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The Order of Canada is one of Canada’s highest honours and is awarded in recognition of exceptional achievements, extraordinary contributions to the nation or remarkable dedication to a community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The motto of the Order, DESIDERANTES MELIOREM PATRIAM, translates to \u201cThey desire a better country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Order of Canada is administered through an independent advisory council<\/strong>. Each of the six to eight hundred nominations submitted each year , by any person or organization, is received by the order’s Advisory Council, which, along with the governor general, makes the final choice of new inductees<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal Conservatives petition to award the Order of Canada to controversial hockey commentator Don Cherry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Carney’s office mum on Conservative Order of Canada petition for Don Cherry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conservative Order of Canada Petition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Don Cherry, who according to the Conservative Party\u2019s Order of Canada petition\u2014with the full support of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre\u2014\u201cembodies what it means to be a proud Canadian,\u201d describes Cherry as having a \u201ccandid and unapologetic style reflects a spirit of authenticity and independence that resonated with millions of Canadians.\u201d and according to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith , \u201cDon Cherry is a Canadian icon, a hockey legend and is loved by Albertans. He\u2019s not just one of the greats; his word and opinion about our national sport is still treated as hockey gospel by millions of Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So this is the Canadian icon who<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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” compared the name of the Finnish coach of the Winnipeg Jets to dog food; referred to the wars in the Balkans as \u201cLower Slobovia attacking Slimea\u201d; declared that players who wear visors are \u201csucks\u201d and that most of them are \u201cEuropeans and French guys\u201d; called French-Canadian flag bearer Jean-Luc Brassard \u201csome ski guy that nobody knows about\u201d; told French Canadians they were not \u201ctrue Canadians\u201d for opposing the Iraq War, singling out Habs fans for booing the American anthem and adding: \u201cYou have to realize it\u2019s Quebec and it\u2019s French Canadians.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Ron MacLean raised the question of whether First Nations kids get a fair shake in life, Cherry cut him off: \u201cFair shake in life? Go out and get your own fair shake in life and work for it.\u201d In 1992, he called Manon Rh\u00e9aume\u2019s historic appearance as the first woman to play in an NHL game \u201ca PR stunt\u201d and said women \u201cshould stick to women\u2019s hockey.\u201d He said women reporters did not belong in hockey dressing rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has spent decades championing the law of talion on ice \u2014 that every act of violence deserves an equal and opposite response \u2014 celebrating enforcers, glorifying retribution, and dismissing the medical evidence on brain trauma as an inconvenience to the natural order of the game, going so far as to call former enforcers who courageously spoke out about brain trauma \u201cpukes,\u201d \u201cturncoats,\u201d and \u201chypocrites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the man Pierre Poilievre says embodies Canadian pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Order of Canada is one of Canada’s highest honours and is awarded in recognition of exceptional achievements, extraordinary contributions to the nation or remarkable dedication to a community. The motto of the Order, DESIDERANTES MELIOREM PATRIAM, translates to \u201cThey desire a better country.\u201d The Order of Canada is administered through an independent advisory council. … Continue reading “Rock em Sock em politics…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32845"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32861,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32845\/revisions\/32861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}