Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Maybe these things are just not known in the former Colonies?

That makes a sort of sense, if your entire country and way of life works because you did a mass genocide you wouldn't talk about it unless you want your country to have a collective psychotic break.
I'm Canadian (33 for another month), and I first heard about all this when I was a teen. When the first nations began seeking some form of redress for what happened in residential schools.

Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
The best part is how everything is blamed on that, from alcohol abuse, to high unemployment, to lack of education. As if those dirty Catholics poured firewater down each kid's throat.
Actually you can draw a line from residential schools and high unemployment* to the substance abuse and other social problems that are endemic on first nation reserves.




*The unemployment thing can be caused as much by geography as anything, if you look at a map of where a lot of reserves are.