CBC News is reporting that the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the small town of Emo to pay damages after failing to hoist an “LGBTQ2 rainbow flag” in celebration of Pride Month. One problem is that the town of fewer than 2000 inhabitants does not have a flagpole (though you could presumably “show the flag” in other ways).
The National Post reports, that there has been a lengthy arbitration process between the tribunal and the town.
In a decision handed down last week, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found that Emo, its mayor, and two councilors violated the Ontario Human Rights Code. The tribunal admitted in a later opinion that “the record indicated the Township did not receive many requests for declarations or proclamations or requests for display of a flag.” Indeed, in a single 12-month period, they received only four — two from Borderland Pride.
Emo does not have a central flagpole, other than the Canadian flag over the front door of the Emo Municipal Office.
One issue that factored greatly in the tribunal hearings occurred during the debate over the flag proposal, which the council rejected by a vote of three to two. In the meeting. Mayor Harold McQuaker stated, “There’s no flag being flown for the other side of the coin … there’s no flags being flown for the straight people.”
Doug Judson, a lawyer and a member of Borderland Pride’s board of directors, said that “the important thing we were seeking here was validation … as 2SLGBTQA plus people.”
The tribunal ruled that Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township and $5,000 from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.
At first, the fine against “McQuaker” in the town of “Emo” for failing to hoist an “LGBTQ2 rainbow flag” on a non-existent flagpole seemed too contrived. However, the mayor of Emo is a McQuaker, and the Canadian press is standing by the story.
For years, the Canadian human rights tribunals have been the spearhead of the anti-free speech movement. We have previously discussed the tribunals (here, here, and here) in such controversies.
Not only must the town pay the fines, but McQuaker and Emo’s chief administrative officer were ordered to complete an online course called “Human Rights 101” and “provide proof of completion … to Borderland Pride within 30 days” as recompense for their disobedience.
The Post report notes the course being offered by the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The animated video begins with what McQuaker must feel is a tad Orwellian with a statement that the Human Rights Code “is not meant to punish.” After all, being retrained to be a better human can hardly be viewed as punishment.
Hoist that on your nonexistent flagpole.
Here is the opinion: Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
“Hegseth once wrote an article arguing that women can’t claim rape if they were unconscious.”
Yea, this is the type of man we need running the Defense Department. Hopefully they can change the law and men can then be manly trump style men, get girls drunk, enjoy intimate relations with them while they are passed out, and life goes on.
Yea, finally a mans, man kind of man to run the Defence Department.
Go trump,
Please link to that article.
Or STFU
Hegseth once wrote an article arguing that women can’t claim rape if they were unconscious.
Yeah, except he didn’t write that article. Google certainly can’t find that article. Obviously, the article was written by vicious lying Anonymous Soviet Democrat scum. One who will now swiftly run away to hide with Dennis in his fetid lair. The tell is that this scummy Democrat Useful Idiot didn’t provide a link to this “Hegseth’s article”.
But, good news!!! Gigi has a potential bed partner!
What a shocker to discover that’s just one more vicious defamatory lie from the Anonymous Democrat Borg! The ones who kept voting for the rapist and child molester fondly referred to as President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers Biden. THAT’S the kind of man they kept voting for as president?
And the woman Democrats claim he raped after slipping her Rohypnol? Turns out everything was a lie to her husband, attempting to cover the fact she was cheating on him with a drunk while he and their children were sleeping in their room a few hundred feet away.
It was Hegseth staggering drunk, not her. And she was texting her husband lying she was somewhere else while she was screwing Hegseth. That’s what Democrat rape victims act like!
If it’s rape if a sober man has sex with a staggering drunk woman because that makes her unable to give consent, is it also rape for a sober woman to have sex with a drunk man because he’s ALSO unable to give consent?
“Reproductive Rights”, anybody?
Better we should seal the border and leave the Canuks to stew in their own juices.
“stew in their juices”???? So Woke actually started up north, rather than down here?
Who knew!
