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Originally Posted by you&me
Can you imagine? The mechanisms of government funding this would take far longer than a gofundme campaign... Which in itself is an indication of the broader problem.
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Case in point, it took 89 years after the first investigation and condemnation of residential schools (Bryce report in 1907) before they actually closed the schools.
The Hawthorne report in 1963 also highlighted residential schools as unjust and was one of the reasons Pierre Trudeau tried to abolish the Indian Act. His proposal went too far however and was almost unanimously rejected because it included giving up all special status, which was a big sacrifice. The government should have just got rid of residential schools and saved the other issues for another day.