Western Standard - June 30, 2023


Josh Alexander blocked from attending brother’s graduation over Save Canada hat


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

180.46512

Word Count

388

Sentence Count

42


Summary

In the rain outside of a public school in Cobden, a group of students were asked to take off their hats and the principal demanded that they leave the building because they were wearing "safe Canada" on their heads.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Josh, I already told you why I told all friends you were.
00:00:03.000 Why? My little brother is having a graduation. I'm here to watch it.
00:00:07.000 Yes, I know, and I gave you the option to be here.
00:00:10.000 So you don't like my personal views? That's your issue, not mine.
00:00:14.000 I'm here to watch my little brother's graduation.
00:00:16.000 Either you knew the hats or last year.
00:00:20.000 And tonight, we're asking you to take off the hats because tonight is about the hats.
00:00:25.000 This is a contravention of our policies.
00:00:29.000 I'm here to watch my little brother's graduation.
00:00:32.000 I know you are, so if you want to hear what you read, we're going to ask you to take a hat on.
00:00:35.000 No, thank you.
00:00:36.000 We're here for our little brother.
00:00:38.000 Why?
00:00:39.000 Because I've asked you to take off the hats, as has the principal.
00:00:44.000 Right, but this is not a public building. This is a school.
00:00:48.000 It's a public, top-down public.
00:00:50.000 This is a school. It's a school building because we get to say what the code of conduct is.
00:00:55.000 And the code of conduct is we're not going to have the hats on.
00:00:58.000 No, I see multiple other people in this building wearing hats.
00:01:01.000 Did they save Safe Canada on them?
00:01:04.000 So the problem is that the hats are Safe Canada.
00:01:06.000 That's correct.
00:01:07.000 What's wrong with Safe Canada? Is it hateful?
00:01:11.000 Explain to me what's wrong.
00:01:12.000 I didn't approve of the recordings.
00:01:14.000 That's not...
00:01:15.000 Hey, everybody.
00:01:16.000 So here we are in the rain outside of Cobden District Public School.
00:01:21.000 We were here for my little brother's grad.
00:01:24.000 We were sitting in the chairs there waiting for the ceremony to begin.
00:01:29.000 Superintendent of the board, the same individuals who decided to place both my parents on leave and under investigation,
00:01:36.000 just had security remove us from the event simply for wearing the red hats.
00:01:41.000 They already knew who I was.
00:01:42.000 They introduced themselves to me.
00:01:44.000 They told us we'd have to remove the hats or leave the building.
00:01:49.000 Oh, there's one of our superintendents right there.
00:01:52.000 Walking in underneath the pride play at the public school.
00:01:55.000 Yeah.
00:01:56.000 But yeah, we refuse to compromise our values because of the woke indoctrination system's demands.
00:02:03.000 And so now here we are in the rain in Cobden.
00:02:06.000 God bless.
00:02:07.000 God bless.
00:02:08.000 God bless.