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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
They are not settlers. Civil and legal rights must never be qualified by how long ago one's ancestors came to Canada, to do so would result in a country little different from apartheid South Africa.
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I am not sure how to square the pro-indigenous settler rhetoric with pro-immigration rhetoric about how the world is full of potential Canadians and we shouldn't say anything about the guy who doesn't speak English or French, lives overseas, and bought his investor class PR in 2015.
Or how we square the actual immigration itself with the idea that there was some kind of ideal state that pre-Columbian people lived in. Aren't we drifting farther from that by encouraging 300,000-500,000 new people to move here every year?
I'm not saying I am against one side of this or the other. But the federal Liberals seem to maintain these two incompatible social constructs concurrently.