DAVID MENZIES ｜ School board refuses to bend the knee to the lunatic fringe, but the fight is far from over
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Summary
A school board voted down a demand to fly the rainbow flag that represents the LGBTQ+ community at the York Catholic District School Board headquarters in Aurora, Ontario. Is this a slap in the face to the queer community? Or is it a victory for Catholic parents of Catholic school children that adhere to Catholic doctrine?
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Tonight, thanks to a democratic process, the pride flag will not be raised at a Catholic
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school board district, but will this be reversed in the months to come? It's Wednesday, May 31st,
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2023. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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Well, that was quite the raucous shindig at the York Catholic District School Board
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headquarters situated in sleepy little Aurora, Ontario the other night. That's when members
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and allies of the L-G-G-B-D-T-T-T-I-Q-Q-A-A-P-P community gathered en masse. By the way,
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am I missing anyone here? Do I need to go on Wheel of Fortune and buy a vowel, or does a 14-letter
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descriptor cover all the bases? Anyway, Monday evening's board meeting, in terms of the queer
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community, kind of resembled a Yoko Ono concert. You know, it started off badly and then proceeded
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Ooh, now that's entertainment. I must observe that Miss Ono's song kind of resembles the oratory so
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many of the spirit unicorns were spouting after a particular vote. You see, on this evening,
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once and for all, the YCDSB was going to determine whether the pride flag would be raised on
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York Catholic District School Board properties. And seconds after the majority of trustees turned
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their thumbs down on that proposition, several members of the Rainbow Mafia engaged in a hissy fit
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and then they hastily retreated to a guarded meeting room so that they could weep. Oh yeah,
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they really did that. You know, it makes you wonder, haven't any of these folks seen a league of
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their own? Are you crying? No. Are you crying? Are you crying? There's no crying? There's no crying in
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baseball! That's right, there's no crying in baseball and I'm pretty darn sure there's no crying at school
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board meetings either. At least I've never witnessed crying at school board meetings, even when I showed
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up pretending to be Busty Lemieux at the Halton District School Board last October. Now that's
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something to cry over. Then again, the adults in the room that night, those would be, you know, Catholic
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parents of Catholic school children that adhere to Catholic doctrine that one would expect to be taught
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in a Catholic school system. Well, some of those folks were crying too, but those were tears of joy.
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Can you blame them? Victories at Ontario school boards for Team Normal are few and far between
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these days. So many school boards have veered so out of control, going woke and politically correct.
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No longer are schools all that concerned with the three R's. Rather, indoctrination has eclipsed
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education. Marxism is being peddled in the guise of inclusion, diversity and equity. So it was that for
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the concerned parents in the audience, the YCDSB turning down the demand to fly the pride flag
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was a sweet victory in the mouth of madness. As for the LGBTers, one must ponder, is this community
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really that fragile? You know that unless a multicolored piece of cloth gets to flap in the breeze,
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then this inaction is akin to a hate crime? That this will somehow be constituted as a slap in the
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face? Jeez Louise, it's a flag for goodness sake and a fake flag at that. Get over yourselves.
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By the way, speaking of the pride flag, this thing, like some of the constituents it represents,
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it seems very fluid these days, doesn't it, folks? Here's the original pride flag. Now, speaking strictly
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from a design standpoint, I like it. I mean, who doesn't like a rainbow after all? The presentation
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is colorful yet simple, you know, like those classic jerseys the Houston Astros used to wear.
