A new Indian scam

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we all go to day schools?  Unless we went to boarding school, we went to school in the morning and came home after classes to our own homes.  

Well, the Indian Industry has hatched a new scam.  Apparently, if you're a native and you went to school during the day, but came home at night, you're entitled to money.  Yep, this apparently was abuse, according to the lawyers and Indigenous leaders who have dreamt it up.  So, evidently we were all abused because we went to day schools.

Huh?!  How absurd.

First, they turned residential schools into houses of horror, claiming children had been sexually and physically abused from morning 'til night.  Now they are claiming that day scholars were victims of unspeakable abuse too.  Here are the financial facts:

Ads currently running for natives who went to day schools.

The federal government has agreed to give them $57 billion since 2015 to address "past harms" -- whatever that means?  Since then, the annual Indigenous budget has tripled from $11 billion to more than $32 billion per year.  That's for 1,800,000 natives.  I can't do the math, but that's a lot of money per native. 

The other facts are that most of the abuse of native children at residential schools was perpetrated by older students on younger -- not by teachers, administrators or priests.  The other inconvenient fact is that Indigenous parents wanted their children to attend residential schools to escape poverty, disease and starvation at home.  They weren't dragged kicking and screaming from their tepees.  They were willingly given over to be cared for and educated.  

Sorry, Tanya Talaga, but them's the facts.

Frankly, I can't even imagine what new charges will be trumped up to extract more money from the beleaguered Canadian taxpayer.  You can blame Trudeau-the-Elder and Jean Chrétien for all this because they were the ones who promoted and romanticized Indigenous culture in the first place, which started all the money cascading into the pockets of corrupt chiefs.