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Fascinating description of a political and cultural practice that is spreading by its own social inertia in Canada, without official sanction. I hear the same little speech, or a version of it, at gala events—literary prizes, political fund-raisers, that sort of thing—when whichever government representative happens to be there reads some kind of acknowledgment before his or her introductory remarks. But you know a phenomenon has really arrived in Canada when it involves hockey. Both the Winnipeg Jets and the Edmonton Oilers began acknowledging traditional lands in their announcements before all home games last season. Acknowledgment is beginning to emerge as a kind of accidental pledge of allegiance for Canada—a statement made before any undertaking with a national purpose. Is this more of a lefty, progressive movement to spur more "reconciliation" ? Perhaps.... And of course, the usual comparison to the United States is made, if only because it is routinely expected in a piece about Canada: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/canadas-impossible-acknowledgment So what's the deal ? Is the "acknowledgement" virus spreading like wildfire on a Canadian prairie, or is this just more guilt ridden trigger events for a few progressives who struggle with the realities of history and occupied territories ? Are the "settlers" on traditional lands even allowed to sing O' Canada anymore without the acknowledgement? Fascinating.....

I think the "acknowledgement" movement is an example of governments and civil society employing a 'low hanging fruit' approach to reconciliation. It costs nothing and supposedly sets a good example for the youngsters. My bigger concerns rest in the realities that the approach is anti-historical and 'contra proferentem' in many respects. History can't simply be reversed. Further, the legal basis of the relationship between Canada and its indigenous populations was set out in the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which explicitly remains in the Canadian constitution. The Proclamation effectively asserts Crown sovereignty over indigenous lands and in return grants aboriginals limited rights and privileges. There's little doubt that Canada's end of the bargain hasn't always been well met but this doesn't negate the essential impacts of a deal that although unilaterally imposed more than two centuries ago by the British Crown explicitly remains the law of the land. The problem with the recent approach to reconciliation is that it muddies these waters and in so doing generates unrealistic expectations. The gulf between those expectations and harsh realities is a recipe for further conflict.

Her actual words were that a system that allows billionaires to coexist alongside "parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don't have access to public health" is "wrong." Most people would agree with her, so Shady includes millionaires in the hopes that he can get someone on his side by misrepresenting the truth. Very, very dishonest, but also very typical.

If she is, it's pretty scary. She says that any system that allows people to become millionaires and billionaires is immoral and has to change.

What a surprise! An election on the horizon and the Liberals trot out the same old lie from 2006 once again. Oh no! Help help! Soldiers in the streets with guns!

This is the first time I've heard of this but I'm not surprised at all by it. Canada has now entered a time where we're expected to perpetually acknowledge and apologise for a great many things, over and over again. It's a kind of conditioning that I believe is intended to pave the way for a new kind of control of the masses.

Truth hurts. You're blaming children for adult's bad actions and you're doubling down...because let's face it: the Black Israelites and Nathan Phillips are your guys. They must be right...and you know...MAGA hats!!! That's all the proof you need.

Security guards stop Nathan Philipps (the Native drummer) from entering a mass with his drum to disrupt the Mass. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/22/nathan-phillips-tried-to-disrupt-catholic-mass-by-chanting-beating-drum/

Of course it was, the whole thing would've been ignored if not for those hats. The kids where not being jerks, they were doing school chants in response to racist slurs hurled at them, kids never do stuff like that do they. The political hatred today is worse than the GWB era, BDS (Bush derangement syndrom) in the age of Trump it is far worse then I think most thought possible, and sure not to the degree it has become. Did any of us even dream that all rules of civility, honesty and integrity would be thrown to the wind to the point of destroying children because of Trump hatred. The terrorist bomb threats to Covington Catholic are a direct result of the media and others who smeared innocent school kids. Nathan Phillips "Chief Shooting Bull" attempted to disrupt Mass at a Catholic Church . “a group of approximately 50 individuals attempted to gain entrance to the basilica while chanting and hitting drums.

The unspoken threat. Mccallum's pathetic attempt to assuage China seems to indicate Canada is silently squirming to find ways to break the extradition treaty with the USA. If Huawei's executive gets extradited, a Canadian will most certainly get executed. I think, that is the unspoken threat - the sword hanging on Trudeau's head. With the election just a few months away.....that would surely cause a problem.

