Cranbrook chief said yesterday, "It's our graveyard, we buried someone there last week. Why is anyone surprised that there are dead ppl in a graveyard?"
The Truth and Reconciliation report from 2015 already noted the number of children who passed away in residential schools and the locations they are likely buried in. One of the recommendations at that point already was to find the graves. People knew about this for ages, but everyone is acting like this is some new discovery of children who were literally murdered and dumped in unmarked graves when the cause of death in nearly all cases was diseases like tuberculosis and pneumonia due to bad nutrition and living conditions. On the flip side, my own grandfather had two siblings and both parents die of lung diseases in the 1930s. Those were very different times and beating with a strap occurred even in public schools until the 1970s.
Read up. Get educated.
But Liberals can't do that. Trudeau senior voted to keep the residential schools open in 1967 and continued the horrors for 30 years. While former PM Cretchien was minister of indigenous affairs.... WOOPS. Another liberal skeleton in the closet. When it first opened in 1830, the germ theory of disease hadn't been proven yet and wouldn't go to be proven for another 50 years later by Robert Koch, widespread until nearly 70 year later and put into building design 90 years later.
The early-schools were negligently and poorly designed because the science literally didn't exist and they were made at a time when the infant mortality rate for children under 5 years old was 497 out of every 1000 live-births. Tons of children died, almost 1 in 2....whether outside or inside a residential school.
In 1967...we knew better. Trudeau's father knew better. Chrétien knew better. Liberals didn't give a crap. When Trudeau says "All Canadians need to do better" what he really means is "Blame yourself, not my family."
80s. I remember when I was in kindergarten, the teacher would openly spank kids. But the next year, that didn't happen anymore.