Juno News - August 24, 2023


'Woke Bull＊＊＊＊!' Toronto residents reject Olivia Chow’s plan to rename Dundas Street


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12 minutes

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2,210

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00:00:00.000 They say it's going to cost taxpayers over $8.6 million to change the street.
00:00:04.040 If taxpayers want to feel better about themselves, then donate that $8.6 million to affordable housing
00:00:10.500 for, like, First Nations people that are actually affected by, you know, Dundas and whatever the f*** he did.
00:00:24.600 We're here at Yonge and Dundas Square, one of the busiest intersections in the city
00:00:28.840 and a landmark here in Toronto.
00:00:31.380 We're here because Yonge and Dundas Square, well, it won't be called Yonge and Dundas Square for too much longer.
00:00:36.660 That's because Socialist Mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, is moving forward with a 2021 proposal
00:00:41.480 to not only rename Dundas Street, one of the most famous streets in the city,
00:00:46.300 but also potentially even renaming Yonge Street, perhaps the most famous street in all of Canada.
00:00:51.620 Along with it, 59 other street names that, according to the geniuses at the city of Toronto,
00:00:55.780 need to be renamed because they no longer represent the progressive values of the city today.
00:01:01.380 What makes this plan so perplexing is not only the fact that Henry Dundas,
00:01:05.400 the man Dundas Street is named after, is not guilty of the crimes he's being accused of committing,
00:01:11.620 but also because this plan will cost taxpayers over $8.6 million.
00:01:17.440 All of this comes at a time when the city of Toronto is facing a dire economic situation.
00:01:22.600 Just take a look at this report commissioned by the same geniuses who come up with this proposal,
00:01:28.260 three named Dundas, about this economic situation the city is in.
00:01:32.220 Toronto's forecasted pressures cannot be solved immediately,
00:01:35.440 but they do need to be addressed immediately as the city is projecting an opening pressure
00:01:39.920 of $1.5 to $1.7 billion for the 2024 budget process.
00:01:46.180 These pressures will continue to grow each year
00:01:48.960 and will become increasingly difficult to manage if left unaddressed.
00:01:52.320 Like a car accelerating toward a crowded intersection,
00:01:55.580 not applying the brakes early enough, will have predictable and grave consequences.
00:01:59.920 This is to say nothing at all over the food bank crisis happening in this city and across the country,
00:02:05.760 where food banks can no longer keep up with the serious surge of demand
00:02:09.820 from Canadians who can't keep up with the spiraling costs of food in this country.
00:02:14.360 Also, how about the drug and addiction crisis,
00:02:17.020 where addicts are now lining our streets, strung out and in desperate need of help, not more drugs?
00:02:23.360 How about the homelessness crisis taking over our once great parks,
00:02:27.260 with tent cities popping up seemingly every single day?
00:02:30.620 I want to top that off, migrants and refugees are now having to sleep in the street
00:02:34.420 because there are no more shelter spaces available to anyone else.
00:02:38.340 These shelters are stretched to their limit.
00:02:41.220 And Olivia Chow's plan to solve this economic crisis the city is in
00:02:44.800 not only involves, like any good municipal leader, begging to the province and the feds for more money,
00:02:49.500 but also to impose a municipal sales tax on Torontonians,
00:02:53.540 as if Torontonians don't pay enough taxes already.
00:02:56.460 We're here to ask Torontonians if they think renaming Dundas Street
00:02:59.600 is a good use of taxpayer funds during this crisis.
00:03:03.500 Plan to rename Dundas Street, good or bad idea?
00:03:10.360 Bad idea.
00:03:11.000 Why do you think it's a bad idea?
00:03:11.960 Because it's got history, man.
00:03:13.620 I agree.
00:03:14.240 Yeah.
00:03:14.540 It's going to cost taxpayers $8.6 million to do a renaming.
00:03:18.060 Do you think the funds could go to something else in the city?
00:03:21.680 Yeah, absolutely.
00:03:22.960 I like it.
00:03:23.780 And what do you think about the fact that there's a proposal to do the Dundas Street?
00:03:27.280 They also want to rename Yonge Street.
