I am from the Salt River Indian Community, Scottsdale, Arizona, U..S. Our government had Indian Boarding Schools that mirrored Canadian Resident Schools. My Uncle's and Aunts were forced to go to these schools. My uncle told me that he was punished for speaking his language! The Nun would hit him with a ruler on the face, hand and head! The children were raped and molested by priests and Nuns! My uncle never ate chicken because he said they would feed them rotten chicken that wasn't cooked long enough. It was served anyway! They kids were forced to eat the rotten under cooked food. He never went to church again. He hated the church. He and his brothers and sisters were permanently affected by this horrible treatment. I pray that they are now at peace. That God will reward them. Nobody can make it right. There are not enough "Sorry's" that will take away the pain caused by our governments and their attempt and "civilization the savages". These people who hurt these children will stand in Judgement one day. They will answer for their acts or lack thereof! There are no lies and excuses when they stand before God! I'm sorry you went through this. I think of everyone of you often. May your journey be light. Let the sun refresh your Spirit. And, may our God, remove the pain, heartache and brokenhearted with peace. I stand with all of you. You are in my prayers.
@ynn Farley for #45 Its definitely fucked up and if these people were around today and did that shit, well if nobody else got to them first they would hopefully be strung up or even better thrown in jail where people that do things like this to children get much worse than a death sentence... karma.
I'd be speaking Gaelic, and there's a mass grave in Quebec with over 5,000 Irish refugee children in it, where's my "reconciliation" for my family being starved off their lands and sent here?
My heart goes out to all the native communities that has and is effected, stripping the identity of one is wrong from the start, we need to come together and help to see this through, my arms are open to everyone who is effected
I still feel so sorry and bad for the students who attended residential schools. The survivors still experience the horrifying trauma of the residential schools in their head. I wish this torture to indigenous people never existed anywhere in Canadian history.
As much as it was a small step for them to make an apology, the fact that they've barely even done minimal work to actually help the FIrst Nations is insulting. You can't just apologize and expect things to get better. That's like stabbing someone, twisting the blade, pulling the weapon out, apologizing, and then wondering why the person is still screaming in pain. If the people really wanted to help the Indigenous people, they'd start with giving the people on reserves clean drinking water.
So what did Trudeau do except for going away on the holiday he created “for” the First Nations? Atleast he actually was apologizing and not just because it became a big story. Sickening
Basically because the legal term for those schools were "indian residential schools". Further, The Indian Act is still in place, and was drafted in 1876. So Indian is a legal term in some sense, but officially the term to use is Indigenous.
but those two countries are within pretty close proximity to each other, so even though they're two different countries the people are not as genetically separated as indians from india would be from the native americans
@@onelonelypickle because people like you continue the perpetuation of systemic opression by refuting you have anything to do with this. you're not at fault for what has happened. but you are at fault for not taking action against it. discrimination is discrimination whoever it is against. dont stand for it. it is the people that push the government. until all white people become allies, nothing will change for us. the corrupt will remain in power, and whites turn a blind eye bc the systemic oppressions hardly affects them, and doesnt affect those in power at all. that's "why we". so stop being butt hurt over people calling out your attribution to systemic oppressions. you didnt make the system, but you sure as hell enforce it with that shitty ass attitude. "why we" pft. when will you guys start to listen instead of getting all defensive? we're not attacking you. we need you to help us to change the shit system. until the public realizes this, nothing will change. it is US who push the government to change atrocious policy. stop redirecting blame and fucking pull your head out of your ass.
@@koogshater1414 exactly. so people like Zach need to stop choosing shit people to govern Canada. the indigenous population literally make up 1.6 million comparative to the 35 million in this country. you think our numbers are effective alone? this is the importance of allies. jeez his ignorance is unbelievable, but unfortunately not surprising.
I’m a grandson of survivors of residential schools both sides of grandparents are survivors. So sad how they went through I question them at times how it was in that school sometimes I get silent treatment.....
Yeah my great grandma told me story’s as a lite kid and it’s horrible and the things I remember most are that she told me everyday she went in the corner and cried and that she almost died but her aunt came and made them let her out because she was gonna die. If she was alive I’d be speaking Cree right now
A shining opportunity to get it all right. Don’t stop the momentum. Thank you RUclips for making sure we have this as reference and to the leaders of the time: First Nation and Government for making a cohesive dent in our history that was positive. May we keep going…there’s work to be done as we know.
