Shut Up, Justin II

Still, no one cares what you think:

“I would think that Mr. Trudeau and his government … should join with us and with the Indigenous people in our journey together,” Collins said in a telephone interview. “We want to work together. These types of sharp comments, which are not based on real fact, are most unfortunate.”

 

These facts: 

According to the band and its release, “this past weekend, with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light – the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.”

The release goes on to say that the band “will continue to work with the ground penetrating radar specialist to complete the survey of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds,” and that the band “expect(s) to complete preliminary findings by mid-June.”

In other words, the survey of the land is not complete – the full report has yet to be released. ...

The National Post interviewed anthropology professor Kisha Supernant, from the University of Alberta, who is also the director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archeology, about the ground penetrating radar technology that was used.

“It doesn’t actually see bodies. It’s not like an X-ray,” explained Supernant. “What it actually does is it looks for the shaft.”

This suggests there are still more questions left to be answered. This also doesn’t tell us anything about the cause of death of those buried. Many people are saying this was murder, but it seems more evidence is required.

This school was in operation from 1890 to 1969 and at the beginning of that period the infant mortality rate in Canada was 27%. Nearly one in three children died before their fifth birthday because of communicable diseases, namely tuberculosis and influenza.

All that saying "no" must really bruise a narcissist's ego.

 

Also:

Ryerson is being misjudged. He was not a racist and he did not discriminate against Indigenous people. It was the exact opposite! As a young man he was appointed to the Credit mission, home of the Mississaugas. He learned their language, worked in the fields with the people of the settlement and became a life-long friend of future chief Kahkewaquonaby (Sacred Feathers), known in English as Peter Jones.

In fact, it was in recognition of his services to the Mississauga, that Ryerson was adopted and given the name of a recently deceased chief, “Cheechock” or “Chechalk.” 

 

So there's that.