PAX East? Like the post caption says?

So let’s add another data set to Canada’s data to give a better understanding of the percentage of population by Province/Territory whose majority electrical power generation is from green sources as our province and territory borders are quite large but many of them have low population as the majority of Canada’s population is in a concentrated area in Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec.

Canada total = 39,292,355 (100%)
Newfoundland and Labrador = 528,818 (1.35%)
Prince Edward Island = 172,707 (0.44%)
Nova Scotia = 1,030,953 (2.62%)
New Brunswick = 820,786 (2.09%)
Quebec = 8,751,352 (22.27%)
Ontario = 15,262,660 (38.84%)
Manitoba = 1,420,228 (3.61%)
Saskatchewan = 1,205,119 (3.07%)
Alberta = 4,601,314 (11.71%)
British Columbia = 5,368,266 (13.66%)
Yukon = 43,964 (0.11%)
Northwest Territories = 45,602 (0.12%)
Nunavut = 40,586 (0.10%)

So armed with this data we can see that only 5 Provinces/Territories majority of sources of electricity are not green and when we look at percentage of population those 5 account for only 17.63% of the entire Canadian population meaning 82.37% of Canadians majority source for electrical power generation come from green sources.

And this is backed by Stats Canada who reports Canada's electrical power generation by source and the last month published (Nov. 2022) saw only 18.61% of all electrical power generated came from combustible fuels, and that includes the "Other types of electricity generation" as I can't say for certain that the energy produced was green, so it is possible it is lower than 18.61%

Canadian here.

So while a show or 3 produced here that meet our "Canadian Content" rules and are good enough to find an international audience they are the exception not the rule. We get a ton of crap dumped on us due to our quota system, the rest of the World just doesn't see all the garbage on Canadian airwaves so it makes it appear only quality content comes from Canada. It does not.

Yes we have the advantage of a really robust film and television infrastructure as many U.S. produced films and TV are made in Canada, the truth is our requirements to be "Canadian content" makes the majority of what is created in Canada not eligible to be considered "Canadian". So what happens? Streaming services don't invest in protectionism countries, instead they reduce the content from other locations to meet our quotas.

Content protectionism does not increase production of local content, instead it reduces content from other countries. Canadian Netflix has significantly less content than either U.S. or U.K. Netflix simply to meet our quotas.

Canada is not a good example of content censoring due to protectionism. We are a cautionary tale not an epitome.

As a descendant of French Colonists in Canada, you are correct that there needs to be significantly more cheese, and the soup needs to have been under the broiler a little longer to get some colour on that cheese to make it absolutely perfect.... still, I wouldn't turn that down as it looks delicous.

I make Tourtière with french onion soup and serve it with homemade chilli sauce to my extended family for Christmas eve dinner every year (we do the big turkey dinner on Christmas day). I'm using my great grandmothers recipes and my relatives fight for the leftovers.

Also being a U.S. citizen doesn't automatically exclude you from possibly having french roots and commenting on French colonial dishes as France once controlled a very large swath of land that is now U.S. territory. Who knows, you may have french roots yourself.

You ask for my opinion and not only do I give it, I back my statements with credible sources showing how my opinions are based on fact.

You just spew your opinions but your complete lack of anything backing a single thing you have said shows your opinions are not based on anything but your emotions.

I have shown you, with cited sources that Italy and Scotland are both listed as colonizing countries, and I have given you cited sources for the reasons why.

I don’t care that you disagree with the facts, your emotional opinion doesn’t magically make them disappear. I have given you ample space to counter my arguments with credible facts and you have failed to do so.

You have become insulting and demanding that I lie. You are clearly not interested in having a genuine conversation so I see no reason to continue attempting to have one with you.

I wish you all the best in your future endeavours. Good luck to you.

Why would I admit to something that would be a lie? Especially when I have countered all your questions with cited sources backing everything I’ve said.

You seem to be unwilling, or unable to give me the same courtesy I’ve given you and backed any of your opinionated statements up.

Italy is listed as a European colonization nation as I have shown with sources due to their incorporating Tuscany and its history.

Scotland is also considered a colonizing European nation due to its attempt to colonize in the Americas and its partnership in the U.K.

Perhaps it may be time to educate yourself on European colonization instead of needing me to educate you?

>Would you similarly say Scotland was a colonial power?

Actually yes.

Besides the fact that Scotland and England became the United Kingdom in 1707 making all colonizing actions by the U.K. from 1707 on being done equally by Scotland as they were by England,

>The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia, a colony on the Isthmus of Panama, in the late 1690s. > >The failure of the Darien colonisation project has been cited as one of the motivations for the 1707 Acts of Union.

However back to your initial point just because Tuscany was absorbed into Italy does not erase its history. Italy absorbed Tuscany’s history when they laid claim to it.

Sure, neither was Canada however we acknowledge that the history of the French and English colonies are still the history of Canada. Similarity as Tuscany is now part of Italy, Italy’s history includes the history of Tuscany.