I Am its December now , I still believe this apology thing was wrong , All it did was made a whole bunch of people think they are above everyone else , even above the Law . All children were treated badly a Century ago or even 50 years ago ,Up into the 1900s and beyond even in certain places, Kids were worked in Factories and Mines ,some 4 or 5 years old .Some worked in dangerous places cleaning the machinery in tight hard to clean areas and back then there was no shut downs. Lots were killed and thousands were also missing , Orphans with no families , buried in poppers or unmarked graves .Some buried on top of each other .It was bad for all kids not just native kids.
Apology? I take it but what will you do to pick up the pieces that you broke? An apology is only the beginning of a long process of healing between people. Don't just leave it there.
His WORDS werent followed up by ANY actions that reflected care...if anything I'll always remember that when Harper was asked if there would be an inquiry for MMIW..his response " it really isn't high on our radar to be honest"
Harper initiated the TRC but didn't get a chance to implement any of its recommendations because the report was released in 2015, just before he was defeated in the October election of that year. Harper sensed that an inquiry on MMIW would never achieve its desired objectives and that it would probably end up doing more harm than good for the victims, and it looks like he was right. That whole exercise was a fiasco from start to finish.
Not true, it was being investigated along with all the other children that disappear every year from Canada, there are hundreds of thousands of children that disappear world wide every year. Just ask President Trump. He was saving the children of this world. Tim Ballard-Underground Railroad. Timothy Charles Holsmeth.
I hold only hope for the future between our two peoples and perhaps with time and healing we may see each other as one with many golden hearts and minds and not throw each other aside as if only pennies
The way how he said that some Indigenous people said they had "positive" experiences, but we have yet to hear of any of those experiences and how he talks about those "positive" experiences being overshadowed by negative ones is absolutely disturbing and absurd. Nothing good came out of these residential schools and for him to say there are "positive" experiences that Indigenous people have said to me is an outright lie. I don't like him at all
I have got to hear these stories of said "positive experiences"! I would bet they are made up stories from people who never set foot in a residential school!
The single biggest thing that has happened since this time was Trudeau rescinding the enforcement of the Accountability Act, something that indigenous had fought YEARS to get! He had that little wink-wink-nudge-nudge meeting before the election, remember? He even sent buses to some of the reserves to see that all got to the polls, and chiefs instructed their bands to vote liberal. As though keeping his part of the deal, one of his first actions was to rescind the enforcement, something that only FIVE bands were appealing! In doing that, Trudeau ensured that the chiefs kept cozy in their haciendas with 2-3 satellite dishes on the roof and 2-3 Escalades in the driveway while pleading poverty to their band living in drafty shacks with poor schooling and houses, and with a high rate of addiction, suicide, crime, abuse, and violence, and a myriad of social ills typical to living in poverty. This was a GIANT step backwards!
Because times were different back then. Another few examples of this is how the politically correct term for people of colour used to be “negroes” and the medical term for mentally handicapped people used to be “mental retardation”
The term “Indian” refers to the legal identity of a First Nations person who is registered under the Indian Act. The term “Indian” should be used only when referring to a First Nations person with status under the Indian Act, and only within its legal context. Christopher Columbous made a mistake and thought the people where Indian since he was heading to India and didnt expect to find the Caribbeans and Americas in the way. hence that's where the incorrect phrase of paleo-indians comes from. because of this for a couple hundred years people actually thought this hence a lot of the outdated names and terms
An apology barely even feels like an apology nowadays. Now it just seems like something someone can do, without even meaning a single word of it, and then saying "I apologized so you can't be mad at me anymore".
@@t_man7259 Which also doesn’t change anything. There were those who had a pleasant experience during the Japanese occupation of Nanking, but it doesn’t change shit about the 200,000+ who died.
@@henrymudgett2646 No i get that but I'm just saying when we were learning about this in highschool it was mentioned a small amount had a somewhat pleasant experience but that's not saying much.
