“If You Don’t Do Politics, Politics Will Be Done TO You＂ - John Carpay, JCCF
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Summary
Learn English with Jason Kenney. In this episode, he talks about the dangers of censorship, the need for freedom, and the need to take action to fight for freedom in Canada. He also talks about how the government is trying to stifle free speech and freedom of speech, and why we need to fight back.
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Well, thank you, Benita, for the introduction. Thank you, Jason, for inviting me to be with
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you this afternoon. It's a great honor. And most of all, I want to thank each and every person here.
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One of my favorite sayings is from Edmund Burke, the only thing necessary for evil to triumph
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is for good people to do nothing. And you being here this morning, you are good people,
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and you're not doing nothing, and so you're standing in the way of the triumph of evil.
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There's an old French proverb, it kind of lines up with the only thing necessary for
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evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
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There's an old French proverb that says, if you don't do politics, then politics will
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be done unto you. And that also aligns with something from about two and a half thousand
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years ago in Plato's Republic. The idea was put forward and this is not an exact quote but the
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gist of it is those who refuse to engage in the democratic process are destined to suffer the
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fate of being governed by their inferiors. And this is so true. If people who love truth and
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justice and freedom decide to withdraw and pull out and not participate, you're just leaving the
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door wide open for people who might not love truth and justice and freedom as much as you do
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to take power and to win at the federal and provincial
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will suffer the fate of being governed by their inferiors.
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kudos to to jason and the organizers for starting off 2026 with this conference big round of applause
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for jason and all the the good people to put this together
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some phenomenal people were introduced by jason this morning i want to add uh one more freedom
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fighter um worthy of introduction we've got a problem in canada with the
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law societies and the colleges of physicians and surgeons and all these regulatory bodies
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that are censoring professionals and promoting woke totalitarian ideology of equity, diversity,
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inclusion. And it's not an easy thing for any lawyer to stand up to the law society in his or
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her province, because that law society has the power, like a tarantula, to take away your license
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to earn a living. And we have a very courageous person with us today who is actually suing
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the Law Society of Alberta. Big round of applause for Roger Song. Roger, stand up, please.
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This court action is funded by the Justice Centre. One of the lawyers in our network
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is representing Roger. Lost a trial. We're now on to the Alberta Court of Appeal. So
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today I'm going to talk about the bad news, the good news, and the action plan. The bad
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news would actually take several hours to do a comprehensive review. We're not going
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there, but I'll just touch on a few points, kind of like the tip of the iceberg. Currently
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Before Parliament, we have three bills, which, if a fourth bill, the reintroduction of the
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Online Harms Act is added, can very quickly turn Canada into a police state. We're not that far
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away from it right now. We're in very serious danger. We've got before Parliament Bill C-2,
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the Strong Borders Act. It should be called the Strong Surveillance Act. It's a horrible piece
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legislation that among other things creates the Authorized Access to
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Information Act which would empower hundreds if not thousands of federal
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government officials to go after privacy and to demand subscriber data from
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companies. We got Bill C-8 which if passed would actually give the federal
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government the power to kick Canadians off the internet without warning, without
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a trial. We've got Bill C-9, which not only threatens religious freedom, but is going to
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open the door to becoming more like the United Kingdom, where over 30 people a day are criminally
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charged over their Facebook commentary. And Bill C-9, the so-called Combating Hate Act,
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would remove a current thing that's in place currently for a hate speech prosecution to
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advance. It needs the permission of the Attorney General, the Justice Minister. Bill C9 would get
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rid of that requirement and leave it up to local police, local Crown prosecutors to have the full
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discretion to prosecute. So Bill C9 is a serious threat to free expression. Then we've got already
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in place the online streaming act c11 which actually gives the crtc the canadian radio
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television and telecommunications commission gives them authority over the internet as broadcasting
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that's already a law on the books since 2023 we've got the online news act which uh was supposed to
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help canadian journalism but ended up reducing the viewership and canadians can no longer
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use Facebook and other social media to forward news links to each other.
