Canada Day divided

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Thousands flooded Parliament Hill on July 1st – not to celebrate Canada Day, but rather to shed light on the hundreds of unmarked graves found at former residential school sites. Nigel Newlove reports.

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greekflower

Celebrate the present.
Remember the past.

NauticalCoffin

We Filipinos are the future majority of Canada, everyone in Canada has to follow our Filipino tradition!

pinoypride

All nations have had triumphs and atrocities, you can both have pride for your nation's history while also mourning the terrible atrocities it has committed.

In the world of today we condemn or history and look down upon those who wish to learn about it. Yet learning of our history is the only way to put things into perspective and find out why and how terrible things occur and how we can prevent it from happening again.

It is a very dangerous assumption to assume the people of our history were evil and should be erased, rather than seeing them as normal people like us, pushed to do terrible things by the way of the world.

SofaMuncher

Canada is White and Red, not orange.

Nothing is more despicable than this franchise of division, which seems to have now infected my beloved Canada. If you disagree, than you are welcome to live someplace else!

AguyR

I find it ironic that Trudeau is trying to coattail onto this issue, even though he promised so much for indigenous peoples when he was on his campaign trail and didn't follow through on any of them. As an indigenous person, from Tkemlups BC, Canada, I really find the whole attitude from him to be hypocritical. Also, none of this information is new to Tkemlups Indian Band Members, as a lot of us had family from there and we heard what happened. People just didn't care, or care to listen. Now they can't look away, but it's always been there, the alienation, the lack of empathy from this country. I've never really considered myself "Canadian", I'm a POW from 1879, and so are all my people. Our Status cards, while not as overt, is a lot like POW numbers, as we all are classified with numbers in our lands.

InVinoVeratas

Trudeau has no clue about being honest

adampottie

Canada was always thought of as a great country. You can see it really isn’t. No government is ever good not even in Canada

mab

Embarrassed to call myself Canadian. Absolutet disgusting. I stand with all my indigenous brothers and sisters.

evanmoore

We shouldn’t forget what happened in the past however doing this isn’t going to help, work together to improve the country and make sure something like this never happens again.

danielrafaelo

I’m so proud of Canadians wearing orange 💯🔥🇨🇦

TylerLithgow

Thousands of unmarked graves, not hundreds

luciferlacroix

All this talk about “canceling” a holiday strikes me as a way for *some* people to pat themselves on the back for doing the bare minimum about a long-standing issue now that it’s trendy to be woke. The horrors of residential schools is not news to people who actually care to educate themselves about this country’s history (or who pay attention to the news, since Indigenous activists have always been vocal about what’s been done to them). What is canceling CD going to do for Indigenous communities? How will it rectify past and present wrongs? And do you cancel it indefinitely or just this year (and what problems will it solve just that *one* time if it’s only for this year)?

Kinda hard to hold festivities on a large scale during a pandemic so it’s a moot question for now. But if we’re genuinely motivated about doing right by Indigenous people and ending racism in general, I hope we all
keep this energy every day of the year for however long it takes to make Canada an equal and just country for everyone. But I know this will fade into the background again. Because it’s easier to only pretend to care.

IAmPlaysWithSquirrel

I cancelled my usual this year. Too soon after the unmarked graves, Lytton, and the covid deaths. I noticed a lot of others in the GTA agree with me
They were not "terrible mistakes" but institutional and Federal policy

HuplesCat