Woke started with the “Age of Enlightenment”.
European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” (1685-1815) as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Enlightenment. Enlightenment thinkers in Britain, in France and throughout Europe questioned traditional authority
Most have been some black American slaves among them to introduce the beginnings of Woke.
In recent years, the term “woke” has become a ubiquitous part of the cultural and political lexicon, often evoking strong reactions and sparking heated debates. But the word “woke” has a rich history that extends beyond its current usage. Originally rooted in African American Vernacular English (AAVE), “woke” has evolved, shifting from a term of Black cultural consciousness to a symbol of social justice awareness, and more recently, to a controversial term in political discourse.
It’s fertile ground indeed for your fellow civil rights lawyers chasing that filthy lucre by bringing rage civil suits, eh Professor Turley!
I remember when that unrepentant former communist “Papa Doc” Trudeau The First made his bones up north as Canada’s then Minister of Justice in their Centennial year. Doing so with his omnibus bill proclaiming that government had to stay out of meddling in sexual activity. Now, after ten years of being run by his son Blackface Trudeau The Son Obama Never Had and his Leninist Liberal minority governments, the Canadian government is now dictating that all Canadians submit to having Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe bedrooms shoved in their faces for a month of each year. That’s equity – they don’t get to choose whether to watch or not!
Video: Justice Minister Trudeau’s Omnibus Bill “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.4715835
How far both nations have come! First it was “Please tolerate us”. Then it was “Please accept us”. Then it was “Please celebrate us”. And now it’s “If you don’t do what we tell you to do, we will destroy you!”
Compelled “free speech” – that’s what equitable Woke civil rights are about! The Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe yet again demonstrating how to inspire tolerance and brotherhood with those who have zero interest in their public display of their Alphabet Sex. Their strategy to win people over makes one think that Dennis and Gigi are also members of the Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe.
A quick web search says that this town has a booming population of 1,200, a chapel, museum, park and boat launch. With that as the town environment, there must be scores of Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe members in such a community that felt deeply offended that the town did not rent a spare flag pole in order to fly their very special flag for an entire month.
Alternately, there may be more American members of the Borderland Pride Alphabet Sex Pride group roaming that province spoiling for a fight with any Canadian who doesn’t bend the knee than there are residents of that community.
Seems like this is more of an American Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe invasion of their weak and vulnerable neighbors across the border in Ontario. “Borderland Pride” seems primarily to be out of Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN and Duluth, MN.
One would think that when they claim to represent a massive percentage of the population, they could kick in a few bucks from their members to rent their own flag pole to fly their own flag. But telling of all the tentacles of Marxism, whether cultural, economic, or political, they demand that those that must be forced to see their special symbols must foot the bill.
The parable about one bad apple spoiling the whole bushel comes to mind. It’s actions like this that make me understand why some people see actions like this and then just look at them as attention demanding freaks.
I wonder if the Ontario Human Rights Commission would be tolerant of demands for a matching Normal Sex Month – or Heterosexual Sex Month if they find that less offensive. Depicted by two very obviously adult people holding hands, one male and one female, depicting tolerance by one being black and the other white (or Asian, or Indian). If small towns have to foot the bill to buy new flagpoles in order to be able to fly the Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe Flag, there should be something else to fly after Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe month is over!
Polling says that in the Canadian election next year, Blackface Trudeau and his Woke Lenin Liberals are possibly going to be so severely wiped out they may not even retain official party status in Canada. The opposition leader seems to be cut from the same cloth as Governor DeSantis here and he deals with political opponents and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) in much the same manner.
I wonder if the new conservative government will deal with these people like Borderland Pride and their cross border lawfare?
In 2020, Borderland Pride, the Northern Ontario Pride Network, Douglas W. Judson, and Kathryn L. Shoemaker launched a legal proceeding against the Township of Emo, Mayor Harold McQuaker, Councillor Harrold Boven, and Councillor Warren Toles in relation to their council’s refusal to recognize Pride Month by adopting a council resolution. Adopting resolutions or proclamations in support of community groups or special events is a municipal service. Ontario’s Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination in the provision of a service. Refusing to provide a service on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, family status, and other protected grounds is prohibited under the Code.
