VIDEO: Don Cherry calls out people who won't wear a poppy

In Canada, tomorrow, November 11th, is Remembrance Day -- the day on which Canadians honour the many thousands who paid the ultimate price in foreign wars for the freedom and prosperity which the Great No-longer-white North enjoys today.

Because Canadians lost a proportionately higher number of young men and women than countries like the UK and the USA, it's a big deal in Canada. For ten days now, members of the Royal Canadian Legion have been selling poppies, which patriotic Canadians are urged to buy (for a loonie or two) and wear on their lapels to honour those who went to fight for their country and never came home.

In rural Canada, nearly everyone wears a poppy. (Why a poppy? Read "In Flanders Fields", a touching poem by Lt-Col. John McCrae, who was there.) In the Toronto conurbation, where native-born Canadians are in the minority, not as much. The inimitable Don Cherry had something to say about that on the "Coach's Corner" segment of Hockey Night in Canada last night. Here's the clip.



Predictably, Mr Cherry is already being attacked by the SJWs and multiculti wienies in Canuckistan's (((controlled media))) for "singling out" immigrants, although he never used that word. What he said (in case you can't understand the accent) was, "You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that. These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price."

Mr Cherry made his comment prior to running his annual Remembrance Day video montage, where he is seen walking through a military cemetery in France, visiting the graves of Canadian soldiers who went to battle in World War I and never returned.

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