City of Pickering not holding Canada Day celebrations

This seems like another symbolic measure that doesn’t really do much.

I was watching a segment from one of the First Nation Chiefs yesterday on the CBC and he mentioned that he would rather Canadians educate themselves on the truth and reconciliation calls to action.

Edited to add the CBC segment. Starts at 5:05 mark. Solid message all around Cowessess First Nation Chief Interview

We can do both celebrate Canada and investigate the tragedies of the past. Canceling a national holiday is going to build resentment have people dig into their positions.

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Ridiculous. The US was founded on slavery, forced indoctrination of natives and revolution. Do you see them canceling the 4th of July?

It's a shameful part of our history yes, but there is so much more to celebrate about Canada.

There is not a nation in the world that hasn't done something horrible at some point. The British Empire/​UK did some horrible things (apartheid) but they dealt with things.

Australia subjugated it's indigenous peoples until someone eventually put a stop to it.

France did not exactly treat it's African colonies well.

My point is that we need to accept what happened, make reparations and begin the healing proceess.

You can't just cancel everything everytime somethng happens. If we did that everytime a bad bit of history came to light we would never solve anything.

It's an easy "win" cancelling Canada Day because of covid but stating it's because of residential housing respect.

Will any place in Ontario, given the lockdown rules, even be in a position to have any Canada Day events anyhow? It's a mass gathering, which I think are still discouraged. (No, I don't count any "watch a livestream of the flag flapping in the breeze at city hall" online events.)

If this is the reaction of certain sectors of our population we should just double down and not talk about our history. Damned if you do damned if you don’t may as well move forward instead of living in the past. Especially if it’s just going to make people unpatriotic. Pathetic