Very impressed CP to see the change in attitudes here.
What some posters are missing here is the cascading effect residential schools and forced foster homes have through generations. Entire generations of people were prevented from becoming leaders or pursuing their own destiny. Instead, they became victims of abuse. This abuse then gets passed down to the next generation, as these people now lack family ties, proper support structures, education, labour skills, etc..
Over the last couple of decades things are improving, but no one can expect the healing from this to be overnight. Posters quoted how much money the government has already given indigenous groups need to take a step back and put those relatively small funds in the the larger context. Even from a purely economic sense, every piece of land you've ever stepped on in Canada was taken from indigenous people. How much is that worth vs. the meager amounts of reconciliation payments made recently?
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