I live in Calgary and, as I’ve noted several times on FR, the Treaty 7 self-described ‘First Nations’ (FN) were treated badly by the Canadian government and still remain badly treated. While the ‘numbered treaties’ were never outright broken and the FN were not forced to move after the Treaties were established, the people were neglected and badly treated, more by d’Ottawa than the Government Agents on the ground.
AFA, my comment about the truth hurting, it was directed at the very thin skinned individual who whined about growing up in Canada. The gentleman to whom I first responded, seemed to forget, or ignore the history of American colonization, be it good or bad. Every ‘major power’ in the world has had colonies, the US included.
FWIW, I do agree that colonization can be a positive thing. All the former colonies of Great Britain were left with well organized governments and well established rule of law. The fact that most of the former African colonies turned out so bad is a function of the new ‘rulers’ being unwilling to follow the rule of law as established under former British rule.
Agreed on pretty much all of that. :-)