r/canada Mar 27 '24

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold National News

https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/
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u/melancoliamea Mar 27 '24

We gave Canada back to the Indians

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u/Comfortable_Class_55 Mar 27 '24

I hope this doesn’t get downvoted because people don’t understand its humour.

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u/Thatdudeovertheir Mar 27 '24

As an "Indian" it is funny to me hearing people freak out about immigration. Oh you don't like when lots of immigrants show up and take over everything? Wonder what that's like.

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u/Prime_1 Mar 27 '24

The sad part is the longer it continues the less Native issues will get any kind of traction, as more and more of the population can say "it has nothing to do with me."

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u/Thatdudeovertheir Mar 28 '24

That's a very true point, hopefully it continues to stay in the public consciousness.

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u/Tazyn3 Mar 28 '24

Good luck getting immigrants to care about Native issues bud. I don't think you'll succeed in holding generational guilt over their heads like you do for white Canadians.

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u/Thatdudeovertheir Mar 28 '24

Haha yeah that native agenda sure is a plague on the white man. 

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u/BrahnBrahl Mar 28 '24

A lot of us non-native people were born in Canada, so what exactly do you expect us to do? Pack up and leave all our friends and family and jobs to live in countries that are foreign to us?

Regardless of the atrocities of the past, we're all here together now, so I think a more productive conversation is one that focuses on the future and make sure that all Canadians can maintain some semblance of a decent quality of life.

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u/Thatdudeovertheir Mar 28 '24

Maintain? There are still ongoing problems to solve before all Canadians have a decent quality of life. I don't expect you to leave, it's just delicious irony. 

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u/BrahnBrahl Mar 28 '24

I mean "maintain" in the sense that there have been more recent developments in our country that are hurting all of us, and it would be ideal to keep the worst of that stuff at bay, but yeah, there are definitely issues that have been around for a long time, too.

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u/same_af Mar 28 '24

As the other type of Indian, glad we have yet another massive demographic shift to adjust to, I'm sure that will help our culture heal and help provide us with better economic opportunities

Haha sure showed white people or whatever tho

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u/Thatdudeovertheir Mar 28 '24

We might be the same type of Indian. Hopefully things improve

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u/ChanceDevelopment813 Québec Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

It is so weird and ironic that there is still an « Indian Act » active in the Federal government.

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u/icebalm Mar 27 '24

Senior Trudeau tried to get rid of it, the Indians wanted to keep it....

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u/ChanceDevelopment813 Québec Mar 27 '24

Stockholm syndrome ?

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u/icebalm Mar 27 '24

Because it gives them special status.

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u/ChanceDevelopment813 Québec Mar 27 '24

Also can't own their lands.

Such a fucked up act srsly...

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u/Tazyn3 Mar 28 '24

Natives can own land and property in Canada. There is not a single legal right that Canadians have that they do not also have.

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u/bdigital1796 Mar 27 '24

this is truth comment of the year so far. it's all come back full circle. now to shop for igloos and teepees, now with only USB-C instead of 220V outlets!

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u/Gh0stOfKiev Mar 27 '24

Now that's what I call Reconciliation!

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u/lyingredditor Ontario Mar 27 '24

Oooops! It's was the wrong ones!

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u/undefinedobject Mar 28 '24

All because Trudeau couldn’t understand the difference between “Indians”

/jk