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Josh Dehaas: Ben Bankas keeps getting cancelled because he mocks politicians

Mocking politicians is not only punching up — it’s constitutionally protected

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Comedian Ben Bankas started to gain notoriety during the COVID-19 pandemic when he parodied Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Theresa Tam. “You need to fall in line,” he says in one of his viral videos, using an exaggerated Chinese accent. “You need to listen to your woke white neighbour who wear a mask and make her five-year-old child wear a mask even though he don’t understand why. She’s a hero.”

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Next, Bankas took on Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, again using an over-the-top, Chinese accent, overdubbing real footage. In one video, he mocked Chow’s proposed new tax based on the amount of asphalt and shingles on a property (supposedly to fight flooding), and her support for decriminalizing hard drugs. “Everybody so upset about my new controversial tack where we tack on the rain,” Bankas says in the bit. “In China, it rain cat and dog.........

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