INVESTIGATION: Taxpayer-funded activist celebrates Canada Day by accusing Canada of 'genocide'
A radical anti-racism activist who enjoys significant backing from the federal government celebrated Canada Day by accusing the country of “settler colonialism."
A radical anti-racism activist who enjoys significant backing from schools, universities, municipal governments and even the federal government celebrated Canada Day by accusing the country of “settler colonialism, genocide, enslavement, oppression, violence, extraction, [and] exploitation” in a viral post.
An immigrant from Ethiopia — a country with an extensive and ongoing record of ethnic cleansing, human trafficking, and modern slavery – Debs has made a career of condemning Canadian institutions as fundamentally white supremacist and calling for reparations for historical injustices in Canada. In comparison to Ethiopia’s ongoing human rights violations, slavery of Indigenous and mainly black peoples in Canada was abolished in 1834.