“This country was built on a genocide and I don’t celebrate Canada Day”. Mumilaaq Qaqqaq (in the pic), member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing Nunavut, announced it today on social networks. →
Toronto, June 16: Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, the New Democrat MP for Nunavut, used the opportunity to blast Canada as a country built on the oppression of Indigenous People and whose history is “stained with blood” as delivered her official farewell speech to the Parliament (watch it here). She said, “People like me don’t belong here in the federal institution. The reality is that this institution and the country have been created off the backs, trauma and displacement of Indigenous People.” →
“I’m not a writer, I’m simply a graphomaniac who is trying to become one!” she writes about herself in her Facebook profile: in the meantime, however, the Italian newspaper ‘Libero’ has dedicated an entire page to her, signed by Vittorio Feltri. →