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Indeed, both the original pride flag and the old Houston Astros jersey work if one subscribes to the
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design philosophy of less is more. But recently, this rendition, or is it abomination, this is what has
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come along. Apparently, the triangular white, pink, and baby blue hues were added in order to represent
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the trans community. But wait a minute here. Wasn't the trans community already represented in the original
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design? I mean, the T in LGBT stands for transgender, right? Ah, never mind. Trans people are extra special
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people, so they deserve to get double dipping treatment vis-a-vis the flag, I suppose, even if
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it ruins the design of the original flag. By the way, the brown and black hues apparently represent
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brown and black people. But wait a minute. Isn't the flag all about sexual orientation and gender
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identification? What does race have to do with that? Well, I guess we'll all have to deal with it,
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okay? But wait, there's more folks. The other day at a Starbucks in Whitby, Ontario, I came across
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this rendition of the pride flag, which was displayed in the cafe's window. Yellow has been added along with
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a purple circle. What in blue hell is that? I know, I suppose I could Google it, but honestly, I just can't be
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bothered. Besides, what do you want to bet that the flag will be further updated for 2024? How about adding
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an illustration of the kitchen sink? I'm just saying this, my queer friends. Your symbol is quickly
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becoming the Pontiac Aztec of flags, given the hideous mishmash of angles and lines and jarring colors.
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You're one tweak away from this symbol becoming, well, the flag version of the most hideous hockey
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jersey ever concocted. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Vancouver Canucks, circa 1978 to 1985. You know,
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I can't believe I bought one of those jerseys back in high school when my second favorite Maple Leaf
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player of all time, that would be Tiger Williams, was traded to Vancouver. Did he say which? Anyway,
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when it comes to flags and inclusivity, I kind of like the red and white one that flies over our
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great, albeit constantly under attack dominion. That would be the Canadian flag. Last I checked,
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it's supposed to stand for all Canadians, regardless of one's sexual orientation or gender identification.
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But apparently, such an all-encompassing flag isn't good enough for the queer community. I don't get
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that. After all, a nation's flag is supposed to unify all its citizens, is it not? Another thing,
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how and why did this celebration of queerness morph from a single Pride Day to a Pride Week to a Pride
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Month? And now advocates are pushing for Pride season, you know, that chunk of calendar real estate,
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otherwise known as summer. How much acknowledgement do these cats need? Indeed, does it not seem so
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perverse to you that there is only one day set aside every November to honour our veterans and those
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who made the ultimate sacrifice? Why is that? Well, you know, I think I know why, given the context of
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the loony left these days, which is to say, this idea of men going to war and fighting and sometimes
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dying, well, that's so much toxic masculinity, isn't it? Can't have that, not these days, even though it
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was a damn good thing we had copious amounts of toxic masculinity some 80 years ago, when it came to
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putting down a certain dictator hell-bent on world conquest while carrying out a genocide. Otherwise,
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maybe we're speaking German in Canada today. Otherwise, the swastika, rather than the maple leaf,
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flies from coast to coast to coast. Say, do you think there would be any tolerance for the Pride flag
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in that sort of fascist regime? So maybe a little toxic masculinity here and there is not such a bad
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thing after all, wouldn't you say? And yet, how shameful that four of the YCDSB trustees
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placed their Catholic values in the closet on Monday night and actually voted for the so-called
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Pride progress flag to be hoisted. They bought into the lunatic fringe argument that by not raising the
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Catholic schools, Catholic schools would not be safe spaces? Seriously, that was an argument that
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was presented. No Pride flag in June means homophobia and transphobia and biphobia would just go off the
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charts. Does anyone really believe that? Look, if there are any students who are part of the queer
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community at any school who are being harassed and bullied, well, that is appalling and egregious.
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But does anyone really think that the gay bashers out there are rendered impotent by the flying of a
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pride flag? Really? No. What's needed is for school principals to actually live up to the zero tolerance
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for bullying mantra as opposed to simply giving lip service to it, which is sadly par for the course
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these days. Speaking of bullying, we also have to consider the players behind the pride flag campaign,
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such as Paulo de Bono. Now, this guy is a real piece of work, folks. He is or maybe was a teacher
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in the Toronto Catholic District School Board. When we first attempted to reach out to him,
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he was teaching at St. Antoine Daniel School. But due to an avalanche of parents complaining
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to the Toronto Catholic Board, Mr. de Bono has either been reassigned to another school or maybe,
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just like Bussy Labue and Halton, he is being paid a full salary to stay at home and do nothing.
