As part of The Opeongo Line's effort to both celebrate Canada Day today yet recognize the need for some Indigenous Canadians not to celebrate Canada Day this year, we have brought together Art Milnes and Sean Conway, two seasoned observers of Canadian political history, to discuss how we became an independent nation on July 1st 1867. They look at how our very fallible Fathers of Confederation created Canada in the midst of the 19th Century; what they got right and what they definitely failed to understand.