Commentary Following the announcement of 215 unmarked graves at a former Kamloops residential school in late May, the city of Victoria in B.C. announced the cancellation of its Canada Day celebrations. When an estimated 751 graves were then discovered at a former Saskatchewan residential school site, #CancelCanadaDay began to trend on Twitter. The activist group Idle No More urged Canadians “to come together and disrupt [July 1] celebration” in multi-provincial rallies. Four Catholic churches were burned in B.C. and one in Alberta in the week leading to Canada Day. The message was clear. The moral stain of the residential school system is so ineradicable that it renders Canada unworthy of celebration altogether. For indigenous families with a direct connection to the Indian Residential School system, (IRS) personally or familially, rejection of the nation for the ugliness of their portion in its history is understandable. But should our prime minister have …