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That's how school boards roll these days, folks. They reward failure. So what's the skinny on de Bono?
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Well, if you can imagine, he's a Catholic, a Catholic school board teacher, no less, who hates
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Catholicism. I know that's crazy, kind of like saying, you know, I know of a wolf that hates to
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eat red meat, but it's true. Our friend Sue Ann Levy at True North has done a stellar job chronicling
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the perverse agenda of Mr. de Bono. For example, he claims that Jesus Christ was black and that he was
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either transgender or non-binary, even though he has no proof of this whatsoever. He bragged that he
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was going to be the first teacher to bring drag queen story hour to a Catholic school. Even to this
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day, he wears two masks indoors, typically peppered with LGBT political statements. And at St. Antoine,
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he allegedly took down the cross in his classroom and replaced it with a pride flag,
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creating a so-called rainbow room. And de Bono is a nasty piece of work. If he disagrees with you,
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he'll block you on Twitter. If he really, really disagrees with you, he'll threaten to sue you.
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How Christian of him. And even though he works with the Toronto Catholic District School Board,
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De Bono has been attending meetings at the York Catholic District School Board where he tries to,
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oh, I don't know, pollinate his perversity north of Hogtown. He also likes to goad practicing Catholic
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parents. By the way, we caught up with him on Monday evening as he waited to get into the YCDSB meeting.
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Hey, we always believe in getting the other side of the story. But when it comes to De Bono,
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as they say in Alabama, this dog don't hunt. Here, check it out.
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Hey, Mr. De Bono, what brings you up to the York Catholic Region District School Board?
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David Menzies. I tried to reach out to you, but you blocked me.
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Now, you claim that Jesus Christ was a transgender racial person. I think black or brown. Is that
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correct? You're no longer at the school. Now, have you been transferred or have you been fired?
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You can't articulate your points, Mr. De Bono. I thought you were a teacher.
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Are you teaching at another school? Sir, why is someone who is employed with a Catholic school
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board not beholden to Catholic values? Well, this is incredible, folks. This is actually
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a schoolteacher with the Toronto Catholic School Board. He's no longer at his school. We don't know
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if he's being transferred to another school, or maybe it's like Busty Lemieux. He's being paid full
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salary and benefits to stay at home. Now, we have reached out to Mr. De Bono in the past,
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but he's got a funny communication strategy. By the way, as far as I could tell, everyone
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in that lineup was part of Team Spirit Unicorn. They began lining up more than an hour before
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the board meeting was scheduled to start. The idea was to pack the room so that those parents who
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actually embrace Catholicism would be shut out from attending the meeting. And check out this
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little interaction we had with a pair of De Bono defenders, I guess. It was downright weird.
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Pardon me? You have nothing better to do? Who are you? Who are you? I'm David Menzies with
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Rebel News. Okay, well, you can go. Okay. Did you say I can go? Yeah, you should. Okay. I'm having
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difficult. I'm having trouble hearing you with your face diaper on, actually. Oh, my God.
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So, why do you want me to go? Is this not a publicly funded school board? Who's that?
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This teacher over there. Oh, you speak for Mr. De Bono. He's unable to himself. I thought
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he was an educated man. Yeah, because y'all are idiots. So, that's all I'm going to say.
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So, you're just a bigot. You can go. Oh, what makes me a bigot, ma'am or sir? I'm not
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sure. I didn't misgender you, did I? Oh, please. Go fuck yourself. Oh, that's not very ladylike.
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Oh, oh, now you're f***ing misgendering me. Ladylike. Oh, well, what are you exactly?
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None of your f***ing business. What are you? But you said I misgendered you. If I don't
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know what you are, how can I not misgender you? Don't you love the love-trumps-hate community?
