Indigenous children set to receive billions after judge rejects Trudeau challenges
(www.theguardian.com)
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Pierre Trudeau ran residential schools, the money for that is now in Justin's trust fund. Will he be giving them back that money that was actually made off residential schools, or will he be giving them our money for his family's crimes? My family never ran a single residential school, why does my family have to pay?
Because if the original agreements had been honoured your family wouldn't have had such an easy ride. If Canada wanted it they would have had to negotiate for the stuff they actually just stole: the wood, the homesteads, the minerals, the oil - Canada would have had to buy or trade for it. There's a chance they wouldn't have got some of it at any price.
Without studying the history you won't understand that. Don't trust your common sense, because it's not relevant. It's the broken agreements that matter in the courts and at the negotiating table.
Bahahahah, most of my family died in the mines in Ireland. Some indentured servants, that lived, ended up in the new world, then it was war, abject poverty in the great depression, and more war. A bunch of rich people got richer, they owned my family. I'd love for you to pick out the "easy ride" in my family's history. Studying history is useless if you're going to cherry pick your facts and ignore/dismiss the ones that contradict the narrative. My family wasn't even in Canada until WWII. The money for residential schools is still in Trudeau's trust fund, go get that money first.
The cheap benefits of living in Canada are founded on and subsidized by the theft of land and resources from the now-recognized-in-the-courts owners. Go to Manitoba and sit at the table while the Métis and the provincial government try to address their broken agreement.
Right wing fairy tale. Part of the cult catechism.