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

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We have breaking news tonight, 

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of another terrible finding.

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The discovery of the remains of hundreds of native children 

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murdered and dumped into unmarked graves

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

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There is a reckoning taking place.

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One that is both important and long overdue.

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But calls to cancel Canada Day are not enough.

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

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by token land acknowledgments,

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and the fake tears of politicians

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pursuing active campaigns of genocide, 

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erasure,

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 and ecological ruin.

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

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with what Canada really is,

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what it always has been.

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Canada is a fake country.

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Even its name is stolen.

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

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timber, and gold

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 from upstart American expansionism.

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

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Its flag is a joke.

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

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because it has no authentic culture of its own.

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Canada created a truth and reconciliation commission

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to investigate its own crimes,

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ignored all its recommendations,

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and then bragged about it anyway.

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

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while calling itself a "peacekeeping nation".

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It lauds itself a climate leader,

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

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This is the true essence of Canadian exceptionalism.

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

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

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and handed them over to the priests

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and why they did it.

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