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By identifying the need to tackle systemic discrimination instead of colonialism, Trudeau is reinforcing an established idea in Canadian politics: that colonialism is history. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Not in the past: Colonialism is rooted in the present

Liam Midzain-Gobin, Brock University and Heather Smith, University of Northern British Columbia

Narratives that historicize colonialism are not new. Canadians and our leaders have a long history of denying our settler colonial present.

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