Canada's Hundred Days. Aka the last 100 days of WW1.
Functionally, Canada won WW1 for the allies.
Being under 10% of the WW1 force, in that period they tackled defences everyone else thought impregnable and shattered them, like the Hindenburg Line, and in the process paved the way for the allied advance. They also took out a quarter of the German forces in that time.
While they did arguably use proto-blitzkrieg tactics of using lots of machine guns, and then also using vehicles to move troops even quicker while using said machine guns, one of the biggest factors was a prodigious use of chemical weapons.
To the point that in the interwar period, Canada had the largest capacity and stores of chemical weapons. During WW2, said stockpile is one of the reasons Hitler refused to use chemical weapons on the allies.
Edit: And a lot of the rules on fair treatment of POWs and rules on capturing surrendered soldiers also stems of Canadian soldiers behaviours during WW1.
It was totally justifiable! We had to end the war cuz hockey season was about to start.
To be fair, French Canadians were overrepresented and didn't want to be there so they figured if they were super good at it they could go back home ASAP.
In our defense we were jonesing for maple syrup.
We're a simple people, enjoying quiet lives and good standard of living. But threaten our maple syrup - even from afar - and we will give you a reason for the Geneva convention!
Also don't forget the good old Shotgun / Trenchgun, which was seen as an unfair weapon in trench warfare as there was no answer to it in close range and tight corridors.
Germany literally banned the use of them, Germany.
Genocide of our indigenous population mostly. The worst of it ended in 1996 when the last residential school closed. Basically, the Catholic Church under the authorization of the Canadian Federal Government in the 1800s and onwards, abducted children from indigenous communities, took them to boarding schools where they attempted to assimilate them into Eurocentric culture by punishing them for speaking their own language and practicing their own culture. Beatings, sexual abuse, and neglect were commonplace, with many children dying of illness, exposure, or violence. Many children survived the schools and are still alive today to tell us about it. There are also mass graves at several of these schools where children's corpses were dumped and hidden from public view, until ground x-ray technology came around and we found the graves.
Also, random weird fact: women weren't allowed to have bank accounts in Canada until like 1964.
For me, in the US, Canada is like that child where, if things are quiet, you know they're doing something bad. Because we in the US rarely ever actually hear anything bad about Canada.
Compared to the US which is loudly doing bad things constantly.
So this is really not about what Canada alone did, but what Catholic church and Canada did.
The US called their residential schools "boarding schools," but I don't know if those had the same kind of lasting legacy Canada has, based on the schools they had in the US.
Wait… it didn’t close until 1996?
Canadian Federal Government? So Britain then? /S
Other random weird fact: Women weren't allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.
Women weren’t allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.
okay but what did Canada do wrong tho?
Didn't hide it well enough.
https://lemm.ee/comment/5632652
This seems to be the only comment chain that actually explains it, the rest of this post is mostly Americans bringing up every crime and misdeed that Canada has ever participated in or even is connected to.
Sorry you got downvoted for bringing up the point of the original post, which was the title and linked image, everyone else on their hate parade and is too busy.
Really. We found the Graves of dumped children? So we finally have a body?
The Nazi's got the term, and concept, 'final solution' from a Canadian:
"It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness by habitating so closely in these schools, and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone does not justify a change in the policy of this Department, which is being geared towards the final solution of our Indian Problem."
"…the system was open to criticism. Insufficient care was exercised in the admission of children to the schools. The well-known predisposition of Indians to tuberculosis resulted in a very large percentage of deaths among the pupils. They were housed in buildings not carefully designed for school purposes, and these buildings became infected and dangerous to the inmates. It is quite within the mark to say that fifty per cent of the children who passed through these schools did not live to benefit from the education which they had received therein."
EDIT: I transposed Laurier and MacDonald here, as someone pointed out. The above quotes are from Duncan Campbell Scott, as Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs under MacDonald. Laurier was a key architect of the Residential School system. TLDR; MacDonald started the genocide, Laurier built upon it.)
The Nazis were inspired by New World colonialist, racists policies. Even Hitler admit he was inspired by the eugenics movement from the US.