This was almost us. Thankfully the difference between a nation that fought for and won its freedoms separates us from a nation that passively awaited to be granted some freedoms from its overlord.
Whimsicalmama posted: This was almost us.
You think all this crap started up north in Canada? Rather than here? Seriously?
How about Woke? You think that started up north in Canada as well?
Have you heard of Canada’s RCMP being sent out as our FBI has been, to hunt down and arrest Pro-Life protestors and parents protesting at school board meetings as being “domestic terrorists”? Sent out to prosecute and attempt to jail their political opponents? That’s the FBI of the nation that fought for and won it’s freedoms doing better than our supposedly passive Canadian neighbors?
Like this “Borderland Pride” group and this action is primarily American lawfare activists, this is every bit as American as Canadian. And in pretty much all instances, the cultural Marxism like this started here and then spread to Canada. They need to stomp their own snakes, just as we do here, but this crap isn’t a Canadian invention. They’re the mouse sleeping next to an elephant; when it rolls the wrong way they can’t escape the consequences.
American and Canadian citizens are unwillingly together in a race to the bottom of the Marxist ladder, culturally, economically and politically. Sometimes their excesses are ahead of ours; at other times our excesses and abuses lead theirs. Each of our choices at the ballot box will determine which path we follow.
If you find comfort in looking at the differences in how each nation came to exist as an explanation, respectfully, you aren’t paying enough attention.
No, as I stated in another post,the true beginning of “wokeness” began wit “the age of enlightenment”. We succumbed to it just like the rest of the western world but, thankfully, our trial by fire to win our freedoms has kept a certain quantity of us immune to its siren calls of utopia.
No, as I stated in another post,the true beginning of “wokeness” began wit “the age of enlightenment”.
Wrong. There were no American black slaves among the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. That was 100% European. Not black American culture.
Can’t keep blaming our fvckups on other countries, just because they get infected with our bad ideas.
Just as we’ve been infected with their Marxism.
It’s not a matter of where anything started. The key difference between us and them is that we have a serious constitution, that we take seriously and have courts that enforce it, and they don’t. Therefore this sort of thing can’t happen on this side of the border. The FBI can investigate anyone it likes, but it can’t bring charges that violate the constitution.
All of this social engineering carried out under the rainbow flag of tolerance has certainly had the opposite effect for me.
Instead of a sort of abstract sympathy at a distance tolerance I now despise the movement. It is to be opposed rather than tolerated.
Mayor Harold McQuaker stated, “There’s no flag being flown for the other side of the coin … there’s no flags being flown for the straight people.”
Sounds like someone is displaying a degree of common sense. No wonder the fake tribunal lost it. This is just plain dumb.
This is a joke…right???
One thing about reporting what people do is this: You can’t make this stuff up.
Really?? “2SLGBTQA plus people.”
What the heck? A whole month of “pride” because of those who have chosen an abnormal sexual lifestyle?
My late father spent two and a half years in the Solomon Islands in WW2 and my late father-in-law was in pitched combat from D-Day to Czechoslovakia as an infantryman. He gave up nearly four years of his productive youth to fight in a bloody war. He, my dad, and the millions of young men and women get on day only to commemorate their service.
This is indeed Orwellian! This is a hill worth dying on. They need to fight back hard and this needs to go to court.
Electing Trump and winning congress was our second battle, defeating Hillary was our first victory. I think the majority of true Americans are ready to win more battles.
Whimsicalmama,
The majority of Americans are tired of the leftist wokeism crap and want to return to a degree of normalcy. What two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own dwelling is none of anyone business. Nor should the rest of us be subjected to whatever month or whatever flag. Get a clue leftists. You have your 1stA rights and we also have the right to ignore you and walk away not caring about whatever cause de jour.