Italy didn’t successfully establish a colony but they have colonizer status because they attempted to create a colony in what is now French Guiana in 1609.

>Duke Ferdinand I de Medici made the only Italian attempt to create colonies in America. For this purpose the Grand Duke organized in 1608 an expedition to the north of Brazil, under the command of the English captain Robert Thornton. > >Unfortunately Thornton, on his return from the preparatory trip in 1609 (he had been to the Amazon), found Ferdinand I dead and all projects were canceled by his successor Cosimo II.

>The Thornton expedition was a 1608 Tuscan expedition under Captain Robert Thornton, an Englishman, sent by Ferdinando I of Tuscany to explore northern Brazil and the Amazon River and prepare for the establishment of a settlement in northern coastal South America, which would serve as a base to export Brazilian wood to Renaissance Italy. The area that Thornton considered as a possible site of a Tuscan colony now lies in modern French Guiana, near Cayenne, which would be colonised by France in 1630. The expedition was the only attempt by an Italian state to colonise the Americas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_expedition

Which is why I said that was a “woefully low underestimation”.

It’s like saying there are more than 35 million U.S. citizens. That statement may be technically true but is useless because it is so much smaller than the actual number to make the estimation completely useless.

Shall we go around in circles again?

>There are 574 federally recognized Indian Nations (variously called tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities and native villages) in the United States. Approximately 229 of these ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse nations are located in Alaska; the other federally recognized tribes are located in 35 other states. Additionally, there are state recognized tribes located throughout the United States recognized by their respective state governments.

https://www.ncai.org/about-tribes

>Mexico is home to 68 Indigenous Peoples, each speaking their own native language and together accounting for 364 variants.

https://www.iwgia.org/en/mexico/4232-iw-2021-mexico.html

So that is 50 nations in Canada, 574 nations in the U.S. and 68 nations in Mexico for a total of 692 nations in North America.

My point, backed by credible sources, is that 60 is a woefully low underestimation of the number of Indigenous nations in North America.

The U.S. has began their ownFederal investigation into their Indian Boarding School system last year. This investigation was prompted by Canada's settlments and the TRC as well as the finding of unmarked graves at former residential schools.

60 different nations all over north america?

There are more than 630 First Nation communities in Canada, which represent more than 50 Nations and 50 Indigenous languages alone. And that does not include the Métis or the Innuit who have different legal status in Canada seperate from the First Nations.

I think you will find there are significantly more than 60 different indigenous nations across all of North America and then even more when you include all indigenous nations from across all the America's.

Every nation in the America's has conducted some form of genocide against the indigenous peoples within their borders. None are immune from their past.

And the genocide began with America's European Colonizers; Britian, Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherland's, Russia, Norway, and Italy.

Canada is the only nation to aknowledge their role, provide restitution, and chart a path forward towards healing and reconcilliation.

It is about time the rest of the America's and the European colonizers to face their past like Canada has.

If that were true then explain the troubles? If Protestants and Anglicans think themselves the same as Catholics why did they opress and murder them simply because they were Catholics? May I point out the troubles only ended in 1998.

I also have linked to the holy wars between Catholics and Christians that were fought for over 200 years into the late 1800's.

The historic abuses against Catholics by other Christian sects is why Catholics do not see themselves as Christians, even if those sects think they are all one united Christian theocracy.

Also Eastern Orthodox Catholics do not consider themselves Christians as well.

I was raised Catholic (am non-theist now) Catholics do not see themselves as Christians. Christians are heathens who have persecuted the Catholics for centuries.

Hell, Europe fought a series of wars over this issue, even a World War between Catholicism and Christianity. Christians and other faiths may think of Catholics as Christians, but Catholics are not Christians and have never seen themselves as such.

and what of the other crimes I listed that the Canadian government took a direct hand in perpetrating?

It is not one or the other. It was both. Both the church staff who perpetrated beatings, sexual abuses and rapes but it was the Canadian government who purposefully starved children, sometimes to death at the schools.

From my link about the horrible experiments conducted on children at residential schools by the Canadian government.

>The First Nations nutrition experiments were a series of experiments run in Canada by Department of Pensions and National Health (now Health Canada) in the 1940s and 1950s. The experiments were conducted on at least 1,300 Indigenous people across Canada, approximately 1,000 of whom were children. The deaths connected with the experiments have been described as part of Canada's genocide of Indigenous peoples.

Perpetrated? Yes.

Instigated? No.

While it is true that the Catholic Church did start schools to teach Indigenous peoples before Canada became a country attendance at those schools were volunarty, and abuses were not conducted on the children. It was not until after Canada came into existance that the genocidal nature of Canada's residential schools truly began under the guidance of the First Canadian Government.

Let me point you to the statements made by Canada's Founding Father Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's First (and third) Prime Minister and the author of Canada’s genocide of Indigenous people.

In a letter from 1870 he wrote;

>We should take immediate steps to extinguish the Indian titles … and open it for settlement. There will otherwise be an influx of squatters who will seize upon the most eligible positions and greatly disturb the symmetry [organization] of future surveys.

