[カナダ人です]

I actually like many of Don Cherry's hockey takes, but as someone who isn't white, I was definitely offended/angered by his comments.

I've had people tell me to "go back to your f%#king country", etc, even though I was born and raised here. My mother's family are Japanese Canadian and had their belongings and land stolen by the Canadian government. When my mother was born she DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE! That wasn't too long ago.

Racism is alive and well in Canada. So, when I hear the type of negative, "us versus them" and "othering" rhetoric Don Cherry used, damn right it should be stomped out right there and then. This is progress.

It's easy to claim "freedom of speech" when it isn't your family and friends to whom these types of comments are directed at, and harm, both now and in the past.