Puffer Fish wrote:Some of this abuse was done by individual people and would definitely not have been sanctioned or tolerated by the people running the schools. (i.e. sexual abuse for example)
No it was wide spread. No point trying to act like it wasn't.
They have reported 900 deaths from tuberculosis and 150 from Spanish flu and influenza epidemics but the death records are not clear because in 1920 when the death rates got high the federal government stopped reporting them showing it was fuly aware of the high death rates and covered it up. They were well aware of the poor substandard health services and conditions leading to these outbreaks, break outs,
As well the governments never did public inspections of the schools and so schools were free to remain unaccountable as these soaring death rates came in and teachers did report the wide spread sex abuse and beatings and no one did a damn thing.
see:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/U ... 002/2.htmlIt's all there-if you want to find it. The fact is residential schools operated in Canada for over 150 years, with more than 150,000 children passing through their doors until the last ones closed in 1996.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified 4,120 children who went missing from around 150 schools. Murray Sinclair, an Indigenous former judge who led the inquiry, said in a recent interview with The New York Times that he now believes the number was "well beyond 10,000."
see:
https://www.dw.com/en/at-former-indigen ... a-58114383)
The above goes on to say:
The Roman Catholic Church operated 60% of the residential schools in Canada, while the Anglican Church, the United Church and Presbyterians ran the rest.
Pope Francis has yet to apologize, and the Catholic Church still has not disclosed all the historical documents in its possession that are related to the schools.
It also goes on to say our Prime Minister who made a point of crying with a hankie for all to see said his government would implement 94 actions the Truth and Conciliation Commission recommended but a December 2020 investigation by the Yellowhead Institute, a First Nation-led research center based in Toronto, found only eight have been fully implemented.
Absolutely no point trying to down play it as isolated or rare.