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First, I'm told to beat it, even though I'm on public property. And then someone who truly
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resembled a female screams about me misgendering him-her, but he-she won't tell me what her
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or his gender is so that I can correct my verbiage? Bizarre. And I hate to be rude or insensitive
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here, but do you think maybe that when it comes to Mr. De Bono and his soy-based sidekicks,
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there might be, you know, an element of mental illness at play here? I mean, are these folks
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trans activists or are they members of the cosplay community embracing the sort of characters you'd
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find at Arkham Asylum? You showed me what was possible. You showed me all it takes is fear
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and a little focused violence. You inspired me. You're out of your goddamn mind.
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What? This is all in your head. You're sick. Twisted. How can you say that? You think you'll
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be remembered? You're a pathetic psychopath. Begging for attention. You're gonna die.
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No, no, no, no, no. A nobody. But you know, folks, when it comes to the culture wars playing out
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at the school board level, there's plenty of blame to go around, isn't there? Like where in blue hell
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is the umpire? I speak of Ontario's milquetoast minister of education, Stephen Lecce, who is about
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as effective as a professional wrestling referee these days. While the York Catholic district school
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board did the right thing on Monday by not bending the knee to the lunatic fringe, so many other school
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boards are hopelessly out of control. Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, Durham, Halton, bastions of wokeism,
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trustees who look upon parents as enemies. Lecce can dissolve these school boards, but he won't.
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Why? Then again, are we approaching this from the wrong angle? Maybe Lecce is all in when it comes to
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woke nonsense himself? Because it's now abundantly clear that Lecce, who is supposedly a conservative,
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yeah, insert laugh track here, folks, is incompetent and ineffective. As the saying goes,
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if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Far from our knight in shining armor,
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Lecce is the cowardly line. But while there was victory in York region on Monday, the question arises,
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does an egregious epilogue to the flag debate lurk? Will the decision by the York Catholic district school
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board be tolerated? Certainly, the mainstream media has been covering this story as though a day of infamy
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occurred in Aurora. Expect them to continue to pressure the YCDSB to bend the knee to the rainbow
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hued mob. After all, dissenting opinions on this file are not allowed. And if you want proof of this,
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folks, check out what happened to Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass just yesterday. You see,
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on social media, Bass indicated that he supported the boycotts of Bud Light and Target regarding those
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companies' disastrous LGBT promotions. And this is an opinion shared by most. Check out the current stock price
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of Anheuser-Busch and Target these days. But while the leftists chant, diversity is our strength,
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this mantra does not apply to a diversity of opinions. The Blue Jays are owned by robbers,
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or I mean Rogers, a totally woke company. And Bass was obviously read the Riot Act. Even though popular
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support is on his side, Rogers is beholden to political correctness. As well, when it comes to,
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you know, moving the merchandise, Rogers is cognizant that so many in the queer community are
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dinks, i.e. double income, no kids. That means they have oodles of disposable income. And that bodes well
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for season ticket sales, as well as all that grotesquely marked up made in China swag on sale
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at the stadium's gift shops. So do you really think any allegedly insensitive comments are going to be
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tolerated by Mr. Rogers and company? And so it was that Bass had to deliver a mea culpa at a press
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conference. That was kind of like a modern day version of Circe's walk of shame. Check it out.
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I recognized yesterday, I made a post that was hurtful to the Pride community, which includes
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friends of mine and close family members of mine. And I am truly sorry for that.
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I just spoke with my teammates, took them, shared with them my actions yesterday. I apologized with them.
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And as of right now, I'm using the Blue Jays resources to better educate myself, to make
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better decisions moving forward. The ballpark is for everybody. We include all fans at the ballpark
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and we want to welcome everybody. That's all I have to say. Thank you.
