Historian Elise Harding-Davis says Canada's unanimous vote last year to proclaim Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day rings hollow without a federalThe author and former curator of Ontario's Amherstburg Freedom Museum says the proclamation is an acknowledgment that slavery and its after-effects have deeply harmed Black people in Canada.would be a long-awaited recognition of Black people's contributions to the history and making of Canada.
Though Emancipation Day recognizes the day in 1834 that slavery was abolished in most British colonies, including Canada, Harding-Davis says the mindset and societal structures that enabled it didn't end.since 2007, and she noted in an interview that other groups have received apologies in the meantime.
The principal investigator for the Black People's History of Canada project says Ottawa's refusal to apologize for the country's history of enslaving Black people is a form of anti-Black racism.
Ur way to late...the people who commited slavery is long dead, how u gunna keep putting people at blame
Don’t care
Enough already
I want an apology for my Italian ancestors who came and built this city and were abused and used and ridiculed for a very long time !
2016 census: 56.4% of the black pop. in Canada are immigrants, 35% are born here with at least 1 parent born outside of Canada. (ie. Me) Thats 90%+ of the black pop. who don't and shouldn't give a shit about any of this, which happened before Canada even existed. 😴😴
A specific form these titles CP24
The British Commonwealth abolished slavery in 1834. Canada became a country July 1, 1867. Canada was part and remains part of the commonwealth which means that owning slaves would have been illegal for 33 years. This is why American slaves escaped to Canada for freedom.
Who cares
More bullshit eh?!?! Ya...I said it!
The white racists in Canada are so upset in these comments it feels like you're in the USA
Slaves using the underground railroad to escape slavery by coming to Canada were escaping back into slavery. We have to push back against these evil people. They lie to push a crooked agenda. CP24 you are fake news.
Don't worry, John Tory will cater to your every demand.
I’m sure Trudeau can’t wait to apologize.
This is why I can’t take them seriously, especially when you have a bunch of grotesque over weight people dress up like a bunch of birds and dance like you having a really bad seizure
If you did your research, you would know that Canada never had slavery. Canada had concentration camps, but not slavery.
Imagine there’s no blacks slaves hundreds years ago
It is black people themselves who captured their brothers and sisters and sold them into slavery
Let me guess....next they will want an apology for the weather.
Lol.
Why is this even controversial Like just do it. Who cares!
The British were extremely evil with everyone from the Acadian to Indigenous to Black and Chinese
WTF?...
Yes Slavery did exist in Canada, however, Canada was not a country, it was a colony a France and Britian The apology should come from Britian and France. Also, lets not forget that Upper Canada abolish slavery before the British did.
No.
How many future generations will be held accountable for things that happened 200 years ago. If radical splinter groups place blame on people who weren't alive at the time how is it their fault. People can never be cohesive if this continues.
why is every media outlet now pushing this divisive crap.
Holy fuck what's next an apology from the Vikings for killing seals in Canada.
Apologies from those not involved in the events of the time are meaningless. History is history. We recognize and educate. But the apologies do nothing. Sorry.
We know Joseph Brant owned black slaves so why aren’t they asking the Indigenous leaders for an apology
My ancestors were slaves to the arabs, give me an apology 😂
No such thing as systematic racism. This is just more BLM entitlement. I will never apologize or take a knee.
Move on.
You mean all the immigrants that mostly are citizens of this country and have absolutely nothing to do with any of that need to apologize for the slavry.
To what country did the Underground Railroad lead to? Kyrgyzstan
This is just silly. You’re asking a country to apologize for something that happened before the country even existed.
Blame Portugal 🇵🇹
Another apology So who is next in line?
Statute of limitations...but will this do for an apology....🖕
When does it stop?
Buzz off!
I'm Easter Europe I never even saw anyone of a different race till I arrived in canada. I've never disrespect anyone because of any color so no I won't be apologizing.
It took the natives how Many years to hear from the pope.. don’t hold ur breath
How about an apology from the black community for the gun and gang violence.
African slaves owners (blacks) sold slaves to the Portuguese. Then they made there way around the world and North America. Go back to Africa and ask them for an apology? Ya didn’t think so they don’t give free handouts.
I'd like an apology from the black community for all the shootings, violent crime and drug offenses that permeate through the Canadian cities on a weekly basis. But, if you're not involved in it should you apologize?
Southern Italians/Europeans were taken from homes and sent to Northern Africa to Muslim slave owners. It was called The Barbary Era. You never knew about it cause white euro’s don’t whine about the past. We don’t need handouts. Our majority works hard unlike other cultures.
No
You got your apology half of the country fought to end it. If hundreds of thousands of dead americas was not enough then will enough be enough.
I want an apology for getting all other neighbours leaves blowing onto my property. Oh and ten million dollars ✊
I'm sorry Not good enough without cash reparations. Oh, okay... it's about free money then.
forget about your stupid apologies. There’s slavery still going on this day and nobody’s batting a eye
Black scholars don't speak for me. If the Canadian federal government wants to give reparations to Black Canadians then I would accept that. The Canadian media focus on Natives yet only talk about Black people when it is about gun violence, racism, or entertainment.
I wasn't alive back then, so I won't be apologizing for 💩.
Sawwwwèeeeeeeeeee
Just leave.
'A specific kind of News Agency:' 'Real' Canadians could care a lick about identity games and 50's era divisive rhetoric.....enjoy your last days....I doubt you will be so bold as to ever include this on your journalistic resume....absolute trash
Just stop with all the nonsense. Imagine demanding an apology from a friend or family member for something that occurred couple months ago.....forget lifetime ago .....
What about the slaves being sold in Africa right as we speak?
Everyone’s a slave
I'd say classism is alot more prevalent then racism. The 1% should start apologizing
Fuck apologies. Meaningless actions for a narrative.
There was lawful slavery in Canada?
Let me guess....pope Francis started a chain reaction Well you're not getting one
Chattel slavery has never been legal in Canada...
The the descendants of Joseph Brant are going to apologize for the Black and White slaves he owned?
Natives should apologize and pay the cash first.
Are Canadian government better not apologize
Is this a joke?
Stop giving in to but hurt liberals
I want an apology for Irish slavery and for the serfdom which bound Quebecers until the 1950s.
Uh many blacks came to Canada through the Underground Railroad why does Commie Propaganda always avoid what’s being done to Canadians right now by Trudeau oh wait it’s called a spine
'A specific form of anti-Black racism:' Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery' Whose alive today that experienced slavery in Canada 😏 .
There never was slavery in the country of Canada. Look it up. When Queen Victoria ended slavery in all of the Empire. When the Dominion of Canada was created. Please use facts, not assumptions.
My wife’s boyfriend is black so I feel as if I’ve done my part for the cause. ✊🏻
I’m so tired of everyone expecting apologies for what happened years ago. Funny how is Irish and Scottish aren’t whining. We knew we had to except Canadas laws and rules when we moved here.A lot of my relatives are buried beside railway tracks in mass graves.We aren’t cry babies.
The scholars should apologize for wasting everybody else's time instead.
Canada never had slaves. Well, we do now but not in the same way.
I want them to apologize for all the crime from their own and the amount of taxes spent on battling said crime. I said it now deal with!
That was almost 200 years ago! We should be commended for the Underground Railway that helped slaves escape. Apologize? What the hell for?
Those who have participated in black face can go to the front of the line!
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