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Jim Duff's avatar

Thanks for this. Numbers don’t lie, but they usually end up getting spun. This is the most significant post I’ve read since the Freeland eruption.

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G M's avatar

The idea that residential schools have caused harm to Indigenous people is not based upon evidence and facts.

There have been no bodies found at the so-called mass graves.

There is no long list of missing residential school students.

There is no evidence that Indigenous students who went to residential schools had any worse outcomes than Indigenous students who did not go to residential achools.

There is no evidence that the level of abuse at residential schools was any higher than at other schools in similar circumstances.

Attendance at residential schools was voluntary until the 1920's and then it became like others - no truancy, all children had to go to school.

Many Indigenous parents insisted that their children go to residential schools so that they would get an education, learn English, get good jobs and have a better future.

In fact many were so persistent that the provision of residential schools were written into some of the treaties.

Billions have been spent on Indigenous affairs with no improvement in the desperate plight of Indigenous people.

There is no transparency in how and where the money is spent.

Instead new approaches are needed, such as getting rid of the Indian Act and therefore treating Indigenous people the same as any other Canadian, total transparency in money spent on them, and the Indigenous people having more self-responsibility for their own situation.

Indigenous people are the equal of any other Canadian and freeing them from the restrictions of the Indian Act will give them a more prosperous future.

The media should or must publicize the positive aspects of residential schools instead of only publicizing a very one-sided negative version of them.

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