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Originally Posted by 81MC
Nova Scotia is a poor representation of ‘Canada’ in this regard. It was undoubtedly the most segregated, and while it’s technically true that ‘Canada’ still has a segregated school up to 1983, it’s worth noting that only one other province had segregated school - Ontario, and that stopped in 1965.
It doesn’t make any of that okay, but one school is not plural and in a place with 3% of the population isn’t a good representation of what was actually happening across Canada.
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How is that any different than saying "Alabama" is not representative of all of America.
Nova Scotia is also where the largest proportion of black people in Canada lived, and we segregated them. If you want to get more representative of Canada, as you say, Ontario closed its last segregated school in 1965. Not all that much better than Nova Scotia and 11 years after the USA closed theirs.
So for Canadians to act high and mighty about racial issues in Canada is pretty obtuse. The only difference IMO is that Canada didn't have a large post-slavery population. And if we had, I don't think we would have done such a great job, as evidenced by how we've treated the indigenous population.