There's a lasting legacy of the Trudeau's that still impacts people to this day even if they were not very directly involved.
One of my parents went through the residential school system and to this day, she still cannot trust our current Prime Minister. The reason being is that neither him nor his father have done anything meaningful for reconciliation. Virtually every other Indigenous person I know doesn't like them either.
When your family and community at large has suffered through this, it's hard to just say okay well he didn't do anything and shrug it off. It isn't that straightforward. There's very, very, very deep intergenerational trauma that impacts us to this day and will likely impact us for the next century and beyond.
Personally, I don't trust the current government to do the right things needed, but at the same time I don't distrust them regarding things like vaccines. But others? It's no surprise when they do, when our communities are still suffering dire conditions and trauma. A couple apologies from white politicians doesn't fix that sort of stuff. When you're brought up in poverty, living on reserves or have family (or personally) feel the impacts of what was done to us in the past (or today, when we witness heavily militarized RCMP forces constantly battling us as we fight for our rights, high levels of incarceration, unsanitary drinking water, poor education etc), it's not shocking that many of us think they don't have our best interests in mind...because they really don't.
One of my parents went through the residential school system and to this day, she still cannot trust our current Prime Minister. The reason being is that neither him nor his father have done anything meaningful for reconciliation. Virtually every other Indigenous person I know doesn't like them either.
When your family and community at large has suffered through this, it's hard to just say okay well he didn't do anything and shrug it off. It isn't that straightforward. There's very, very, very deep intergenerational trauma that impacts us to this day and will likely impact us for the next century and beyond.
Personally, I don't trust the current government to do the right things needed, but at the same time I don't distrust them regarding things like vaccines. But others? It's no surprise when they do, when our communities are still suffering dire conditions and trauma. A couple apologies from white politicians doesn't fix that sort of stuff. When you're brought up in poverty, living on reserves or have family (or personally) feel the impacts of what was done to us in the past (or today, when we witness heavily militarized RCMP forces constantly battling us as we fight for our rights, high levels of incarceration, unsanitary drinking water, poor education etc), it's not shocking that many of us think they don't have our best interests in mind...because they really don't.