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I know this isn't exactly a current event, but whatever its very Political. And terrible.

Through the Canadian residential school system, the Christian churches along with state authorities, the judiciary, doctors and the police implemented a policy of genocide against the native population.

I only just heard about this today. I guess it started in the early 1900's and through even the 60's on Vancouver Island to the Native Population.

As early as November 1907, the Canadian press was acknowledging that the death rate within Indian residential schools exceeded 50% (see Appendix, Key Newspaper Articles). And yet the reality of such a massacre has been wiped clean from the public record and consciousness in Canada over the past decades. Small wonder; for that hidden history reveals a system whose aim was to destroy most native people by disease, relocation and outright murder, while "assimilating" a minority of collaborators who were trained to serve the genocidal system.

his history of purposeful genocide implicates every level of government in Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), every mainstream church, large corporations and local police, doctors and judges. The web of complicity in this killing machine was, and remains, so vast that its concealment has required an equally elaborate campaign of cover-up that has been engineered at the highest levels of power in our country; a cover-up that is continuing, especially now that eyewitnesses to murders and atrocities at the church-run native residential "schools" have come forward for the first time.

These 50,000 victims have vanished, as have their corpses - "like they never existed", according to one survivor. But they did exist. They were innocent children, and they were killed by beatings and torture and after being deliberately exposed to tuberculosis and other diseases by paid employees of the churches and government, according to a "Final Solution" master plan devised by the Department of Indian Affairs and the Catholic and Protestant churches.

Dude. This is absolutely disgusting.




Here is the article: http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/canada.html
And for further reading:
http://www.canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/

I've never really been ashamed of being a Canadian until right now. When a coworker told me at work I didn't believe her. So I looked.

I don't understand why this hasn't been reported and dealt with.

yep... it's exactly why I tell people Canada isn't an innocent nation either when they try and bash other countries (namely the USA) for human rights abuses.

The people who came from Europe to start life on this continent probably committed the largest act of genocide ever. I don't know the exact figures but they are fairly comparable to the Holocaust.

You should also read up on Canada's Japanese internment camps. Some people who were of Japanese descent but born in Canada were even deported to Japan. It was a WWII version of Maher Arar, only involving thousands instead of one man.

Yeah, Canada doesn't exactly have an innocent history.
Remember the Beothuk? They used to... exist.

you've never heard of residential schools? wow...anyways, what has been said is true. canada at many times in history, and in some aspects today, has done some pretty horrible things to different ethnic groups.

Europeans taking away native land and putting people on reservations, along with residential schools, are the main reasons for aboriginal social and health problems today.

There were generations of kids brought up without parents that were told on a regular basis that their culture was something to be ashamed of, that by the time they came home, they had no understanding of how to live or raise children within a native envirnment.

I've read alot about Japanese internment camps, they're sick. Its affected alot of history around here and in Steveston where I grew up, because most of the Japanese population was concentrated in the little fishing villiage.

However, Canada has admitted they were wrong for the camps and reimbursed the victims with money(However unsubstantial).

But with this Genocide, nothing has been done. It isnt taught in school, not past the 1700's, and even then its a shotty description. Its all an elaborate cover up which, in a nation supposedly civilized as ours, is horrible.

it was covered fairly extensively in my canadian history course in high school. grade 10 i believe. it was touched on in grade 8 or 7, the in-depth criticism came later.

I've never heard of this.

Most countries who were settled as colonies have some sort of history revolving around this. We do too. THeres a nice big furor over the Government not saying sorry about it.
I don't believe it should have ot.. mainly because it was well before our time and secondly it opens the government up to litigation that would stretch into the hundreds of millions.

Yes but this isnt well before our time, this is something that was happening in the 70's.

and you are how old?

17. But even still its not something that happened 100 years ago, it happened in relatively modern time.