So how do you propose changing it to suit everybody? People who have suffered through months of unemployment, I'd bet would be happy whatever the arrangement!
Ottawa to declare federal holiday to mark legacy of residential school system
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So how do you propose changing it to suit everybody? People who have suffered through months of unemployment, I'd bet would be happy whatever the arrangement!
As I have said before, I spent a lot of time over the years renovating and tending bar in one way or another...
and a good bar man is a considered competent therapist...or at least a good ear.
At least ONE third of the clientel(le) has been raped by someone, sometime...but this is about institutionalized rape.
BTW, how do we know that in reality they are not celebrating this giant genocidal misdeed?
The elite are known for that kind of subtle closet BS.
Yes terrible , gave them a means to successfully hunt with modern firepower . Gave them the means to get to their preferred hunting grounds . Gave them modern fishing craft and netting technology. Taught them contemporary sciences . Made them into meaningful members of a progressive forward looking Canada .You are right , we should have left them to their own devices .
But they wanted to take the Indian out of the Indian . You know like teaching them important things ,like how to operate and maintain firearms , engines , boats , fishing nets . How to converse in Englishor French . Funny no w a days they can all do these things . Maybe we shouldn’t let them .
No ,not Hoid .
I am thinking you may not be the ideal arbiter of what's what, especially as it applies to First Nations.
I think we do hear more of the bad side than the good, but that happens in pretty well every situation in life! Can you imagine a movie on prisons just showing the boys playing cards?
It goes far beyond simply not hearing about any good that was done for natives by Canada, JLM. The activist types are complicit in allowing their 'stories' to be falsified such as is the case with the Charlie Wenjack tale, actively work to muzzle their own people who have different stories to tell about the Res Schools and refuse to acknowledge their own culpability in both the disappearance and murders of missing native women and the reasons why children were taken from impoverished and dysfunctional families.I think we do hear more of the bad side than the good, but that happens in pretty well every situation in life! Can you imagine a movie on prisons just showing the boys playing cards?
Wouldn't it be more sensible just to dedicate a date for it without having to make it a paid holiday?
It's part of what seems to be a deliberate movement to redefine terms to in today's era of extreme social activism and victimhood culture.
Genocide was once a term reserved to define only the worst human atrocities of cultural "cleansing" by way of mass murder of a particular group within a larger group. The word "genocide" is a combination of the Greek word génos ("race, people") and the Latin suffix -cide ("act of killing").
There has been a conscious effort in recent times to now include within that group people who's culture has been altered through the inevitable societal change which naturally comes about from immigration and changing demographics. This is a false premise, since all cultures are in a constant state of change. If the premise has any merit, can we now declare that since our current Prime Minister declares Canadian culture dead, and that Canada is now a "post-national state", that Justin Trudeau is guilty of genocide? I don't think so.
There is no doubt that the residential school system had a negative impact on indigenous culture, and no doubt that there were bad things done within this system. This is not unique to residential schools, just ask the pope. However, the effort to "assimilate" natives into current cultural norms was done not out of a deliberate attempt to kill a culture, but to better one. Obviously we can now find fault in this effort through the lens of today's social conscience, but it's disingenuous and wrong to judge the intentions of previous generations as cultural genocide.
Trudeau says Canada has no ‘core identity’
Late last year, Justin Trudeau told the New York Times that Canada is becoming a new kind of country, not defined by our history or European national origins, but by a “pan-cultural heritage”.
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” Trudeau said, concluding that he sees Canada as “the first post-national state.”
So, is this genocide too?
Trudeau campaign forced to address 2010 comments on Alberta
Canada (is) "better served when there are more Quebecers in charge than Albertans...This country, Canada, it belongs to us."
How about this...genocide?
