OTTAWA—Land acknowledgments are an expected protocol to start meetings and even in email signatures. But what are they accomplishing? One can imagine the email from the feds to First Nations police chiefs, refusing to fund them equitably to any other police force, on that boilerplate signature with a hypocritical land acknowledgement. What a colonial slam. When a corporation starts a meeting with a land acknowledgment, but never discusses responsibilities to actually do reconciliation during that meeting, it’s hypocrisy. And nobody sees hypocrisy better than Indigenous Peoples.