Max Genest - November 12, 2025


The Stamp That Forgot What Remembrance Day Means

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3 minutes

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534

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This year, Canada Post unveiled a new stamp to mark Remembrance day featuring a Sikh soldier. They say it's meant to honour Sikh Canadians who fought in World War I. But let's be honest about this, about 620,000 Canadians served overseas, and only around 10 were Sikh. And yet they're the ones being highlighted on this year's stamp?

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00:00:00.000 Today's Remembrance Day, the day we honor the Canadians who fought, bled, and died for this
00:00:04.740 country. And this year, Canada Post unveiled a new stamp to mark the occasion, featuring a Sikh
00:00:10.880 soldier. They say it's meant to honor Sikh Canadians who fought in World War I. But let's 1.00
00:00:15.800 be honest about this, in World War I, about 620,000 Canadians served overseas, and only around 10
00:00:21.640 were Sikh, and yet they're the ones being highlighted on this year's stamp? I do not 1.00
00:00:25.780 want to hear people go it's just a stamp because you are the same one who goes it's just a statue
00:00:30.940 it's just a street name it's just a picture on money it's just a national anthem well you know
00:00:36.440 what it's just your nation this is what happens when symbolism matters more than proportion
00:00:41.320 when the government cares more about diversity optics than about truth or sacrifice this is
00:00:47.800 what happens when a government mocks and tears down its own history when it spits on the graves
00:00:53.120 of the men who actually built this country. In World War I, men crawled through mushy mud
00:01:00.220 in the freezing trenches at Vimy Ridge, choking on gas and gunpowder. Entire platoons wiped out
00:01:07.480 in minutes. In World War II, boys barely out of high school stormed the beaches of Normandy under
00:01:12.560 machine gunfire to be gruesomely and vitally slaughtered. In Korea, they held the line at
00:01:18.000 Ka Pyeong against overwhelming odds. They fought through brutally cold mountains and monsoon rains
00:01:24.140 often cut off from supplies. In Afghanistan, troops patrolled dusty roads not knowing which
00:01:29.300 one was mined. To this day, those veterans still take their own lives because even though they
00:01:34.220 left that war, that war never left them. Back home, mothers opened their doors greeted by their
00:01:40.060 greatest fear, the words, we regret to inform you. Children were robbed of their fathers and now we
00:01:46.320 honor and remember none of that we were placed with ideology lies and forgetting why not honor
00:01:53.820 a real hero like leo major put him on a stamp he landed on d-day lost an eye refused to go home
00:02:00.240 and then deep in the night he single-handedly liberated a major dutch city occupied by the
00:02:05.440 germans one man one rifle one night by morning they were gone that's leo major that's grit that's
00:02:11.640 courage that's resilience that's loyalty that's a canadian that's canada that's who we are that's
00:02:16.020 what we're made of. The Germans couldn't believe how great we were. They started calling us
00:02:24.300 stormtroopers. Their own word for elite shock troops. Fearless, unpredictable, impossible to
00:02:31.140 stop. One German officer even wrote, these Canadians fight like Russians. We tore through
00:02:37.500 Hitler's SS in brutal close quarters combat. Flamethrowers, grenades, gunshots. It was raw
00:02:44.000 courage Canadians weren't just brave they were unbreakable our enemies didn't just respect us
00:02:50.200 they feared us our allies knew who the real leaders were we will not forget who we were
00:02:56.220 we will not forget our legacy we will not forget our soldiers and by God we will not forget what
00:03:01.780 this government has done our nation will put Canadians first and together we will take our
00:03:07.740 country back. Never forget that.