You said, “What two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own dwelling is none of anyone business.”
I think all of us, myself included, have been saying that for years, but as I get older, I think that we have all been wrong. What goes on in the bedroom is everybody’s business, because that activity never stays in the bedroom. For example, take black neighborhoods – sex outside of marriage has destroyed those communities, to the point that it would take half a century or more to “fix” them, were such a thing even possible, and if we started this very second.
see: https://royfmc.com/2024/11/25/does-sexual-debauchery-lead-to-the-collapse-of-civilization/
and see this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHzpktapnA
“A whole month of “pride” because of those who have chosen an abnormal sexual lifestyle?”
Regardless of any normalcy, or lack thereof, government has no damned business compelling anyone to celebrate (or fund celebration) of anyone else’s personal choices. Or condemn those choices, for that matter.
FORCED speech is 10,000,000 times worse than stifling your speech!
Forced speech is typically governmental and can be resisted IF the jurisdiction has a free speech guarantee like our First Amendment. (Cheers! for our First Amendment and Jonathan Turley.) Stifled speech arises from many sources and can be resisted via a First Amendment-type guarantee if governmental, but typically it is a product of coercion by institutions, shaming, cancellation and cultural norms, and, as such, is deplorable. Each type is an affront to a free, democratic society.
I can no longer keep track of the letter-salad that some non-straight folks use to ID themselves. A different one every day! How does a “tribunal” like the one in Ontario keep track of them? But … what power the Ontario Tribunal wields; its members probably took a trip to China to learn how to re–educate a tiny town that has no flagpole.
thetennants1970 says: I can no longer keep track of the letter-salad that some non-straight folks use to ID themselves.
What if the spokes idiots for these groups are simply one more dangerous group of self-selecting angry grifters, selectively chosen by the Mainstream Media to speak for them as they collectively work for the Democrats’ Marxist agenda?
Are people like these representative of Ric Grennell and the work he did before Trump and for Trump during his first presidency? Grennell is just one example of the homosexuals who openly support Trump and/or oppose the Democrat perfidy and lawfare launched against him. I can think of a large number of well known homosexuals that you would have to follow for a while to discover they were homosexual rather than heterosexual. They don’t make their sexuality their identity like Cringe Jean-Pierre and the rest of the Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe does.
Just as the Imam Louis Farrakhan and the Reverand Al Sharpton were never elected or even appointed to lecture Americans on what black Americans think like, how they feel, etc.
All of them are grifters colluding with the Democrats. Both intending to obtain personal gain during their Marxist Great Leap Forward.
Just like they do when someone is arrested in the UK for telling a joke or praying outside an abortion clinic, I am sure one of our resident Leftists will be along shortly to either explain to all of us that its either a) only a minor, isolated incident and not all what is happening across the country, or b) that its all being taken out of context by the MAGA controlled press.
No, but it is relevant to point out that it is about the UK or Canada, and is not happening “across the country” (i.e. this one) or even anywhere in this country. The difference between us and those countries is that we have a real constitution, and they only have play ones.
The difference between us and those countries is that we have a real constitution, and they only have play ones.
You keep saying that only they have a play constitution, not us as well, as though you actually believe that. Does your memory extend back even 12 years?
How did your real Constitution provide equal justice for all as the DoJ and FBI became the Democratic party’s STASI hunting Trump. The parade of Attorney Generals and FBI Directors who repeatedly went into FISA courts on behalf of Obama and Clinton, and then again Biden, to perjure themselves to obtain spy warrants to put anyone within two hops of Trump under surveillance, malfeasance and perjury to charge some like General Flynn, removing all of their civil rights under color of law.
Did any of those Attorney Generals, FBI Directors, Obama and Biden who sent them ever get a taste of American justice as a legal sanction for what they did. Did any of them even get disbarred?
Yeah, that’s what a REAL constitution looks like in practice. Odd none of that Made In America shyte like that is happening in Canada with their play Constitution. They best they can manage is a quasi legal tribunal fined a few city councilors as their example of government using law enforcement as STASI.
