On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:50:18 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

Just caught an episode of Swamp Mysteries with Troy Landry.
Real dirty trick for the Brits to take those people from next to Paradise up here and dump them in the swamp. If anyone deserves depredations, it's the Acadian people sent stateside.

The British Canadian brand of bigotry is hatred of the French.
I knew a guy from Toronto who used to say
"You Americans have the blacks, we have the French, Americans always
did get the first choice".
I guess back in the 18th century you had the luxury of packing them up
and shipping them out.