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Jan 2016
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Ep.35 - White Men Gotta Speak On This

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Former BC Premier Ujjal Dosanjh recently wrote an editorial called “The Silencing of the White Men of the West." In it, he argues that political correctness stifles powerful white men. 

 

Editor-in-chief of The Walrus Jonathan Kay and cultural critic Septembre Anderson give their thoughts on the issue.

 

Ujjal Dosanjh did not respond to a request to appear on COMMONS.

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