CALGARY -- Alberta Premier Jason Kenney spoke out Tuesday afternoon about what he calls an ongoing "cancel culture" in Canada and warned if it continues, most of the country’s founding fathers could one-day be removed from the history books.changing the name of Langevin School to Riverside School
"I'm not aware of the decisions they've made let me look into that," Kenney said of the name change, which was announced about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. "If we want to get into cancelling every figure in our history who took positions on issues at the time that we now judge harshly, and rightly in historical retrospective, but if that's the new standard, then I think almost the entire founding leadership of our country gets cancelled.
Canadians have writes as well natives need to start paying taxes it’s got to change no more free bees time for native to be Canadian and pay there part to
Cut the redneck bull crap. Times change society changes. Life expectancy changes knowledge changes and we evolve. Evolution is the reason we cancelled cave dwelling. Try to keep up for god's sake. And additionally stop copying the American example, you're Canadian act it!
*snicker*
we’re grieving as a country if you haven’t noticed because of cancel culture go back to kindergarten and learn over again because your a lost soul.
How about cancel Kenney
Acknowledging the mistakes of the past and the faults of historical figures is NOT “cancel culture”.
Well, you know what you do Jason! You just say NO!You just exercise your power, and say NO!Millions of Albertans will truly admire you for that!
Culture is not being cancelled by appropriately ending celebration and idolizations of leaders that committed genocide. The history books are not being erased. No, history is still being told, and their names will most certainly be spoken.
This is his primary concern and first reaction?
Fuck Kenny
Can we cancel Kenny lol
We should be cancelling Hudson's Bay Co., Ford, Disney, Kellogg's...I could go on. Seems to be that if you have money to defend your name no one will touch you.
Kenny must be voted out. A trump lover. Vote him out
Kenney is a U.S. spy trying to destroy what is Canadian. He should be quiet for a while. Mark Twain, “every time you open your mouth you not only show your tonsils, but also your ignorance.” A U.S. humorist describing a U.S. premier.
Someone is afraid
Big difference between their total history written in books and having important institutions named after them
Wow obviously this is coming from a white male with privilege and patriarchy roots. Duh no wonder you don't want to let history really come to light. Not much different from any other politician.
How about cancel Kenny and the entire pro trump con party!
He is ridiculous. I'm so ashamed of him!
Kenney can take a flying phuck.
If the very basis of our culture is based on hate, abuse, oppression, conformity and genocide then they can “cancel” out any human being who approved, committed and stood idly by and watched this happen. This is not “Cancel Culture” this is simply showing we do not support this.
Well our indigenous leaders have been erased!! Tell me how many chiefs can you name?
consequenceculture
Racists should be erased from history. Only a matter of time before this racist is erased.
If cancel culture existed we would never need to read about Jason Kenney so I for one pray for the day
We don't have 'Founding Fathers', you are not 'Merican as much as you might want to be kenney.
Cancel culture is a cancer!
Accountability is not erasure. We don’t have any Stalin or Hitler statues or schools yet we all know about them
History needs to be more accurate. The ugly truth has to be told in our curriculum. Cancel culture is the wrong way to go about it because people will just repeat history or turn a blind eye to what happened. Education is always the answer. Look at how we teach about hitler.
Cancel culture is the left what religious culture is to the right. The aim is to erase not overcome in both ideals.
Why not? Children have been 'cancelled' in Ontario.
a country that doesn't learn from its past will always be stuck in the past. Canada is not the country of the Fathers of Confederation lived in. We need to grow and build forward.
The founding fathers commited purposeful and willful atrocities.They stole the cultures & lives of the Indigenous Nations, where only a select few personally & purposely privileged todate.Don't soften blatant systematic genocide as 'imperfection' with jargon as an excuse.
This dude cancelled ryanjespersen and now he’s speaking out against it? Can’t make this shit up. What a clown
As 215 bodies are unearthed from a mass grave Kenny’s major concern is for the ones responsible for putting them there. Rewriting history is what Conservatives are doing through changes to the curriculum even as we speak. Shame!
Que all the socialist/Communist waifs to start pissing their pants over this. I'm no fan of politicians in general but this wave of Marxism that's happening in Canada needs to be dealt with soon.
I say take his statue and put it behind bars. Create his jail term for eternity.
Erased? You mean like what they tried to do to the indigenous peoples?
More from this demagogue, what tf is cancel culture and where do you see it running rampant, I just see consequences. Kenney and corrupt politicians like him do this whenever losing momentum they stoke fear about something that’s not a real problem to the average person
Please don't import American political BS into Canada. Isn't there a clause in USMCA that prevents this?
We should embrace our history warts and all. The danger comes in placing Macdonald and others on a pedestal à la George Washington. We simply cannot glorify people who believed in white supremacy. However, we cannot erase their contributions to the building of this nation either.
For the first time in a very long time I agree with jkenney.
There's no erasing the history of bloodshed and genocide. Instead of trying to rid and forget, we need to mourn and commemorate the losses. We need to stop leaning into the narrative that our 'founding fathers' were good people and remember the history for what it is.
Listen to brittlestar very good perspective
Rhetoric101
Kenney should be erased
Basically Kenney is saying, but John A MacDonald made Canada better for white people- the First Nations genocide was the price of progress. For Kenney to say this in 2021 is beyond ignorant, racist, and unbelievable. The Indian Act was Canada’s slavery.
Kenneys a damned fool.
jkenney You mean just like how the founding fathers tried to erase the indigenous peoples of Canada culture and traditions? It is not cancel culture to tell the truth about the past, it is about healing old wounds to make Canada a better and more inclusive nation.
