CaptainBolduke
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I expect a liberal minority and a lot of moaning about the shit choices available to canadians.
All while employment remains at historically high national levels.
The noise has taken over the election. Not reality.
I expect a liberal minority and a lot of moaning about the shit choices available to canadians.
All while employment remains at historically high national levels.
The noise has taken over the election. Not reality.
Canada has an incredible ability to care about everything else over Indigenous Peoples. It's truly a historic and current shame that everyone should feel.
I am very glad the Liberals took some leadership and funded this inquiry. The truth needs to come out.
The question is: Do enough people care? I sure hope so.
People stopped caring the second the inquiry tossed the genocide word out willy nilly.
I think Canadians would have rallied behind common sense policies to reduce the number of missing and murdered indegeneous women, but accusing Canada of genocide was jumping the shark and now nobody will take it seriously.
but i mean it was genocide.
To clarify, since I'm not sure what the answer to this is:
Does this report claim that Canada has historically been responsible for genocide against its Native population?
Or is it claiming that Canada is currently engaged in genocide against its Native population up to the present day?
Would "cultural" genocide be more appropriate?
but i mean it was genocide.
eh, what we did to the natives was obviously genocide.
now what this report is talking about specifically, i don't know.
Would "cultural" genocide be more appropriate?
not in accordance with my understanding of the word, no.
but I do want to hear the arguments supporting your position before I fully make up my mind.
my first instinct is to react the way Mindz and Altair did to the use of the term 'genocide' in this context. but maybe you can sway me.
for me, a genocide would be something like what happened in Rwanda, the Holocaust, the recent attacks against the Rohingya in Myanmar probably also qualifies. but those are large scale, organized campaigns aimed at wiping out a particular ethnic group. if the report were to allege that Canada was guilty of historic genocide against FNMI people, then I think that is harder to argue. but I don't understand how there could be a current, ongoing genocide, perpetrated by the government.
Marion Buller has done no one any favours with her inquiry’s sweeping denunciation of Canada as a society of mass killers.
She’s done nothing to enhance support among Canadians, who will mostly dismiss her report’s most contentious finding out of hand. She has offered no aid to a federal government that would desperately like to do something right on Aboriginal claims but has just been told it’s running an extermination project. And she certainly hasn’t helped Canada’s First Nations, which are likely to see their place on the national priority list fall deeper into the status of hopeless causes as people conclude there’s simply no means by which their demands and aspirations can be satisfied.
That’s a sad thing. Because despite the conclusion of the inquiry that Canada’s goal in its treatment of its native people is one of annihilation, there exists a great well of sympathy for the conditions they have been reduced to, an acceptance that past practices have been wrong-headed and damaging, and a willingness to go to considerable lengths to make it right. But people can only do the possible, and demanding the impossible is no road to success.
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