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Eileen Pendlebury's avatar

I am astounded by Jagmeet Singh’s irresponsible statement, in my opinion, the word Genocide is being used in the extreme sense, it was not Genocide, many of these children died from T.B and other communicable diseases and were buried at the school site due to many reasons and apparently all had burial markers which have long since deteriorated. Yes, there was atrocious treatment committed by the Catholic and Anglican priests and nuns, why is this not addressed, why is the finger being pointed at the people of Canada, many of whom were not even born. My question is, why don’t the powers that be get some back bone and stand up to this on going issue with the Indigenous community, how many more apologies must be aired to satisfy the Indigenous people. I am not a malicious person and have great sympathy for the wrongs committed but enough is enough, let’s all get on and get along to make Canada a better place.

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Sunlover's avatar

Jagmeet Singh does not show respect for Aboriginal peoples when he refers to the missing residential school children as "kids". "Kids" are the children of goats. As you point out, he and his party have lost a good proportion of their seats in the house under his leadership. He is only useful to the dictator Trudeau to prop up his minority government. As for genocide, well the graves have not actually been confirmed that there are actual bodies buried there via excavation, so we will see what happens with that. Is it possible that there could have been wooden markers that may have deteriorated over the years? I'm not completely discounting the whole thing, but I think we need some more actual confirmation before we say that Canadians (as you pointed out - a majority of Liberal government policies) actually perpetrated mass genocide.

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