I sincerely hope you will consider the reasons why that land was available for them to “receive.”

You and I, along with all non-Indigenous persons in Canada, inherited the colonial power structure and land ownership system that Wayne Holst describes.
We may not have personally created the situation, but our lifestyles and those of our Indigenous brothers and sisters are wholly dependent upon structures and world views imposed on what is now Canada.
This isn’t about blame and guilt, it’s about restoring just relationships among all occupants and of this land.

My dear friend in Christ, as someone who immigrated to Canada in my early 20s, it may be tempting for me to agree with you. In speaking to people who are not Christian, there is the temptation for them to say this is not my problem. The challenge to us is that we all live and work and worship on land which was not empty when people arrived from Europe, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa. For us to have a home, the British had to remove people who lived there, survey the land and cut it into farms and townships for settlement. The children were taken so that they would not be able to learn the language and culture of their parents. The plan as articulated by our first Prime Minister, was to stop them from hunting and fishing so they could become factory workers. this was the plan used open land in Ireland. It was colonization in Ireland and we have been advantaged by the same plan here. Truth is a painful reality but we must face it and as Christians accept that we are part of it. How would Jesus feel about finding himself in this place in this time, living as neighbours of Indigenous men, women and children in this country that has been so good to us. I send you the Peace of Christ.

The Anglican Church Hierarchy, Clergy and top officials at the time of the Church Schools as well as Provincial and Federal Governments, are the ones who need to bear the full responibility for the attrocities to the Indigenous Peoples of this country.

How many times must we apologize as individuals for the actions of a group of misguided and probably mentally unstable clergy and greedy politicians.

We have been experiencing a decline in the past few years in the number of people attending services in all parishes in this country. The BAS and it’s overzealos proponents caused an exodus from the pews and the new Hymn Book did not help matters. The elderly parishioners who make up the majority of regular worshippers have had their pleas fall on deaf ears while these changes were pushed through yet always a pitch to fill the collection plate and faithfull seniors keep giving.

By means continue your journey as is your right as you work to find your truth but when you pass by lovely old churches with “For Sale” signs stuck in the lawns, stop and wonder if the reason the people stopped attending and left is because we are tired of being tried, convicted and pusnished for crimes we had no hand in committing.