There are two major claims in this article by #LordBlack :
a) Mortality rates for First Nations were higher on reserve than in the #ResidentialSchools
b) Attendance at #ResidentialSchools became compulsory only in 1920.
The first is possible, though contrary to what I've understood. However one would need to adjust for age.
The second, even if true, does not absolve Canada from post-1920 practice.
There is no discussion of the "cultural genocide" charge.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-no-exaggeration-needed
#residentialschools #LordBlack
"No country that has a serious criminal justice system, including Canada and the United Kingdom, should have an extradition treaty with the United States — the people its lawless prosecutors indict are effectively extradited straight into the bloated and corrupt American prison system."
Conrad Black: The Queen's untimely lapse of judgment over Prince Andrew
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-the-queens-untimely-lapse-of-judgment-over-prince-andrew
#nationalpost #carceralstate #uspol #LordBlack
"It is certainly time that Canada ceased to regard its health-care system as a gigantic sacred cow of national distinction and uniqueness, and instead undertook an examination of its strong and weak points, in order to make sensible reforms."
English Canadians *do* have a totemic view of the #healthcare system, which impedes any rational analysis and reform. Personally, I tend to support the reforms #LordBlack seems to have in mind.
#nationalpost #canpol #conradblack #LordBlack #healthcare
A few weeks ago, I lamented that the #ResidentialSchools had been mandatory, seizing children and permitting no escape from abuse; education of children is after all the duty primarily of their parents. #LordBlack claims that #SirJohnAMacdonald "opposed the imposition of mandatory attendance." [0]
In fact, the article is probably the best defence of Sir John A. regarding #FirstNations that I've seen: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-centuries-of-failed-policy-does-not-equal-evil-intent
[0] But I'd like to see this claim from a second source...
#canpol #firstnations #SirJohnAMacdonald #LordBlack #residentialschools