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@NigelBiggar And if you were the only country writing the history of English civilization that would be the case. But you are not and English acts can no longer be differentiated from those of Germany. True, the acts may be done in small concentrated acts, like enslaving Beothuks
@NigelBiggar Scalping bounties, some still in effect in #NovaScotia
@NigelBiggar To germ warfare with Smallpox blankets by Lord Amherst, the first governor general of Canada.
@NigelBiggar The disappearance of many first nations was lamented by Tecumseh over 200 years ago,
@NigelBiggar First Nations / Indigenous / Native children were removed from their families starting in the 1870s through 1996 in residential schools by Canada's first Prime Minister, Scotland born John A. MacDonald. #ResidentialSchools considered genocide.
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@NigelBiggar The starvation policies of #JohnAMacDonald forced #SittingBull's people back to US in 1890 where they were slaughtered by @USArmy.

"Selfless Servant" Samuel Whitside, born in British Canada in 1840 and educated at what is now @OISEUofT, was a leader. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d…
@NigelBiggar @USArmy @OISEUofT "Final Solution" is a Canadian Term originated by the Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs to deal with Canada's Indian Problem. The Codified Racism of the 1877 Indian Act remains. Today, @rcmpgrcpolice is invading #Wetsuweten today, the problem in the mind of many, remains.
@NigelBiggar @USArmy @OISEUofT @rcmpgrcpolice @GovernmentZA @JustinTrudeau @queenelizabeth @thetimes And the population of #IndigenousPeoples in the original #13BritishColonies is less than 1% of the total current population, extermination advanced long before the #RevolutionaryWar.
@NigelBiggar @USArmy @OISEUofT @rcmpgrcpolice @GovernmentZA @JustinTrudeau @queenelizabeth @thetimes And that leaves with intentions. Discrimination and Genocide it appears is determined by effect not intent. The facts show the British and the resulting Governments of Canada and the US executed a persistent genocide against Indigenous people.
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@NigelBiggar @USArmy @OISEUofT @rcmpgrcpolice @GovernmentZA @JustinTrudeau @queenelizabeth @thetimes A persistent genocide that should no longer be celebrated as a triumph of colonialism or celebrated by sporting events and tradition. Canada must become more than a country founded on colonization and immigration, and come to terms with the #CriminalAspects of its History.
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