When Doug Ford opens his mouth, we hear the ghost of John A. Macdonald. His “hat in hand” insult isn’t just racist—it’s a reminder. It shows how Canada’s premiers still see Onkwehón:we, as beggars on stolen land, block their “progress” with our inconvenient existence.
His apology? Empty words written by an assistant and spoken into the ears of. We’ve heard this script before: offend, apologize, repeat. Meanwhile, Bill 5 and Bill C-5 are already sharpening the knives to cut our throats.
With a modern “Know your place.” attitude, why would anyone be foolish enough to take anything this man or any level of governance says with a modicum of good intention toward us?
We are in our place and know that converting our land into fee-simple territory wasn’t as easy and straightforward as the former ministers thought it would be.
We know apologies are tools. They’re meant to silence and place the onus on Onkwehón:we if we don’t accept it and shift the attention from the problem’s existence to “He apologized, why are you still angry?”.
They buy time for bulldozers to roll, give the illusion of unnecessary resistance rather than addressing the hidden agenda, and serve to protect the Corporate government structure by pretending one man’s “gaffe” is a superficial “problem,” not 200 years of genocide.
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