Provinces face calls to make new National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday

[Fisherman]

Do we have an "I stubbed my toe on the coffee table at zero dark thirty" yet. Flags haven't been up in a long time and then this comes along too.

[MikePal]

if we're discussing the 'truth' ..part...I'd be interested in knowing if they're going to explain just what the Indigenous contribution is to the Canadian people, other than Cheap smokes and Casinos....

[Birdbuff]

Why does everyone have such a negative view of the fn? You can’t paint them all with the same brush.

[Sam Menard]

Why does everyone have such a negative view of the fn? You can’t paint them all with the same brush.

Frankly, I surprised by the negativity.

[73hunter]

The education system should not be used to indoctrinate our kids as to what is politically fashionable at the time.

I’m sorry for what happened to them but I didn’t do it, and neither did my family. I have little patience for Trudope’s war on white males.

Maybe the priests should be wearing orange.

[Bushwhacker]

I wouldn't say everyone has a negative view of fn's.

I would say many people are tired of being called racist / fascist / xenophobic, etc. for not immediately and blindly sprinting towards the latest progressive cause du jour. That's the problem.

There was quite a lengthy OOD thread on this a while back, when the whole residential schools tidal wave came out in the news.
I had the audacity to ask some basic questions no one in the news or on talk radio seemed able to.

The issue is that, increasingly, there only seems to be one acceptable opinion on anything (covid, vaccines, vax passport, climate change, black lives matter, renaming streets & schools, etc.). This isn't the sign of a free democratic country, but rather a corrupt oligarchy.

Everyone just yells "THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!" when it's anything but, and drowns out any alternate viewpoints.

Around 30% of Indigenous children died by the age of 12 mostly due to disease. There were no antibiotics for TB until 1946. In 1953, 43% of res school children were orphans. Where do you bury these poor kids when they die in remote areas without families? I do acknowledge that any abuse, where it occurred, is wrong. However, forensics have not been conducted or released. Yet the entire country just reflexively rallies against Christianity even more so than it already has been in this secular age...burning down churches and mocking Christians.

So now they trot out some hollow slogan "Every child matters!"

I agree. So let's start with abortion! (and watch the liberal heads explode).

[MikePal]

I would say many people are tired of being called racist / fascist / xenophobic, etc. for not immediately and blindly sprinting towards the latest progressive cause du jour. That's the problem

Bingo....

some facts...

Today...not 100 yrs ago...the problem with Indigenous Children continues. And it's an Indigenous problem.

In Canada, 52.2% of children in foster care are Indigenous, but account for only 7.7% of the child population according to Census 2016. This means 14,970 out of 28,665 foster children in private homes under the age of 15 are Indigenous.

"The reasons why indigenous kids go into care are driven by poverty, poor housing, substance misuse and mental health and domestic violence,..

....this is the basic fact but then this is what it's turned into....

due to the multi-generational trauma of residential schools," says Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society.

...bullcrap !!

And that's the root of the problem...the FN continues, after 100's of yrs , to still blame Canadians for all their problems, especially when it's associated with their children. Truth be told....the kids need to have a better life than what they were born into.

Now it's become a "darned if you do darned if you don't" problem. The kids need to be removed due to unsafe living conditions from their own families. The Indigenous communities have failed them. So they are now provided better care with foster families off the reservations. Our help is now called 'cultural genocide'.

What was done to help the kids a 100 yrs ago with Residential schools, is still being done today with Foster care.

Then the Village Idiot weights in;

"The ongoing removal of kids from their communities to live with foster families, to go to other cities or towns where they lose their culture, they lose their language, they lose their identity, needs to stop," Trudeau said.

Sure let's leave them in an unsafe environment ..

Their solution..let's throw $40K (each) of taxpayers money at the kids that were being helped to reconcile for what ???

Time to lay the blame on the FN..not provide them monetary 'reconciliation' for endangering their kids.

[MikePal]

If you're interested in seeing the truth about the living conditions the Indigenous children are living in..have a watch:

start in about the 6:00 minute mark and see why the kids are often removed for their own safety..

[Fisherman]

Call it what you want, but there's nothing precluding them from cleaning up the dumps they live in to start with.

[73hunter]

Call it what you want, but there's nothing precluding them from cleaning up the dumps they live in to start with.

What’s preventing them from cleaning up these dumps is that the NDP and Liberals would lose their opportunities for photo ops and requests for public sympathy - followed by ghastly amounts of our money