Don Cherry fired
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what is with that ?
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Canadian Freedom of Speech, R.I.P.
Thomas DiLorenzo
Iconic Canadian hockey commentator eighty-four-year-old Don Cherry, a former Boston Bruins NHL coach, was immediately fired from his lucrative commentating job of 38 years for daring to criticize the behavior of immigrants to Canada. His criticism on his show, “Hockey Night in Canada,” in hockey-crazy Canada, was based on his assertion that most immigrants seem to have no interest in supporting or participating in Canadian culture, specifically, in spending “a couple of bucks” on a poppy pin on Veterans Day (Canadians pin poppy flowers to their lapels to show their appreciation to veterans on that day).
While I am sympathetic to anyone who resists pressure to worship all things military, at the same time it is a sure bet that if Don Cherry had criticized native-born Canadians for being too poppy pinless, his employer would not have said a word about it, probably even agreeing with him and broadcasting his opinion as an exemplar of Canadian patriotism. (It probably didn’t help his cause either that he called global warming hysterics “cuckaloos”).
Thomas DiLorenzo
Iconic Canadian hockey commentator eighty-four-year-old Don Cherry, a former Boston Bruins NHL coach, was immediately fired from his lucrative commentating job of 38 years for daring to criticize the behavior of immigrants to Canada. His criticism on his show, “Hockey Night in Canada,” in hockey-crazy Canada, was based on his assertion that most immigrants seem to have no interest in supporting or participating in Canadian culture, specifically, in spending “a couple of bucks” on a poppy pin on Veterans Day (Canadians pin poppy flowers to their lapels to show their appreciation to veterans on that day).
While I am sympathetic to anyone who resists pressure to worship all things military, at the same time it is a sure bet that if Don Cherry had criticized native-born Canadians for being too poppy pinless, his employer would not have said a word about it, probably even agreeing with him and broadcasting his opinion as an exemplar of Canadian patriotism. (It probably didn’t help his cause either that he called global warming hysterics “cuckaloos”).
No one's free speech rights were infringed here. Don Cherry still has the right to say whatever he wants, whenever he wants. He just can't do it on his employer's dime. And his employer exercised their free speech rights by firing him.
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Canada's military participation in the Great War and its even bigger successor had to do with their role as a part of the British Commonwealth, as a protector of British sovereignty in the face of the threat of Kaiser Wilhelm and to a larger degree, Herr Hitler
the significance of this part of their history, which is ingrained in the Canadian psyche, is something of which most Americans are woefully ignorant
as are most Canadian immigrants
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no such thing
Canadians don't have free speech rights
Not in Canada, he doesn't
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Old white dudes are not a protected class
Now, if he had been brown, or differently gendered, or homosexual, etc