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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.
