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Originally Posted by Azure
You're kidding me right? We've been actively burying the residential school scandal for decades.
The only reason it is even coming up is because the graves are being found.
That is just one of the glaring examples of how we have a deep, cultural problem with mistreating JUST our First Nations people.
I appreciate our health care system as much as anyone, but I'm not going to sit here and bash the US for their crime, gun and death problems when Canadians should be fricking embarrassed by how our governments have treated First Nations people for the last 100 years, and say 'oh but we have better health care.'
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Here's the difference though, all over Canada all politicians of all stripes are commenting on this terrible legacy, schools and streets are being renamed as fast as they can get the signs painted with not so much as a complaint, the only real debate in Canada about our treatment of the native population is how exactly do we make things better, the policies may be rubbish, they may not work but as long as I have lived in Canada (since the 80's) no one has ever argued that Canada didnt have some kind of debt or obligation to our native population, the debate has been about scale, method and cost, not the actual need.
In the US they are demonstrating to keep up statues of Nathen Bedford Forest, General Lee's statue has been relocated to pride of place in a golf course resort in Florida, not only are they in no way repentant but half the US is actively supportive of the state using violence to keep their minorities down, that half, including the GOP are closer to the Canada of the 1920's in real terms.