Amy Hamm: No MAGA beliefs allowed at Parks Canada historic sites - "the only thing kitschier than a MAGA hat inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump is the fanatical anti-MAGA sentiment that has some Canadians behaving like the jealous stepchild sibling to our southern neighbour. That is certainly how several residents of Nova Scotia are acting after discovering that a so-called “MAGA influencer” and musician, Sean Feucht, had booked a show at the York Redoubt National Historic Site for Wednesday night. Their outburst about Feucht led Parks Canada to revoke his permit late Tuesday over “evolving safety and security considerations.” The musician has since secured a new location in rural Nova Scotia... Feucht is not my cup of tea. At all. But the marvellous part in all of this is that no one is forcing me to attend any of his shows. Nor is anyone else being forced to attend. Not a single Nova Scotian will be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the Parks Canada site, or any other site where Feucht will presumably crow about the gospel and the Grand Old Party. How great! Nevertheless, several Nova Scotian residents garnered media attention after decrying the planned event. Not content to merely express their intolerance of Feucht’s views, they want the whole show cancelled. Shut ‘er down. They damn near succeeded. Their level of perturbation is hokier than a bright red “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” cap. At least with the cap, one is merely expressing oneself — and not also trying to control what others can see, hear, think or do. More outrageous, still, is that Shannon Miedema, Liberal member of Parliament for Halifax, attempted to do the bidding of her censorious, anti-freedom constituents. According to CBC News, the outlet was shown a message that Miedema emailed a resident, which reads: “I have the utmost respect for the value of free speech, I do not believe this event aligns with Parks Canada’s core values of respect for people, equity, diversity and inclusion, or integrity.” A bit like a vegan preaching the “utmost respect” for the value of not consuming animal flesh while munching on a medium-rare steak, no? Miedema, Miedema. Allow me to give you a lesson on free speech: it necessitates allowing others to speak, even when you dislike (or think you will dislike) what they have to say. This is basic, 101-level stuff. Listing off “diversity, equity and inclusion” within a vague statement on harm or “integrity” to suppress others’ speech has become a predictable — and equally pathetic — trope of the far left. These characters, Miedema included, have yet to realize that to the average Canadian, being cancelled is now widely considered a badge of honour. We’ve grown tired of wokescolds... Unfortunately for all those who’ve come down with a wrist-spraining case of handwringing over Feucht’s upcoming show, it remains legal in this country to hold, and share, opinions on contested topics. Yes, even about abortion, gender and race — and even if one identifies as a MAGA supporter while doing so. It’s difficult, clearly, but these disgruntled pseudo-patriots are going to have to wipe the tears from their faces using Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
He should have said he was holding an "anti-Zionist" protest instead, because then it'd be a threat to Freedom of Expression and Democracy to shut him down
All six Canadian venues cancel Christian musician Sean Feucht’s shows - "The City of Vaughan, Ont., where Feucht was to have finished the first leg of the Let Us Worship: Revive in 25 tour on Sunday afternoon at the Dufferin District Park, confirmed to National Post that it had cancelled the special event permit “on the basis of health and safety as well as community standards and well-being.” Municipalities and venue management offered similar justification for cancelling Feucht’s shows at five other venues in recent days... The show did proceed, albeit 70 kilometres northeast from its original site, when a farmer in Shubenacadie opened up his field. A video shared to Feucht’s social media channels show farm equipment knocking down tall grass to make space for parking. The City of Charlottetown, also citing “evolving public safety and security concerns,” had already cancelled a Thursday morning show scheduled for Confederation Landing... P.E.I. Liberal MP Sean Casey had also called for the show to be cancelled. “While I fully respect the right to freedom of expression, I do not believe this event reflects the values of inclusivity and respect that define the City of Charlottetown or the Government of Canada,” he wrote on Facebook. Feucht’s Thursday show at Moncton’s Riverfront Park was also cancelled the day prior after the city deemed it didn’t comply with its facilities’ code of conduct and represented a “potential risks to the safety and security of community members, event attendees, and organizers.”... Also axed on Wednesday were Feucht’s scheduled performances in Quebec City and at the Jacques-Cartier Park North in Gatineau, overseen by the National Capital Commission, which cited “concerns about public safety and security” in a statement to National Post. Meanwhile, François Moisan, Quebec City’s director of public relations, specified in an email to National Post that the contract to perform at ExpoCité on Friday evening was cancelled because “the presence of a controversial artist was not mentioned when the contract was signed.”... “Here’s the hard truth: If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn’t have said a word,” he wrote. “But to publicly profess deeply held Christian beliefs is to be labelled an extremist — and to have a free worship event classified as a public safety risk.” He went on to explain that his Let Us Worship movement was created in response to COVID-19 policies, which in Canada, “were among the most oppressive in the world.” “The pandemic may be over, but the anti-Christian bias remains.”"