And by the way, this is just another case of Canada being Victorian forever, because what the Liberals are acting out here, is the classic Victorian era imperialist missionary impulse. I mean, honestly, if it was the Ewoks on Endor, they would chop Liberals heads off and roast them on a spit, the missionary impulse is sure to backfire every time, but the Victorians will never learn. And look who they are inciting here; India, China, Arabia, they're doing the rounds, provoking the former Imperial possessions one at a time. So vacuous are the Liberals, they are not even realizing that all these people see is "British", they don't see "Canada", nobody makes that distinction. There is only the Americans, and the British, the British Crown in North America is the British. So all they see is the British Crown, and what is it doing? Kidnapping young women to be taken away to Britain, to be scandalized at the hands of said brutish North German hooligans.

Furthermore, you cannot influence the likes of Ibn Saud by sending the likes of Justin Trudeau. If the House of Windsor is make any headway in terms of appeals to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, we must send a proper emissary to represent Her Majesty. HRH The Prince of Wales would be warranted at this level of diplomacy, sovereign to sovereign

Well speaking for myself I'm not in the least bit interested in colonizing you. Lots of ordinary people over here would love nothing more than if our government minded its own business and stayed the hell away from the KSA too. The sooner it does the sooner your people can do more about the things they don't like about their government.

Agreed, it is all inclusive to the Cultural Marxist movement in the West, and it's not even to any purpose in the Arabian peninsula, it's simply virtue signalling for the purposes of pandering to the NDP base which the Liberals need to stick with Trudeau in order to box the Conservatives out, because if the NDP is down and out the CPC can't win. As to practical attempts to intervene in the affairs of the House of Saud? Sheer folly, will simply backfire many times over. What Trudeau is doing here, is in essence British Imperialism, when the Empire has been withdrawn from East of Suez, since 1968.

True...but even when the hegemon outlawed real whiskey, Canada was more than happy to smuggle plenty across the border. Such is the nature of the CanAm relationship, no matter what the America haters may say.

Actions speak louder than words...as in all those uranium shipments since WW2, complimented by dilbit supplied by pipelines enthusiatically built going south. Driving drunk is far easier when "friends" supply the liquor to make money.

Thule is a KBO, isn't it?

I have no particular quarrel with the House of Saud As a soldier of the Crown of the House of Windsor, my only interest is that the promise of Colonel Lawrence be upheld, in that the Arabs would rule in their own lands free of the Ottoman Turk and free of the House of Windsor as well. Mission accomplished. The Liberal Party of Canada can otherwise fight their own battles, not being my sovereign, I do not defend nor uphold them, nor I am I bound to by any oath nor allegiance.

Canada will keep paying for F-35 JSF program...because...jobs. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-to-keep-paying-for-f-35-development-as-fighter-jet-competition/

The MSM should know better than to run with a viral tweet as actual information. Absolutely shameful. Always be suspicious when an agenda is involved regarding racism/hate speech.

That's fine, but Syria is a long exercise in dysfunctional tribalism and incompetent eye doctor for a father-son dictator duo. Canada knows how that goes !

No sympathy for Syria, which hammered Lebanon for decades. The Israelis know what to do.

There's a lot of truth in that. I'm not at all surprised that many Chinese-Canadians oppose illegal migration as presumably most in that community arrive/d in Canada through legal channels. Also, my impression of the Chinese is that they are quite economically conservative (i.e. sensible). I used to work with a woman who had immigrated from China who expressed surprise at the extent of reliance on public programs by some immigrants. She once asked me: "Why does the government let them come here if they're not here to work?" She noted that a public housing project near her home was occupied almost exclusively by fairly recently arrived immigrants, a circumstance she found bizarre, opining that no sensible country would allow this. I told her she should talk to the MP about her concerns but noted that she wouldn't likely get a supportive response if her MP was Lib or NDP.

You seem to have a very odd idea about what the voters would go for. I think if she was the alternative to Trump, Trump would have no problem getting re-elected. This is a woman who won the nomination in a very safe Democratic seat by saying the 10 term Democratic representative, probably the most liberal congressman in the house, had to be replaced because he was a white man. White men should not be representing the district, she said. It was an open and unapologetic appeal to race politics. Aside from racial politics she has literally nothing going for her. She's barely out of college and has had a couple of short term race-based jobs since then. What exactly qualifies her to even be a congressperson much less president?

Trudeau stopped supporting CF-18 missions in Iraq & Syria over 2 years ago...."Operation Impact"....bombus interruptus.