Jully Black\u0027s change to the lyrics of O Canada suggested the country is illegitimate
the federal government to change the name of the Confederation Bridge to “Epekwitk Crossing.” “Confederation Bridge” got its name because it was built to fulfil the constitutional promise made by the Canadian government to build and maintain a connection to P.E.I. upon joining as a province. The bridge itself is one of Canada’s greatest engineering achievements — and a symbol of the Canadian Constitution. It literally unites an isolated province with the rest of Canada.
Finally, you see decolonization being worked into the polite society conventions of public institutions. Public servants often sign off with a land acknowledgement in email signatures, giving oxygen to the idea that Canada is an illegitimate state. Public meetings and job descriptions often start off with a land acknowledgement, too. They’re even featured on university syllabi.
Canada’s strength came from having a strong sense of nationality surrounding our founding principles: liberal democracy and allegiance to the Crown. Anyone who buys into those positions, no matter how far removed from Britain, has a place in Canada. The decolonization movement asks us to reject this.Article content
Decolonization seeks to put ethnicity before national identity; on top of building new Indigenous cultural products , it asks the nation to declare itself illegitimate by tearing down and re-labelling old cultural products . O Canada was just the latest example, but there will be more to come.Jamie Sarkonak’s columns appear first in the special subscriber-only Friday edition of our NP Platformed newsletter.
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