Weird. I thought it was censorship when the government did it
Since left wingers are more intolerant and rude, can their events be cancelled because of the values of inclusivity and respect?
Musician/pastor Sean Feucht raises community ire by cancelling prayer - "an evangelical church in Montreal allowed Feucht to perform a concert despite the local government trying to stop the concert on the grounds the pastor held views that the city found objectionable. “This show runs counter to the values of inclusion, solidarity, and respect that are championed in Montreal. Freedom of expression is one of our fundamental values, but hateful and discriminatory speech is not acceptable in Montreal,” Philippe Masse, a spokesperson for Mayor Valerie Plante, said in a statement. The church is now facing a $2,500 fine for holding a concert without a permit. There were also protests outside the Montreal venue. One man was arrested for obstruction and a smoke bomb was set off inside the building."
I guess "safety concerns" are valid since left wingers feel threatened by people espousing views they disagree with
Montreal church fined for hosting U.S. Christian singer without permit - "Feucht reacted Saturday on social media to the events in Montreal, claiming that two smoke bombs were thrown at his head during the concert. “Now you want (to) fine the church for doing what the church does – WORSHIP,” he said on X. “Every Canadian should be embarrassed/concerned with this. No bigger scandal in Canada.”"
Good luck if you don't let mosques host Islamists who call for Jihad and murdering "Zionists"
Hundreds attend concert for MAGA-affiliated musician at Toronto church after Vaughan denies permit - ""The place where I got the biggest persecution and resistance was in Canada. That's wild. Not Iraq or Turkey, but Canada," Feucht told the audience... He said the tour has been a trending topic on social media, which has brought more awareness to the movement. "More cameras, more news outlets, everyone is talking about worship in Canada. It's provoking a national dialogue," he said... Feucht's "brand of Christianity" is worrying given how it is being politicized and is exclusive, instead of being inclusive of all people, said Deana Dudley, a reverend at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (MCC). Dudley said it was upsetting to see Feucht claim "persecution" of Christians over the denied permits. Government-owned public venues don't always allow religious events to take place there and the MCC has also been denied permissions for that reason, she said. "If he wants to talk about persecution, he should talk to some of the LGBTQ+ refugees that we work with, who have had to flee their home countries," she said... It's important to protect people's constitutional rights of freedom of expression and religion, no matter their stance or controversial opinions, said Christine Van Geyn, litigation director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation. "The government doesn't get to pick and choose, except in very, very high and exceptional cases," she said. Instead of shutting down an event, Van Geyn said people should engage with it to share their views and, if possible, protest. By censoring an event, a movement is able to gain notoriety and even more attention, she warned. "This performer has become a martyr for a cause," she said. "That's the reason we're having this conversation. That's the reason everyone knows this performer's name is because of the attempts to silence.""
Weird how you need a permit to perform a religious concert in a church, which is a private space, but if you're from the right religion, you don't need one to pray in public en masse, blocking roads
Invalidating other people's suffering and saying you can only care about one thing at a time is good when it pushes the left wing agenda
Quebec City cancels MAGA singer’s show : r/Vaughan - "I’m glad we are tackling the real issues and not the petty ones like housing or affordability"
"Governments can do more than one thing at a time you know"
Left wing logic: if you disapprove of something the left is actively doing, then you're the bad person turning it into a wedge issue, trying to create a distraction, wasting time on unimportant things etc. But the left is free to push their agenda whenever they want and to whatever extent they want, because the whole of the left wing agenda needs to be forced through
Free speech is the right to say horrible things - The Globe and Mail - "Senator Kristopher Wells tweeted that Mr. Feucht has “no Charter right to have his shows hosted at public facilities, which must be safe and discrimination-free spaces that uphold community standards.” The senator should brush up on constitutional law. The Charter does not mention “safe and discrimination-free” public facilities or “community standards.” It does state that: “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association.” Of course, the Charter lays out legal limits to those freedoms. And the Criminal Code prohibits hate speech. To our knowledge, Mr. Feucht has not said anything during his Canadian tour that rises to the level of criminal hate speech. If so, the remedy is clear: criminal charges, not prior restraint. Nor have federal officials refused him entry to Canada on one of many the admissible grounds. As for the “community standards and wellbeing” that the City of Vaughan, north of Toronto, cited in rescinding Mr. Feucht’s permit, we would all do well to remember that Vaughan and other communities contain houses of worship representing faiths that embrace at least some of what Mr. Feucht preaches. Popes, for example, have often spoken in Canadian public spaces despite the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to abortion and same-sex marriage. If anyone finds Mr. Feucht’s preachings offensive, there is an excellent way to show displeasure: through legal, peaceful protest. Or by simply ignoring him."
