Vincent J. Curtis
29 Sept 21
RE: It will take more than a federal holiday to properly mark Orange Shirt Day. Op-ed by Fred Youngs. Hamilton Spectator 29 Sept 21.
The people that violently tore down Hamilton’s statue to Canada’s first Prime Minister, and then took a grinder to the statue’s face, now say that reconciliation will take a lot more from us to happen. Apparently, they don’t know what the word “reconciliation” means.
A progressive idea of the 19th century was to require the education of Indian children as white children were: compulsory, in school, and between certain ages. Education might help ensure that the 19th century privatives would survive in some form the onslaught of European settlement. This remained the progressive position until, oh, 1969, when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government released the “Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy” which proposed abolishing Indian status altogether.
In 2013, Justin Trudeau formally anathamized his father’s Indian Policy. Condemnation of all those progressives who had a hand, however remote, on educating Indians is now taking on Stalinist purge proportions. Progressives today now shamelessly ask for more money and more power to repent for the misuses of money and power by the progressives of yesterday. We’re supposed to trust their judgement!
Progressives believe that with enough money
and power they can bring about a new man and a new woman and heaven on earth
through change of social institutions.
With residential schools as an example of their work, at what point do
the rest of realize they’re wrong?
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