KINSELLA: Political leaders reject responsibility for residential school scandal

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Warren Kinsella

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Jul 03, 2021 6 hours ago 3 minutes read 8 comments CP Article content

Welcome to the summer of 2021, when politicians do what they love to do best: blame it.

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With the bodies of Indigenous children found across Western Canada and with an unwanted and unnecessary federal election on the horizon, our political leaders can be seen aggressively passing the buck trying to bring horror to each other. someone else.

Justin Trudeau insists the Pope must come to Canada and apologize. Putting on his serious face, Trudeau says: It’s not just that (the Pope) is apologizing, but he’s apologizing to Indigenous Canadians on Canadian soil.

I got you. But the Prime Minister did not go to Kamloops, Cranbrook, Marieval or Brandon to do the same, did he?

No, he didn’t.

Last December, Erin OToole told young Conservatives that the misnamed residential schools actually provide education. And that the question provides a practical means of silencing the Liberals politically.

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When caught off guard, OToole had to apologize.

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh does not think Trudeau is the only one to blame for inaction on Indigenous issues. He also blames OToole. It is entirely the fault of the inaction of the Conservative and Liberal governments, Singh said.

As you might expect, some followers have taken action and reached the history books to find a scapegoat. Some, to the amazement of the writers, began to point the finger at Jean Chrétien.

For example, a senior adviser to former Conservative leader Andrew Scheer swiped Chrétien on Twitter, labeling the respected policies of Liberal leaders as racist, in quotation marks.

Christian being the father of an Aboriginal boy and the most respected Minister of Indian Affairs of all time, it seemed particularly unbalanced. The thin basis of anti-Christian defamation, it seems, was the 1969 white paper written by Christian bureaucrats.

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Chrétien met with dozens of Indigenous leaders from across Canada in Ottawa in May 1969. A few months later, the white paper was published, but was not adopted.

BONOKOSKI: Many residential school abusers were identified years ago but have never been prosecuted.

Here are the main things the white paper advocated:

he called for indigenous peoples to finally be made equal in law to all other Canadians;

he suggested allowing indigenous peoples to do what other Canadians have always done, which is to own land, sell it and buy it without government approval;

he criticized the separation of racial and ethnic groups;

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he offered millions to compensate for treaty changes;

he called for indigenous peoples to be empowered to run their own schools.

The latter would have put an end to the residential schools a generation before they actually ended (under a certain Jean Chrétien). Oh, and this: Chrétien was basically asking that he himself be removed from his post because the Department of Indian Affairs would no longer be needed.

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The white paper hit a wall of controversy and was dropped.

A source close to Chrétien told me this: In his attempt to eliminate the Indian Act in the white paper, (Chretien) strongly believed in eliminating the apartheid / reserve system that existed at the time.

He got rid of the governor system. He created local decision-making and worked to protect indigenous languages. And he ended residential schools once and for all in 1996.

So as you all get your hair cut and shaved in preparation for the upcoming election, MM. Trudeau, OToole, and Singh, consider looking elsewhere as you try to blame the growing residential school scandal.

Consider blaming the men who actually hold the power and influence right now, for example.

You know, guys you see looking at yourself in the bathroom mirror every morning.

Kinsella was former Prime Minister Jean Chrétiens special assistant

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