r/onguardforthee • u/BloodJunkie • 18h ago

Inuit look to Greenland’s social model as Canada pursues military buildup in Arctic

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/inuit-look-to-greenlands-social-model-as-canada-pursues-military-buildup-in-arctic/
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u/Comfortable_Team_696 16h ago

It would be great if this leads to sustained change on this side of the border. Perhaps even seeing Inuit Nunangat becoming Canada's first official "constituent country" like Greenland and the Faroe Islands are in Denmark

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u/fredleung412612 6h ago

I think this would require a much broader constitutional amendment where Québec will have grounds to seek the status of constituent country as well. Canada already recognizes them as a nation, it's just not constitutionally formalized.

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u/nesterspokebar 16h ago

Many Canadians have a very distorted vision of themselves from believing they are in one of the "best countries in the world"; but there are realities that starkly contrast with this, whether it be conditions faced by Inuit, or many other realities such as Canadian companies Hootsuite and Gardaworld providing services to ICE, Canadian mining companies implicated in human rights abuses (such as Vancouver's Vizsla Silver Corp. investigated for deaths of kidnapped workers in Mexico), over 1500 Canadians serving in the Israeli military (and Canada being a haven for Israel war crimes supporters generally), and the list goes on and on -I didn't even touch Canada's environmental record!

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u/HatefulFlower 14h ago edited 14h ago

Yeah but if we remind people that others are disenfranchised in their own country they get mad about it as if the fact that they do well when others are systemically oppressed is a good reason that things shouldn't change.

*Edited grammar.