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That's already on the books for the past two years. Then we have the threat of the
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with the April 2025 election, but the Online Harms Act
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would empower the Canadian Human Rights Commission
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create a digital safety commission to enforce regulations passed by the
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federal cabinet without input from Parliament to censor the internet, would
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also empower judges to lock you up or to place you under house arrest with an
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ankle bracelet even if you've not been charged with or convicted of any crime.
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So that's the Online Harms Act. They're threatening to bring that back. We've got
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problem with a woke transgender ideology that has infiltrated all the
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establishments. Mia did a superb fantastic presentation on that so don't
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need to go into that but it is a problem. We've got a divisive racist
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orientation where people actually believe in that your ancestry, your
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ethnicity, your descent, your race should determine your legal rights and
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freedoms. It's a sick, perverted, twisted doctrine, but it's gaining ground
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currently. We had the Cowichan decision in British Columbia where it put into
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jeopardy the land titles, property rights of homeowners in Richmond. And then last
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but not least, we've got a serious problem with the judiciary. I wrote a
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book about it, Corrupted by Fear. I've got copies there at the back. I think I've
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got a dozen or so left that I brought with me from Calgary this morning. Corrupted by Fear goes
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through how some Canadian judges wrote the media narrative into their court rulings totally
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unsupported by evidence placed before the court, which is a very serious problem. So Corrupted by
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Fear includes the judiciary, but also the other establishments, the media, where the fear-mongering
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in 2020 really took over to a very sick and very dangerous extent.
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The good news is there are more Canadians today who are awake and alert and active than
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so the next waves of assaults on our charter rights and freedoms whether they're done in the
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name of a scary virus or whether they're done to save us from the climate holocaust and burning
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into a crisp whatever remember politicians never take away our rights and freedoms without offering
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a nice sounding pretext. Never. It's always about safety. We got to protect you from hatred and
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protect you from misinformation and disinformation and protect you from terrorists, protect you from
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a virus. We got to do this to protect our national security, right? There's always a nice sounding
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pretext but I think there are more Canadians that are awake and alert to
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these false pretexts than what was the case six years ago when when the so
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called the two weeks to flatten the curve were first imposed on us six years
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ago and this is good news because tyrants need slaves and slaves look to
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tyrants. And a tyrant cannot exert tyranny over a population of free independent people who think
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and who assume responsibility for their lives. Tyrants need people with a slave-like mentality.
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And these people do exist. We saw this, we've seen it historically, we saw this in Germany in the
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20s and 30s where there are people who actually want the government to tell them what to think
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and how to think and how to believe and and how to live their lives etc etc some people
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they have that slave mindset and they want the tyrant to run their lives and you know we we saw
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that same mindset sadly among some of our brothers and sisters and neighbors and colleagues people
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that we had gone to church with, that same mentality of wanting the tyrant to tell them
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how to think and what to believe and how to live their lives. So tyrants look to slaves,
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slaves look to tyrants, but the good news is that there are more Canadians today than six years ago
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who are awake and alert and assuming responsibilities.
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One thing that's always encouraged me when I see how dark the times are,
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and things might get worse before they get better,
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I had the good fortune, the privilege of being in Poland at Christmastime 1987.
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He was talking about glasnost, which was openness,
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us, perestroika, the transformation. And I don't speak Polish, but my Polish friends,
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they spoke English and they interpreted for me. And the people that I spoke with, they
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all said, think about this, December 1987, okay, they said, nothing has changed, nothing
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can change, nothing will change. The people who are in power are too powerful, the status
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quo is rewarding and benefiting people, they're not going to let go of their power and perks
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and privileges. Nothing has changed, nothing can change, nothing will change. That was
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what I heard from people in Poland Christmas 1987. Less than two years later, there's free
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elections in Poland. The Barrow Wall had fallen and there's freedom and democracy in Poland less
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than two years later. So why? Because there are people including Ronald Reagan and Margaret
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Thatcher and Pope John Paul II and millions of people in Poland and millions of people behind
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the Iron Curtain that were speaking truth to power and that were persevering. And so action
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plan. We have to change the culture. Culture, when I talk about the culture, I'm not necessarily
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talking about, you know, the opera and the ballet or 17th century French literature.
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I'm talking about the dominant, prevailing attitudes and beliefs of people.
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That is the culture. It's the prevailing beliefs.
