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The Canada that "they" want to sell to the world is not the Canada that exists for a great many Canadians.
Romanticising a people and a culture that have been thoroughly exploited throughout Canada's history? Uniting Canadians under an inuit banner? "Respecting" our past (read: indigenous peoples) via some token icon?
Nice try, but I don't think so.
How many Canadians here were born of immigrant parents? How many of those immigrant parents give two-you-know-whats about native Canadian culture? If asked to describe Canada, and their experience of what Canada is - how many would mention native Canadians?
Yet Canada is a "cultural mosaic" of international peoples, no?