Public Disorder & the Decline of Vancouver's Livability

[Metro-One]

Was actually just reading some comments made by some elders from the Squamish nation who were there, and were actually expressing their surprise when then mob started to take down the statue and that it wasn’t their ambition for that to happen. So definitely don’t start painting everyone there with the same brush.

PS, it’s funny how everyone is talking about him marrying a 12 year old girl (though some accounts say she was 16) as if it occurred in 2022. In context marriage between 12 and 16 was quite common in the 1800’s (and it was especially common within tribal cultures during those days, and is still somewhat common in more isolated tribes around the world to this day).

And that is the irony about yelling “decolonize” while also being angry about a 12 year old being married. In the long run it has actually been “colonial” culture that has largely contributed to the ending of such young marriages.