Juno News - Why is the Alberta NDP freaking out over an essay？

00:00:00.000 okay guys let's end today on a bit of a lighter note you guys might have heard about this essay

00:00:04.640 that's taking the alberta press gallery and leftist twitter by storm people are absolutely

00:00:09.680 outraged over this essay so here's what happened there was a her vision inspires contest which the

00:00:15.360 alberta government agreed to post the essays on their website and two female ucp mlas also helped

00:00:22.240 judging in the contest there were three winners and the third place winner was a basically an essay

00:00:28.080 that urged women to have children which is as you know very controversial in the year 2022.

00:00:34.320 the essay said albertan women are taught that children are a burden while importing foreigners

00:00:39.680 to replace albertan culture and albertan people essentially the essay also wrote that men and

00:00:44.880 women aren't exactly equal because women have the unique ability to bear children and obviously

00:00:50.560 there's a bit of a biological difference and the essay writer wrote that modern culture really

00:00:55.120 chooses to ignore this difference or to rewrite it and the essay said men and women have an important

00:01:01.120 role in preserving their speeches and culture and women often regret having children later in life

00:01:06.960 i'm sure you guys won't find it surprising that people were outraged over this essay they couldn't

00:01:11.040 believe that it was third place it was later revealed that there were two other essays that did

00:01:16.240 not place in the contest and people couldn't understand how this essay placed above those others

00:01:21.280 that did not place and of course the ucp mlas that were involved in the judging have been forced to

00:01:26.320 apologize so i'm wondering what do you guys think is this essay as controversial as everyone says it is

00:01:32.000 was it wrong to have chosen this person to win third place or does she maybe have a point or you

00:01:37.520 know maybe she just has some different thoughts but she should still be allowed to express those

00:01:41.760 let me know what you guys think you know where you can reach me on twitter or facebook

00:01:45.520 that's all i have for you today thanks so much for tuning in and we'll catch up next week

Juno News - August 16, 2022