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White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.
Somebody replied with what happened already, so I will add that this day (Sept 30th) is Canada acknowledging the crimes of the government and church with Truth and hopefully Reconciliation of those events with the Indigenous people..
But heres the Truth: Our government didn't make it a federal holiday, so only some provinces treat it as a holiday where you can go and watch an indigenous celebration. When it was instituted our Premier (Trudeau) was in British Columbia on the Holiday and rather than meet with the Indigenous leaders at a celebration, he went to his island home to chill out. To me this showed exactly how much Canada cared about Reconciliation.
Also, the church still refuses to admit they did anything wrong, and in Ontario, half our schools are run by the same cult of pedophilic sex offenders.
Yeah now I'm in BC I forgot about the Catholic School Board in Ontario. We don't have that here. (Our education taxes can go to registered individual schools at 50% rate, but not the 100% amount likebyou can designate public or separate in Ontario)
It was a huge political blunder. The sort of mistake that doesn't make sense at all until you remember that he spent the day with his wife, and got divorced not long after. He was trying to save his marriage. He shouldn't've let his marriage get so precarious that he'd have to make a fuckup like that to try to save it, so I'm not excusing him, but I think it helps to understand it.
Is that the coverup story for the blunder? You could easily do both in the same day here.
I don't know what you mean by both, it's not a coverup story. It's my attempt to understand how a politician so obsessed with virtue signaling could fuck it up so badly. It's the only explanation I've seen that makes any sense.
Is there another explanation?
You could meet indigenous leaders for an hour and still go work on your relationship later. We don't know that he was working on his marriage, other than if he offered that as an excuse later. As a leader of the country you sort of need to put the job ahead of personal plans
I'm deeply touched to learn that not only do the Canadian people stand up against these horrible events. But they do so out of their own vollition.
I love you guys. I hope that Canada and Europe getting closer will bring that same spirit back here.
Well there is progress but the RCMP still treat the Indigenous like dogs in many places. Thy would drive walk drunken indigenous out of town to a snowy area to sober up and leave them there. Many froze to death.
https://assembly.nu.ca/library/Edocs/2006/001248-e.pdf
Old habits :/
This reads like "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong"
Oh shit I thought that doc was an indictment not a defense.
The RCMP systematically exterminated dog teams that were used for transportation etc. very effectively destroying the ability for those communities to be self sufficient.
https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1732300419996/1732300456676
This should be a better account of the impact of this.
Thanks for your effort!