Have you noticed how they're talking about terrorism a lot?
Yeah.
I just find it confusing 'cause I don't know what the word means.
And I looked at the news to try to learn.
And one of the journalists asked one of the Conservative ministers,
this guy Peter MacKay, who used to be in charge of the army.
They were like "what is the governments definition of terrorism?"
And he said "Look it up."
Uhhhhh... OK.
So I did, and in the Oxford dictionary
the definition of terrorism is
the un-authorized or un-official use of violence in pursuit of political aims.
Un-official or un-authorized.
I didn't realize that these terrorists, their real problem
was that they're not doin' the right paperwork?
But I actually wanted to know,
so I found another document that was online,
and it was released by CSIS, our spy agency, that they're trying to give more powers to,
and some journalists a couple years ago
made them release this internal document
where they listed all the terror threats in Canada,
all the different kinds of people who might do terrorism.
And I want to read you the actual excerpt from the document right now.
The only group that didn't qualify as a terrorist threat
was the neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
Let's hear them out.
Um, this is from the document, I didn't change any of this.
"The majority of individuals involved in this milieu in Canada"
Milieu.
That's a bit generous.
I guess... these are like Nazis...
kinda like Impressionist painters,
and they're hangin' out in a cafe, just talkin' about their ideas.
"The majority of individuals involved in this milieu in Canada"
hold strong racist anti-immigration views, BUT!
do not overly propose serious acts of violence."
I don't know what that means.
"For example, they may organize anti-immigration poster campaigns,
or harass Aboriginals and visible minorities."
Um, just to be clear, when they say harass,
they're not talking about, like, y'know, white supremacists drinkin' a lot of soda at a sleepover
and then like prank calling some people of colour.
Sayin' like "hey, how's that uh makin' 81 cents for every dollar that white people make. mahahaa"
That's not what they were doing.
This is a real incident that they considered when writing this report.
And actually happened just a few blocks from here,
I don't know if anyone remembers this.
A couple years ago there were these two white supremacists at a house party.
As they left the party, they saw a Filipino man sleeping on a couch.
And they lit him on fire.
OK there's some heads shaking, there's no laughter,
that's good, you're passing a test right now.
They lit him on fire.
And as it said here they "do not overly propose serious acts of violence."
I don't know how you more overly propose something than actually doing it.