Juno News - September 24, 2023Was the “One Million Person March for Children” anti-LGBTQ？
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On September 20th, one million people took to the streets of Canada in a protest against gender ideology in public schools. They demanded parental consent and an end to gender ideology teachings in Canadian schools. However, the unions and legacy media labeled the protests as anti-gay and anti-transphobic, and counter-protests took place across the country. In this episode, we speak to the protesters to find out if they are really fascists, or are they just concerned about what's going on in Canada's publicly funded schools?
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The One Million March for Children took place across Canada on September the 20th,
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with the latter demanding more parental consent and an end to gender ideology teachings in schools.
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And while the latter was supported by many parents,
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and polling has shown that the majority of Canadians are on board with parental rights,
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Ahead of the march, they held an emergency meeting where one of the members claimed
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that those participating in the protests were fundamentally racist, anti-gay, and anti-trans fascists.
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I'm a researcher at Carleton, and my focus is fascism in Canada,
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and the signs that I've seen that were rising that this is far more than just like a far-right transphobic protest.
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They are fundamentally racist, they are fundamentally anti-union,
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they are fundamentally queer and transphobic, and it's just a matter of time before they come to us.
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And the only way, the best way, that the fascists have been stopped in the last hundred years
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has been when we unite in massive numbers in the streets.
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In addition to these left-wing accusations, the legacy media labeled the protests as anti-2SLGBTQIA+,
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and highlighted the number of counter-protests taking place.
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so I wanted to go down and get the protesters' reaction to these accusations,
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and I wanted to see for myself, are these really fascists,
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or are these just parents and their allies concerned about what's going on in Canada's publicly funded schools?
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I was listening to CBC on my way here, and they were saying there are anti-LGBTQ protests taking place across the country today,
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Yeah, that claim is a farce, I'll be honest with you.
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They said that there might be COVID, so don't go down.
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There might be some violence, so don't go down.
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There are some anti-hate groups, anti-Muslim groups, sorry, yeah, anti-Muslim groups, anti-Christian groups, and all these groups.
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What they're missing is this group is a peaceful movement from coast to coast that comes in many flavors,
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and it's Christians and Muslims and Buddhists and Jews and its families saying hands off our kids,
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So the unions and other oppositions, they've claimed that people here are fundamentally racist or fascist,
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They're doing what they love to do and twist the narrative,
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and they are actually using hate speech against us, which they are accusing us of doing, which we've never done.
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So we are not homophobic or anything like that.
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We believe that every adult has a right to live their life the way that they want to,
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But they do not have the right to tell our children or to confuse our children from a young age.
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As young as kindergarten, they are trying to tell our children that they have choices in their gender
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and they're starting to sexualize them and awaken them sexually, and we do not believe that.
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Let them be kids and let the parents train the children in the way that we feel that they should go.
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We are against the indoctrination of our children.
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Well, they're just eroding the meaning of language.
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Once they start calling everybody these things, it takes away all meaning.
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I think most people have figured that out by now, that they're going to get called names for having conventional beliefs.
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And those people are just eroding their own power.
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Well, I hope it gets a lot of attention across the country.
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I hope that it's all peaceful and that we can send a message that Canadians are now standing up together
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with a single voice to push back against what's going on in our schools.
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Well, it's obviously not true because if you just take a look around,
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you'll see that we're from all different walks of life, different ethnicities, different religions, different skin colors.
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We're all parents and we all care for the kids.
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We're not here for any individual beliefs or, you know, we're here just for our children.
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They can do what they want as we practice our beliefs and we can live peacefully without having to argue with each other in fights.
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The only thing we ask is that our kids are left to us.
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I can tell you right now, these people that you see behind me, that all these people here, we are incredibly diverse.
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I know for a fact that these people represent the majority of Canadians that don't want hate,
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that don't want some sort of, you know, bigotry or hatred toward anybody.
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We just don't want the insanity of the LGBT agenda that it has come to.
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And I can tell you that right now, all these people here are peaceful and would love and open to conversation
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and talking with anyone that is willing to do so.
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We are Muslims, Jews, like Hindu, Christians, secular people.
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We are all here united for our cause, which is making sure that our children live, when they go to school,
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they feel safe, not having to be hiding their beliefs or trying to be forced to attend events
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So let's go all under that flag, take away all the flags from schools and keep only the Canadian flag.
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As I said, if you look at people, they're not all Muslims.
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What brings us is our love for our children, our love for their future, caring about their mental health,
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because we have children who come home saying to their parents that they are not happy because they are being forced
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to attend events that are talking about how people can transit or children being asked every day,
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So stop questioning our children about their identity, about their gender.
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My beliefs are different from yours, different from other people.
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However, we're not supposed to be imposing them on each other.
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We live as Canadians, have been always taught to live with respect, respecting each other's beliefs and affiliations.
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And I have friends who are like, I have neighbors and friends who are from different LGBT community.
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And we get along really well because they respect me, I respect them.
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