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Cake day: March 22nd, 2024

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  • In the Pays d’en Haut Anglo settlers were moving in, French forts were rapidly expanding and militarizing, and both colonial powers were jockeying for Indigenous allies and exclusive trade partners. And in Acadia the oaths issue was still unresolved and considerable swaths of the country that France ‘ceded’ to Britain was under the control of the French-allied Wabanaki.

    Another war was inevitable, Washington just lit the powderkeg.


  • Finally! All of this could have been avoided if when it gave its remedy, the court actually cared to assess if PCEPA was an acceptable replacement to what was struck down in Bedford. Like the court said “you have six months to pass new legislation”, the Harper government just reintroduced the restrictions that the court struck down, and then the court went “ehh we can just look at it in a decade or so once it bubbles up from the lower courts”