guise.
00:12:36.160 They dress it up
00:12:36.940 in all of this
00:12:37.840 theory language
00:12:39.180 to cover
00:12:40.720 for what is
00:12:41.860 essentially
00:12:42.460 a political program
00:12:44.580 and a political practice.
00:12:46.380 And this is
00:12:47.460 the major issue
00:12:48.460 that Ontario schools,
00:12:50.580 but not only
00:12:51.120 Ontario schools,
00:12:52.000 schools across Canada
00:12:53.240 are facing
00:12:54.000 and that is
00:12:54.640 these theories
00:12:56.840 and pedagogies,
00:12:58.080 these ways
00:12:58.540 of teaching kids
00:12:59.600 that were ingrained
00:13:00.900 in this generation
00:13:02.660 of teachers
00:13:03.380 and administrators
00:13:04.520 through university,
00:13:06.760 colleges,
00:13:07.540 campuses,
00:13:08.760 et cetera,
00:13:10.120 has essentially
00:13:11.820 entered the classroom
00:13:13.060 and is being practiced
00:13:14.440 not only
00:13:15.460 by individual educators,
00:13:17.280 but at an institutional level
00:13:19.400 as this article points out.
00:13:24.340 When asked
00:13:25.420 whether he agreed
00:13:26.280 with Prime Minister
00:13:26.980 Mark Carney's
00:13:27.800 latest remarks
00:13:28.760 on the liberal gun grab,
00:13:30.320 Public Safety Minister
00:13:32.140 Gary Ananda-Sandry
00:13:33.740 told True North
00:13:34.720 that the Liberals'
00:13:35.840 gun confiscation program
00:13:37.320 has, quote,
00:13:38.480 always been voluntary.
00:13:40.480 He made the comments
00:13:41.580 outside of the
00:13:42.420 Westin Hotel
00:13:43.340 in Edmonton
00:13:44.100 where the Liberal caucus
00:13:45.380 is having a retreat
00:13:47.060 this week.
00:13:48.400 Firearm rights advocacy groups
00:13:50.180 have disputed
00:13:51.120 attempts to label
00:13:52.000 the firearm ban
00:13:53.040 as a, quote,
00:13:53.900 voluntary confiscation program,
00:13:56.220 pointing to potential
00:13:57.340 consequences
00:13:58.160 for gun owners
00:13:59.520 who refuse to forfeit
00:14:00.860 their now illegal guns
00:14:02.400 over to the government.
00:14:04.580 Prime Minister Mark Carney's
00:14:05.880 comments were made
00:14:06.620 on Wednesday
00:14:07.240 when he similarly called
00:14:08.940 the Liberals'
00:14:09.620 gun ban voluntary,
00:14:11.000 seemingly for the first time.
00:14:13.120 Nanda-Sandry said,
00:14:14.660 quote,
00:14:15.420 well,
00:14:15.760 the program is going
00:14:16.860 to be launched soon.
00:14:18.020 He responded to a question
00:14:19.460 about Carney's statements
00:14:20.580 by saying the gun grab
00:14:21.960 has, quote,
00:14:23.100 always been voluntary.
00:14:24.360 The program introduced
00:14:26.260 via cabinet decree
00:14:27.440 in 2020
00:14:28.360 eventually banned
00:14:29.560 over 2,500 models
00:14:31.560 of firearms.
00:14:32.840 That list has expanded
00:14:34.060 and costs are expected
00:14:36.000 to reach nearly $2 billion.
00:14:38.100 However,
00:14:38.720 the federal government
00:14:39.520 has continuously extended
00:14:41.060 the amnesty period
00:14:42.340 as it has struggled
00:14:43.360 to implement the program.
00:14:45.740 To date,
00:14:46.220 after five years,
00:14:47.200 the banned guns
00:14:48.100 remain in the possession
00:14:49.580 of their licensed owners
00:14:50.980 who legally purchased
00:14:52.480 the firearms.
00:14:53.220 Over the last half decade
00:14:55.280 since its inception,
00:14:56.920 the program has been
00:14:58.020 presented as mandatory.
00:15:00.540 So, Clayton,
00:15:01.260 what are critics
00:15:02.060 of the gun buyback
00:15:03.640 program saying
00:15:04.840 and how are they responding
00:15:06.200 to this idea
00:15:07.100 that it has always
00:15:08.380 been voluntary
00:15:09.260 as the minister suggested?
00:15:11.740 Well,
00:15:11.980 the CEO of the Canadian
00:15:13.180 Coalition of Firearms Rights,
00:15:15.080 Rod Giltaka,
00:15:16.500 told True North
00:15:17.260 that he doubts
00:15:18.300 that Ottawa
00:15:19.260 has shifted
00:15:20.260 to a voluntary approach
00:15:21.760 with the gun buyback program
00:15:23.440 or the so-called
00:15:24.920 gun buyback program.
00:15:26.960 Instead,
00:15:27.460 he said it was
00:15:28.260 more likely
00:15:28.980 that Carney
00:15:29.620 and his public safety minister
00:15:31.060 has, quote,
00:15:32.380 no idea
00:15:33.100 what the program
00:15:33.840 is capable of
00:15:34.740 in the first place.
00:15:35.820 And he also speculated
00:15:37.820 that if Canadians
00:15:38.880 were allowed
00:15:39.580 to voluntarily
00:15:40.660 keep their firearms,
00:15:42.760 that legislation
00:15:43.700 would force them
00:15:44.780 to deactivate
00:15:45.680 their firearms
00:15:46.380 or weld them shut,
00:15:48.180 rendering them useless.
00:15:49.980 And anyone
00:15:50.820 found in possession
00:15:51.980 of any of the firearms
00:15:53.140 banned by the liberal
00:15:54.080 legislation
00:15:54.700 could face
00:15:55.940 a penalty
00:15:56.580 of up to five years
00:15:57.940 in prison.
00:15:58.800 So, by definition,
00:15:59.940 it isn't a voluntary program.
00:16:01.860 It involves confiscation
00:16:03.300 and the threat
00:16:03.900 of imprisonment
00:16:04.660 for not complying.
00:16:05.580 But according
00:16:06.460 to the liberals,
00:16:07.160 it's a, quote,
00:16:08.460 opportunity
00:16:09.120 for licensed
00:16:10.200 and lawful
00:16:11.300 firearm owners
00:16:12.620 to turn in
00:16:13.360 their property.
00:16:13.980 And we should remember
00:16:15.420 that this is the same
00:16:16.420 public safety minister
00:16:17.540 that Conservative MP
00:16:19.880 Andrew Lawton
00:16:20.780 grilled in Parliament
00:16:22.360 about his understanding
00:16:24.020 of these firearms
00:16:25.500 legislations.
00:16:27.280 And he couldn't answer
00:16:29.080 any of the questions.
00:16:30.820 He didn't,
00:16:31.180 he clearly didn't know
00:16:32.460 enough about the program
00:16:34.060 as the public safety minister.
00:16:37.820 That's it for today, folks.
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