Not Trudeau I, not Turner, not Mulroney (a fake conservative), not Cretin, not Martin. Stephen Harper does this. The greatest Prime Minster this country has ever had. (It's September 30, 2021, and Trudeau II is surfing).
Just watched the movie " Indian Horse". The treatment of the indigenous communities is disgraceful. This reminds me of what happened to the indigenous people of Australia. Watch the film "Rabbit proof fence" and you will see chilling similarities.
So much minimizing and has a tons of subtle excuses built in. This apology was not even close to good enough, sincere enough, or showed a level of understanding of the horror and damage caused to generations of human beings. "great harm" does not cut it. ugh
@THARSHANTH JEYAMOORTHY Just like those select ingenious people raped and pillaged other ingenious groups in the vicious cycle of blood and conquest that is human history. You gonna accept that fact or you gonna keep milking historical sentimentalism for selfish political gain?
Don't waste your time trying to explain the cause for pain among the Natives. One must have a heart to care. One must have a Spirit to sympathize. One must have a brain to understand. Without one of these attributes, they are nothing more than a shell of a man. This is the mentality that took away our culture. This type of mentality saw our people as nothing more than an animal! This mentality raped and killed our children. All the while, they did not sense any guilt or shame. Its this mentality that says ñEvil is Good, and Good is Evil. We will never understand why they think the way they do. Nor do we want to understand! And to think, they called us "savages!"
But that was then, not now. As more and more people wake up and are shattered at what happened. It should never have happened. I can't imagine the pain of what the children went through or the Parents. The Great Awakening.
@roza wiatrow why? Huh? Natives just want to be treated like everyone else but I guess not with people like you, natives ain’t causing harm lol you’re asking for it. For the natives, everything for them would have been better without the Europeans coming too North America. Let the natives be. Bulldoze your cities.
My mom told me before she passed on that I wasn't even supposed to be born. In 1958 my parents had a baby boy. Life went on, as usual, my dad boated people from remote reserves and boat them to Gold River, BC. During this time my mom went about cleaning and preparing for supper when she didn't hear any sound coming from the baby's room, so my mom went to check on Billy. Well, sadly Billy passed what we know today as crip death. My dad contracted TB which was quite common, so my mom said that she put her foot down with my dad and said no more kids. Then I was born. I was born with club feet, death in both ears and borderline retardation. I was taken out of my home at 3 years old and taken to a residential school only to be almost killed there. One day I walked over to the principal who was a priest, and I kicked him in the shins and said I wanted to go home. The principal looked at me with anguish and he grabbed my arm and dragged me over to the basement door. He looked at me for what he thought would be his last time. He puts his hand on my back and he throws me down the step. Remember to breathe. If you believe in angels as I do, I felt an angel wrapping himself around me preventing me from hurting myself while rolling down the steps. He gently lands me at the bottom of the steps. Of course, the principal saw that I was still alive and he runs down the steps. He grabs my arm and puts me in a 5by5 cage and he handcuffs my leg to the cage so that I would try to escape. I was 3 years old, where would I go. They didn't want me thereafter, and I was taken to the Supreme Court to be made a ward of the courts. I was then handed over to the social service to be put into the foster care system. I remember being brought to the Williams home, I couldn't walk, so the social worker carried me to the steps of the Williams. The social worker gave me a teddy bear that I still have today and his name is Boo Boo. Things weren't the greatest at the Williams, I couldn't hear, but I saw that Mrs. Williams was always yelling and throwing her arms around. Today I'm an advocate for first nations people here in Canada and the US I am a consultant. I have been doing this now for 38 years. The reason is what I learned as an advocate is that anytime social service wants to hide any child they put them under the foster parent's name. I was born Billy George, while in foster care at the Williams I became Billy George Williams. The Williams was getting 1800.00 dollars a month for looking after me in the 60s, that's a lot of money. Mrs. Williams always fought with their family doctor to get me to see a specialist about having feet and ear operations to see if it would be possible. I was sent to see a specialist for my feet and another specialist for my ears. The end result was that it was possible to have feet and ear operations. The first time I was able to walk straight I was 10 years old, and I was 12 years old when I heard for the first time. When social service found out that I was walking straight and hearing, they brought the money the Williams was used to getting and brought it down to money of the day for foster parents which were 3 or 4 hundred dollars a month. The Williams didn't like that and they kicked me out. I went to my social worker and then I was brought into the supervisor's office and I was told that I would be put on independent living at age 13. Read that again. Imagine any child living on their own, this is why I am an advocate today because it still happens to children being put on their own. This happened 9 months after I first heard it, I didn't even know what the noise was when someone knocked on the door. Two weeks after I was on my own, I was kidnapped, raped by a man up in the mountains, almost killed, and left for dead up in the mountains stark naked. And today I'm a filmmaker telling our story. The documentary I am working on is called Indigenous Success Stories series: tube.bgwfilmstudios.movie/v/uRhoJD ruclips.net/video/CoNizE_-Wmo/видео.html
I had to write a 250 word letter to him for an assignment, let's just say I am not happy about his apology at all, wasn't sincere either. Utter bull if I have to say. If this was a real apology, he wouldn't have to look at his paper countless times to read nor make the remark about "positive experiences"
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I live in the United States in Southern Cali, and recently we been learning about Native American assimilation and cultural genocide. For anyone living in Canada; Has the government apology been enough to recognize their mistakes to the First Nations?
