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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I honestly don't understand the downvotes. Canada is a settler colonial state, does anyone dispute that here? The indigenous people were coerced into "signing treaties" without having the legal and cultural framework, and without having the status and power to be fully free parties into a free agreement. And regardless, this is one of the things we are actually doing better(*) than the yanks: we have had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and we are learning to cope with our past. Every person who becomes Canadian swears to "faithfully observe the laws of Canada including the Constitution which recognizes and affirms the aboriginal and treaty rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples".

The US is a country that had a noble foundation and a shitty follow through. Canada is the opposite: a shitty foundation, a noble follow through. We are precisely the one of the two that does not pretend we came from the pure ideal of some idealized founding daddies, we specifically understand that we must always improve. We're a forward facing people. That's why I'm proud to be Canadian.

(*) "better", not well. We actually have a very long way to go, and we still are very bad at treating indigenous people. The downvotes actually attest to that.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

There's been a surge of Canadian nationalism because of Trump's trade war bullshit, a lot of Canadians don't want to hear any attacks on the motherland. A similar thing is happening in Europe.