
I am well aware of the Xinjiang internment camps. They are a system of mass internment and forcible assimilation targeting the Uyghur ethnic group with the intent of eradicating Uyghur separatism. Canada maintains close relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia, both of which have committed atrocities.
The USA imprisons more of its ethnic minorities than any other nation on the planet, and that was before we began a program of brutal mass deportations of immigrants. Why would Canada not cozy up to China when its southern neighbor is threatening it? Canada’s anti-Chinese tariffs were because we asked for it, and now we are tariffing and threatening Canada. Why on earth would they do us a favor?
I wouldn’t say that Canada was worse tbh. Canada had assimilatory practices (with the residential schools being famously brutal) but overwhelmingly fewer direct massacres against indigenous peoples than the USA did. Native American leaders like Black Elk even directly said it was preferable to be in Canadian territory. There’s a reason Canada is more indigenous than the USA. And even the most brutal Canadian stuff like the residential schools had direct counterparts in the USA.
We were pretty fuckin bad it’s hard to compete💀💀💀 Australia was pretty bad too (particularly in Tasmania) Australia also never recognized aboriginals as governments, so there are no treaties or reservations in Australia unlike in the USA. So the USA at least like granted a bit more respect ig.