I don’t think our Constitution and Bill of Rights are functioning quite as real world as you believe they are.
McQuaker should wipe himself after defecating with denomination CDN 100 banknotes until he accumulates 50 of them (I recommend keeping those in a zip-lock bag), then Fedex them directly to the attention of the CEO of Borderland Pride. Since the CDN 100 note commemorates medical research, the CDN10 note, which commemorates the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, might be more appropriate, but using 500 of those might well leave him dealing with a horrible rash and/or hemorrhoids …
Unfortunately, he’s going to need to stuff that zip lock with quite a few more CDN 100’s to get to $5k, than he would have before Trudeau took over.
Huh? $5K is 50 hundreds, or 500 tens, no matter who is premier or what their policies have done.
Why is there a pride month and just a Remembrance Day for veteran’s in Canada and is anyone fined or reeducated for not observance of honoring Veterans? Had not the majority of Americans cast their votes for President Trump who knows what direction America would have gone.
Technically, the majority of Americans voted for someone other than Donald Trump.
@enigma – Please I’m sure we’ve all had enough, turkey.
Margot,
LOL! Awesome!
Technically,you don’t know what you are talking about.
Your comment means nothing, as it would technically take over 175 million votes for anyone to get a “majority” of votes. So, why would you make such a dumb statement? OH! Just to rain on someone’s parade. Because that is what the Left is – negative, hateful people who want to destroy stuff.
Floyd,
Good sum up.
Oh, leave him alone. Even his comfort pet is getting sick of hearing his crying.
Technically, the majority of Americans voted for someone other than Hillary.
Didnt stop you from claiming she “won the poular vote”.
RFK Jr. received approximately three quarters of a million votes, so the Trump administration received a majority of the votes of eligible voters who bothered to register and vote. As usual, approximately 35% (ninety million) of those who were eligible to vote couldn’t get off their asses to exercise their franchise. What exactly were you expecting?
Technically, the majority of Americans voted for someone other than Donald Trump.
Technically, Uncle Tom is supposed to resist Massa’ – rather than being servile and licking his boots while turning himself inside out to help his plans.
Something is wrong with my calendar. It is April 1, right?
Screw Canada
“Screw Canada”
Take a good strong dose of amoxicillin first, to minimize risk of venereal disease…
“Screw Canada”
Is that your explanation of how we got the perversion cancer of San Francisco, Hollywood, New York, etc?
I believe China and powers that hate the west are backing a Civil War to Destroy the West!
No sane person backs this… The people allowing this to happen are the SAME people who VOTED for Fascism in the Europe in 1930’s!
Trudeau and his allies should be jailed!
guyventner, China is backing all the issues that harm America and the west. Energy being paramount. The Soviets supported the nuclear freeze movement in the 80s and the Useful Idiots on campus and in the media went right along.
Please show me one story, one article or even one mention where Greta Thunberg is protesting China building coal plants. Please show me one example of the Stop Oil Movement throwing soup at some Chinese art or business.
The Pro-Hamas movement is just the latest astroturf “protest movement” aimed at weakening the west (Israel in this instance). Please note that those decrying people being bombed, Gazans, even though their supported “elected” officals attacked Israel, they cheered and spit on Israeli hostages being paraded in their streets and they still support the Hamas regime, while not one protest has chanted Ukraine, Ukraine free, free, free. It is not that the left supports Russia because since 2016 they can’t due to falsley claiming that Trump was a Russia ally, but Russia is supported by China and Iran.
Which brings up Iran. Notice that the left, including gays and women, never attack the Iranian Mullahs for their attacks on them???? Why is that? It is because Iran is against the west and the left hates the west.
Please show me one story, one article or even one mention where Greta Thunberg is protesting China building coal plants.
You are perfectly capable of finding them yourself. She absolutely did protest against China, back when she was focusing on Glowball Worming, before she discovered her inner Nazi and started protesting against Joos instead.
