As the excellent book I cited last week, “From Truth Comes Reconciliation,” noted: “Finding a reference to cultural genocide at the very beginning of this important report probably forces readers to wonder why the Government of Canada signed treaties, established reserves, published dictionaries of Indigenous languages, banned relatively few Indigenous traditions … and never forbade Indigenous people from speaking their languages in residential schools or anywhere else.
Approximately 150,000 Indigenous people spent at least one year in the IRS system, some of them were rescued from miserable conditions, and while there were many inexcusable incidents of physical and emotional abuse, there are also a great many stories of Native people who felt that residential schools enabled them to have successful lives.
The TRC’s demand for the unlimited surrender of Canada to all the accusations and demands levelled against it is based on the assertion that ”Canada, as the party to the relationship that has breached this trust, has the primary obligation to do the work needed to regain the trust of Aboriginal peoples.” This is where our governments have led us. Canada’s First Nations have some trust-building to accomplish, too, and future arrangements must reflect that.
This tortured subject has become a Frankenstein monster of self-destructive policy and anti-Canadian blood libels. Almost the entire report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples of 1996 should be disavowed. There are over 1.6 million Aboriginal people in Canada, about four per cent of the population.
We must recognize that every Canadian has an equal right to be here, and that all Canadians played a role in building this great country. Canadians — Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike — who wish to help resolve these very difficult issues must be empowered to do so, and those who try to get their point across through illegal means, such as last year’s railway blockades, must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Bishop François de Laval, King George III and John A.
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ConradMBlack He renounced his citizenship. Why does he care about Canada at all?
ConradMBlack come ON man. can the Post not platform a convicted felon pardoned by Trump? m'lord Black writes 'Canada’s First Nations have some trust-building to accomplish' HAHAHA how about YOU conrad try to build some trust. you are the WORST spokesperson for this (or any important) issue.
Well said. Great article
Mr. Black is correct. They're all professional victims.
The First Nations suffered a cultural genocide. The Canadien minority of the RoC suffered a forced assimilation and those who remain continue to envy the Anglo-Québécois.
Check every countries history and one will see that the powers to be and governments have wronged the people. I for one have no desire to feel any guilt committed in a different era and in the past.
Another blathering, out-of-step polysyllabic diatribe. Get a grip on reality, FN peoples in this country face a barrage of racist sh*t, past and present.
“Extensive interviews in which the subjects espoused favourable opinions of the IRS were not reflected at all in the concluding volumes”. Truly, this is NEVER publicized. I’ve heard from multiple indigenous people about the positive experiences that they had in IR schools.
I thought there weren’t any; but thank god there are at least two!
Conrad Black seems fairly knowledgeable and persuasive. For those railing against him: what is factually incorrect about what he is saying?
We Canadians are a sympathetic lot. The greater the proclaimed victimization of Indigenous people the greater the acceptance of Canadians of what isn’t working. Bang on The money, Conrad.
Every Ogitchita I know was shocked when Uncle used the phrase “cultural genocide” in the TRC. What part of the report did people not get. Residential schools were not designed to educate us but to enslave us to serving the colonists or extermination by deprivation.
Convict said what?
Conrad black is criminal!
Let's see, Conrad saw something he thought was illegal and didn't call the police and file a complaint. Just mouths off in public about it. Real stand up guy.
Why is Black so obsessed with this completely disingenuous narrative?
Is this Lynn Beyak ? Thumbs down.......
my encouragement to you all and good job we like people like you every were
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