Canada erases its own history
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Candice Malan explains why Canada erases its own history and then imports foreign history and foreign culture to replace our own, and why it s a slap in the face to Canadians who have had enough. She also explains why the name of Dundas Square in Toronto has been changed to Sankofa Square.
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Canada erases its own history and then imports foreign history and foreign culture to replace
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our own. It's a slap in the face and Canadians have had enough. I'm Candice Malcolm and this
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you want to, consider hitting that donate button and become a true north insider. Okay, so one of
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the biggest stories of the 2020s so far has been the rise of the woke mob. Their insistence that
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everything about the West, everything about Canada, can be boiled down to a few neo-Marxist buzzwords,
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colonialism, settler, white supremacist, oppressor, illegitimate government, and unceded land. Now,
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the big surprise about this woke movement, which probably has the support of what, maybe 10% of
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the population, probably a lot less? The big surprise? It's been their success. In the course
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of just a few years, the woke mob has successfully managed to convince governments and schools across
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Canada to rewrite our entire history, to scrub our public institutions of any mention of the old
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erased history. Elites in this country have been more than happy to bend the knee, to roll over,
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and to accept this new insane dogma. Out with the old, and in with the new. Sir John A. Macdonald,
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anything to do with the royal family, anything to do with the education of native Canadians like
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Egerton Ryerson, who devoted his entire life to helping educate poor First Nation children,
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it all had to go. Their names were wiped off streets, buildings, schools, and in some cases,
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even removed from the history book. And what was it replaced with? Well, sometimes the woke left came up
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with these bland, meaningless names reminiscent of the USSR or Orwell's novel 1984. For instance,
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Ryerson High School in Ontario was renamed Old North Public School. And Ryerson University in
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Toronto, of course, was renamed Toronto Metropolitan University. Not surprisingly,
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Justin Trudeau's legacy media in Canada has been cheering this all on. They've been telling us how
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progressive and how liberal it is to erase one's own history, to stop educating new generations of
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Canadians, and to stop telling the stories of how Canada actually became one of the most free,
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peaceful, and prosperous societies in all of human history. Let's just erase our history and see what
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happens. What could possibly go wrong? So sometimes these new names are bland and meaningless. Other
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times to replace the history of the French, British, and Scottish explorers, the people who built Canada,
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you know, the country that we live in, with the imagined forefathers of Canada, the First Nations
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leaders who themselves had no part in the founding of Canada as a country or the establishments of the
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institutions thereof. We're told that these are the real heroes and the real creators of Canada.
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And with the facts or the history, in New Canada, French and English Canadians are bad,
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no matter what. And any other culture, literally any other culture, any other practice, no matter
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how barbaric or sadistic or un-Canadian, any other practice, any other culture is celebrated,
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promoted, and will replace whatever we had before. So the latest example of this, and may I say the
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most absurd thing that I have seen in a long time in Canadian politics, just happened last week in
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Toronto. Thursday, December 14th, Socialist Mayor Olivia Chow and all of city council, they all voted
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unanimously to rename the city's iconic Dundas Square. What will the new name be? Well, they
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decided it will be called Sankofa Square. Dundas had to go, according to the Marxists who think they
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run the city of Toronto, because of his namesake, Henry Dundas, and his alleged connections to slavery.
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So was Dundas a slave trader? Did he own slaves? Did he create slavery, as many on the left would have,
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he believes? No, quite the opposite, actually. Henry Dundas was an abolitionist. He fought for
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the emancipation of slaves. He sponsored many bills to end slavery, including a bill to end
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hereditary slave ownership. And he helped convince the British to wage a war would eventually lead to
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the end of the transatlantic slave trade. But according to the woke academics, because he advocated
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for a gradual change instead of an overnight revolution, I guess that was evil. So there you have
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it. Dundas had to go. So what about this new name, Sankofa? Where did it come from and what does it
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mean? Is it named after a brave native warrior of First Nations tribe in Canada? Does it have any
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significant meaning to this land or to Canada? No, absolutely not. It has absolutely nothing to do
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with Canada, nothing to do with our country, and nothing to do with our history. The new name,
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Sankofa, comes from an African tribe called the Akan tribe. And it means something like to go back and
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get it. Okay, so the name was apparently in an effort to make bot Canadians feel more at home or
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empowered or something. Let me just quickly point out, I pointed this out on the program before,
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but the vast, overwhelming majority, more than 90% of Black people in Canada are themselves first
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generation or second generation Canadians, meaning that they either emigrated themselves or their
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parents did this according to Statistics Canada. 92% of Black people in Canada chose Canada or their
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parents chose Canada. So if Canada were truly a racist, white supremacist, slavery endorsing country,
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simple question, why did they all choose to come here? Why did they choose this country? Why are
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they in Canada? It's almost as if the leftist narrative about Canada makes absolutely no sense
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at all. Well, this is where things get interesting, because as it turns out, the new woke name, which
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comes from that African tribe, may not be so innocent. I really wonder, did city council bother
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googling this tribe before the vote? Did anyone do any research about the tribe? Because they probably
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should have. As Truner journalist and editor Andrew Lawton reports, according to renowned,
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Ghana historian Ivor Wilkes, the Akan tribe were slave owners and slave traders. Yes, you heard
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that correctly. They had their hand in creating the transatlantic slave trade, believe it or not.
