Did you catch the exchange this afternoon between Brendan Miller and Ottawa city councillor Mathieu Fleury? Miller wanted Fleury to define micro aggressions. He pushed (rather micro aggressively) and Fleury snapped that he was a francophone and if Miller wanted definitions he’d better ask for them in French. Fleury then proceeded to answ…
Did you catch the exchange this afternoon between Brendan Miller and Ottawa city councillor Mathieu Fleury? Miller wanted Fleury to define micro aggressions. He pushed (rather micro aggressively) and Fleury snapped that he was a francophone and if Miller wanted definitions he’d better ask for them in French. Fleury then proceeded to answer in French and Miller snarked something to the effect of, “can we get him a headset so he understand my question?”
I won’t recap the entire exchange but occupiers and their acolytes are thrilled with him. Hot topic on Twitter tonight.. if he (Fleury) doesn’t know what the word means, why did he use it over and over?
It’s going to be a long six weeks, but I can’t seem to look away.
By the way, I enjoyed your interview on CPAC with Michael Serapio. James Bauder and his MOU is what disturbed me the most during the occupation. I worry that our lack of civics education has spawned tens of thousands of Canadians who simply don’t know that they don’t know the first thing about how government works.
I was following a few recaps of the exchange. Honestly, I can't blame anyone for losing their patience with that lawyer — he thinks he's at a criminal trial, and he most certainly is not.
Truth be told, I don't know that we, collectively, are any more misinformed about government than previous generations. I think we're just in a cycle — that comes around every few decades — of bad people weaponizing that lack of knowledge for their own ends. I think if you disrupt that, you neutralize a lot of those harms.
Did you catch the exchange this afternoon between Brendan Miller and Ottawa city councillor Mathieu Fleury? Miller wanted Fleury to define micro aggressions. He pushed (rather micro aggressively) and Fleury snapped that he was a francophone and if Miller wanted definitions he’d better ask for them in French. Fleury then proceeded to answer in French and Miller snarked something to the effect of, “can we get him a headset so he understand my question?”
I won’t recap the entire exchange but occupiers and their acolytes are thrilled with him. Hot topic on Twitter tonight.. if he (Fleury) doesn’t know what the word means, why did he use it over and over?
It’s going to be a long six weeks, but I can’t seem to look away.
By the way, I enjoyed your interview on CPAC with Michael Serapio. James Bauder and his MOU is what disturbed me the most during the occupation. I worry that our lack of civics education has spawned tens of thousands of Canadians who simply don’t know that they don’t know the first thing about how government works.
Is there any way to reach them?
I was following a few recaps of the exchange. Honestly, I can't blame anyone for losing their patience with that lawyer — he thinks he's at a criminal trial, and he most certainly is not.
Truth be told, I don't know that we, collectively, are any more misinformed about government than previous generations. I think we're just in a cycle — that comes around every few decades — of bad people weaponizing that lack of knowledge for their own ends. I think if you disrupt that, you neutralize a lot of those harms.