I still don’t see you offering up any stories of Greta protesting China!!! How can I find what doesn’t exist? Try again, but better next time.
Of course she is protesting Israel, that’s what all the west hating, china supported leftists are glomming on to these days.
!4 months ago the climate was going to kill us all and was the one and only thing that mattered in the west, now suddenly it is only Israel that matters. If this isn’t astroturfing I don’t know what is.
And since communist china was not in existence for neither the rise of Hitler nor the french revolution I think we can safely say that any demented cohort of ideologically unsound members can wreak havoc with despicable ends; as we are currently and finally noticing within our own borders. Thankfully these insane progressives have been temporarily halted but they are still lethal and not completely subdued. Keep an eye on Canada and western europe for signs of resurrection.
Globalists are Fascists. It is that simple!
Guy,
“Globalists are Fascists. ”
I think that is an apt categorization.
It looks like their plan for world domination is marketed to the stupid as a collectivist utopia of free stuff and social and ecological justice. They may justify their aspirations as motivated by saving the species and the planet but they are just old-fashioned tyrants. As long as they breathe they will not stop – I think they are self hypnotized true believers in their own neomalthusian dreams.
Of course there is another faction that is sure of their own destiny to come out on top as a result of their unrestricted warfare. They are not a cult, more like a semicoherent slimemold biomass that needs to expand.
It’s a weird world and it will probably get worse before it gets better, if ever.
You are sorely mistaken if you don’t think that if Harris won the WH and the senate that the Dems wouldn’t have ended the filibuster, packed the Supreme Court and then appointed 5 “Justices” that would have had the same mindset as this Canadian Tribunal.
When a majority of the Court says that banning what they consider “hate speech” is not an affront to the 1st Amendment then we no longer have a 1st Amendment.
We were Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin away from America becoming this Orwellian nightmare.
hullbobby,
We are little better than Canada. A US citizen is facing felony charges for spinning his wheels on a gay rainbow some dipshits painted on a street. Art, on a road surface? Really? Those charges are absurd. Just another manufactured opportunity to call a normal person a bigot. The prosecutor and all politicians who contibted to any law behind the charges deserve 20 years for deprivation of rights under color of law. Or vigilante justice. Their choice.
“Or vigilante justice. Their choice.”
Why should it be their choice? Option #2 costs the taxpayer far less.
#6,
I agree, Option #2 is more cost-effective and has the added benefit of fewer delays. I just prefer law and order and I don’t think we have crossed the threshold just yet. We are pretty freaking close though!
“I just prefer law and order and I don’t think we have crossed the threshold just yet. ”
Ditto, although my daily opinion on where we are wrt to that line pretty much depends on which side of the bed I got out of that morning.
Thankfully enough of our citizens did 2 important things on November 5th; they realized what a putrid ideology was behind the prog/left and they took great steps to limit the cheating by them. We still have a slim chance of turning this around while our constitution is still extant.
A US citizen is facing felony charges for spinning his wheels on a gay rainbow some dipshits painted on a street.
No, the city painted it, and the accused deliberately vandalized it. That is a crime under any government.
Art, on a road surface? Really?
Yes, really. Why on earth not? You’ve never seen pavement artists?! Art designed to be walked on has been a thing for a long time. The artist expects normal wear and tear to destroy it eventually, but not for people to deliberately destroy it before then. And while most pavement artists are working without permission and thus have no grounds to sue if someone vandalizes their work, in this case it wasn’t even someone with permission, it was the city itself painting its own property, which it has every right to do.
The charges are real and far from absurd. You have no more right to vandalize government property than you do private property.
This country owes Joe Manchin a deep debt of gratitude
Were it not for him, we wouldnt be having this discussion. There would be at least 13 Justices, and that number would be fixed in law.
There would also be 52 states and 4 additional Dem senators.
There would be a federal law legalizing abortion without limits and the libtard installed Court would have already ruled it Constitutional.
