I think you're pretty spot on. The state of native affairs in this country is terrible, everywhere. There wasn't a blockade at Caledonia for nothing. And what I leanred last Canada Day about the Saugeen land claims alone blows my mind. It sucked so hard when that money deal with the Liberals fell through after the election. /o\
The vision of Canada as a multicultural happyplace is definitely a fixture in this part of the country. Of course it's the MORE open-minded (if naive) people who cling to that around here -- they're the ones who see the growing immigrant population as a good thing.
My father's family is from the area around North Buxton, which was an end station on the underground railroad. Many descendants of escaped slaves still farm there, and that's the sort of thing we learn in school about racial issues in Canada. To my high school history teacher's credit he did teach us about the forced settlements and the residential schools, Japanese dispossession and internment etc.
Also: a vision of a drill platform out in the rolling grass is a nice image compared to what an oilsands operation actually looks like. =/
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Date: 2008-03-23 12:45 am (UTC)The vision of Canada as a multicultural happyplace is definitely a fixture in this part of the country. Of course it's the MORE open-minded (if naive) people who cling to that around here -- they're the ones who see the growing immigrant population as a good thing.
My father's family is from the area around North Buxton, which was an end station on the underground railroad. Many descendants of escaped slaves still farm there, and that's the sort of thing we learn in school about racial issues in Canada. To my high school history teacher's credit he did teach us about the forced settlements and the residential schools, Japanese dispossession and internment etc.
Also: a vision of a drill platform out in the rolling grass is a nice image compared to what an oilsands operation actually looks like. =/