Time to put out a call for a Pan Canadian Holiday to mark today.
Keeping It RIEL - Louis Riel Day
This would be popular in Quebec, and popular with aboriginal and Metis peoples. And of course for Western Canada it marks the beginning of our alienation from Ontario that bastion of British Colonialism. So it's a winner as a national holiday whose time has come.
And it would piss off the reactionary right wing revisionists like Flanagan, Morton, and Byfield.
SEE:
Remember Riel
Rebel Yell
Liberal Genocide; The Lubicon
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