happy canada day from the queen of the north!

Not gonna lie Brooke seems pretty tone deaf with this post. She’s making a joke about Canada day but it comes at the expense of Indigenous people. Canada has an abominable track record when it comes to relations with indigenous people, hundreds of years of genocide - both cultural (residential schools, 60’s swoop etc) and physical. Aboriginal women, trans and 2 spirited people have gone missing and been murdered so much that an official Inquiry labelled it a genocide officially.

Over 70% of reserves in Canada have high risk of water contamination, 100 reserves have water advisories that force residents to rely exclusively on bottled water, which is now under threat as the government is proposing a ban on single use plastics in an environmental effort - which was followed the next day by a pipeline running through indigenous land that has been openly protested by indigenous communities.

Canada is a good place to live if you’re white. Brooke’s joke might seem dumb and playful but it has serious problems. as a Canadian I wish she would use her platform to push for advocacy and allyship.

Canada day at its core is a celebration of white privilege and the genocide of indigenous people.

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