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John Robson: Land Acknowledgements: Either Give the Land Back or Stop Saying It’s Stolen

John Robson: Land Acknowledgements: Either Give the Land Back or Stop Saying It’s Stolen
A scoreboard shows a message declaring an indigenous land acknowledgement before an NHL hockey game in Montreal on Oct. 19, 2021. The Canadian Press/Ryan Remior
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In response to Donald Trump’s various insults, threats, and tariffs, we have apparently never been prouder to be Canadian. Why, I flew a “God Save The King” flag on the Victoria Day long weekend and nobody threw a rock. Unless you count the Governor General, presenting the “Award of Merit” to various police persons on behalf of the King, recently throwing “We are gathered today on the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation” through the stained glass. Congratulations to you brave, noble social workers with sidearms enforcing settler colonialism. Brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?
John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”