text: And given the extensive use of lynching - extra-judicial executions - by the Canadian state against First Nations leadership from the very beginning of the national journey.  From theTsilhqot'in Chiefs, to the execution of Anayitzachist,  of Louie Sam, etc,  the Canadian government - cheered on by the Globe and Mail - has always loved to "hang 'em high".  Perhaps a writer more aware of Canadian and Indigenous history might have avoided such an clanger of an image: surely good clink-bait; but also indicative of poor reasoning and great ignorance.