Don Cherry's unceremonious and kneejerk removal from "Coach's Corner" on Rogers Sportnet's "Hockey Night in Canada" was unwarranted, insulting and defamed the legacy of one of Canada's greatest patriots.  It came on the heels of complaints over his use of the term "you people" when describing those who failed to buy poppies and support Remembrance Day.  "You people" is a well-used Don Cherry term that has always been employed in the sense of meaning "everybody" rather than the "immigrants" assumed by his unthinking complainants.

This petition seeks to right the wrong afforded to Mr. Cherry by Rogers Sportsnet by demanding the company's principals apologize to him fully and forthrightly for not taking the time to ascertain the intent of his words and the context in which they were delivered.  This petition needs your signature to bring this point home.

As for Mr. Cherry's complainants, it is now dawning on Canadians that their country is suffering through the unmentionable and unabated "march" of the "progressive left" through its traditions and institutions.  The "march" has now obviously arrived at the doorstep of one of Canada's most revered traditions - Remembrance Day.  Not only this, it's cohort of followers, both witting and unwitting, have managed to take down another institution in the form of a man who had the temerity to defend the act of honouring our fallen - Don Cherry.  They have done so to negate Mr. Cherry's opinions, as they have so many other conservative voices, and have shown themselves to be primed to hear what they want to hear rather than what is intended.  Their tradition is the "cancel culture" and it operates in direct opposition to Mr. Cherry's which stresses hard work, advancement through merit and free speech.

Several petitions have called for the reinstatement of Mr. Cherry with some garnering hundreds of thousands of signatures. The time for reinstatement, however, is gone as Rogers Sportsnet has hammered the final nail in the coffin of Coach’s Corner with Ron Maclean's confusing announcement on the evening of Saturday, 16 November, 2019.  Rather than reinstatement, it is time to call upon Rogers Sportsnet to apologize for their unfounded and irresponsible treatment of Don Cherry.  In doing so, Mr. Cherry will be vindicated and an unfair blemish will be removed from his legacy.  This, even as the virtue signallers, the “nattering nabobs of negation", those who  worship at the altar of victimhood and those who would see the nation divided on lines of clan and tribe, rather than united as a community of citizens enjoying common rights and freedoms, will be served notice.  Their game is up.  Please sign this petition and tell them so yourself.