• Sunshine@piefed.caOP
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      7 months ago

      Indigenous people were around for thousands of years before the French settled the area. We’re the foreigners not him.

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          Indigenous people were forced to speak European languages by acts of violence in residential schools. Their native languages were being erased.

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              7 months ago

              Responding with sarcasm towards atrocities towards children. This is a poor showing of character.

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                7 months ago

                I’m amazed you’re able to misread a couple lines so thoroughly. It makes me wonder how you navigate through the rest of the written world. Your life must be a succession of dramas.

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                  You either have a bad opinion or aren’t articulate enough to get your point across and your crappy attitude isn’t helping anything.

                  You’re a weird person. It’s interesting you go after someone for being “dramatic” but seem to be a sort of poison all on your own.

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    7 months ago

    I fully support indigenous sovereignty, respect for treaties, land back, and decolonization but sorry Grand Chief, it’s not on you to decide if Quebec is a nation or not. That’s for the Quebecois to decide.

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      “There is no Quebec nation,” Diabo told APTN News. “[Jolin-Barrette is] a Canadian at the end of the day. They’re not separate from Canada. This whole push to want to try to separate, if that’s what they want to try to do, by all means, but you’re not leaving with Mohawk land. You don’t have jurisdiction over us.”

      I’d say he disagrees.

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        Actually he doesn’t. He says “if that’s what they want to do, by all means”, i.e., he specifically says the Quebecois can go off and do their own thing. He just doesn’t feel like the Mohawks owe any allegiance to the Quebecois nation, which I mean, yea, that’s 100% true.

        He’s saying multiple things all at once and contradicting himself.

        The way I see it, it’s on Quebec sovereignists to make a convincing case to indigenous people and to respect whatever the indigenous people decide to do. That’s the whole point of nation-to-nation dialogue. I also happen to think that it is possible for a liberatory post-colonial Quebec sovereignism to exist, but the PQ isn’t it.