Explaining Canada’s Cult of ‘Decolonial Futurity’ to Americans

A student at University of Alberta required to take a course called Indigenous Health in Canada .

Jonathan Kay says the course consists of “4 months of self-flagellation led by a white woman’s white woman.” He says it's a “worthwhile subject” but it won’t surprise you to learn it consists of little more than ideologically programmed call-and-response sessions.

Kay : For years now, whole legions of Canadian university students have been required to robotically mumble fatuous platitudes as a condition of graduation.

Many Canadian Indigenous communities are, to this day , “fly-in” hamlets that cannot be easily accessed by all-season roads, let alone proper highways or rail.

The lands they occupy are economically undesirable—frozen in winter and marshy and flood-prone in summer .

For the most part, those Indigenous communities that have flourished have done so by entering into real-estate or resource-extraction partnerships with large corporations.

Many news outlets falsely reported that the bodies of 215 Indigenous children had been found on the grounds of a former church-run school in British Columbia .

In fact, not a single body was ever found, and it’s now clear that the episode was a national social panic.

By the time anyone (including me) discovered this, it was too late: The idea that 215 little bodies had been lifted from the earth had become a sort of national martyrs myth.