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Michael Higgins: She heckled a land acknowledgement. Child services were sent after her

Her children were interviewed and the file was closed

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Childcare authorities were called on Lara Yates, a mother-of-four, after she dared to heckle a land acknowledgement at a school in British Columbia, says her lawyer.

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Land acknowledgements are tedious political theatre and pompous virtue signalling and weaponizing social services to persecute those who refuse to adhere to this zealotry smacks of the Inquisition.

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For her sin, Yates was also banned from the school premises for two months.

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She is now at the centre of a legal battle which might have the advantage of declaring land acknowledgements as quasi-religious in nature and should therefore be banished from schools, city councils and other places where we don’t expect to be indoctrinated by those in........

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