Only one politician that has used somewhat blunt words (at least, one word) to call the acts of burning churches what it is. The other political leaders as spineless as they are including our own PM have used "unacceptable". How would such a word as "unacceptable" been received from such communities when a family was involved in a fatal hit and run, murders at a mosque in Quebec, a synagogue vandalized, or even during a hoax of a torn off hijab incident. Thr media and politics have obligingly stayed out of their duties to call out hate crime on this one.
"...At time of writing, exactly one federal party leader has publicly condemned what is now a quite astonishing church-burning epidemic in Indigenous communities in four provinces. In a tweet on Monday, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole called it “appalling,” which it surely is at a bare minimum.... But in the meantime, you would think denying Indigenous people a place of prayer, comfort and inspiration might rouse a lot more anger than it has — in politics and in the media alike.
"...But surely it’s inconceivable they [politicians] would stay silent if this were a spate of urban church-burnings. They certainly wouldn’t keep their powder dry if a single mosque, synagogue, gurdwara or other minority religion’s house of worship was deliberately torched, never mind a succession of them. On what principle can they justify silence with respect to another minority: Indigenous Christians?.."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-if-politicians-cant-condemn-indigenous-church-burnings-reconciliation-is-a-pipe-dream
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