The past is the present when it comes to Canada’s genocidal Indigenous policies

It’s time to tell truth about how genocidal and racist this country is, and stop feigning shock when there are those who respond in the affirmative.

A memorial outside the Vancouver Art Gallery for the 215 children uncovered near Kamloops Residential School is pictured on May 30. This isn’t Canada’s past, it’s Canada’s present, writes Erica Ifill. Flickr photograph by GoToVan

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

June 2, 2021

OTTAWA—Even though Broadway is closed, Canada continues to turn in a Tony-winning performance of its ostensibly inherent commitment to niceness, fairness, and multiculturalism, while committing backstage atrocities. Anyone who has been through this country’s education system has witnessed the sy...

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