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Sad, but as good as Bass is as a pitcher, he had to bend the knee as an immediately,
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or he'd no longer be a Toronto Blue Jay, but rather most likely pitching for one of the club's
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farm teams, such as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. And that's the thing, isn't it? The media party
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is pressuring Lecce to force the York Catholic District School Board to reverse its decision.
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And because Lecce has a spine that makes Jell-O look like titanium alloy, he might just bend the knee.
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It wouldn't surprise me. He did so when it came to the teacher strike last year, if you might recall.
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Of course, the nuke for the pride flag people will be a formal complaint to the unelected and
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non-accountable Ontario Human Rights Board. And it's a safe bet that this kangaroo court will mandate
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that the school board jettison Catholic values and raise that pride flag or else. Or else what?
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Or else how about losing your public funding? Just wait. Does this come as any surprise, really, folks?
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We live in Justin Trudeau's Canada in 2023. On Monday night in Aurora, the York Catholic District
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School Board went through a democratic process regarding the raising of the pride flag.
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The no side won six to four. That should be the end of the date, but it won't be.
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Put another way, in 1984, the late great Tina Turner scored a number one hit single with the song
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What's Love Got To Do With It. But these days, when it comes to the tyrannical left, their theme song
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seems to be What's Democracy Got To Do With It?
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Well, we know so many Ontario school boards have nothing but contempt for parents. So many trustees are
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control freaks and censorious thugs. But some school board employees would appear to also loathe
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teachers as well. At least those teachers that dare to speak out about problems. Case in point,
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an elementary school teacher in the Toronto District School Board says her day-to-day reality is one of
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quote, fear reprisal and fear of reprisal, end quote. For example, reporting on acts of violence,
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well, that's verboten. The board likes to pretend everything is okay and they just sweep problems
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under the rug. And joining me now to speak about this is the superb investigative journalist with
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True North. That would be Sue Ann Levy. Sue Ann, welcome to the Ezra Levent Show.
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Where is your prosthetic? Why are you not wearing them today?
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Okay. I think Ezra has made me put those back in the closet, Sue Ann.
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But Sue Ann, and of course you referred to the nonsense going on at one of the worst school
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boards in Ontario, the Halton District School Board. But your most recent piece in True North,
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it's entitled, The TDSB's Culture of Fear and Silence. What do you mean by that, Sue Ann?
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Well, it's been an ongoing thing, actually, Dave, and it hasn't improved. And as I note in the piece,
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you know, way back in 2007, lawyer Julian Faulconer, who was a bit to the left, talked about the culture
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of fear and that teachers were afraid to speak out. And there was a lot of, I guess, lip service paid to
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ending that sort of thing and allowing teachers to speak up about primarily violence in schools.
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And that never happens. Succession of school board directors, most of them getting woker by the
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minute. And then comes Margaret Wilson, an education consultant that I highly respected in 2015.
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She talked also about the culture of fear. Same reason, teachers are afraid to speak up.
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The administrators at the school board have sweet problems under the rug, in particular violence,
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most especially violence. And fast forward to 2023, it's gotten out of control, absolutely out of
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control. And the big difference now is that teachers don't seem to care anymore about speaking up,
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although they're anonymous. I've received a flurry of open letters. There's one more that I'm going to
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be writing about from the Peel and Toronto school boards about violence in the classroom.
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You know, and Swen, I mean, certainly in the popular press, we do see stories on a weekly basis about
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schools that are out of control in terms of violence and intimidation and bullying.
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I don't get it. If you're an educator, if you are caring for these kids in school while they're in
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school, and so much is said about so-called safe spaces. Well, if the spaces aren't safe, in fact,
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if they're rife with violence, then what in blue hell does the school board, what do they have a
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problem with teachers reporting these problems? I don't get it.
