To think that Senator Lynn Beyak was driven to reeducation and retirement for saying the same thing as Michelle Stirling, whose words always ring loud and true. “As eminent Canadian historian, Robert Carney wrote: ‘...it must be said that much of what the missionaries did with respect to aboriginal schooling was intended to help native people to adjust to a changing environment, and that the missionaries and their sponsoring churches were foremost among newcomers to the country in attempting to do this.’” Beyak deserves an apology from the Canadian government.
"Bullshit, I can't hear you! Sound off like you got a pair! " Gunnery Sgt. Hartman "Full Metal Jacket" by Stanley Kubrick
You are absolutely right, Michelle, it should be rescinded, but it won't. Bertrand Russel once said, "neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” Our politicians are deathly afraid of sharing the fate Senator Lyn Beyak who was politically ostracized for defending Residential Schools. It is this fear that will prevent them from speaking out or changing their minds or as Kubrick has written, "sound off like you got a pair".
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible"…. Voltaire
Michelle, thanks for this. That this “genocide” story is being brought up in international conversations. (Recently Douglas Murray mentioned it in relationship to his dislike of our PM.)
When cycling in Austria and Slovenia last month, some of our cycle group from the US were tentatively asking us how we felt about the genocide. We corrected them with evidence we know, the writings of Terry Glavin and Jonathan Kay, for example.
How about we move on to NEW topic with regard to Indigenous People's Canada? One that doesn't require anyone to search for dead bodies on the sites of former Residential Schools? How about the Federal and Provincial Governments step up and settle ALL the land claims? This has been an ongoing discussion for ages but the Governments involved have moved a muscle to address this matter
I can understand maybe in BC as it's largely untreatied, and the same "poison pill" directive is in place there as the federal level one that Jodi snuck in before she left, a directive that says no litigation, settle only. But in the rest of Canada where treaties are place, why should there be land claims? Treaties are being discarded willy nilly like toilet paper. That was never the intent when they were signed. They were signed in good faith on both sides. I don't know how you can say that governments have not "moved a muscle." That's not true at all. The amount of pending land claims will take a century to settle. Why are there any at all? Why should Canadian taxpayers be on the hook for billions and billions and BILLIONS of dollars for land claims?
When you steal something you either need to make RESTITUTION or you can RETURN what you stole and sincerely apologize for being a THIEF in the first place. Would Walmart offer you that option if you stole merchandise from their store? Nope!! They'd arrest you. And you'd find yourself in court where you'd be charged and end up with a criminal record that would likely haunt you for a very long time. Why should the Government get off scott free when they took something that didn't belong to them? Give it back or pay for what you took!
To think that Senator Lynn Beyak was driven to reeducation and retirement for saying the same thing as Michelle Stirling, whose words always ring loud and true. “As eminent Canadian historian, Robert Carney wrote: ‘...it must be said that much of what the missionaries did with respect to aboriginal schooling was intended to help native people to adjust to a changing environment, and that the missionaries and their sponsoring churches were foremost among newcomers to the country in attempting to do this.’” Beyak deserves an apology from the Canadian government.
"Bullshit, I can't hear you! Sound off like you got a pair! " Gunnery Sgt. Hartman "Full Metal Jacket" by Stanley Kubrick
You are absolutely right, Michelle, it should be rescinded, but it won't. Bertrand Russel once said, "neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” Our politicians are deathly afraid of sharing the fate Senator Lyn Beyak who was politically ostracized for defending Residential Schools. It is this fear that will prevent them from speaking out or changing their minds or as Kubrick has written, "sound off like you got a pair".
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible"…. Voltaire
You make strong arguments. It is certainly true that China will try to use this against Canada.
Perhaps there will now be a greater incentive on the part of the Trudeau government to discover whether or not there is real evidence for a genocide.
Michelle, thanks for this. That this “genocide” story is being brought up in international conversations. (Recently Douglas Murray mentioned it in relationship to his dislike of our PM.)
When cycling in Austria and Slovenia last month, some of our cycle group from the US were tentatively asking us how we felt about the genocide. We corrected them with evidence we know, the writings of Terry Glavin and Jonathan Kay, for example.
How about we move on to NEW topic with regard to Indigenous People's Canada? One that doesn't require anyone to search for dead bodies on the sites of former Residential Schools? How about the Federal and Provincial Governments step up and settle ALL the land claims? This has been an ongoing discussion for ages but the Governments involved have moved a muscle to address this matter
I'd really like to know why this is the case?
I can understand maybe in BC as it's largely untreatied, and the same "poison pill" directive is in place there as the federal level one that Jodi snuck in before she left, a directive that says no litigation, settle only. But in the rest of Canada where treaties are place, why should there be land claims? Treaties are being discarded willy nilly like toilet paper. That was never the intent when they were signed. They were signed in good faith on both sides. I don't know how you can say that governments have not "moved a muscle." That's not true at all. The amount of pending land claims will take a century to settle. Why are there any at all? Why should Canadian taxpayers be on the hook for billions and billions and BILLIONS of dollars for land claims?
When you steal something you either need to make RESTITUTION or you can RETURN what you stole and sincerely apologize for being a THIEF in the first place. Would Walmart offer you that option if you stole merchandise from their store? Nope!! They'd arrest you. And you'd find yourself in court where you'd be charged and end up with a criminal record that would likely haunt you for a very long time. Why should the Government get off scott free when they took something that didn't belong to them? Give it back or pay for what you took!