Canada is lost

[Herman]

[Herman]

[Herman]

Jesus H, what good would Canada's military actually be in a war.

[Herman]

[Herman]

[Herman]

This country has become an international laughing stock.

[DKG]

The constant recitation of indigenous "land acknowledgements" illustrates Canada's shift towards enforced mass compliance on complicated social issues. These statements have become ubiquitous in Canadian public life: at schools, workplaces, government functions, ceremonies, and sporting events. Institutions display them on websites, documents, email signatures, and social media. A busy person in Canada may come across dozens of land acknowledgements per day in various contexts.

Although framed as optional gestures of respect, many organizations now have policies mandating land acknowledgements; in other circumstances, social pressure can make them seem obligatory even if they're not.

Land acknowledgements have morphed well beyond a simple sharing of history into something much more problematic — they have become a sort of sacred ritual with near-spiritual implications, tying certain ethnic groups to ownership over nature itself. When unpacked, there is a lot being said between the lines.