The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 13, 2023


Daniel Bordman on Rejecting Woke Remembrance Day

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Wyatt Claypool
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John Graves Simcoe
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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

203.99

Word count

232

Sentence count

12

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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The problem with Canada is not our politicians. The problem is our political class. I'm here outside the Cenotaph in Toronto, right after the Remembrance Day ceremony, and this is what I'm seeing: Canada's political class is a problem.

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00:00:00.000 I'm here outside the Cenotaph in Toronto, right after the Remembrance Day ceremony,
00:00:05.240 which it was beautiful to see a bunch of people showing up, and this is about half a bit left.
00:00:10.980 But Canada, we have a problem, and the problem is with the political class.
00:00:14.720 The whole thing starts off with fine, a land acknowledgement,
00:00:17.400 but the person who's controlling the ceremony, the master of ceremony,
00:00:20.680 describes herself as a second-generation settler, not a Canadian citizen,
00:00:25.460 and then goes on to push lies about the transatlantic slave trade.
00:00:28.120 This city was founded as an anti-slave city.
00:00:30.780 In 1792, Ontario and Toronto was formed under John Graves Simcoe.
00:00:34.600 In 1793, we passed the Act Against Slavery.
00:00:37.740 I don't know what this woman is talking about. 0.78
00:00:39.880 And then we go on to talk about the wars, which is great, and the sacrifice and the dangers of soldiers,
00:00:44.340 but nothing about what they fought for.
00:00:46.380 Nothing about freedom, nothing about fighting the Nazis in World War II,
00:00:49.900 nothing about fighting the communists in Korea and what we did to save South Korea from becoming North Korea,
00:00:54.960 and nothing about fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
00:00:57.140 The only thing that's described is the United Nations mission.
00:01:00.340 Nothing about Canadian values was said here,
00:01:02.960 and every time the government had a chance to talk about Canadian values,
00:01:05.820 it was with complete scorn.
00:01:07.480 That's a problem.