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According to Wilkes, the Akan exchanged their gold for these slaves, who rewarded their Akan
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masters by creating an agricultural revolution during the 15th and 16th century. Yes, the Akan
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people imported slaves to help clear their forests, where they searched for gold, but they also sold
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slaves to Europeans fueling the transatlantic slave trade. They were the ones hosting those slave
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auctions. They were selling their people to the Europeans. Unbelievable. In 2006, Ghana acknowledged
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this dark chapter in their history, and they apologized to the descendants of slaves for their role in the
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slave trade. Yes, the Akan people were some of the original slave traders. And yet, the name apparently will
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now be forever engraved in the city of Toronto as the new name of Dundas Square. Canada is a country
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led by people who hate us. They hate our values, they hate our culture, and mostly, honestly, they hate
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our skin color. They'll stop at nothing to erase our history and tear apart our civilization. Now, keep
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this in mind. It is against this anti-Canadian backdrop, many other stories just like this, that we
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learned about a new statue being erected up the road in Branton, Ontario, some 20 miles away from Dundas
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Square. What kind of statue, may I ask? Well, this is a 55-foot statue of a Hindu god. Here is what the
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statue looked like. As True Norse Harrison Faulkner points out, he writes, Canada in 2023, Toronto, Sir
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John A. Macdonald's statue at Queen's Park in a wooden box for over two years, Brampton, a brand new 55-foot
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tall statue of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey commander of the Monkey Army. Now, I don't think Harrison is
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blaming the Hindu temple in Brampton for the removal of the Sir John A. statues across Canada,
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but he's just pointing out that these two things are happening simultaneously in our culture. This
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is a zeitgeist of our country. We hate our own. We celebrate everyone else. So, is Harrison being a
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little disrespectful to our Hindu friends? Maybe a little. He sent me this description explaining his
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source for why he called Hanuman a monkey commander. It comes from none other than the editors of the
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Encyclopedia Britannica. This is a description of Hanuman. It says, Hanuman in Hindu mythology is the
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monkey commander of the monkey army. His exploits are narrated in the great Hindu Sanskrit poem,
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Rama's Journey. So, he didn't just make it up. He has a source. If you don't like his language,
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take it up with the Encyclopedia Britannica. But also in Canada, you're allowed to be disrespectful.
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You're even allowed to be disrespectful towards others' religions. Religious freedom includes the
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right to criticize and to mock religion. Just ask the creators of Sweet Jesus Ice Cream,
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an ice cream brand in Canada. Or the artist who created the controversial Piss Christ,
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which was a small statue of Jesus Christ inside a vial of the artist's own pee. Or, hey, even ask
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our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who alongside his Marxist brother, Sasha Trudeau, wore these
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incredibly ugly and incredibly disrespectful Christmas sweaters. You can see the sweaters depict
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Christ and his disciples during the Last Supper, but their heads have been replaced by silly little
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emojis and Lego characters. So, in Canada, you are allowed to mock religion, no matter how offensive,
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no matter how rude it may be to some. It certainly isn't against the law, and it certainly isn't racist
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to do so. Now, as far as the statue is concerned, look, I'm all for religious freedom. I think it's
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wonderful that Canada allows religious freedom, allows for people to pray in any way they want.
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Truly, our fundamental freedoms are one of our country's greatest virtues. Secondly, Hindus are model
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immigrants. They're some of the best. I respect them, and I have no problem with the practicing
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the religion here in Canada. Once again, I truly think it is great. But, on a visceral level,
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I understand why many Canadians are unhappy with this statue and this development. It is against
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the backdrop of our own culture being mocked and destroyed, our own history being erased,
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and our statues being toppled. Now, like I said, this was a big issue online. A lot of Canadians had
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the same sort of visceral reaction to seeing this large statue being erected in a suburb of Toronto.
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Some libertarians jumped in on the liberal side of the argument, and they jumped in with the whole
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private property argument, as if that's the standard in Canada, that on your own private
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property, you can do whatever you want. Believe me, that is simply not the case. That's not the
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standard in Canada. I'll give you a personal example. My family and I are looking to buy an
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acreage in suburban Toronto, just outside the city, and we looked at a property. We found a property
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that we really liked, and when we were going to put together an offer to buy it, we found out that
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it was in something called the Oak Ridge's Moraine, which is a protected area where, I kid you not,
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the government will not allow you to tear down a single tree. They won't allow you to so much as
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build a shed on your property, let alone do any kind of renovation or rebuild or extension on the
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existing home. Even if you own 100 acres, it doesn't matter. The government will tell you that
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you're not allowed to build on your own private property. I can show you emails from my realtor
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and from my real estate lawyer who specializes in this area of law, and they both told me,
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unfortunately, that you do not have the right to build whatever you want, even on private property
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in Canada. We know there are bylaws and restrictions on buildings all over Canada,
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so it really is not just a matter of do whatever you want on private property. Here's a couple of
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libertarians online making this argument. Anthony Koch saying,
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privately funded, situated on private property, nothing wrong with this. And the Plague reporter
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is a guy I actually have a great deal of respect for. He said, agree, bro, we ain't paying for it.
