Another 40 billion for FN's

[canadaman30]

another statistic that counters the 'poor little me' image the Indigenous try to portray. Even with many being sent to healing lodges instead of prison, those are full too.



more: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canad...ays/ar-AARWjuE

Those numbers are a sad showing for FN's.

[JoePa]

I believe the whole Indian mission approach was done with good intentions but somewhat misguided - there were people who truly wanted to help the Indian children - we had the same thing happen here in my country - and as far as physical punishment goes in those days it was accepted and was consider normal - when I was in grade school it was not uncommon for a teacher or the principal in a school to use physical punishment - even as late as 1951 in the public school I went to the gym teacher would wack guys for misbehaving - I think it is somewhat unfair to apply present day standards to things that happened years ago - we need to be careful that we don't over react and blow something way out of proportion to actually what happened -

Hopefully as time goes on we learn and not repeat the same mistakes that were made in the past -

[MikePal]

I believe the whole Indian mission approach was done with good intentions but somewhat misguided -

There is a lot of background to what happened that is never told....this article from True North confirms what you have said.. it was done with the best of intentions and with the help of the indigenous communities who wanted to see a better life for their children.

Good read :

If “forced to attend school” simply means compulsory school attendance that applies to all children, then the claim is misleading. School attendance, or its equivalent in homeschooling, is required of all Canadian children, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, as it is of children in all modern societies.

Indeed, school attendance was not even required of Indian children until 1920, when an amendment to the Indian Act made them subject to the same compulsory attendance as all others had been. However, prior to 1920 Catholic and Protestant residential schools had operated in one form or another for more than half a century. Indigenous children attended those schools because their parents wanted them to attend. Education was seen as a benefit.

Even after 1920, enforcement of attendance for Indian children was weak. As late as 1944, records show that upwards of 40% of Indian children went to no school at all.

more see: https://tnc.news/2021/12/19/the-misl...ntial-schools/

[trimmer21]

Throwing billions of dollars at the FN issue has been an unmitigated failure only succeeding in making things worse. Government policy is condescending and racist bordering on insanity. First Nations want to be autonomous. They need to be allowed to do so completely. It's long past the time to pull the plug on the entire thing.