Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
first ran for office with promises of reconciliation.
However, when the RCMP [politie] raided Wet’suwet’en territory donning [gekleed met] military helmets and war-like tactical gear, and carried sniper rifles [sluipschuttergeweren] to once again “sterilize the site” for Crown-backed industry through unceded land, many saw the state’s fist [vuist] instead of an extended hand.
One hundred thirty-five years ago...
a week after the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed and the iconic “Last Spike” photo was snapped, Métis leader Louis Riel, who had once successfully negotiated with Ottawa for Métis land rights, was hanged for treason. The railway transported Canada’s first army to crush Métis uprisings.
November 7th marked the realization of John A. Macdonald’s “national dream,” the steel spine said to have triumphantly bound the west to the east to form Canada, a then new and united nation.
But to those who feel excluded from the grand designs of Macdonald’s dream, railways, pipelines and future infrastructure projects may erode what remains of their nations within Canada, rather than bind them all together.
[bron]
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