The episode opens by rejecting historical materialism.

Dunking on chauvinism and race science is cool but it's not an excuse for otherwise being wrong.

The discussion of Canada as "fake or real" is a metaphysical and idealistic distraction which draws us away from the real questions of what is to be done to make life better for the peoples of Canada who are themselves real.

We have been naught, we shall be all!
Happy October Revolution Day

Ron G. Bourgeault's The Indian, the Metis and the Fur Trade: Class, Sexism and Racism in the Transition from "Communism" to Capitalism is a good read.
It's got me feeling torn between "oh thank god, somebody said it" & "oh no, this conversation hasn't progressed since the 80s"