There would be a federal law mandating mail in and early voting for President without signature verification (thats racist) and the libtard installed Court would have already ruled it Constitutional.
There would already be an amnesty bill signed into law granting a path to citizenship for all illegals and immediate voting rights to anyone paying taxes. And the libtard installed Court would have already ruled it Constitutional.
Just more proof why our Father will have north America nuked off the planet by the fall of 2028 as America is the harlot riding her UN~beast! :
https://sumofthyword.com/2021/01/07/mystery-babylon-the-great-and-her-beast/
One question from a transplanted Canadian is this, “When will the Canadians awake from the woke?” It is important to understand that this violation of the Gay Pride Flag law mandates punishment as hate speech, the well from which authoritarianism thrives.
Canadians never had to fight for their freedom; they don’t appreciate it in the same way that Americans do. Until they lose what freedoms that they have been granted by their overlords they will show little resistance as has been their history.
Canadians never had to fight for their freedom; they don’t appreciate it in the same way that Americans do.
Great pronouncement; reminds me of that similar pronouncement regularly made here: “J6 was an insurrection!”
Which leads back to reminding you AGAIN that the FBI we Americans fought to have the freedom to create is engaged in rigging elections, committing serial felonies in hoping to jail political opponents, making war on Pro-Life activists and parents opposed to Woke, etc. All while providing legal cover for criminals who are the political leaders of the political party they serve.
You hear ANYTHING about their counterparts, the RCMP, up in Canada doing ANYTHING remotely like that? It’s the Canadians who are the passive ones who would allow their premier police force to run amok doing things like that for YEARS in your mind?
All that aside, your knowledge of Canadian history is a bit on the weak side. You should probably spend more time wondering where stuff like this Woke crap actually begins and grows rather than working to focus your blame on Canadians. But if you want to bone up on Canadian history fighting for their country, you can start here:
The American Fenian Invasion And The 1866 Battle That Made Canada
https://www.amazon.com/Ridgeway-American-Fenian-Invasion-History/dp/0670068039
I ive 40 miles from Canada and watch their TV news regularly. I think, perhaps, you need a much broader – say 6000 year history of the world – to better understand the true nature of man and his attempts at government. Try reading Barry Cunliffe and Victor Davis Hanson for a wider vision of the mess we are in, we have been here many times before.
I ive 40 miles from Canada and watch their TV news regularly. I think, perhaps, you need a much broader – say 6000 year history of the world
Well, your situation is special and unique for Americans! Whitefish here is about the same distance from two different Canadian provinces, depending on which border crossing you prefer. We don’t have to watch their TV – we get to shop, share the streets, ski hill, fishing streams, etc with them every day. Lots of homes in this area are weekend getaways/second homes for Canadian rig pigs working their oil patch.
BTW, Victor Davis Hanson has written articles about the Fenian Raids – you missed those?
I think perhaps that if you think the history of either here or Canada up north goes back 6000 years, that might be the kind of hyperbole that had you claiming that Woke came out of the Enlightenment.
One question from a transplanted Canadian is this, “When will the Canadians awake from the woke?”
Woke didn’t start up there. Our Canadian neighbors need to remember the adage “”Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” and start being suspicious of Americans showing up at their door bearing gifts like this cultural Marxism.
More importantly, cultural as well as economic and political Marxism has become deeply entrenched here and we have greater problems right here at home than worrying about what our Canadian neighbors are doing with the gifts we left with them.
“Woke didn’t start up there.”
Meh. Yes and no. Correct about literal “wokism”, but I had clients in Ontario and a few other provinces in the 1980s, and I was also on early computer bulletin boards that had many Canadian members in the 1980s & 1990s. My experience indicates that the typical Canadian at that time tended significantly further left, politically, and was also far more tolerant of government authoritarianism, than most in the US. So, while “wokism” might be viewed as having invaded Canada from this side of the border, many or most Canadians were already predisposed to fall into that trap.
“Emo” & “McQuaker”—gotta be a joke here. 🤦♀️