Recent news reports have cast a harsh light 
on the settler colonial project called Canada,

We have breaking news tonight,

of another terrible finding.

The discovery of the remains of hundreds of native children

murdered and dumped into unmarked graves

has shaken the smug, self-satisfied image of 
America's polite neighbor to the north.

There is a reckoning taking place.

One that is both important and long overdue.

But calls to cancel Canada Day are not enough.

The contradictions of the Canadian state 
can no longer be papered over

by token land acknowledgments,

and the fake tears of politicians

pursuing active campaigns of genocide,

erasure,

and ecological ruin.

It's long past time that those who 
live on these lands come to terms

with what Canada really is,

what it always has been.

Canada is a fake country.

Even its name is stolen.

The Canadian state was invented to protect Britain's 
supply of dead beavers,

timber, and gold

from upstart American expansionism.

It has since evolved into a cartel controlled by 
finance and extractive capital.

Its flag is a joke.

and its national persona is a collection of 
stereotypes and feel-good emotions

because it has no authentic culture of its own.

Canada created a truth and reconciliation commission

to investigate its own crimes,

ignored all its recommendations,

and then bragged about it anyway.

It employs death squads to protect its
mining interests in the global south,

while calling itself a "peacekeeping nation".

It lauds itself a climate leader,

despite being the worst per capita contributor 
to carbon emissions in the world.

This is the true essence of Canadian exceptionalism.

As the church's built on the open air prison camps 
of Canada's reservation system burn,

let's remember who it was that snatched up those children,

and handed them over to the priests

and why they did it.

Lets pledge to dismantle this colonial project once and for all.