The year-long lead-up to the celebration of Canada’s sesquicentennial has amazingly lacked awareness of how much this has been a celebration of colonialism in much of the country. It’s not like it’s been absent from the news, though. The whole spectacle has only reinforced the current government’s broken promises regarding reconciliation and recognition.
I want to acknowledge that I am a guest on the land that is territory of the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Anishinabek, and Mississaugas of the Credit River.
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