Globe editorial: Free speech is the right to say horrible things : r/ilovebc - "I'm old enough to remember when it was the "religious right" who would organize campaigns to prevent punk rock groups from playing anywhere other than shitty basement shows in tear-downs that would inevitably be broken up by law enforcement. The principle of freedom of speech, and by extension freedom of association, doesn't exist to protect popular speech. Those advocating for this illiberal suppression would screech about fascism should the same standard of so-called "community values" be utilized to silence those whom they share ideological conformity with -- such as Kneecap."
Globe editorial: Free speech is the right to say horrible things : r/ilovebc - "There's precedent for this as well. In the 1940s the Quebec government used municipal and provincial administrative actions to censor Jahovahs Witnesses and the SCC declared that these actions were an infringement on free expression (this was before the charter existed, so it wouldn't have been a section 2 violation specifically, but unconstitutional based on the understanding of the uncodified constitution at the time). I couldn't care less about Feucht, but I nonetheless hope someone sues some of these municipal governments for their very obvious charter violations which should hopefully discourage more actions like this in the future."
Clearly, if you protest "genocide", you are a good person and anyone censoring you is a bad person, but if you threaten the left wing agenda you are evil and spouting hate speech and must be shut down
Christian artist Sean Feucht’s tour bus rammed near Montreal : r/CanadianConservative - "I was told he wants to erase people and when I asked where did he say this, the response was: please don't play dumb."
"I asked someone for quotes that could be considered criminal and unprotected hate speech that could affect his admissibility in Canada. I got a lot of downvotes but no examples. The general consensus from the alphabets was that they should have the right to vilify, harass, and assault this man regardless if he has done anything illegal or wrong. Then they have the audacity to say that their victim is "intolerant." Personally, I have no time for religious fundamentalism, but anyone suppressing religious freedoms in the name of "tolerance" is an enemy of us all."
How U.S. Christian musician Sean Feucht put freedom of expression to the test in Canada : r/Ontario_Sub - "Guy spews hate speech and can't even bring both halves of his brain together to realize he needs a permit like everyone else. Christians are not under attack in Canada. Some Christians have a victim complex... Anything maga has zero place within canadian culture. And yes you do need a permit. Everyone else needs a permit for his type of concert. Maga does make him a bad person And makes him actually not align with any real doctrine of Christianity. Fuck trump and anything affiliated with him."
"So just to be clear, you are in favour of censorship?"
"Are you against censorship? For instance, do you think a naked adult man should be allowed to scream vulgar obscenities at schoolchildren as they exit their school?"
"That’s a stupid example, you’re comparing someone singing Christian songs with someone committing a crime. They literally said multiple times in this article how dangerous stuff like this is. It’s even in the title of the article: “By revoking concert permits, it looks like governments engaged in censorship: experts”"
"Hate speech is a crime... People like me are scary to people like you because we use and understand nuance. We don't just blindly believe a paradoxical book, picking and choosing passages that justify acting evilly on our prejudices while ignoring those condemning our actions. Ain't no hate like Christian love."
Left wing logic: defending Christian expression = hate. As usual, anything opposing the left wing agenda is hate
Without property rights, free speech is hard - "When a church generously offered Feucht a last-minute change of venue, it was targeted by a police raid for daring to allow people to express themselves without a permit. The right to speak and think requires the right to risk offence. Shutting down speech to accommodate threats of violence and destruction from disingenuous “protesters” plays right into their authoritarian hands. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms also protects the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association — rights that were obviously in play in these cases. So, what gives? The very first clause in the 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights protected the “enjoyment of property, and right not to be deprived thereof except by due process of law.” But, while almost the entirety of the Bill of Rights was incorporated into the Charter in 1981, the clause protecting property was conspicuously deleted. In 1988, the House of Commons passed a resolution to rectify this failure. But it expired in 1991, after failing to receive the necessary endorsement of provincial legislatures... in modern-day Canada, the government has taken all our sticks and makes us apply for permits to use them, or taxes us almost into oblivion when we do. Combined with recent municipal legislation aggressivelybanningpractically any public political discourse that may be offensive, there’s almost nowhere left where people can meaningfully exercise their right to free expression. My own hometown of Calgary recently “won” the Canadian Constitution Foundation’s inaugural “Municipal Muzzle” award for its broad, Orwellian “Safe and Inclusive Access” law, which prohibits nearly any public expression related to an issue of controversy. If you can’t express yourself on public property without government approval, and you can’t express yourself on your own property without government approval, an abstract right to “free expression” is meaningless"