They preach reconciliation. They throw funds in our face and expect us to keep quiet while they still steal our lands. In 2019, our crisis for MMIW was considered a genocide. In my own reserve we’re fighting a land development on the doorstep of our community #1492LandBackLane. Jus last night they arrested a Haudenosaunee Woman in front of her children while at a Walmart for delivering food to the camp. She stayed over night in jail. They do these things in the called the starlight tours where the cops just drop off native ppl in the cold and jus leave them there. They spend millions of tax dollars in court fighting residential school survivors. They spend millions of tax dollars on a government agency proven to kill our people at a higher rate. They spend millions of dollars on resource extraction methods on unneeded territory, creating a forceful removal of indigenous peoples, not in the 1800’s but in 2020.
The government apology means nothing when you don’t seriously address the systemic issue that’s been perpetrated since the existence of this country, which was to remove the “Indian problem”. Failure to adequately implement change systemically is apart of the reason we still have major issues today.
@@pAuLWA05 I agree with you. I'm a Settler in what is now Ontario taking a FMNI teacher course. The environmental nonsense drives me nuts--it is a huge case of business/corporate interest (money) over people. It impacts all of us--in my suburb in Toronto they keep tearing down forests to build bigger homes. Then people turn around and complain that the displaced coyotes are in "their" yards. In Education we are seeing significant shifts which is a positive as the younger generations are more aware. One just hopes that the awareness keeps up into adulthood before the money over everything else mentality takes over. I'm just shocked that we are still debating running/clean water, exorbitant food costs, access to other basic needs, the much higher percentage of incarceration and mistreatment, missing women...the list goes on and on. It's been a topic since I was in school in the 1980s...just like climate change. People need to listen and catch on that the world does not only revolve around them. And, absolutely, systems definitely (!) need to change.
@@pinlight97 precisely, my culture is about the science of ecology and respecting the value of ecosystem. Value to them is a perception of human needs centred around the individual. This centralization of the human species completely disregards any other living organisms on earth. That is the fundamental difference and why there is always a clash between my government and your government (Haudenosaunee and Canadian).
How I met so many aboriginals folks The family I lived & worked with them in Canada ( Mennonite ) 13 kids one of her son build RT home We go there & set it up red Indian reserve . Very nice folks
My opinion in what an apology is An apology can heal the emotional wound. Something simple as an apology can relieve the anger the person or community may have. It’s extremely important to notice thier own actions. That way, an apology is genuine and shows respect as well as empathy towards the person being apologized to. Of course, an apology can’t undo the harmful actions that have been done, but it can undo the effects of the action. If it’s not genuine, the person may repeat in the behaviour or not bother keeping thier word for the promises they have made. Which, Indigenous people are still being mistreated and almost, forgotten by many. Such as, foreigners who come to Canada don’t know the history of the country they want to live in. Canada seems peaceful, but that’s because the harm, and war of the past made the present we live in today. That harm still lives on from actions that happened, it’s inter generational. Then again, I’m only 17 so what do I know?
