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Originally Posted by Zarley
Fair enough, but at what point does a group of people cease to be categorized as migrants? Would you still consider Quebecois descendants of the early settles of New France immigrants? They've been here for over 400 years.
In context, the Gov. General's point is fairly innocuous in that all Canadians can trace their history to migration - it's a common thread that unites people (of course you could say this about nearly any place in the world). I'm just having trouble understanding why anyone would take offence to a banal symbolic statement.
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I think if you're the first ones there or the longest surviving people in a place you're not immigrants. Makes sense to me so I'm going with it.