Watch this whole thing through - if you can stomach it! Some (limited) information on crimes against Aboriginal people in Canada and interviews with survivors of residential schools.
It makes me shake my head that people outside this country actually BUY the propaganda and seem to think it's all candy and rainbows in good ol' Canada. And the people in this country? They smugly look down their noses at Americans, Australians and others and don't appear to recognize their own racism or history.
A common Canadian theme is that while the residential schools were indeed tragic - they were misplaced good intentions. Only now (after years of stonewalling and whitewashing) are we beginning to discover that the government and churches knowingly and even purposefully infected large numbers of Aboriginals with small pox and tuberculosis - murder via plausible deniability.
Native children who testified to witnessing murders, unmarked graves, missing children and other crimes were shrugged off as 'crazy exaggerating Indians' until only recently, and still are for the most part.
Trying to research facts online, one is inundated with the old standby "But the Americans are worse!" Can ANYTHING EVER just be about Canada without bringing the USA into it?
Regardless of how the USA does or doesn't treat its minorities (including Aboriginals) one thing is clear: Canada was built on colonization and genocide. Its history is white washed, generally ignored or downplayed. Canada is a very racist country toward Aboriginals and other non-white citizens.
NOTHING in regards to any other country will change those fundamental facts.
