The @CPC_HQ push to call what's happening in China a "genocide", whose leader, @erinotoole, defended residential schools, called left leaning students the "dumbest" and did not support Canada's own self-declaration for much worse, sustained genocidal efforts, is peak 2021.

It bugs me on a cellular level that they believe the Uighurs deserve more from *Canada* than did the peoples from whom we wrested and then defaced this land upon which we stand, which was rightfully theirs, and then abused them, literally for centuries.

If you're not bothered by the fact that there's been no fist pounding or speech making or cries of inhumanity directed at the slow pace of reconciliation or clean water for our *own* genocide victims, and think they're being "tough", then frankly there's something wrong with you.

As anyone will tell you, I love Canada and I think it's a wonderful country.

Part of why I think that is that we were willing to elect a guy who ran on trying to reconcile our past to our present.

I don't think it's perfect or its going super well, but it's the start we needed.

And I will lose my shit if we go backwards and elect the party that doesn't give a flying fuck about any of that - just because the efforts we have made weren't perfect.

And let's not forget their Barbaric Cultural Practices hotline, that the government @erinotoole was a senior member of implemented. Honestly, the raw nerve of now playing the outrage against abuses to the *same culture* they have vilified for decades is just so mind bending.