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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
In Canada we only have one group of racially distinct citizens who have, for most of the countries history, been seen as an alien group that needed to be suppressed, obviously they are our indigenous population, and on the occasions our police act in a wholly inappropriate manner it still tends to be in areas and towards people they perceive as native, the main difference between the native experience in Canada and the Black experience in the states is that Canada never felt the same level of threat from natives as the States did and still does from their black population
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My great-grandparents had thousands of acres of ocean front property near Vancouver taken away from them. They and my grandparents (who were children at the time) had to go to interment camps near Lethbridge and start from scratch.
There is more than one racially distinct group that has been suppressed. The Canadian government has in fact seen certain groups as "threats".
You could argue that only one racially distinct group continues to be suppressed, but lets not forget history.