Istandwithlouis

I'M WITH LOUIS

Louis Riel was Alberta's first separatist. Driven by Huguenot understandings of freedom of his people.

The Colonial Continuum: Louis Riel, and the True Face of Canadian Oppression

The historical execution of Louis Riel by the Canadian colonial establishment was not an act of justice but a racist extermination of Métis sovereignty and self-determination, a pattern that continues today as Ottawa imposes tyrannical mandates and economic exploitation on the peoples of the West. When the federal government, through institutions like GoFundMe, withheld nearly $5 million from the Freedom Convoy truckers protesting vaccine mandates, it revealed the same colonial impulse that hanged Riel—a deep-seated hatred for those who resist central authority and demand liberty. The same Canadian establishment that calls Alberta separatists "racist" is itself built upon the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the suppression of Riel's legitimate provisional government.