of the European immigrants who settled Canada, ultimately at the expense of the native peoples.  Native American culture is far more spiritual in terms of how one views the world than that of most Canadians of British and French heritage.  While some early settlers, including trappers, understood and respected the ways of the indigenous peoples, for most the ways of the First Nations were anachronistic and paganism.  The First Nations were obstacles to be overcome, and their land exploited.  There was no abiding sense of responsibility to the earth or of man's place as part of a larger ecosystem, and there was certainly no sense of spirituality beyond the basics of the Catholic and Protestant Churches.  The Sufis of the Muslim world have more in common with the First Nations peoples than did the British and French settlers.

The current Canada is a modern member of the industrialized world, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and contributor to many United Nations peacekeeping missions, and a partner to the United States in the defense of the continent.  Its treatment of its indigenous population, however, has been abysmal, evident in the commitment of human rights groups and the United Nations to investigate the treatment of Canada's Native Americans by the British/French majority.  Canada's world view is one with the United States, Great Britian, France, Germany, and other advanced societies in Europe.  It has serious differences with its larger, more powerful neighbor to the south, but, in terms of world view, it is closer to the world of Caucasians than to that of its indigenous population.