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Well, I think the two school boards in particular, Peel and the Toronto school boards are deep into
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this anti-black racism agenda, this anti-oppression agendas where you as a white male, me as a, I guess
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I'm a little bit down in the oppression. I'm more oppressed, but I am white, are oppressing black
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students. And they brought in a series of maneuvers that include critical race theory, critical race
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theory being that blacks are oppressed and white people are the oppressors. And tantamount are in
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conjunction with that. They have relaxed standards of discipline. So the standards of discipline,
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they're no longer expulsions, no longer suspensions. Discipline is considered in these two boards in
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particular. And this did start with Kathleen Wynne, I might add, the discipline is considered
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oppressive. So it's like the lunatics are running the asylum now. And I'm just going to name the school
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board director. There's a constant theme. Colleen Russell-Brollins came from the Peel board where
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there's a lot of problems. And now is at the Toronto school board spreading her ideology. And
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this is what's happened. Teachers are just fed up.
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You know, Sue Ann, you bring race into it. And I can only think of way back in 1963 when
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous, I have a dream speech, where he referenced that
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he dreams of a day where a person is not judged by their skin color, but by the content of their
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character. And you know, Sue Ann, I'm not making a joke here. If Dr. King were alive and well and
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saying that today, he would be accused of hate speech. I mean...
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He'd be an Uncle Tom. He'd be an Uncle Tom. He would be considered an Uncle Tom.
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There is no such thing with these educrats when it comes to a colorblind scenario.
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Everything is race-driven, it would seem. How did we get here?
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Well, I have to blame, really, Kathleen Wynne and the education ministry, and the education
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ministry that she ran, and Mitzi Hunter, who happens to be running for mayor in Toronto.
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They brought in a series of edicts through their equity and diversity unit in the education
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ministry that dumbed down the curriculum, talked about anti-oppressive or anti-Black racism.
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They actually, it is critical race theory, but they use anti-Black racism to try and tone it
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down a little bit. And that's, it did start with Kathleen Wynne, and these school boards just
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completely, are completely woke, pandering to the, as we call it, the BIPOC crowd. And
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unfortunately, Doug Ford and Stephen Lecce, Stephen Lecce has absolutely no guts to stand up to them,
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to these school boards, and they've done nothing to reverse the problems.
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You know, when it comes to Minister Milktos Lecce, Sue Ann, I constantly have parents come up to me in
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frustration saying, where the hell is the Minister of Education? He has the power to dissolve these
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out-of-control school boards, and he won't. He's AWOL. Here's the thing, Sue Ann, maybe we've been
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coming at from, coming at this from the wrong angle. Consider this, what if Minister Lecce is on board with
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all this wokeism, and critical race theory, and political correctness, you name it, what if he himself
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is an advocate? That would explain his inaction on this file, wouldn't you say?
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Well, I think there is some truth to that. I think that they don't want to start, they feel their
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hands are tied, which is ridiculous. They don't want to start with the school boards, but all they have
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to do is take over one or two school boards. I would start with Toronto. The trustees are bad, if not
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worse, than some of the, I call them educrats or administrators. All they would have to do is take
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over one of these boards, show the parents that he really cares about education and not about all
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this symbolism and wokeism, and that I think would set the standard for other boards in Ontario.
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The other thing is that I said way back, way, way back when Ford took over, that they didn't clean out
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the woke people from the Kathleen era in the education ministry, and there they are still doing
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what they do best, you know, providing edicts that have nothing to do with academics and everything
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to do with what they call it social-emotional learning, which is ridiculous.
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Oh, I agree, Sue Ann. This is a conservative government in name only. There's nothing conservative
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about this government. It's an absolute disgrace. And getting back to your article, I mean, there were
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so many disturbing examples you had in it. For example, you said that there were TDS employees,
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and I think this goes back many years, who were so afraid to use their board email addresses for fear
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of being monitored. Sue Ann, this sounds like right out of the pages of 1984.
