It is a disgrace to see the deplorable conditions that natives are in even at this time and age.
TORONTO: Conservatives in the race for leadership are eager to follow in the footsteps of President Donald Trump by claiming to make Canada great again. In doing so, they will mimic Trump’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric as one candidate has already done, by advocating to preserve Canadian values and subject immigrants to vigorous screening on ‘Canadian values’. These candidates will do anything out of desperation. Immigrants and Muslims are easy prey for them.
If they want to make the country great again, they should not turn against immigrants as the entire country has been built by them. When their ancestors arrived here as immigrants, they were not subjected to screening on values. The best way to make Canada great again is by taking care of the forgotten and neglected natives of this land, whose conditions are worse than those of Third World countries. If they are still obsessed with immigrants, they should try to find out why their ancestors, who were also immigrants, terrorised the natives, killed millions of them and deprived them of basic necessities. These immigrants have blood on their hands and the conservatives ought to do the right thing in looking into why their ancestors did what they did.
Let us all join hands in making Canada great by rectifying the wrongs done to aboriginals, figuring out why European settlers have shed the blood of innocents and created mayhem. It is a disgrace to see the deplorable conditions that natives are in even at this time and age.
Abubakar N Kasim
Published in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2017.
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