While we're at it, let's destroy basic infrastructure because progress and national unification is "colonial" somehow:
The Northwest Mounted Police, once hailed for saving the West from U.S. annexation, were in fact paramilitary colonialists insensitive to Indigenous “political structures,” says a federal board. Parks Canada consultants who approved the revision included a cabinet appointee who deleted federal web pages celebrating the Mounted Police: “I feel very strongly.”
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Parks Canada privately complained of “persistent emails” from activists seeking to rewrite commemoration of the Canadian Pacific Railway from a racial perspective, Access To Information records show. Calls for revision followed a 2019 cabinet directive that Canadian history reflect “colonialism, patriarchy and racism.”
The great stewards of the land didn't travel very far because - wait for it - that there was no constructed, over-arching, far-reaching means for doing so.
They did not even have horses.
But their colonialist, racist, patriarchal inferiors found a way around that by building a railway from east to west and had a police force to guard it, the border (such as it was), and even the aboriginal people from American interlopers.
If one is going to project one's insecurity on an entire nation, could one at least try?
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