The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 07, 2024


Canada's Liberal government celebrates ＂Asexuality Day＂

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Wyatt Claypool
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Justin Trudeau Erin O'Toole Pascal Easter
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Our federal government is celebrating International Asexuality Day, a day that no one in Canada actually cares about. I don t get it. Maybe I m out of touch and overly critical, but I think it s safe to say that our federal government has way too many random, fake little holidays that they celebrate. Imagine the waste of taxpayer money that goes into paying graphic designers and other bureaucrats to consult on the celebration of days that no Canadians actually celebrate.

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00:00:00.000 Maybe I'm out of touch and overly critical, but I think it's safe to say that our federal liberal government has way too many random fake little holidays that they celebrate.
00:00:11.640 Imagine the waste of taxpayer money that goes into paying graphic designers and other bureaucrats to consult on the celebration of days that no Canadians actually celebrate.
00:00:22.100 So there's this one I saw today that actually shocked me. It's really hard to shock me these days, but this one was so silly it actually made me double and triple take at it.
00:00:32.740 But our federal liberal government is now celebrating International Asexuality Day, which is apparently on April 6th.
00:00:41.320 Pascal Saint-Onges, our Minister of Heritage, said for International Asexuality Day, let's commit to stand up for more inclusive and respectful communities.
00:00:50.500 I don't, why is this being celebrated? It is a celebration of people who don't care about sexuality.
00:00:57.920 If anything, there is an absence of a day here. It is people celebrating the fact that they do not care about something.
00:01:03.640 I don't get it. Maybe I'm just out of touch, like I said before, but there's so much money in the federal government.
00:01:10.600 And I guarantee close to a billion dollars celebrating days and holidays that not a single person in Canada really cares about unless they're a full-time activist.
00:01:21.340 And that post that Pascal was quote-tweeting from Free To Be Me, which I guess is the department in the federal government, they linked to this source.
00:01:31.620 And by the way, that post that Free To Be Me had posted only had like 36 likes on it, and it had like 50 quote tweets of people just saying, why is this even a day?
00:01:41.840 But that post links to this random activist organization, which you would assume something that the federal government was linking to would be just some generic web page celebrating the day, saying what it's all about.
00:01:54.400 But like, no, this is actually like a strange left-wing activist group where you can, you know, you can type in here what city you live in if you want to partner up with all the other asexual people in your area.
00:02:06.020 Like, I don't know, like no, no, like, shots taken at asexual people, but this seems just very strange that this needs to be an entire website.
00:02:14.760 And you can like join local groups, be part of a community. 0.81
00:02:17.660 And like you go down further and like become an activist, like activist over asexuality, this feels, and you know, don't take me the wrong way here, a little silly.
00:02:30.700 It feels like our federal government is being run by student union activists to whom no holiday is small enough.
00:02:39.300 I wouldn't be shocked at all if tomorrow Justin Trudeau walks up to a podium with an eyepatch and beard on to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day and to recognize all those out there who identify as seafaring pirates.
00:02:53.680 And then the next day we will have Frontier Cowboy Day where everyone who thinks of them as like a, you know, a gun-toting bandito comes out and celebrates their identity as a bandito.
00:03:04.660 I don't get it. Why do we have any of this nonsense?
00:03:09.920 I propose we actually stop celebrating all holidays at the federal level.
00:03:15.440 We still have stat holidays for days where most Canadians are celebrating a holiday like Christmas and Easter and some of those other major days, you know, Canada Day.
00:03:25.020 But for all this small garbage, I'd rather just do away with all holiday celebration if it meant we weren't paying people to make graphics for Kwanzaa, you know, like asexuality day, and all the other random and sundry days that nobody could name.
00:03:42.740 Even an activist, gun to their head, they probably couldn't name you like more than three or four of these like awareness days or these like celebration days because it's a little bit much.
00:03:55.660 It's the middle of April or not the middle of April, but it's the beginning of April.
00:03:59.420 And I don't think a single person knew about this day other than the people who make money from getting government grants in order to put up fake celebrations of these things that they themselves don't care about.
00:04:10.060 And I guarantee the fact that this webpage was linked to by our federal government means whatever organization this is, whether it's tied to the federal government directly or it's its own private nonprofit, they are getting federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, taxpayer money, money that people had a really bad day at work earning, but they still did the work and they got home to put food on the table.
00:04:33.260 Well, that person's money went to so that somebody in the basement of the federal government could create all these graphics and that money could be pushed over to a group wants to create asexuality community organizations.
00:04:45.380 I don't get it at all.
00:04:47.820 I'm going to repeat myself so much saying I don't get it.
00:04:50.880 But the next conservative government needs to wipe out this entire free-to-be-me organization within the government. 0.90
00:04:57.900 It seems to be a repository of nonsense.
00:05:03.140 I think we could easily save a billion dollars just eliminating celebrations of nothing.
00:05:09.100 Like, again, emphasize that.
00:05:10.800 Just because you put a name to a date doesn't mean it's something.
00:05:13.360 These are nothing days.
00:05:14.800 Have you ever seen an asexuality flag in your life?
00:05:17.840 Well, now you have.
00:05:19.040 And I don't think you cared any more than you did before.
00:05:23.240 Anyways, guys, that's it for me today.
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