If you’re Canadian, close your eyes and imagine sitting on a beach in The Bahamas with the Maple Leaf flag waving above you in the Caribbean breeze. Well, at the beginning of the twentieth century, there were very serious negotiations between the Bahamian and Canadian governments to make the islands part of Canada.

So what happened?

In this episode of The Brave Podcast, Benjamin talks about exactly what happened and how, unfortunately, Canada was racist as fuck during this time. Ultimately, it was racial hysteria in the prairies and white Canadians’ intolerance of Black people that ended up ruining everything.