Canada Day
O’Toole says ‘small group of activists’ using Canada’s past injustices to ‘attack the very idea of Canada’
Recently, some cities in British Columbia have cancelled Canada Day celebrations, such as Penticton and Victoria BC. Mayor of Penticton John Vassilaki said that when he heard about the discovery of remains in Kamloops of 215 children, he “thought it was appropriate to hold back and wait to see what the federal government was going to announce.”
They’re called the Liberal party, the very demographic O’Toole has been courting.
Federal 🇨🇦 voting intentions from Abacus Data:
LPC 37%
CPC 27%
NDP 18%
BQ 9% (39% in Qc)
GPC 5%Details and regionals: https://t.co/TWM0LTiNKu
[Abacus Data, June 18-21, 2021, n=2,070]#canpoli pic.twitter.com/VCdzEJvI13
— Philippe J. Fournier (@338Canada) June 24, 2021
Toronto Star columnist tries to cancel Canada Day
Toronto Star columnist Shira Lurie, a radical academic, has written a column for the Toronto Star where she advocated for cancelling Canada Day, instead opting for a day of reckoning and guilt.
Ontario First Nation to mark Canada Day as ‘day of mourning’
Keewaywin First Nation in northern Ontario will no longer recognize Canada Day as a celebration and will instead mark it as a “day of mourning” until the federal government investigates the grounds of all former residential schools.
Why some are calling for the cancellation of Canada Day this year
In light of the recent discovery of what is believed to be the remains of 215 Indigenous children at the site of a former residential school in B.C., some are renewing calls for Canada Day to be cancelled this year.
On social media, the hashtag #CancelCanadaDay has gained traction in recent days and several rallies organized by the Indigenous protest movement Idle No More have been planned for July 1 in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and in parts of Ontario.