This is just getting started

The tragedy of the remains of 215 children (*See note, below) found in a mass grave at a residential school in Kamloops is only the tip of what will turn out to be a very big and cripplingly expensive iceberg.  Estimates are that between 2,000 and 6,000 native children died while in various residential schools.  That's a whopping number and very, very sad.

But what needs to be determined is what they died of.  The always ludicrous Jagmeet Singh is claiming they were "killed".  That's ridiculous.  What killed them were diseases, such as tuberculosis, diphtheria and typhoid brought to the area and spread by the builders of the national railway, as well as the malnourishment they had suffered on their own reserves before being sent to the schools. In fact, native parents thought their children would be better off in these schools.  

Let's not forget that settlers of this country wanted to give natives an education and a chance to succeed in the larger society.  Natives did not have any written language, something the well-meaning residential schools tried to remedy.  These schools were not started to punish children and by the way, it was not only the Catholic Church that effed up; so did the Anglican and United Church schools.  The problem was that natives, like everyone else, had no immunity against Western diseases, but natives did not -- and do not -- like to take "white man's" vaccines.  Even today, they are averse to vaccines.

Back in the fifties and sixties, native rates of TB were six times higher than the rest of the population -- a trend that continues today.  What acerbates the cases are HIV, diabetes and substance abuse that weaken the immune system.  My research also tells me that the families requested their children be buried on site because they could not afford to transport them back to their homes; the burials were paid for by the department of Indian Affairs.

What's next?  More graves uncovered, lots of DNA tests, lawyers getting rich and many, many lawsuits.  All survivors and families of schools have already been paid $40,000 each, but you just wait until the lawyers are finished with it.  This is what Murray Sinclair wants and, forgetting that natives do not generally vote in secular elections, you can bet Trudeau will do it.  "Proper" means "money".  Our grandkids are financially doomed because Canada is descending into "junk bond" territory.  

 *Note:  As of February, 2022, it has been revealed that the so-called "graves" have turned out to be tree-roots -- not childrens' bones.  Naturally, no correction or retraction by the media or Indians.