VIDEO: Canuck PM promotes "truth and reconciliation"... on holiday!

A couple of years before Canada's sesquicentennial [Look it up. Ed.], the Liberal government of Blackie McBlackface "woke" to the narrative that white Canadians had been beastly to the First Nations -- the Peoples Formerly Known as Indians & Eskimos -- ever since "First Contact". "We" must do something, they told the other Canadian sheeple, to make amends for hundreds of years of racism and genocide!

Just before M Trudeau got elected in October of 2015, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by the previous racist government of Steven Harpoon released an executive summary of its findings along with 94 "calls to action" regarding reconciliation Indigenous peoples and "old stock Canadians". Mr Socks promised to take all this very seriously and swore that this time, Something Would Be Done.

That December, he TRC concluded its work with the publication of a multi-volume final report that concluded that Canada's system of "Indian residential schools", in particular, amounted to cultural genocide. Not much notice was taken until this spring, when the remains of 215 children were uncovered in unmarked burial sites on the site of the Kamloops (BC) Indian Residential School. The SJWs and woke media leapt concluded that the residential schools were guilty of not just "cultural genocide" but physical genocide!

With the prospect of another election looming, Canada's chief virtue-signaller sprang into action, ordering the maple leaf flags flown on all government buildings to be lowered to half-staff**. Every woke organization, whether in the public or private sector followed suit, so today you rarely see a Canadian flag flying from the top of the pole. And now that the election is over, M Trudeau says the flags will remain lowered until the Indigenous leaders say it's OK to raise them again.

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more! Just before calling the election held just finished, Emperor Trudeau II decreed that September 30th would henceforth be a holiday -- National Truth and Reconciliation Day -- to be observed by the federal government and all its agencies (like Canada Post and the CBC) and all federally-regulated organizations, including many large private-sector institutions, such as banks.

Canadians were ordered not to treat the day as a time to relax and enjoy some time off, but as an occasion for remembrance, reflection and (of course) repentance for all the wrongs done to Indigenous peoples over the years. Such as paved roads, electric power, literacy -- the list goes on. Ceremonies, including the now-obligatory land acknowledgment ceremony, were held at city halls, residential school sites and other appropriate places across the land.

Progressive politicians of all stripes performed the ritual grovel, looking solemn and promising to do more for the First Nations. That was understood by all to mean even bigger cash handouts, since it is well known that nothing assuages hurt feelings better than "reparations". 

Somewhere around mid-day yesterday, Global TV noticed that M Trudeau had not been seen since his appearance at a ceremony in Ottawa the previous night. Where was he? His daily itinerary initially stated he was in "private meetings" in Ottawa, but was later updated to note he was actually in, errr, the resort town of Tofino BC, "spending time with family for a few days."

Not to worry though, a spokesthingy told CBC News (which ran the story, with comments closed, only this morning). "Following his participation in last night's ceremony marking the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, he is speaking today with residential school survivors from across the country." Speaking. On the phone. Not face to face.

Lynne Groulx, CEO of the Native Women's Association of Canada, told CBC News that it was "quite upsetting" that the prime minister would travel on this specific day. "This is a government that has said Indigenous people are [the] most important priority for the government and that action … does not match the words," she said. "So that's very inappropriate, in my view, for the prime minister." Trudeau, she said, should be "the one who is leading this reconciliation process." 

Walt is reminded of one of the funniest bits ever done on Seinfeld. In these scenes, Jerry -- no racist he! -- tries to convince Elaine's Native American friend that he really doesn't recognize any difference between Native Americans and other Americans.

   

M Trudeau used to be a drama teacher, or so his rather thin résumé said when he first ran for election. Wonder if he coached Jerry for this performance.

** FOOTNOTE: You will often see and hear "journalists" refer to the lowering of flags to half the height of the pole as "lowering them to half-mast". That term is only correct when the "pole" is the mast of a ship. When it's a flagpole on land or a building, the correct term is "half-staff". And while we're at it, the correct protocol for this action is to raise the flag to the top of the staff first, then lower it to half-way down.