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“It should be clear with these recent events that African Canadians
deserve an apology for slavery from the Canadian Government immediately.
The systemic racism in Canada is a direct result of slavery in this
country. African Canadians have been denied genuine equity in economic
growth, social standing, legislative justice and proper regard for our
health and well-being throughout Canada’s history.”
The writer is Elise Harding-Davis, an “African Canadian Heritage
Consultant,” from Harrow, Ontario, in an open letter to Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau published in the June 15 Windsor Star. In Canada and around the world, people might wonder what the consultant is talking about.
Canada officially became a nation in 1867, a full 34 years after the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act
that freed more than 800,000 slaves in British colonies. In 1815, only
18 years before the Act, Islamic Barbary pirates snatched 158 people
from Sardinia................ Denunciations of existing slavery are hard to find in the United States,
which abolished slavery 157 years ago in 1863, and in Canada, where
slavery never existed. Much easier to find, in two of the freest, most
affluent countries on earth, are claims of slavery as the driver of
“systemic racism.” If those now enslaved in Libya or Mauritania thought
that was uninformed, and even perverse, it would be hard to blame them...........
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