Canada has a worldwide reputation for being a peacemaker and being a great place for fleeing refugees and oppressed people to come and escape persecution.

I once spoke to someone in Yahoo! chat a long time ago… they were fleeing somewhere in the Balkans but I can’t remember where. They’d got a choice of pretty much any country in the world that they wanted to go. I remember that person asked the powers that be about which country would allow him freedom of speech, religion, thought and from persecution and from corrupt people in power. He chose Canada.

It bothers me that so many people can praise Canada and the thing’s this country has done in history and be so blind to {{post id=”canadas-holocaust” text=”the horrors in Canada’s past”}}.

Kidnapping children in gunboats? Whipping, beating, slapping, kicking and punching children for speaking their language? Murdering the babies born to young girls raped by priests? What a great country… now that’s a real example to live up to.

The fact that Canada refuses to accept and ratify the U.N treaty on indigenous rights just smacks of hypocriticism. Canada talks smack about the Taleban and their abuse of women’s rights and then in the next breath bows out of a U.N charter that states basic human rights for colonised people, stating that Canadian law already protects those.

What Canada really meant was that it didn’t accept it because it would mean owning up to the fact that Aboriginal folk in Canada are living in a permanent lower social scale, under horrific conditions and they’re not willing to put the human rights of Native people over the life and home comforts and luxuries of all the colonising non-native people.