You speak from a place of “intergenerational abuse” which is just a hype word or an excuse for repeating trauma. The only way to heal from such is individually, the great tragic scheme pushes victim mentality and false charity. The only solution is in the individual recognizing that the only time that matters is the this very second that you are interacting with the world. God bless
Everybody speaks about apologies but what about state designed restitution ? Canada, make it right. The national language of Canada should be the languages of the indigenous people. Give them back their land and teach this story in every Canadian school. It must never happen again.
@@averongodoffire8098 bc there is just as much ignorant polarization as there was back in 2008. nothing has been done in the form of true reconciliation. and the comments continue to be like "indigenous people need to stop crying over it" , "why do we need to help, its the governments fault", "shit has been done we give millions to you guys", when we are literally STILL facing BLATANT genocide in 2021 (MMIW inquiry report 1), we are still a population of 3rd world status in a FIRST world country, we have had boil water advisories for over 25 FUCKING YEARS on our reserves, we are disproportionately discriminated against in the criminal justice system, education system, healthcare systems (need i fucking go on), our ENTIRE populous have deemed (via the gov't) stuck in a chronic a suicide endemic over the last 10+ years, alcoholism, drug addictions, fucking everything dude. and what is being done? NOTHING. absolutely sweet fuck all. but yeah, everyone else says shit is being done when all the government is doing is "throwing money at the problem" and the public says "its not our fault, why should we fix it? its the governments responsibility" fucking acting like we dont live in a democratic society where the PUBLIC PUSHES THE GOVERNMENT FOR CHANGE. may as well call it a facist society at this point. this entire comment section is filled with ignorant butt hurt babies that think the indigenous population is attacking them personally when we are really pleading for their help in the form of action, and standing up against the perpetuation of systemic racism and opression that has plagued our people for over 500 fucking years. thats "why". :)
@@asmodeus1234im sorry, but how?? and ive literally seen you in a bunch of replies being very dismissive and kinda rude towards indigenous communities.
The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.
You would think that Justin Trudeau would be doing more for Indigenous people. Canada has a lot more work to do to help communities yet you barely hear anything. Orange Shirt Day is something but they should be doing more.
@@sketchbook_worm "Glorious and Free" Also President: Imma take away all your land and give you some land back. Also that returned land is shitty as hekk, there are only barren terrains.
@javacanda only the states is the worst with this racism the only country that’s the worst they only think white lives matter all lives matter including ours
I believe we all could get along if it weren't for one party being greedy and desiring to take, own, sell, destroy everything around them. In the U.S., people got greedy for the land. We didn't look at the land as a way of enriching ourselves. We see the land as our responsibility care for it. We never took more than we needed. We never wasted anything. We always gave thanks for the bounty the land provided. We lived well by our standards. To other people. That want enough. They wanted the land for the minerals, the oils, the timber, to put a hotel on it....we were just in the way. The rest is history. Now, they complain about climate change. Our government is trying to fix what they broke. They will never be able to repair the damage done. Greed caused all this!
its actually pretty shallow. not a month prior the aussie govt made a nation wide apology (thats only part but a major catalyst to canada's apology). harper wanted to prevent the mass outcries that were going on in aussie, from happening in canada. basically the apology was to prevent inevitable riots---no follow up in the form of true, indiginized reconciliation was made with this apology. any work that has been done by independent groups are constantly roadblocked by the lack of gov't support.
Stephen Harper was good educated man. I sent him a paper I had written in engineering thermodynamics and urged him to withdraw Canada from the Kyoto Protocol which he did. Green leader Elizabeth May is a public drunkard. She denounced Harper. At a leaders debate she based her religion on a paper written by Svante Arrhenius, "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground". At that time only wet chemistry knew of Carbonic Acid. Carbonic Acid can only be made at low temperature, else explodes. With spectroscopy we know Carbonic Acid explodes into carbon dioxide CO2 + H2O. Elizabeth May would be the first to say "I don't like chemicals in my food". She is a hypocrite. Food like all matter is chemicals. This may not be understood by all who have been influenced by the 68 year old secular religion of "Greenhouse Global Warming" started by English Professor Frank Baxter, but ecologist Dr. Patrick Moore would understand.
