Juno News - September 24, 2023


Was 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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00:00:00.000 The One Million March for Children took place across Canada on September the 20th,
00:00:06.760 with the latter demanding more parental consent and an end to gender ideology teachings in schools.
00:00:14.300 And while the latter was supported by many parents,
00:00:16.540 and polling has shown that the majority of Canadians are on board with parental rights,
00:00:21.600 the unions were not pleased of this.
00:00:24.860 Ahead of the march, they held an emergency meeting where one of the members claimed 0.97
00:00:30.500 that those participating in the protests were fundamentally racist, anti-gay, and anti-trans fascists. 0.98
00:00:38.540 Watch. 0.99
00:00:39.080 The fascists are organizing in the streets.
00:00:41.380 I'm a researcher at Carleton, and my focus is fascism in Canada,
00:00:46.200 and the signs that I've seen that were rising that this is far more than just like a far-right transphobic protest.
00:00:52.040 They are fundamentally racist, they are fundamentally anti-union,
00:00:55.520 they are fundamentally queer and transphobic, and it's just a matter of time before they come to us. 1.00
00:01:00.560 And the only way, the best way, that the fascists have been stopped in the last hundred years
00:01:04.840 has been when we unite in massive numbers in the streets.
00:01:08.960 In addition to these left-wing accusations, the legacy media labeled the protests as anti-2SLGBTQIA+,
00:01:19.060 and highlighted the number of counter-protests taking place.
00:01:23.800 Now, these are quite strong accusations,
00:01:26.180 so I wanted to go down and get the protesters' reaction to these accusations,
00:01:32.820 and I wanted to see for myself, are these really fascists,
00:01:36.700 or are these just parents and their allies concerned about what's going on in Canada's publicly funded schools?
00:01:43.080 I was listening to CBC on my way here, and they were saying there are anti-LGBTQ protests taking place across the country today,
00:01:49.180 but you reject that claim.
00:01:51.400 Yeah, that claim is a farce, I'll be honest with you.
00:01:55.040 They said that there might be COVID, so don't go down.
00:01:59.500 There might be some violence, so don't go down.
00:02:02.280 There are some anti-hate groups, anti-Muslim groups, sorry, yeah, anti-Muslim groups, anti-Christian groups, and all these groups.
00:02:10.320 What they're missing is this group is a peaceful movement from coast to coast that comes in many flavors,
00:02:19.060 and it's Christians and Muslims and Buddhists and Jews and its families saying hands off our kids, 0.70
00:02:26.480 parental consent up to age 18.
00:02:28.620 That's all we're saying.
00:02:29.560 It's very simple, yet they've complicated it.
00:02:33.080 So the unions and other oppositions, they've claimed that people here are fundamentally racist or fascist, 0.93
00:02:39.240 they're anti-gay and anti-trans.
00:02:41.260 What are your thoughts on that? 0.96
00:02:43.080 Absolutely false.
00:02:44.800 They're doing what they love to do and twist the narrative,
00:02:47.380 and they are actually using hate speech against us, which they are accusing us of doing, which we've never done.
00:02:53.840 So we are not homophobic or anything like that.
00:02:57.740 We believe that every adult has a right to live their life the way that they want to,
00:03:01.580 their sexual preferences, that is up to them.
00:03:04.440 But they do not have the right to tell our children or to confuse our children from a young age.
00:03:09.180 As young as kindergarten, they are trying to tell our children that they have choices in their gender
00:03:14.720 and they're starting to sexualize them and awaken them sexually, and we do not believe that.
00:03:19.220 Let them be kids and let the parents train the children in the way that we feel that they should go.
00:03:24.780 So they're wrong.
00:03:25.680 We are not hateful.
00:03:27.320 We are not against the LGBTQ community.
00:03:29.960 We are against the indoctrination of our children.
00:03:32.520 Get it straight and use the clear narrative.
00:03:35.180 Well, they're just eroding the meaning of language.
00:03:37.720 Once they start calling everybody these things, it takes away all meaning.
00:03:43.600 I think most people have figured that out by now, that they're going to get called names for having conventional beliefs.
00:03:49.740 And those people are just eroding their own power.
00:03:54.080 What do you hope will come out of this march?
00:03:57.220 Well, I hope it gets a lot of attention across the country.
00:03:59.440 I hope that it's all peaceful and that we can send a message that Canadians are now standing up together
00:04:06.440 with a single voice to push back against what's going on in our schools.
00:04:10.260 Well, it's obviously not true because if you just take a look around,
00:04:12.740 you'll see that we're from all different walks of life, different ethnicities, different religions, different skin colors.
00:04:20.620 There's no way.
00:04:21.820 It's all for the kids.
00:04:22.740 We're all here.
00:04:23.340 We're all parents and we all care for the kids.
00:04:25.440 So this can't be true, obviously.
00:04:27.040 We're not here for any individual beliefs or, you know, we're here just for our children.
00:04:31.900 That's it.
00:04:32.560 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.
00:04:39.080 The only thing we ask is that our kids are left to us.
00:04:41.400 Their education is left to us, not to them.
00:04:44.020 That's it.
00:04:44.800 That's all that we ask.
00:04:46.180 I can tell you right now, these people that you see behind me, that all these people here, we are incredibly diverse.
00:04:52.860 I know for a fact that these people represent the majority of Canadians that don't want hate,
00:04:59.980 that don't want some sort of, you know, bigotry or hatred toward anybody.
00:05:05.840 We want love.
00:05:06.540 We want peace for everybody.
00:05:08.060 We just don't want the insanity of the LGBT agenda that it has come to. 1.00
00:05:13.100 And I can tell you that right now, all these people here are peaceful and would love and open to conversation
00:05:19.860 and talking with anyone that is willing to do so.
00:05:23.800 It's totally untrue.
00:05:25.920 Here we are from different walks of life.
00:05:29.020 We are Muslims, Jews, like Hindu, Christians, secular people.
00:05:37.020 We are all here united for our cause, which is making sure that our children live, when they go to school,
00:05:45.800 they feel safe, not having to be hiding their beliefs or trying to be forced to attend events
00:05:57.560 and raise the flags.
00:05:59.460 Why raise the LGBT flag? 1.00
00:06:01.700 We all have one flag, the Canadian flag.
00:06:04.560 That's what's uniting us.
00:06:06.480 So let's go all under that flag, take away all the flags from schools and keep only the Canadian flag.
00:06:14.340 We are united here.
00:06:16.120 As I said, if you look at people, they're not all Muslims.
00:06:19.160 They are not.
00:06:20.100 No one here is racist.
00:06:21.340 What brings us is our love for our children, our love for their future, caring about their mental health,
00:06:28.820 because we have children who come home saying to their parents that they are not happy because they are being forced
00:06:35.960 to attend events that are talking about how people can transit or children being asked every day,
00:06:44.520 what do you think you are?
00:06:45.800 Are you sure you are in the right body?
00:06:48.320 So stop questioning our children about their identity, about their gender.
00:06:53.260 My beliefs are different from yours, different from other people.
00:06:57.280 However, we're not supposed to be imposing them on each other.
00:07:01.380 We live as Canadians, have been always taught to live with respect, respecting each other's beliefs and affiliations.
00:07:11.100 And I have friends who are like, I have neighbors and friends who are from different LGBT community.
00:07:18.360 And we get along really well because they respect me, I respect them.
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00:07:45.400 In Ottawa, for True North, I'm Ily Quintain-Ontel.
00:07:59.200 Thank you.