Between 1880 and 1885, the population of Plains First Nations dropped from 32,000 to 20,000, according to analysis by the Cree-Saulteaux academic Blair Stonechild. Most of that was due to starvation while under the care of the Canadian government under Macdonald.

>The executions of the Indians … ought to convince the Red Man that the White Man governs,

Macdonald wrote to Edgar Dewdney.

In 1885 he wrote;

>…..we have been pampering and coaxing the Indians; that we must take a new course, we must vindicate the position of the white man, we must teach the Indians what law is; we must not pauperise them, as they say we have been doing.

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>I have reason to believe that the agents as a whole … are doing all they can, by refusing food until the Indians are on the verge of starvation, to reduce the expense,

Macdonald told the House of Commons in 1882.

In 1887 he wrote;

>The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion as speedily as they are fit to change.

The schools were run by churches yes, but they were designed and funded by the Canadian government.

Also the Canadian government performed horrific experiments on the children who attended the schools and perpetrated the Sixties Scoop which was a period (1950-1983) in which a series of policies were enacted in Canada that enabled child welfare authorities to take, or "scoop up," Indigenous children from their families and communities for placement in foster homes, from which they would be adopted by white families.

The Canadian government not only knew what was happening at the residential schools they actively took a role in perpetrating some of the abuses at those schools.

>Article I
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>The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
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>Article II
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>In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
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>(a) Killing members of the group;
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>(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
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>(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
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>(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
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>(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Is the Geneva Convention's definition of genocide that was adopted by the U.N. Canada's Residential School system meets every point of that definition.

Trying to compare this genocide to others is just a way to water down what happened and to try and deligetimize it.

What I will say is that Canada has aknowledged it's commiting of genoicde and did not need an outside international court to do so and as I mentioned has already paid over $3 billion in restitution for our crime and shown we are working towards repairing our relationship with the Indigenous peoples of Canada.

>I’m just glad they didn’t waste time arguing over this

The TRC's 2015 final report citing Cultural genocide was originally rejected by the Canadian Government and it has taken us 7 years to finally acknowledge the residential school system was genocide.

I wished we hadn't wasted so much time arguing over this.

One of the outcomes of the Residential School Settlement, the Truth and Reconcilliation, and the paying to exhume the bodies of the children who died at the Schools is that the U.S. has begun their own investigation into their Indian Boarding School System which has been accused of similar horrors inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of the U.S.

So the U.S. has a chance to face their past and make amends as well. We will see where that investigation leads.

Canada's House of Common's voted to recognize the Residential School System as Genocide today.

The Residential School System was an abusive system designed to destroy the Indigenous peoples of Canada's culture and idendity and to 'Europeanize' them. The schools were run by the the Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches with the overwhelming majority run by the Catholic Church. Indigenous children were forced to attend these schools with most taken from their families by force and at the schools those children endured physical and psycological abuse as well as rape, torture, sexual assault, and murder at the hands of the schools staff. The children were also subjected to horrific experiments conducted by the Government of Canada.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) maintains a memorial register for students who died at residential schools and that number is now at 4,120 children.

In 1969, after over a century of reports of abuse and rape the Government of Canada took over the running of the Residential Schools and began to close them or turn them over to Indigenous nations to run. In 1996 the last Residential School was closed.

In 2007 Canada negotiated the Residential School Settlement which has seen over $3 billion paid in restitution to the survivors and their families of the Residential School System.

From 2007 to 2015 Canada Held the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission (TRC) to bring healing to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and to educate the Canadian population who overwhelmingly did not know about the Residential School System as to the horrors perpetrated on the Indigenous peoples by their government. The final report issued in 2015 by the TRC gave a finding of cultural genocide and the government of Canada did not accept that finding.

After bodies have been found in unmarked graves at former Residential Schools in 2021 the Canadian government has pledged $320 million to exhume and repatriate the remains to their nations per their nations wishes.

Finally 7 years later Canada has not only accepted the TRC's finding of cultural genocide but have gone further and declared the Residential School System was genocide as defined by the 1948 Geneva Convention that was adopted by the U.N.

Currently Canada is still negotiating the Day Schoolers settlement which will pay restitution to the survivors of the Residential School System who only attended during the day and did not live at the Residential Schools.

If you are a former residential school survivor in distress, or have been affected by the residential school system and need help, you can contact the 24-hour Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419

Additional mental-health support and resources for Indigenous people are available here.

My dreams look like this ever since we here in Canada legalized.

Maybe do more drugs.

Your use of the pejorative term “Indian” explains your views better than anything else you said.

Also if you had bothered to read my link on banning the import of handguns you would have learned that the new legislation includes

>* Fighting gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing criminal penalties, providing more tools for law enforcement to investigate firearms crimes, and strengthening border security measures.

As well since the new legislation and funding there have been major gun smuggling arrests that occured on Indigenous lands.