We were in Lloydminster on February 29, at the Vic Juba Theatre, to talk history, Magna Carta, and how to reclaim our institutions. Below is the video of the event. Many thanks to Danny Hozack and the Economic Education Association of Alberta for putting together this event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxtc7hflVhM
I had the pleasure of addressing the Rotary Club in Lloydminster on Monday, talking about Magna Carta and Canadian history. Thanks to Don Whiting for the photo.
Two documentary filmmakers are hoping to generate interest in the Magna Carta and in Canada’s constitution.Presented by the Economic Education Association, Magna Carta: Good Then, Good Now features authors and journalists John Robson and Brigitte Pellerin doing a presentation on the Magna Carta and the importance of telling inspiring stories at home.
Robson and Pellerin, who are married, will each be giving their own talks throughout an evening at the Vic Juba Theatre.
“We will be talking about this project, reclaiming Canada’s heritage, so it will be partly about the Magna Carta, it will be partly about fixing the constitution, which today is a complete mess and we can do better than this,” Robson said. “My wife will be talking about reclaiming it at the dinner table, about how it’s so much more important to tell stories in the home than it is to run political ads and political campaigns.”
In addition to being a documentary filmmaker, Robson is a columnist with the National Post, a commentator-at-large for News Talk Radio 580 CFRA in Ottawa, and an Invited Professor at the University of Ottawa. Pellerin has over 15 years of experience in Canada’s media environment as a writer, producer, filmmaker, and multimedia entrepreneur.
Robson and Pellerin started working on a project about the Magna Carta two years ago, which resulted in the crowd-funded documentary Magna Carta: Our Shared Legacy of Liberty. Their presentations will be focused towards the third annual Essentials of Freedom Conference, which they will be attending on Feb. 26 and 27 in Edmonton.
“We’ve been letting the other side tell all the stories, and their stories aren’t very good, they’re not very attractive stories, but if they’re the only ones telling stories, then they are winning over the culture,” Robson said. “This is all connected with the documentaries and also with the conference and then we thought, well lets have a more public event and lets talk about this because there are a lot of people right now in Alberta who I think are getting an uneasy sense that something is wrong, very wrong in public policy in this country, and these are the people who often haven’t paid a whole lot of attention.”
Robson and Pellerin have collaborated on projects before, such as the radio show Thinking Aloud on Ottawa Radio in 2004, and have also worked on each other’s documentaries in the past. For the documentary on the Magna Carta they travelled together, did a lot of the editing together, while Pellerin did a lot of the shooting.
“She’s now the lead camera; it’s very much Robson/Pellerin production,” Robson said.
In addition to their Magna Carta project, Robson and Pellerin are working on a documentary on Canadian’s right to self-defence, which Robson said is all part of their reclaiming Canada’s heritage project, and to say Canadians are independent, self-reliant, and creative people.
Magna Carta: Good Then, Good Now will be presented on Monday, Feb. 29 at the Vic Juba Theatre at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 each, or $10 for students (18 and under). Tickets are available through the theatre box-office, online at www.vicjubatheatre.ca, or by calling 780-872-7400.
“We want them to tell the story of Canada with a smile,” Robson said what he hopes people will takes away from the Magna Carta presentations. “We want people to understand that the situation is difficult, but not to become discouraged or angry, to say Canada is a great nation, we have a great history and we need to recapture this history, be proud of who we are, and that way we can reclaim our future and we should look upon this as hard work worth doing, we should be happy about this.”
If you’re in the Calgary area check out these events sponsored by my friend John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms:
Thursday, February 18, 7:30pm – Faith Goldy – “Radical Re-education & Parental Responsibility: Unmasking the Architects and Evils of Sexual Education” at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 541 Silvergrove Drive NW. Including a panel discussion and a presentation on Bill 10 and parental rights by Donna Trimble, Executive Director of Parents for Choice in Education (www.parentchoice.ca).Monday, February 22, 7:30 p.m. – How parents can respond to the “Guidelines”, with Adam Soos and myself, at St. Thomas More Church at 15 Templebow Road NE.
Friday, February 26, 7:30 p.m. – How parents can respond to the “Guidelines”, with Adam Soos and myself, at St. Cecilia’s Church, 321 – 90th Avenue SE.
You can watch the video of my Feb. 9 debate on Canada’s response to ISIL and other such horrors, sponsored by the Institute for Liberal Studies, with political scientist Paul Robinson of the U of O’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IlAdOAY-s
Later this month Brigitte and I will be in Edmonton to take part in the "Essentials of Freedom" conference organized by our friend Danny Hozack. You can find more information about the event, and the other fine speakers, here.
Brigitte and I will be talking about Magna Carta and how to take Canada back with a smile at the Vic Juba Community Theatre in Lloydminster on February 29, an event put together by our friend Danny Hozack and the good folks at the Economic Education Association. Tickets are available here. Hope to see you there!
It gives me great pleasure to announce that I've joined Robert Abrams' Big Idea Speakers bureau. If you'd like me to come and speak to you on topics from Magna Carta to Surviving in a Politically Correct World, The Real Story of Climate Change or The Crisis of the 1960s and what it means to us today, please get in touch with him and we'll make something good happen.