Eating Your Cake

Eating Your Cake

To: The Prime Minister of Canada The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 Dear M. Trudeau You do know that you can’t have your cake and eat it too. (Well unless you are Tina Fey). You acknowledge the need...
Lip  Service

Lip Service

Dear Mr. Prime Minister We heard you speak about a new relationship with the First People of Canada. The words you used were Nation to Nation and what was expressed and implied was a relationship that was equitable and vibrant: not a relationship where one side...
Dear Mr. Prime Minister

Dear Mr. Prime Minister

My friend posted a picture on Facebook of a t-shirt she had just purchased. Canada: 150 years on stolen land When I read these words my heart ached with the truth behind those words. I celebrated Centennial year in 1967 and felt such pride in being Canadian. Towns and...