I’m not disputing any of your points, but Civ 6 has Wilfred Laurier as Canada’s leader
Thank you for pointing that out, I switched Laurier and MacDonald after quoting MacDonald's Deputy. Cheers!
A lot
This reminds me of the murals at the Pawnee city hall in parks and rec
Side note: for this atrocity, we Canadians punished the Catholic Church by... Checks notes... Publicly funding all Catholic schools in Canada.
I immediately thought of Parks & Rec when I saw it. They should hang this up in parliament
"Publicly funding all Catholic schools in Canada."
All the other sentences in this thread are obviously atrocious, but this one is plain old infuriating.
I know it's an "American" thing, but the people of a country should never be forced to pay for someone else's religious bullshit especially when it's indoctrinating and essentially torturing a portion of the populace.
The map of atrocities that's just a solid color 😂😢
"Good" at war : ✅️
Human rights : ❌️
Supporting catholic genocide : ✅️
We have a really weird history that isn't really something to be proud of..
To be fair, that's in line with every country.
Where'd that article from earlier go... https://www.readthemaple.com/the-trudeau-government-has-opposed-every-peaceful-method-of-palestinian-resistance/
And There in lies what annoys me with Trudeau. He is the epitome of the morally pompous kid that shows up in the middle of the fight and decides right then who is the bully and the victim without getting the full story of how the fight started and just doesn’t care. Cringefully and willfully naive with an unhealthy side of ego. The worst kind of Canadian.
Never ask a woman her age
Never ask a man his salary
Never ask Canada what the “indigenous boarding schools” were for
Never ask Russia, America, Hamas or Israel why they all see the Geneva Convention as a to-do list
There were also jewish refugees that were not allowed into Canada. Afair, the bigger arsehole in that story was the UK, that panicked and decided that everyone who fled Germany during some 193x–194x must certainly be a german spy. They forcefully moved people to camps, and also to foreign territories, but it didn't work terribly well with Canada, too.
I though this to be the article I first heard this story from, but it doesn't seem to address that. Here I found some more details, e.g. on how refugees were in prisoner of war camps along with actual nazis.
Edit: But those are likely not related to the question of what Canada did to become example of how Geneva convention should be, so maybe an unnecessary info ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Least racist treatment of Jews in 20th-century Europe
Ignorance aint so bliss anymore lmao
To add to the list: internment of Hungarian and Ukrainian Canadians in WWI in Canada (some other Eastern Europeans too); internment of Japanese Canadians in WWII in Canada.
So like non-francophones in Quebec, but without the beatings.
The Geneva suggestions…
Add Canada to the list of countries not to mess with.
The mask is slipping...
The report indicates that new investments by Canadian mining companies in Tigray have increased as the region has been plunged into a major humanitarian crisis from military attacks by the Ethiopian and Eritrean government, whom the United Nations has accused of deliberately “starving Tigrayans.”
The U.N has warned that hundreds of thousands of people in Tigray face starvation, as the Ethiopian military—backed by Eritrean troops and militia from Ethiopia’s Amhara region—have raped women and children, committed massacres, burned crops, and blocked aid to the region as they conduct a lop-sided military offensive against the Tigray People
Yes this is definitely all of Canada doing this, not a corporation.
Do you say things like this when a company from your home country invests in a troubled region? Is it their government and peoples that you hold at fault? Or is this a problem with capitalism, and you have some motive to disparage Canada as a whole for the actions of a few rich assholes that the average Canadian would gladly have arrested for these actions?
What is your motive here, exactly?
Ethiopia Is Committing Genocide Against the Tigrayan People, Say Priests From Region
During this genocide against the state of tigray canda and it's black-face president prospected gold mines in tigray. You canadians supported a genocide to steal tigrayan gold. I wonder if you would still feel the same if it was your mum and your daughter being sexually abused or your cousin or dad being put against a wall and shot.
Well Justin Trudeau basically had an "Aww shucks" attitude to churches being burnt down because it took focus off of his grandpa's "residential schools"
And then he filled MAID full of loopholes to encourage mass genocide of the poor.
