Majority of Canadians don’t see themselves as ‘settlers,’ poll finds – national Post

Oct 01, 2024

Perhaps surprisingly, 41 per cent of Canadians ages 18-34 disagree with being labelled colonists

It may be common among Canadian academics and some policymakers to identify non-Indigenous citizens of Canada as “settlers” — European-descended people who colonized the country — but most Canadians don’t see themselves that way, according to a new Leger Marketing poll.

The pollsters found that 47 per cent of Canadians disagree with the term “settler” as a descriptor. Thirty per cent didn’t know about the term, leading the researchers to note that it’s “reasonably safe to conclude that the 30 per cent … simply don’t understand the notion of settler colonialism.”

In short, fewer than one in four Canadians see themselves as a “settler.”

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