01-08-2022, 02:01 PM
(01-08-2022, 01:26 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(01-08-2022, 01:21 AM)jeffster Wrote: 1) Native Canadians -- they don't trust the government, especially Trudeau, as his father and their party had a huge part in the residential schools. Not to mention their slow action when dealing with compensation.
What does Trudeau (even Sr.) have to do with it?
I looked through the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_I...ool_system
According to it, mandatory school attendance ended in 1947, and it says the government closed most of the schools in the 1960s. Trudeau Sr. was first elected to Parliament in 1965. The remaining schools closed as late as 1997; except for the ones that didn’t close at all because their management was transferred to a First Nations group. I actually wonder how bad that last school really was in 1997; there is no fundamental reason why a federally-funded residential school has to be a bad thing for the children and their communities.
So Trudeau had precisely zero to do with setting up the system; I’m unclear on how much he did to improve/replace it; I’m sure he could be criticized for not doing enough fast enough. But the idea that First Nations people can’t figure out the difference between a slow response by modern governments to the residential schools legacy and our vaccination effort is insulting to First Nations.
Similarly, the idea that Black people are mistrustful of the vaccine “because Tuskegee” is insulting to Black people. Black people are perfectly capable of understanding the difference between unethical studies that took way too long to shut down (but which even at that, ended 50 years ago — it has been longer since the Tuskegee experiment ended than its entire duration) and a vaccine which is not being tested specifically on Black people but which instead has been administered to hundreds of millions of people of all ethnic backgrounds worldwide with no significant safety problems.
I think this is a nice summary.
https://www.anishinabek.ca/wp-content/up...ooklet.pdf
The schools were horrible for the kids, and, as you sort of mention, and according to this overview as linked above, the last school close in 1996 -- a full 12 years after P.E. Trudeau retired.
There was no apology until 2008, when Harper apologized for what had happened.
Also sterilization of native women:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/9keaev/i...ir-consent
Why would anyone wonder why they don't trust government?