What Canada is like for a refugee
I’ve never cried in public, but when I read them I cried,” he said. “I lost my father and my son, but I never cried like that. They hurt me so badly. Their words just touched my soul.” This was not the fair and tolerant Canada the settlement agents told him he was bringing his family to.
But it is his Canada, our Canada, a democracy founded on and propagated through various undemocratic practices– cultural genocide, papal bulls, bad-faith treaties – always with the white euro-Christian norm at the centre of the effort to safeguard itself from “the other”, whoever that might be."
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