He is cancelled.
Translation: Stop reminding us that our country is built upon genocide, exploitation and the blood of Indigenous peoples and children. Keep your mouth shut and chewed on the false colonial imagined history we’ve been feeding.
JAM 'cancelled' a whole lot of people and yes, that should outrage us as it set this country towards the genocide of generations. Dead politicians get to be in history books, we shouldn't honour them with statues and schools. smh
There’s a reason Germany doesn’t have any schools named after Hitler...this is no different. Change the names so all can heal. I don’t want these people honoured for what the right hand did and the hideous crimes they committed/condoned with the left hand.
This is ironic and blatant ignorance of individuals defending John A and crying “cancel culture “ when true cancel culture (residential schools) is exactly what he is guilty of.
I'm good with the founding fathers being exposed for what they really were. If you want to call it 'erased' then so be it.
He will be thrilled to learn of the existence of books. Why are there no statues of Pol Pot I wonder? Are the Cambodian people now unaware of his existence?
Racist premier (previously intent on cancelling a cartoon) doubles down on being a racist. Can’t handle the non white washed version of history on this land. Forgets books exist, & desperately hopes to join the realm of glorification of bastards in cast bronze form. 🤮🤮
Good for him. Nice to see some political figures finally speaking out against this total BS
He should be erased.
just wait till the UNDRIP push stars.. Kenny will be steam rollered over big time
lol right out of the trump and GOP playbook, Kenney us horrendous
Didn’t he want a child’s movie cancelled?
Cancel culture will erase the founding fathers because we're judging them by today's standards not what was acceptable in their time.
Just make things simple, put all the statues in museums. Where people go to learn about history. No school anywhere should be named after any person. Just name them after their communities. Nothing cancelled no one honored.
To snowflakes rightwingers what people are doing is pionting the flaws or evil these people did instead of just blindly putting them on petastals like saints. Fact is Canada, USA & Mexico were conqured by the English, French & Spaniards and it was done using violence and deceit.
J Kenny is an insane old cash worshiper who is actively working to destroy OUR children's lives by advocating for big oil every day. Do you think he cares about the children of the past..? Not a chance. He is convinced power and cash deserve to run this world
So Trumpian he makes me sick.
Or Added. Canada is the only country to Hang a Founding Father that I Know Of. Newfoundlanders will tell you that it was the Wrong one.
How very Republican! Removing statues isn't the same thing as removing history. In fact, it's correcting history.
Yep, no one is perfect
Immigration the past 20 years will destroy all values and history. Look at the counties they come from says it all. They bring their lifestyle and values with them. Western Separation is the only answer.
Gee, Kenney, I'm immediately afraid of this 'cancel culture' you speak of. Is this a new term you've created, or is it just some more shit you imported from the worst, most dangerous racists south of the border?
Must be listening to FOX NEWS . Maybe should move across the border.
I distrust Kenney but his reasoning makes some sense. He’s right: most historic people are flawed, as judged in 2021. That is how we should present them. Recognize and acknowledge, rather than shallow idolatry. Name changes are symbolic and powerful in the moment, not long term.
Can you imagine schools and other government buildings being named after Hitler or Mussolini? Me neither. So why is it ok here? Remove their names from buildings and put their statues in museums, detailing the full truth about their legacy.
Where's all the cancel nuts in Europe go start tearing down Italy's history Roman Empire was built on a thousand years of slavery of all colors and race
People 'CANCEL CULTURE' only do what you allow them to do to you...they can try to cancel all the like...but unlike green eggs n ham...they can never cancel 'THE GREAT I AM!'
No McDonald cannot and should not be erased, he can be praised for helping to found Canada while still being accountable for other things he did. That is how our society should work with everyone.
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Does he mean the “Fathers of Confederation”? “Founding fathers” is an American term.
You can have their names but not hold them in revere with school of all things named after them.
those so-called founding fathers should be erased from every place in Canada. Kenney being, the racist pig that he is always Remember the Money the First Nations get is NOT TAXPAYER MONEY. IT comes from the Queen's trust fund that was set up in 1812,
You need to look at history for what it was and not a whitewashed version. Canada has gone too long ignoring the horrible things that have and are still happening. Facing facts and making changes for the better isn’t cancel culture
Racism should be cancelled and dismantled! Duh
Erased? No. They will be put into their rightful place in history and be held, at least in a historical and cultural sense, accountable for their actions and crimes. So, no, not erased. Moving a statue isn’t erasing anything. It’s making up for mistakes and suffering.
You mean like how they tried to erase an entire culture? Accountability is still a thing that needs to exist
Lets start by not calling murderous colonizers the founding fathers. And we're not going to cancel them, we're going teach our kids the truth! Not the BS I learned in school.
I'll take 'Someone who just doesn't get it' for $2000 Alex.
Read the room, man!
How about accepting the fact that the founding fathers actually cancelled an entire culture to establish their own?
'Erase Kenney'
We need to cancel Kenney and quick.
Renaming public buildings does not mean we are erasing history. Teaching our history to the next generation means talking about what happened, including the dark and shameful parts. Intergenerational trauma is a reality and we need to honour the victims, not the perpetrators.
jkenney taking his cue from Trump. I don't think he understands the irony in what he's saying. He seems to be OK with ERASING the history of the insidious residential schools but worried the perpetrators may be forgotten? U CAN'T CANCEL HISTORY U CAN ONLY CHOOSE TO IGNORE IT.
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