Don Cherry abruptly quit his podcast on Monday, giving his final goodbye to Canadians. He is 91, his health is failing, and it is understandable that he wants to quit the media business. Let s take a look at his statement.
00:00:00.000They're ticked off, they're ticked off, and I try to tell you this, they're ticked off at the foreigners coming over here earning the dough.
00:00:07.840Canada has lost one of the great ones. You guessed it, Don Cherry.
00:00:13.040Don Cherry abruptly quit his podcast on Monday, giving his final goodbye to Canadians.
00:00:18.200He's 91, his health is failing, and it's understandable that he wants to quit the media business.
00:00:36.340Yeah, we've been listening to all around the world. It's just amazing how many different countries, you know, people download and listen to it.
00:00:43.400We've had 6.5 million downloads, which is pretty good.
00:01:17.760I'd go down there and I'd say, look, vote me in, and I guarantee you, as I stand here, no foreign trawler would come in and touch one fish.
00:01:27.480And foreign aid, if you want to get into that, here we've got people dying.
00:01:32.100Here we've got people dying for want of beds, and we're giving money to the foreigners.
00:01:35.860No way! It'd be Canada first, and Canada only.
00:01:41.480Because I'm so aggressive on TV, and because my clothes are always so clean and neat, and the rope shoulders, eh, like, these are, the rope shoulders like this are usually for, uh, women.
00:01:53.640And so they wrote in and said I was, uh, didn't say fag, they said homosexual, which I thought was nice, anyhow, so.
00:01:59.840Unfortunately, Don Cherry's TV career was cut short in 2019.
00:02:03.860This came after he gave an impassioned speech about wearing a poppy.
00:02:07.120He was cancelled for making the statement, due to sensitive viewers in Canada.
00:02:11.480You know, I was talking to a veteran, I said, I'm not going to run the poppy thing anymore, because what's the sense?
00:02:16.520I live in Mississauga, nobody wears, uh, very few people wear, uh, a poppy.
00:02:21.940Downtown Toronto, forget it, downtown Toronto, nobody wears a poppy.
00:02:25.540And I'm not going to, he says, wait a minute, how about running it for the people that buy them?
00:02:30.460Now, you go to the small cities, and you know, you, you know, those, the rows on rows, you people love, you, they come here, whatever it is,
00:02:38.360you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple of bucks for poppies or something like that.
00:02:45.740These guys pay for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada.
00:02:50.000These guys pay the, uh, the biggest price.
00:02:53.060Anyhow, I'm going to run it again for you great people, and good Canadians that bought a poppy.
00:03:03.300Here we are, November 11th, we're in Trelinkan British Cemetery in France, and, uh, November 11th, I want everybody to remember when you're buying a poppy and you see row after row of our Canadian dead here.
00:03:20.180And I'm going to put here, we visited Thomas William McKenzie, Military Metal and Bar Canadian Field Artillery.
00:03:29.460He died seven days before the end of the war, 27 years old.
00:03:34.460So when you're walking by and you see our great legions, guys standing there, and they offer you a poppy, think of all this.
00:04:53.720However, Don Cherry is a winner, not a loser.
00:04:58.180So after he was unfairly fired, instead of quitting, instead of sitting down, instead of taking it kind of like Ron McClain would in the similar situation, he decided to fight back and start his own podcast.