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The definition of 'settler': "a person who settles in an area, typically one with no or few previous inhabitants." That's a reasonable description of my great, great, great grandfather, but is not a description of me. Being a 5th generation Canadian, I didn't 'settle' on this land, I was 'born' to this land. Your opinion is sadly one that many indoctrinated people still hold in Canada. The knowledge that I was born to this land has no "violent impact" upon anyone, nor is it simply a belief. Their is no land for me to return to, no other place to call my own. I am Canadian, un-hyphenated.  I would actually argue that the true violent act is the attempt to deny one natural born to this land the benefits it bestows upon us all.  I object to your racial (racist) distinction between my right and that of a First Nations right to this land. I respect our treaties as law, not right. And I never called First Nations "victims". Far from it, I hold them in high regard and love their culture.