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ah

frig, I was happy to make $2,500 for a 30sec commercial -- considering I'm not in a union

heheh

Aurjourd'hui?!

@Dr.Wol WHAT, SHE ONLY GOT 10 MILLION? WHAT KIND OF MALE PATRIARCHY IS THAT

Speak english you mexican!

First Nation? Nah, I ain't Sumerian.

LoL

Looking to investigate if there is a way to grant sovereignty to the first nations of Canada, and set a final definition of the debts of newcomers, in a way which grants closure to both parties.

I think that if a plausible, well-supported plan of such were provided, it would be an enormous political asset.

20% of voters would easily be moved by a plausible closure of the open wound that is the treatment of first nations in Canada

(in my humble opinion)

almost no matter the monetary cost

You guys still feel bad about that?

we damn well should

We marched our natives into dust fields and we sleep just fine.

we won, sure, but the way our country treated these people is unconscionable

You mean them

like, think worse than a real genocide

What's worse than genocide?

if it were a genocide, and barely anyone survived, it'd be impossible to do anything except mourn it as a black chapter

Eternal slavery?

They're lucky they weren't all slaughtered in all honesty -- like most of the Spaniards did

_Instead_ we instituted a system of laws and "treaties" (which we violated at will) to systematically erode the foundations of these societies.

Ah, a partial genocide, because surivors can complain. Got you.

The goal was _ostensibly_ integration

but the job was botched so severely, it is hard to fathom.

and now we're left with the output of these policies.

It is way more undignified than a genocide.

More like alive to suffer

The Indian Act, the "residential school system" (sounds way nicer than it should), the hamfisted half measures and self-aggrandizing non-apologies

There are living ancestors to every one of these policies, who have suffered them in their lifetime.

meanwhile the federal government is concerned with its treatment of usurous strangers from the other side of the planet!

Many white Canadians were also in those residential schools which no one talks about

Well, that was negligible by comparison

but yes, those people are also owed a debt

Which is why these debts need to be enumerated, and closed.

haha ok, tell that to those that came from those schools

i still wana blow up the moon...

I meant by the numbers @Coochie coo