{"id":3843,"date":"2024-11-18T07:47:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T07:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2024-11-18T07:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T07:48:27","slug":"canadian-tradition-haters-trash-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=3843","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Tradition Haters Trash Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The woke hijacking of Remembrance Day<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>National Post<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15 Nov 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MICHAEL HIGGINS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/t.prcdn.co\/img?regionKey=2lOlJopL0UT0%2fjJi6b%2bOBQ%3d%3d\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>On Remembrance Day, it is left to ordinary Canadians to honour the dead, Michael Higgins writes.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Left to our virtue-signalling elites, our hapless leaders and our ignorant educators, Canada would have forsworn its solemn duty to remember the dead and honour those who served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, ordinary Canadians are less susceptible to the vagaries of woke culture and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policies, and understand that bravery, duty and sacrifice are virtues that require us occasionally to pause, reflect and honour those who served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But what can we say to the likes of Aaron Hobbs, the principal of Ottawa\u2019s Sir Robert Borden High School, whose characterization of Remembrance Day was that it was usually about \u201ca white guy who has done something related to the military\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hobbs\u2019 insult to every Canadian who has served and serves still was made in defence of allowing an Arabic-language Palestinian protest song to be played during a Remembrance Day assembly at the school. Only after righteous anger ensued did Hobbs issue a pro forma apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remembrance Day should have been about honouring those \u201cwho have sacrificed their lives for the freedoms we hold dear,\u201d he said in a statement. The inclusion of the song was not in line with the schools \u201cvalues of respect and unity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever values Hobbs seeks to instil in his young students, virtue is not one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in the lead-up to Remembrance Day, Sackville Heights Elementary in Nova Scotia asked military personnel attending its ceremony not to wear their uniforms in order to \u201cmaintain a welcoming environment for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That the school\u2019s leaders thought it would be better to be \u201cwelcoming\u201d to all than to have children be proud of those in uniform is a testament to their twisted values. If they want to keep children safe, they should introduce them to the people who are willing to die for that very reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Principal Rachael Webster later apologized for the harm the request caused. She added that pupils who didn\u2019t feel safe seeing uniformed military personnel would be accommodated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a certain irony in giving trigger warnings about soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hobbs and Webster are examples of people who have lost sight of what is important in order to embrace what is woke. It is unfortunate that they will pass that corrupted sense of value onto a younger generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SOME PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO BEHAVE VIRTUOUSLY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, at the City of Toronto\u2019s official Remembrance Day ceremony, veterans and the public had to sit through an almost twominute-long presentation that included Indigenous land acknowledgments and touched on treaties, settlers, migrants and the transatlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the hallmarks of the new woke is to showcase Canada as a terrible partner in the slave trade, for which we must feel guilty. This is simply a lie, but truth hardly matters to people who haven\u2019t the decency to honour our veterans without an unnecessary preamble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rick Hillier, former chief of the defence staff, expressed his outrage on X. \u201cWe are nothing but \u2018sheep\u2019 to put up with this condescending lecture at any time, but especially today. A day devoted to those who served and sacrificed to build a country that doesn\u2019t have that. Shame,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With leaders such as ours, it is no wonder that brainwashed pro-palestinian protesters thought it was appropriate to show up to a Remembrance Day ceremony in Kingston, Ont., with a flag proclaiming, \u201cTo Remember Is To End All War. Free Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But \u201cLest we forget\u201d isn\u2019t about ending the tragedy and futility of war \u2014 and the protesters know this. They know Remembrance Day is about honouring those who served. Which is why hijacking the event is such an unforgivable insult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But since schools don\u2019t teach virtue anymore \u2014 just ask Hobbs and Webster \u2014 some people have no idea how to behave virtuously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the City of Toronto wants a real history lesson, and Hobbs and Webster want to know how to craft a statement with real meaning, I would refer them to Pericles\u2019 oration over the Athenian dead. Pericles understood the choice men faced when confronted with death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd when the moment came they were minded to resist and suffer, rather than to fly and save their lives; they ran away from the word of dishonour, but on the battlefield their feet stood fast, and in an instant, at the height of their fortune, they passed away from the scene, not of their fear, but of their glory,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Athens, just as Canada, was greater for their sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would have you day by day fix your eyes upon the greatness of Athens, until you become filled with the love of her; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory, reflect that this empire has been acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is left to ordinary Canadians to honour the dead, to remember the cost and to reflect on the courage of those who died and served. Those who love Canada will remember that she was built on the sacrifices of such men. And those who don\u2019t remember will probably become high school principals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article Name:The woke hijacking of Remembrance Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publication:National Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author:MICHAEL HIGGINS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start Page:A8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End Page:A8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woke hijacking of Remembrance Day Left to our virtue-signalling elites, our hapless leaders and our ignorant educators, Canada would have forsworn its solemn duty to remember the dead and honour those who served. Thankfully, ordinary Canadians are less susceptible to the vagaries of woke culture and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policies, and understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2727,2732,2730,484,2731,2729,2728],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}