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Canada: Why we are Idle No More
Posted by Ottawa Citizen: Pamela Palmater on December 29th, 2012
Ottawa Citizen: The Idle No More movement, which has swept the country over the holidays, took most Canadians, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government, by surprise.
That is not to say that Canadians have never seen a native protest before, as most of us recall Oka, Burnt Church and Ipperwash. But most Canadians are not used to the kind of sustained, co-ordinated, national effort that we have seen in the last few weeks -- at least not since 1969. 1969 was the last time the federal...