About Colonialism and Canada

Running Head: COLONIALISM AND CANADA
Colonialism and Canada
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COLONIALISM AND CANADA
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“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness could not colonize it.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci
(Schmidt, 2018: 12).
Canada has an old history of adherence to the different political rights and the
associated form of civil liberties of the Canadian citizens. In the recent years of the Canadian
political scenario, it has seen rising concerns on the extent of the applicability of the
surveillance laws passed by the government as well as the laws passed by the courts. The
indigenous people of Canada and its other vulnerable populations continue to face the
different discrimination threats and other socioeconomic and political challenges. The
federal government of Canada has also acknowledged some of the different policies to
address the issues that challenge the government.
Colonialism in Canada can be best analyzed as Canada’s indigenous people were
forced with disconnection from their own land , their native culture and the indigenous
community by other communities in the society. The main source of the disconnection from
the indigenous group lies in the history of Canada that exists even today. Specially in the
northern part of Canada, the governments offer proper support to the different industries that
take control of its land for utilizing the available resources in order to remove Canada’s
indigenous people from its land (Manuel 2017)The analysis of Canada’s history is important
for the reconciliation the relationships that exist.
The residential school system of Canada was the reformed form of education system
that owes much for the existence of the aboriginal population of Canada. The residential
schools were mainly constructed with the purpose of catering education to the aboriginal
population who are neglected from the main stream of population (Vowel,2016).The
Britishers applied most of the government policies to weaken the structure of the Aboriginal