Science Professor: Canadian Indians and Weasel Word

science professor: Our Indigenous peoples are not immigrants... managing to offend again with a paternalistic possessive, according to Rabble. He didn't actually use the weasel word, misspoke; press accounts did.I think this goes well beyond a slip; it's a conceit with a useful history in disparaging Indigenous claims. Two days later he tweeted an apology for a miscommunication. Alberta political science professor and Stephen Harper adviser Tom Flanagan, in a deliberately provocative polemic against those claims, First Nations, Second Thoughts, 2000 wrote Canadian Indians now call themselves the 'First Nations' to embody their claim to an Aboriginal right of self-government. This evoked a flood of outrage, as Flanagan surely intended. Yet they were also the first immigrants because their ancestors, like the ancestors of everyone else in North America, moved here from the Old World. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.