00:03:29.040 They do?
00:03:29.680 Yeah, that's on the list.
00:03:30.600 I want to do that. That's ridiculous as well, man.
00:03:32.420 Renaming Dundas Street, good or bad idea?
00:03:36.460 Well, Dundas, we need new spirits, new vibes down here.
00:03:40.700 It has switched up dramatically.
00:03:42.940 Like, I feel like the new name will be a brand new start for 2024, if you ask me.
00:03:47.440 They also want to rename Yonge Street. Is that too much?
00:03:50.360 It's part of the city, surely.
00:03:52.220 Well, it could happen, but whatever happens, it happens.
00:03:55.140 But I'm not the mayor, but my opinion,
00:03:58.160 I feel like a brand new name will be a brand new start,
00:04:00.920 and it will boom the city again.
00:04:03.140 Renaming Dundas Street is a good idea, good or bad idea.
00:04:05.880 What do you think?
00:04:06.360 It's a waste of money.
00:04:07.460 Waste of money?
00:04:08.400 Yeah, they say it's going to cost taxpayers over $8.6 million to change the street.
00:04:12.500 The only reason why we're doing this is this, like, woke conscience bullshit.
00:04:16.460 If taxpayers want to feel better about themselves,
00:04:19.060 then donate that $8.6 million to affordable housing
00:04:22.960 for, like, First Nations people that are actually affected by, you know,
00:04:28.500 Dundas and whatever the f*** he did.
00:04:30.240 There's a city plan to rename Dundas Street.
00:04:32.900 You think it's a good or bad idea?
00:04:35.040 I think it'll be a lot of work.
00:04:36.880 What's the reason? Do you know?
00:04:38.480 They say that Henry Dundas, who was this guy in the 1700s,
00:04:42.480 delayed the abolition of slavery, but it's not exactly accurate.
00:04:46.340 In reality, he put forward a motion that got passed
00:04:48.860 to gradually abolish slavery, not in one swoop, not in one go.
00:04:54.320 And he also represented a slave in Scotland in 1790 to help free him.
00:04:58.360 So he's not really guilty of the crimes he's being accused of committing,
00:05:01.640 but they want to change it anyway.
00:05:03.580 I think the money can go other places, honestly.
00:05:06.860 Right now, everyone knows the name of the streets,
00:05:08.720 so it'll be hard to change, and it's going to cost $8 million, so...
00:05:13.240 Do you think it's a big deal that Dundas is named after
00:05:15.660 again, someone that was looking to not abolish slavery, things like that?
00:05:20.880 I don't want to say it's just a name,
00:05:22.520 but I feel like there's better uses of money in Toronto.
00:05:25.040 Massive streets, it's a lot of work that goes behind the scenes,
00:05:27.920 and the money behind it, I do think the namesake could be better,
00:05:34.400 but I feel like there's a lot better uses of taxpayer funds right now.
00:05:37.300 Put the money somewhere else where it's needed.
00:05:39.700 I know there's a major homeless problem in the city,
00:05:43.500 and the roads are messed up.
00:05:46.060 It's just a word, it's just a sign to me.
00:05:50.920 But, like I said, I don't want to be ignorant, you know what I mean?
00:05:55.640 It obviously means a lot more to other people.
00:05:59.880 What do you think about this?
00:06:01.140 Also in the proposal made by the city back in 2021,
00:06:04.780 they put Yonge Street on the chopping block as well.
00:06:07.840 Yonge Street's the longest street in the world, is it not?
00:06:10.580 Gotta be close.
00:06:11.320 It goes all the way to Minnesota, I think,
00:06:14.820 if you go straight up Yonge Street.
00:06:16.680 And, no, Yonge Street, it's Yonge Street.
00:06:18.480 It's legendary.
00:06:19.200 Should the money go somewhere else other than renaming?
00:06:21.780 Should it go to other services?
00:06:23.100 Better than somewhere, like,
00:06:26.560 it goes to the charity of some country
00:06:30.660 to help the poor people.
00:06:34.100 You don't care about the name of the street.
00:06:37.160 It doesn't matter, right?
