Please Cancel Canada Day.

No, this has nothing to do with the Canadian federation and the politics surrounding it. It has everything to do with mass graves found on the grounds of former Residential Schools across the country.

Our brothers and sisters who make up First Nations, Métis and other aboriginal nations are in incredible pain. What has been whispered about for countless years is increasingly a horrible and tremendously sad reality. Canada must do everything possible to deal with this pain. 

To that end, we should drop all national, provincial, territorial and local celebrations of Canada Day. We need to seriously reflect about our past and the path ahead regarding our relations both governmental and individual with First Nations and other aboriginal people.

My God, what's the way forward? Unfortunately, the recent discoveries of bodies are likely just the tip of the iceberg. People were expendable and if that isn't a clear case of societal genocide then I don't know what is. 

Again, cancel ALL Canada Day celebrations and do it quickly.