The federal government will discontinue funding a committee created to help Indigenous communities look for unmarked graves at former residential schools at the end of next month.
It is about time this was done. All historical government and other documentation refutes these allegations of hidden graves and aboriginal genocide. The majority of these grave sites were common knowledge for years and the deaths were probably tuberculosis related. Archives and other documentation appears to indicate just as many white children as aboriginals were victims of this disease. Lastly, British/Canadian treatment of aboriginals was infinitely better than any other European nation coming to North America and their subsequent colonists. We were not prefect but considering the times and attitudes then, our aboriginal population faired much better than others.
I appreciate this article as a starting effort, but it needs to keep going to fully inform on this important story. Can we get answers to the following questions:
1. How much funding did the Federal Government pass to the NACRSMCUB?
2. What was this funding spent on - how much was passed to each of the listed "investigations", each of which delivered zero evidence of human remains?
3. Where can the general public go to obtain access to the spending reports identified in 2?
4. Where can the public obtain copies of the reports from each investigation funded by taxpayer dollars?
Mr. Trudeau ordered the Canadian flag be flown at half mast for 6 months as a public declaration of the shame all Canadians must accept for the "murder of 215 indigenous children whose remains had been discovered, including 3 year old infants." No such remain had been found, nor have indeed been found years after this unfounded allegation had been accepted as the Gospel Truth by our lying professional apologist prime minister.
In the 1920s my family lost 17% of its children to childhood illness plus the mother of 4 of those children. My grandmother has a home made concrete grave marker and my child uncle had a wooden cross that we visited when young. This experience was common among the non Indian population. Wood does rot with time and now my child uncle lies in an unmarked grave. My dad and his siblings were forbidden to speak their family language by the nuns and had to learn English. Isn’t it odd that we didn’t suffer intergenerational damage, spend generations on welfare and demand money and rights as an oppressed minority. My dad and one uncle fought for their country in WWII. My generation educated ourselves, some might sa y overeducated ourselves, on our own nickel and contributed to society all our lives. I do begrudge having to pay for Indian families for the last 62 years and cringe at the fact that my tax paying great grand children now have to pay for their great grandchildren purely on the basis of race and not need. It is time for one Canadian regardless of racial origin.
Finally, although this is a very small portion of taxpayers $$ that is dumped into the coffiers of the Aboriginal Industry. But I guess it's a start.
It is about time this was done. All historical government and other documentation refutes these allegations of hidden graves and aboriginal genocide. The majority of these grave sites were common knowledge for years and the deaths were probably tuberculosis related. Archives and other documentation appears to indicate just as many white children as aboriginals were victims of this disease. Lastly, British/Canadian treatment of aboriginals was infinitely better than any other European nation coming to North America and their subsequent colonists. We were not prefect but considering the times and attitudes then, our aboriginal population faired much better than others.
I appreciate this article as a starting effort, but it needs to keep going to fully inform on this important story. Can we get answers to the following questions:
1. How much funding did the Federal Government pass to the NACRSMCUB?
2. What was this funding spent on - how much was passed to each of the listed "investigations", each of which delivered zero evidence of human remains?
3. Where can the general public go to obtain access to the spending reports identified in 2?
4. Where can the public obtain copies of the reports from each investigation funded by taxpayer dollars?
Mr. Trudeau ordered the Canadian flag be flown at half mast for 6 months as a public declaration of the shame all Canadians must accept for the "murder of 215 indigenous children whose remains had been discovered, including 3 year old infants." No such remain had been found, nor have indeed been found years after this unfounded allegation had been accepted as the Gospel Truth by our lying professional apologist prime minister.
When can we read more?
In the 1920s my family lost 17% of its children to childhood illness plus the mother of 4 of those children. My grandmother has a home made concrete grave marker and my child uncle had a wooden cross that we visited when young. This experience was common among the non Indian population. Wood does rot with time and now my child uncle lies in an unmarked grave. My dad and his siblings were forbidden to speak their family language by the nuns and had to learn English. Isn’t it odd that we didn’t suffer intergenerational damage, spend generations on welfare and demand money and rights as an oppressed minority. My dad and one uncle fought for their country in WWII. My generation educated ourselves, some might sa y overeducated ourselves, on our own nickel and contributed to society all our lives. I do begrudge having to pay for Indian families for the last 62 years and cringe at the fact that my tax paying great grand children now have to pay for their great grandchildren purely on the basis of race and not need. It is time for one Canadian regardless of racial origin.
About bloody time. as a card carrying Métis person, I want to see evidence! If there's no evidence, stop soaking the taxpayer dollars!!!
About time.
We need to stop the ABUSE of our welfare system!!!