00:06:37.920 It doesn't matter.
00:06:40.440 It's, what is that?
00:06:41.820 Yeah.
00:06:42.140 Same, same name.
00:06:43.860 If you ask me, Ahmed, my name is Mahmoud, so that is same.
00:06:49.440 Is it any different than changing Ryerson University name
00:06:52.220 or all the other names are changing?
00:06:54.020 Is there any difference?
00:06:54.940 I don't think so.
00:06:58.720 No, because in that sense, it's not.
00:07:01.640 Technically, it's not a good thing.
00:07:04.860 It should be acknowledged.
00:07:06.660 But I don't know about erasing it
00:07:08.420 and going to the greater lengths to do that,
00:07:10.920 spending all kinds of money that is limited now
00:07:13.760 to do all that.
00:07:15.220 There's a city plan to rename Dundas Street,
00:07:17.200 good or bad idea?
00:07:18.020 I don't care.
00:07:18.980 All right, well, there you have it, folks.
00:07:20.200 Most people who we spoke to couldn't care less.
00:07:22.940 That's because the renaming of a street
00:07:24.960 won't impact their lives in any way whatsoever.
00:07:28.620 It will, of course, benefit the far-left ideologues
00:07:31.400 who are hell-bent on erasing any connection of the past
00:07:36.060 and the people that actually built this country.
00:07:38.840 Why would we want to celebrate them
00:07:39.980 when we could celebrate people
00:07:40.980 who none of us have ever heard of
00:07:42.220 or, like in the case of Ryerson University
00:07:44.840 or, shall we say, Toronto Metropolitan University
00:07:47.660 or X University, whatever we're going to call it now,
00:07:50.200 we're going to just commemorate nobody instead.
00:07:53.000 We're standing right at the spot
00:07:54.280 where the Egerton-Ryerson statue used to stand.
00:07:57.120 It no longer stands because it was brutally torn down
00:07:59.580 at about the same time
00:08:01.460 when John A. MacDonald statues across the country
00:08:04.020 were being vandalized
00:08:05.060 and calls to rename every single university
00:08:08.820 or institution or street in this country
00:08:11.040 that was named after someone from the past.
00:08:14.680 People either don't care
00:08:16.240 or they think it's a bad idea
00:08:18.180 and could think of many better ways
00:08:20.080 to spend $8.6 million taxpayer dollars
00:08:23.020 or, like in the case of some people,
00:08:25.300 they do think it's a good idea.
00:08:26.480 We spoke to one TMU, ex-university,
00:08:29.440 however we want to call it, student,
00:08:30.780 who thinks that it's important
00:08:32.500 that we continue with these decolonization efforts.
00:08:35.820 Is it a good use of taxpayer funds?
00:08:37.160 Yeah, I mean, I think, like, if, you know,
00:08:41.000 government organizations are interested
00:08:42.520 in backing decolonization or anti-racism efforts,
00:08:46.220 that should also be followed
00:08:48.340 with financial incentive and financial backing, right?
00:08:50.820 So it's okay if it costs money
00:08:52.760 when it shows a commitment
00:08:53.800 to prioritizing the needs and wants of indigenous folks
00:08:57.320 and following the TRC's calls to action.
00:08:59.900 Whether or not the renaming of Dundas Street
00:09:01.900 or Yonge Street or any of these other streets
00:09:03.820 is going to benefit the lives of any indigenous person
00:09:06.780 or black person or other minority,
00:09:09.620 well, I'll leave that up to you,
00:09:11.320 but I think we can all agree
00:09:12.300 that the answer is it won't do anything.
00:09:14.660 What is the goal of these people
00:09:16.020 who want to rename our streets,
00:09:17.820 rename our universities,
00:09:18.940 and tear down our statues?
00:09:20.640 Is it to, as they say, advance decolonization,
00:09:23.860 or is there something more sinister with their motives?
00:09:26.840 Are they trying to erase the history
00:09:28.540 and perhaps rewrite the history of this country?
00:09:31.300 Let me know in the comments
00:09:32.260 your answer to that question.
00:09:34.640 That'll be the comment question for the video.
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