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I removed the following from the article:

In contrast, some commentators, such as Daniel N. Paul, argue that a decade before the Halifax Treaties were signed, the Mi'kmaq were weakened because they experienced a genocide by Governor Edward Cornwallis.^[1]

First, it was in brackets as an aside to the previous statement. Second, there was no "genocide" by any definition by Cornwallis. In fact, what is at issue is if he declared one or not, not that one was ever done. By all evidence, there was none, so to claim that the Mi'kmaq were weakened by something that never happened seems to be a stretch of history and logic. It should also be noted that the person making these claims, Mr. Daniel Paul, insists several things that tend to discredit him: 1) That he be called Doctor, even though he does not possess any doctorates, only Honorary ones, from Schools that publish no honorary degree recipient should declare themselves a Doctor and 2) that he has no interest in being historically accurate, he is explicitly biased and has no wish to be faithful to history, which is illustrated by the lack of evidence for this assertation.

Often when I bring up the lack of credentials for Mr. Paul, I get called racist due to Mr. Paul's background. I just want to stick to facts and history. I have no dog in this fight from a personal stand-point, my family emigrated from Ireland in the late 1800's, had nothing to do with the conquering of Nova Scotia, and were treated poorly by the British/Nova Scotia authorities until around the 1950s when my first family members stopped working in the coal mines of Cape Breton. In fact, I am the first in my line to attend college. Often, false claims of offense are used to justify the revision of history. The deleted statement is clearly false historically, makes no sense in the context of the article, and serves only to discredit Cornwallis as a geocidal murderer, perhaps the only one in history who does not have a single murder attached to him by evidence, just pure conjecture. If Cornwallis committed genocide, who didn't, including the Mi'kmaq in the area. Please, if reverting, state the evidence for this clearly as I cannot find any and again, it makes no sense from context and logic, so please provide that as well if you wish the statement to be re-instated. Thank you. -Kirkoconnell (talk) 19:54, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ See Paul, Daniel N. (2006). We Were Not the Savages: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations (3rd ed.). Fernwood. ISBN 978-1-55266-209-0. and Jon Tattrie. Cornwallis.

[1] See Paul, Daniel N. (2006). We Were Not the Savages: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations (3rd ed.). Fernwood. ISBN 978-1-55266-209-0. and Jon Tattrie. Cornwallis.

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