Reconciliation is wearing Eau de Colonialism 2020

Within a week, the prime minister had gone from seeking patience to speaking to Indigenous people like the father you disappointed by cutting class.

In a paternalistic backtrack from the supposed understanding he showed in Parliament only days before, the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped short of threatening Indigenous protesters at a Feb. 21 press conference in Ottawa, writes Erica Ifill.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

February 26, 2020

OTTAWA—Do you hear that? It’s the sound of reconciliation buckling under the oppressive weight of white supremacy. Ostensibly, Canada was founded on the principles of “peace, order, and good government,” and apart from missing the necessary aspirational quality expected in the birth of a nat...

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