A request to fund a comprehensive search for buried children on and around indigenous residential schools was made by the TRC and denied by Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl in 2009.
Using words like hypocrisy is a reflection of your values, not theirs.
They don’t believe your opinion matters. Therefore hypocrisy is an empty moral value.
Why people continue to use is frustrating.
To respond to the slight of being called a hypocrite, you first must possess some level of a sense of social cohesion and egalitarianism. A belief that “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” mentality.
How many people are familiar with the following truth?
“Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Edmund Burke
Most people assume Burke was referencing maintaining awareness of history to avoid sliding into autocracy.
He wasn’t. He was referencing the French Revolution. Where the common folk deposed the monarchy & noble classes. And redistributed wealth and resources more equitably.
In theory anyway (check out Robespierre).
Burke was a wealthy aristocrat. Afraid of losing his status, property and comfortable lifestyle.
And he was correct. When you don’t pay attention to current events & seek to understand them in contexts with past events, you’re doomed.
@Sarinafull@TheRealDenene@JoeBlowCarSeat@GlobeDebate@sunshinny I wish you would look into legal precedent and why it is so important for governments to retain the authority for deciding the criteria and for new govts to not overrule past government’s decisions.
Precedent is the basis for the rule of law. We must preserve the rule of law.
First we have G&M setting the premise. Laying the groundwork that treatment of indigenous people in Canada has been horrific.
It has. And still is.
Then we have two opposing polarized comments following to evoke an emotional response.
Truly this disgusts me.
Using dead children for political opportunistic messaging is repulsive and morbid.
A bot offers far right inflammatory rhetoric to accompany the opinion piece. The left opposition uses that toxic rhetoric as a foil. It’s really quite demoralizing and sad.