The amount of press this indigenous burial is getting is making me proud to be Canadian even though we are also responsible for the horrific residential school system.
Hard to see another nation that something like this would be a national story in every paper for days.
Its quite a thing to reconcile the perception of Canadians as meek and polite with evidence of a state sponsored genocide. I dont think Iâll really be proud of Canada until we truly make the welfare of indigenous communities a national priority. Trudeau says the words but thereâs still a lot of action that needs to happen. And action means $$$.
We have a long way to go for sure but the recognition here is a very good first step.
I am a little worried about the method used to find the burials. Ive done GPR and it can be ambiguous. I hope they were conservative in their interpretation and it doesnât end up being a large overestimate or different age groups as the racists will latch into that so fast.
Yes, thatâs true. The current Liberal government budget for 2021 also approximately doubled commitments to indigenous programs, which is certainly good. But given that they still havenât delivered safe drinking water (!) to all indigenous communities its hard to take a victory lap on any of this.
At least we say âsorryâ a lot while conducting a systematic genocide.
This is a pretty big deal, Canadians are rarely moved to this level of overt political action.
Under the not LOLCanada category but the âwow are we different than the USâ category.
Ontario court rules itâs unconstitutional for conservatives to change financing law to benefit the incumbent.
https://www.toronto.com/news-story/10412799-ontario-aims-to-override-court-ruling-on-elxn-law/
Singh rules.
What if Torontonians just have clean water because of our inherent superiority? Has he thought of that?
Chessmate libtard.
Itâs too bad we actually have âBecause fuck you, thatâs whyâ enshrined in the Constitution, though.
Pretty sure heâs the only politician Iâve been 100% behind, like, ever. Iâm also in love with his wife. Donât tell him.
At least Bernier got himself arrested.
Experts said the British Columbia find was the" tip of the iceberg". Jeez.
There are going to be thousands more. Alberta just announced $8M for finding burial sites. Most of the residential schools were here.
The greatest politician of my lifetime.
I mean, yeah. You canât commit a genocide without leaving a lot of dead bodies around.
Trudeau needs to do something showy here, like some big push to rebrand Canada Day 2021 as T&R day and make the entire federal government messaging on July 1 about indigenous people. Hes good at surface level BS so this should be a layup for him.
lol no, Canada Day is not being rebranded. Every country has done some Fâd up things and Canada has definitely been a lot better than average.
I mean as a one time thing, make this Canada Day a focus on out indigenous people.
