So, the latest law suit natives have been on about is the "Sixties Scoop", when native children were taken from their dysfunctional and/or abusive families and placed with other Canadians. Now, these people are suing the Canadian Government for millions because they were "deprived" of their heritage.
What heritage? Abuse, neglect, poverty?
Seriously.
I was part of the "forties scoop", when illegitimate children born out of wedlock were adopted by families wanting unable to have their own. Thank God I was taken from my birth mother and reared by the wonderful people who were my parents.
Should I sue the Ontario government and claim I was a victim of the "forties scoop"? The "culture" I was deprived of was one of white trash. My grandmother ran a boarding house and was on relief. Her mother was a native from the Tyendinaga Reserve. What a disaster that would have been! My other relatives worked on a production line for DuPont of Canada. Thanks to the "forties scoop", when I was adopted out and reared by fabulous people.
Should I sue?
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