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Medicine Hat News

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recently delivered its final report about Canada’s residential schools. Briefly in the news, it was quickly shoved so far in the back of the bus as to almost be on another bus entirely.

Justice Murray Sinclair, the TRC chair, and SCOC Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, acknowledged the true nature of the crime against aboriginal people in Canada, calling it “cultural genocide.”.

For the sake of informing the argument, it’s helpful to review what happened.

Little kids were kidnapped by the state and packed off to boarding schools — sometimes hundreds of miles away — where they were routinely beaten, starved, exploited, sexually abused, experimented on, psychologically tortured and, in the case of at least 6,000 little kids, killed — by disease, neglect and, even though no one wants to say the words out loud, by design.

Their parents were powerless…