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Yeah, and there's, you know, I think it's going to come out more and more. I wrote about
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another teacher's open letter in Peel, where I could not believe some of the things that were
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going on. Even I couldn't believe kids sitting in the hall, blasting music, trying to interrupt
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classes, leaving school whenever they want, putting, you know, going to the washroom and putting
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unsightly stuff on the wall that, you know, I mean, it's absolutely disgusting getting in
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teachers' faces, using the F word, absolutely no discipline, you know, breaking down doors
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of classrooms. And by the way, by the way, this was grade six to eight.
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Unbelievable. And I know, Sue Ann, I believe you've written about this in the past. We had
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a great little project going where we had uniformed police officers in schools. And mothers, including
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racialized mothers, as the left likes to say, they were impassioned about keeping them there
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because their kids weren't being shaken down. They were actually going to school to learn rather than
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to be bullied. And for some kind of woke reason, that program ended. I would suggest that's a
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contributing factor for the kind of violence and vandalism that you just described.
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Huge, huge. That would have been a huge deterrent to have cops in schools. I was, in fact, at the
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police services board meeting in Toronto, when a variety of activists showed up and were screaming
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and yelling, led by Desmond Cole, the late great, not late great, but you know, we don't hear much
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from him anymore, Desmond Cole, the black activist. And there were a whole group of people, teachers,
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administrators, parents, who begged the police services board not to get rid of the cops in
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schools program. Here we are, I think it's five years later, and it's absolute anarchy and chaos.
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And then on the, I guess, the administrative side, the woke madness at the Toronto District
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School Board continues. Earlier this month, Hugh Beach Public School had a wonderful pro-Mother's Day
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sign on their signage. And evidently, somebody who I believe doesn't have a kid at the school and
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might even be childless complained that something that was pro-mother, and look, I don't care
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who you are. I don't care if your mother wasn't a part, isn't a part of your life, or maybe your
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mother has passed on. But 100% of people on this planet have a mother. And it was deemed
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sign non grata. The school had to take it down. Meanwhile, yesterday, my cameraman Lincoln and I
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were at Danforth Tech Collegiate Institute in East York, where they had three drag queens performing at
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lunch hour. I used to think school was about learning the three R's, not, you know, sitting
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in the gym watching three drag queens shake their booties. What the hell is going on, Sue Ann?
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Well, it's the infusion of this woke agenda that started with the Kathleen Wynne era and has
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continued under our current premier, sadly. And where academics are taking a back seat to this, as I
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said, social and emotional learning, anti-oppressive agenda, all that kind of stuff. And, you know,
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besides the drag queens, which I happen to love drag queens, but I think there's a time and place for drag
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queens and I don't think they should be in schools, period, more specifically the junior schools,
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elementary schools. But, you know, this whole woke agenda has taken over and kids aren't learning.
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And, you know, teachers will tell you also that they're subject to indoctrination, to, I guess,
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seminars or talks from their administrators about how, if they're white, they're actually
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automatically racist and they have to think about, you know, being good people and, you know,
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thinking about the black activism agenda. And, you know, the other thing that has happened,
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which really bothers me, is it's given rise to a series of what I call race grifters,
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people who have no qualifications whatsoever, except that they're, you know, they've got their skin
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color, are coming in and giving talks and making a huge amount of money about racism and anti-black
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racism. And, you know, about the fact that you, you, Dave, are a white supremacist.
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Oh, listen, you know, my boss, Ezra, he likes to talk about human rights being like a poker game. So
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if I'm a white straight male, which I am, that's basically the three of clubs. But if you are trans,
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if you have a disability, if you're a convert to Islam, well, that's a royal flush. I mean,
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that's how the human rights racketeers look at people, Sue Ann. Sadly, we're not equal. They don't
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subscribe to what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said almost 50 years ago. It is appalling. One last question.
