Western Standard - November 21, 2025


Dallas Brodie： ‘Nothing to Reconcile For’

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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

122.75

Word count

262

Sentence count

30


Summary

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A bill that would remove Truth and Reconciliation Day as a holiday in British Columbia, Canada, was introduced in the House of Commons of Commons Speaker Mike Notley on Nov. 14, 2019. Bill C-69 would remove the day as a public holiday because it doesn t deserve to be one.

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00:00:00.000 Mr. Speaker, our bill will remove Truth and Reconciliation Day as a holiday in British Columbia.
00:00:06.760 Why? Because it doesn't deserve to be one.
00:00:10.560 This day celebrates the greatest lie in Canadian history,
00:00:14.560 the lie that 215 bodies were found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
00:00:20.040 But the truth is, Canadians never have committed a genocide.
00:00:23.960 This holiday seeks to shame Canadians for building a civilization.
00:00:30.000 For building Canada instead of leaving this land as an untamed wilderness.
00:00:35.760 The idea that we need to reconcile presumes an act of wrongdoing and regret.
00:00:40.820 But we have no regrets, nothing to reconcile for, and no apologies to give, because we did nothing wrong.
00:00:49.320 Settling and building Canada was great, and we're proud of it.
00:00:53.340 Canadians embarked on grand and daring journeys to explore this continent.
00:00:57.260 They braved rocky rivers and scaled towering mountains.
00:01:01.080 They built railroads.
00:01:03.200 They built this beautiful legislative building.
00:01:06.480 Canadians discovered insulin and saved millions of lives.
00:01:11.480 Canadians ushered in marvels of engineering and sent astronauts into outer space.
00:01:16.980 We're proud to have staved off the American invasion in the War of 1812.
00:01:21.020 We're proud to have fought in one and two world wars.
00:01:23.940 We're proud to have invented the telephone.
00:01:26.860 We're proud we ended slavery, established laws, and brought peace to warring tribes.
00:01:31.940 We're proud to have brought Indigenous people with us into the modern age and formed Canada together.
00:01:37.780 Instead of guilting our nation, let's celebrate it.
00:01:41.060 Thank you.
00:01:41.900 Thank you, Sai,eran.
00:01:44.640 Have a great day.
00:01:46.740 Thank you.
00:01:47.900 How much is
00:02:01.380 you the one?
00:02:04.320 Thank you.
00:02:07.460 Thank you.