I've been told elsewhere of Canadians who are using this particular event as a club of moral superiority over Americans. That practice is just based in nonsense. Truth and Reconciliation Day does NOT exist for that purpose.
What purpose does it exist for? I have a theory.
It's "Here's some things we need to keep working on up here so we can look ourselves in our own mirrors."
That's the theory.
The federal holiday exists because previous Canadian federal governments - and their British forebears - took it into their heads that they
were better than the rest of humanity and crimes against humanity were committed on that basis. Those crimes later inspired some others that ended up bundled into WW2.
Some of you
definitely know about
those crimes against humanity.
It's a reminder to ourselves that we can't afford not to be vigilant about our own capacity for stupid cruelty.Ever.
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