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Law follows politics. Politics follows culture.
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an example of this many of you will will remember the the 80s the 70s some of you
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remember the 60s and the 50s we didn't have the Canadian Charter of Rights and
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Freedoms had not yet been added to our Constitution and yet everybody knew so
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there's no Charter setting out your rights specifically on paper everybody
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knew that a man is innocent until proven guilty a man has a right to an accused
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person has a right to a fair trial and an accused person has a right to remain
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silent so that you cannot have police extracting a false confession out of you
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through torture these were completely embedded into our legal system every
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lawyer, every judge, every person knew this and understood this. And so without Canadian
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Charter of Rights and Freedoms, you had good, decent protection for the rights of somebody
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who's criminally accused. That's an example of culture. But we Canadians, not necessarily people
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in this room so much, but as a country, we have abdicated our responsibility to teach ourselves
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and to teach our children, our grandchildren about the free society,
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why it's worth preserving, why it's worth defending.
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We have allowed government to take over more and more of our lives
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and to decide on education and health care and to run,
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all of these things that government has taken over.
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But the government that can do everything for you
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is the government that can take everything from you.
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and the government that knows everything about you is the government that can take everything
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away from you. So we need to work on that culture. Things are not going to get better in the next
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few days or weeks or months. This is going to take years and decades. We have to transform
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our culture and we have to take back responsibility and that's hard. It's very easy to give up the
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nine-to-three babysitting service that our tax dollars provide and to take
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back assume responsibility for educating our children our grandchildren
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when government takes it over you lose that control so we decided you know
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collectively as a country that the government's going to run health care
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and maybe initially it didn't produce terrible results but we see now for
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For example, the Delta Hospice Society in British Columbia wants to provide palliative
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care for people who don't want to commit suicide.
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They want palliative care, they want their suffering alleviated before they die.
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And the BC government says, you have to offer assisted suicide.
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I don't talk about MAID, it's a misleading term.
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They refused, the government took it over, and now you've got assisted suicide being
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keep on hearing uh justice center is we've got one of our researchers on it right now we're releasing
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a report about assisted suicide in canada that's going to be released later this month but there's
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an example if you let the government run it uh they're not going to do a good job so we have a
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long ways to go in reclaiming the culture and educating ourselves our children and our
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our grandchildren but that is the effort that does pay off when we change the
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culture that's going to trickle up to the lawyers the police the prosecutors
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the judges the doctors the medical establishment the legal establishment
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the universities so we have to change and transform the culture and that is
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it's a lot of thankless work and a lot of it not particularly interesting or
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thrilling and you know most of it quite thankless but it's just a lot of hard
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work to to transform our culture but that's what we have to do and we do that
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through for example conferences and events like this we do that through
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being active in the democratic process at all of the levels. So, in closing, I want to encourage
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everybody to cultivate and to practice two virtues. The virtue of courage to speak truth to power.
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Keep on practicing that. Don't be intimidated by the name-calling. Perhaps I'm preaching to
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the converted, but you know that if you speak truth, you're going to be subjected to the name
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calling, and they're going to say that you are one or more of a racist, misogynist, homophobic,
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transphobic, anti-science, and all the name callings there. But when you get called names,
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take that as a sign of encouragement, because it means that the other side does not have an
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intelligent argument to match yours. So don't be intimidated by the name calling. Keep on speaking
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truth to power, and that is to practice courage. The second one, just as important, is perseverance.
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We're not going to turn things around in the next few days or weeks or months. It's going to take
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years and decades. So we need that. What the enemy, in every sense of the word, the political,
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the cultural, the spiritual, the enemy wants you to give up and quit. The most powerful tool that
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the enemy has is discouragement. So cultivate that virtue of perseverance to keep on going.
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And even if things get worse before they get better, we're going to win in the end. As Leighton
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Grace said, if you unleash truth, truth is like a lion. It goes out and it pounces and it kills
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the lies. So when you speak truth, you unleash power and truth is like a lion that goes about.
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so we are going to transform our culture because truth always vanquishes the lie
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because of the long-run freedom will prevail over tyranny and because
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justice will crush injustice and we are Canadians and we know that quitters