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Canadians don't have a cult of personality around our first Prime Minister the way Americans do around George Washington.
Canada was apparently founded on uniting white Europeans to eradicate the "savage" indigenous populations here.
So... founding the country can be overlooked to an extent if the person was otherwise an asshole.
There's a difference between founding a country by winning a war against a monarchy and founding a country when a CEO sucks a monarch off.
And Canada still continues that tradition today, don't worry. Y'all might acknowledge your First Nations people better, but that doesn't mean Canadian police and the RCMP especially hesitate when they see a chance to shoot some indigenous people.
No doubt. Our police aren't quite as gun happy as the US cops, but they still find their own ways to murder people they consider to be lesser than them if a gun might be too egregious for a given situation.
That's interesting. I don't think I have ever seen someone refer to an Aboriginal Canadian as a Native American. Native Canadian yes, but native Americans were always south of the border in my mind.
I understand the concept, but I have never heard the term Native American used for anyone except the indigenous people within the United States of america.