And the feds under the Liberals are still jacking around with housing and clean water on the reserves, just among the many responsibilities each and every single government of this country has dodged & ignored since our founding. Will that Justin Trudeau's only legacy, because it's still happening with him as PM?

This is how things remain stagnant, by pulling a critical issue into the endless us-vs-them Lib-vs-Tory tribal idiocy. It serves nothing except to ensure that the problems will remain in perpetuity, just because Canada lacks the maturity to knock it off with the cheap political shots instead of getting down to business to put a permanent end to these tragedies & embarrassments.

Oh come on he also like the ones before him didn’t have the guts to do something about the house!! General maintenance was a can of worms no one wanted to open. The windows are old and drafty was a bad look there’s asbestos in there it’s a problem most could understand and they didn’t want to open it. What are the odds that this they would get anywhere near this bombshell. This is much bigger than the government house!! Besides they were all hoping this bomb would never ever be seen. It’s every PM’s legacy it’s Canada’s legacy it’s not going away. The real test is if anything changes or anyone cares in a year if they can figure out a way to sweep it under the carpet they will. How many have been talking about changes that never happen. How many reserves have clean drinking water? How many have running water in all the houses? It comes up in the news cycle everyone is shocked they say oh something should be done to fix this. Then the news moves on rinse and repeat

It's also very easy to ignore oral histories and the movies on the CBC or NFB documentaries that were made about this issue. Finding graveyards full of the remains of abused children is too in-your-face for even the most ignorant and oblivious to turn their backs on.

Played golf with a FN guy today, he basically said the same, all political stripes come out with fancy promises and there it ends until next time with yet more promises. Rinse and repeat.

"To see what is in front of one's own nose requires a constant struggle"

- George Orwell

Deb Haaland was confirmed as the first Native American Cabinet secretary in March. She isn’t wasting any time using her new post at the top of the Department of the Interior to advocate for indigenous people.

Haaland announced on Tuesday that the DOI is launching an initiative to address the “intergenerational impact” of the federal government’s history of forcing Native American children into boarding schools in order to assimilate them into white American culture. “At no time in history have the records or documentation of this policy been compiled or analyzed to determine the full scope of its reaches and effects,” Haaland said. “We must uncover the truth about the loss of human life, and the lasting consequences of the schools.”

Actions have consequences. You don't like it? Do something about it. Government enacts policy and what they choose to do or not on their watch is what all Canadians have a stake in. Calling that out isn't passing the buck it demanding that the buck stops here.

Was it a cynical political calculation, a game of musical chairs with dead bodies? Most likely. The music stopped on Harpers watch and at the time he could have done something about it. He didn't. That's on no one else but him.

There are plenty of critiques that can be leveled at the current minority lead liberal government but I am not attacking them for something they had nothing to do with at the time.

When this report was released it was given no credence and we moved on. The people in power knew what was reported and whistled past the grave yard. It's like when I ran for office against NAFTA because I didn't want our jobs shipped off to Mexico and China, but no one listened to me then either. It still doesn't change the fact that it was wrong and that the bodies had to be found by a gofundme is just as wrong.

The buck has to stop here.

It's also very easy to ignore oral histories and the movies on the CBC or NFB documentaries that were made about this issue. Finding graveyards full of the remains of abused children is too in-your-face for even the most ignorant and oblivious to turn their backs on.

I agree. Problem is, some around here will turn it into an instant partisan thing instead of looking at the big picture, as you have.

But, I digress. That is, unfortunately a way of life for some.

-J.

One of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was all Canadians should read the report on the TRC.

If you do that, none of these atrocities is a surprise. These graves have been known for generations.

This was in a sort of bubble. The bubble that First Nations knew about, and that the RoC didn't know about. It's not that we didn't care, it's that we were never told. Once the report was released, there is no excuse however.

Generational thing that millennials were taught this?