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Who gives an F? Well, libertarians, let me tell you why some Canadians do give an F. There is a deeper
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moral and psychological issue here that some are trying to gloss over. Canada is a country at present
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that tears down its own statues from Sir John A to Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth,
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Egerton Ryerson, and Henry Dundas. Canada is a country where 83 churches were desecrated or burnt
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to the ground in the summer of 2021, and our elites barely noticed it, barely batted an eye.
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Our government tells us that Christmas is contemptible, and that saying Merry Christmas
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is a form of religious intolerance and bigotry. We saw Santa Claus inside a mall just north of Toronto
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being protested by Hamas supporters, and we saw Hamas supporters in downtown Toronto telling Christmas
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shoppers to go F themselves and uttering violent threats. Our government recently rejected the idea
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of December being named Christian Heritage Month. After all, Canada was founded by religious Christians
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in pursuit of religious liberty and based fundamentally on Christian values and ideals.
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Shouldn't we maybe teach the next generation about those values and how they help create our country?
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Well, no way bigot. Talking about Christianity is wrong. That's what we're told.
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Meanwhile, Canada happily celebrates the following holidays and months. This is coming from the
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Government of Canada's website from the Department of Heritage, Important and Commemorative Days.
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So January is Tamil Heritage Month. January also includes the World Day for African and Afro-descendant
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cultures and the National Day of Remembrance and Action Against Islamophobia. February is Black History
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Month. March is Irish History Month and includes the Day to Combat Islamophobia, International Day for the
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Elimination of Racial Discrimination and International Transgender Day of Visibility. April is Sikh Heritage
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Month as well as Genocide Prevention Month and includes the International Day of Pink. May is Asian Heritage
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Month and Canadian Jewish Heritage Month. June is National Indigenous Heritage Month, Italian Heritage Month,
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Filipino Heritage Month, Portuguese Heritage Month, and it's the launch of Pride season. Pride is no longer
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just a month. It's an entire season. June also includes National Indigenous Peoples Day and Canadian
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Multiculturalism Day. July we get one day for Canada Day. Way to go. August is Emancipation Day and Public
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Service Pride Week. September includes Mennonite Heritage Week, Gender Equality Week, and of course the
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. October is German Heritage Month, Canadian Islamic Heritage Month,
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Latin American Heritage Month, and Women's History Month. November is Hindu Heritage Month and it
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includes National Transgender Day of Remembrance. Canada History Week we get one week in the middle
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of November there and it's wrapped up by 16 days of activism against gender violence. December, well
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heaven forbid that December become Christian Heritage Month. We literally celebrate everyone else and
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everything else, but heaven forbid we create something to celebrate our own history. So no, it's not out of
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ignorance or bigotry or racism that people would oppose a 55-foot Hindu statue in suburban Toronto. It's because
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we're sick and tired of everyone else's culture being prioritized, being honored, being revered, and being
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celebrated, while our own culture, Canada's core and dominant culture, the culture that founded this great country and
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allowed everyone else to come in and enjoy, well that culture is constantly and repeatedly demonized, degraded, and
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destroyed. Canadian pluralism only works when newcomers are welcome and encouraged to integrate, to respect
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Canada, to adopt our values, and recognize that there is a dominant culture. Subcultures are fine and good, but
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they're just that, subcultures. Under Trudeau and the failed cult of multiculturalism, newcomers are never told
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that. Instead, they're told that it is their job to dominate us. They're here to culture us, to show us their ways, to
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replace our traditions and institutions with their own. They're told that they have superior education, so they'll
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dominate our schools and our job markets. Different rules apply to them. They're not held to the same
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standard as other Canadians. In fact, they're prioritized for scholarships, for opportunities, and
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for jobs. Their statues are approved while ours are torn down. Well, I have news for the multiculturalists
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and the elites who are trying to socially engineer Canada. We Canadians have finally had enough. We don't like
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this ideology. Neither do many new Canadians, the ones who are grateful to be here, who appreciate Canada for
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what it is, or at least what it was until fairly recently. The reason there's been intense backlash
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online over these two issues, the renaming of Dundas Square and the giant Hindu statue in Brampton,
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is because Canadians are finally waking up to the agenda of the woke left. We don't like it, and we're
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finally ready to fight back. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.