It’s been a year since hockey legend Don Cherry was fired from Hockey Night in Canada because he described immigrants as “you people” who didn’t wear poppies..Now a Calgary Cherry-impersonator is paying tribute to the 86-year-old broadcaster with a “UPEOPLE” personalized Alberta licence plate..“There’s always going to be people that hate the Don, there’s people that love the Don,” Clark Robertson told CTV.. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .“With Don, if you look back at his career, he has said ‘you people’ 3,000 times,” he said. “And he’s never talking about a specific group of people, he’s talking about Canadians: you people, wear a poppy.”.Robertson, who before the pandemic was working at corporate events across the country, already had a “DCHERRY” licence plate but after it was stolen he was off to the registry office for a new one..““‘I’m sitting there going seven letters?” Robertson told CTV. “UPEOPLE,’ boom there it is right there!”.“The girl goes you have to put down what it means and I go I don’t know, she says ‘just put down Don Cherry saying’ so I did, (and) there we go.”.“You people, that come here, whatever it is, 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,” said Cherry in the infamous video one year ago..Cherry this week continued to advocate the wearing of a poppy on his podcast..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
It’s been a year since hockey legend Don Cherry was fired from Hockey Night in Canada because he described immigrants as “you people” who didn’t wear poppies..Now a Calgary Cherry-impersonator is paying tribute to the 86-year-old broadcaster with a “UPEOPLE” personalized Alberta licence plate..“There’s always going to be people that hate the Don, there’s people that love the Don,” Clark Robertson told CTV.. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .“With Don, if you look back at his career, he has said ‘you people’ 3,000 times,” he said. “And he’s never talking about a specific group of people, he’s talking about Canadians: you people, wear a poppy.”.Robertson, who before the pandemic was working at corporate events across the country, already had a “DCHERRY” licence plate but after it was stolen he was off to the registry office for a new one..““‘I’m sitting there going seven letters?” Robertson told CTV. “UPEOPLE,’ boom there it is right there!”.“The girl goes you have to put down what it means and I go I don’t know, she says ‘just put down Don Cherry saying’ so I did, (and) there we go.”.“You people, that come here, whatever it is, 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,” said Cherry in the infamous video one year ago..Cherry this week continued to advocate the wearing of a poppy on his podcast..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694