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Sue Ann, the buck has to stop with Premier Ford. And what I don't understand, I'm trying to get from
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you right now what the unspoken strategy is for a lack of inaction. I mean, once upon a time,
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going back 10 years ago, when Doug and his late great brother, Rob, and they're not the same. We have
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found that out over the years. They're completely different people. I remember the days when they
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called Toronto Star journalists, a bunch of maggots. Now they've given Torstar a gambling license that's
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worth half a billion dollars a year. When it comes to this file, education, as you said correctly,
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this was all the wind government bringing in these mandates. The PCs have a super majority at
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Queen's Park. The Liberals aren't even an official party with seven seats right now.
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Why are they so reluctant to do what I think so many members of Ford Nation wanted Doug Ford to do in the
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first place, which is, you know, part of the agenda, reigning in these out of control school
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boards? Well, they're not listening to the average parent. That is for darn sure. And I think parents
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have to get more active. And I'm, as a matter of fact, part of a group that's just formed that
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we hope to be similar. And I don't have any children in the system, but I've certainly written about it
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enough. Um, similar to a group in the States called Moms for Liberty, which have made a huge splash in,
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every state practically in the United States and, uh, keep on top of these woke school boards are in
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their faces, expose the woke ism, uh, fight back. And I don't think there's enough of that. I think
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parents, uh, aren't as involved as they should be. It's starting, it's starting, and you're starting to
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hear from teachers, but there has to be a lot more backlash. I totally agree, uh, Sue Ann. And
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gee, when you say Moms for Liberty, has the FBI and the Department of Justice deemed them a domestic
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terror group yet? That sounds like a really radical name. As a matter of fact, you're so funny. They
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have been called that. Oh no. Yeah. You know what? Sue Ann, you've just proved a thesis I have. 2019
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Mad Magazine goes out of business. Uh, my rationale, because that used to be a money spinner of a
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magazine. The world is beyond parody, my friend. Uh, the front page is Mad Magazine. And I just want to
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say a special thank you for all your great investigative journalism. You're exposing these
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serpents and keep it coming Sue Ann. You're welcome to come back on the show anytime. Thank you so much,
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my friend. Thank you, uh, Dave. I mean, Busty Lemieux. No, Dave. Please, I scare easy.
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Well, folks, lots of response to Sheila Gunn-Reed's monologue yesterday on the Ezra Levin show when she
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was guest hosting regarding victory in Alberta for the UCP. And of course, that province's
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initiative in terms of harm reduction programs. Bruce Atchison writes, pray for Daniel Smith.
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I'm sure hard left activists will make up all sorts of slanders and write every kind of libel
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about her. We conservative folks must do a better job to show our fence-sitting friends
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that conservatism works far better than socialism, communism's little brother. Well, you know what,
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Bruce? I tend to agree with you. I think we on the right, we're just too darn polite. We fight by the
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rules of Queensbury. Meanwhile, those on the left are bringing foreign objects and hitting below the
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belt. I'm not saying we should emulate that kind of fighting back, but we need to fight harder. Heck,
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the country is at stake, wouldn't you say? And Chris Coyle writes, in Canada now, cigarettes will have
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individual warnings on each smoke as we hand out heroin and meth. You know, I didn't know about that.
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I've got to be honest, as someone who's never smoked a cigarette in his life, that's not going to change
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anytime soon with those horror chiller warnings that they put on the packages, you know, the bleeding
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heart, the cracked brain, what have you. But to your point, it doesn't make any sense. Why are some
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addictions verboten and taxed and others are free? You mentioned cigarettes versus heroin and meth.
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Well, what if somebody lost their license due to drinking and driving? In theory, according to the
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left, we should be making house calls to their place of residence and giving them booze and actually not
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charging for it. It's an addiction after all, but riddle me this, how is that going to improve
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anything for the individual and society at large? Unbelievable. Well, folks, that takes care of
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tonight's edition of the Ezra LeVant Show. Thank you so much for tuning in. My beloved colleague,
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Sheila Gunn-Reed, she's back tomorrow, Thursday, and she'll have a great show. I am CERN.