It's never enough for certain people. An apology is an admission that the government will make financial reparations to the victims . The man standing in Parliament ,(Steven Harper), was not responsible for residential schools.He is speaking on behalf of the governments BEFORE his own.Grow up.
Grow up ? Tell you what,, we will come and take your children away. We will put them in special schools to teach them what we believe in. We will cut off their hair. We will beat them for speaking their own language. We will let our religious leaders rape them Those who do not survive the beatings and rapes, we will bury in shallow , unmarked graves behind the schools and churches that serve as their torture chamber. We will do this for three generations. You need to " grow up " Harper's apology was written by someone else for him to " recite". He didn't have the common decency to memorize it,in honor of those children ! let alone read it with any degree of sincerity !
Took 200 years to figure out treating people inhumanly was barabaric and to apologize. What the fuck, did it really take 200 years for a western society to grow a heartbeat?
Canada confederation (ally with British monarchy) happened 161 years ago, treaties between the monarchy and First Nations can be observed to this day. Residential schools were ran by the Catholic Church under or above British direction. When do we come to a point of relinquishing victim mentality. And historically who is to blame and bear responsibility
that doesnt make any sense, hitler helped germany, doesnt mean people cant hate him (not trying to say they are in any way similar just the first thing that came to mind, im pretty much indifferent to harper, seemed like an ok dude)
Coriolanus Snow read and learn about residential schools before talking about Native History or if you think modern Natives haven't suffer like their ancestors did...
@@zz-uq2ow but bro ... In order to form a society they had to kill the natives and take who's left and be part of them .. To be slaves! SLAVES I TELL YOU! lol but yeah its a good thing tho lol because if they didnt rn there would still be wars 😰 and not these foreign countries vs america and canada wars lol
yeah all 35 million of us are gonna move to another country as an apology, like obviously we were in the wrong taking the land but you’re stupid if you think that’s how it works😭
Game Drop, thanks man, finally someone makes sense whos non-aboriginal, i like u :3 if we COULD make white people leave our country, we'd let u stay if u want haha
@@mcheckler2498 LMAOOOOOOOOOO i love how u got more thumbs up more than the original poster Game Drop, thats white people for ya :3 thats hilarious loooooooool
@@jasminedaw8359 yes it is, the schools were called IRS, hes quoting what aboriginals were previously called, the only times he said Indian was when he was saying Indian residential schools, which is right, calling them residential schools is like shying away from the problem of treating them like people they aren't. the only other time he said Indian was quoting when he said "to kill the Indian in the child"
@@cthulhuaid2998 Look at it like this. We used to have things like "coloured washrooms" but as people realized how wrong this was, there's no such thing as "coloured washrooms" anymore. (Not where I live anyway.) We know the term Indian is a racial slur, hence I personally feel we should try to use a less offensive term, even if it's referencing.
I never ever been against Harper I know he was educated in Albert or Edmonton I visited those cities towns so many times while I was working with beef head man Then again I visited few times slave lake with my friends to obtain oil field ideas . Even though I met him once my answer was straightforward I am liberal .
Education and integration should have been a positive experience and in unison with their own culture. The government did not parent children you abused and neglected and still do all school children. You heard and treat like a transaction vs a human being. This is world wide. Maybe leaders need a course in nurturing and humanities. The ruling elite must be made to live in differening realities to expierance that of the people before they are in office as a prerequisite. Lol
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If these schools never happened, I'd be speaking my language right now.
I am from the Salt River Indian Community, Scottsdale, Arizona, U..S. Our government had Indian Boarding Schools that mirrored Canadian Resident Schools. My Uncle's and Aunts were forced to go to these schools. My uncle told me that he was punished for speaking his language! The Nun would hit him with a ruler on the face, hand and head! The children were raped and molested by priests and Nuns! My uncle never ate chicken because he said they would feed them rotten chicken that wasn't cooked long enough. It was served anyway! They kids were forced to eat the rotten under cooked food. He never went to church again. He hated the church. He and his brothers and sisters were permanently affected by this horrible treatment. I pray that they are now at peace. That God will reward them. Nobody can make it right. There are not enough "Sorry's" that will take away the pain caused by our governments and their attempt and "civilization the savages". These people who hurt these children will stand in Judgement one day. They will answer for their acts or lack thereof! There are no lies and excuses when they stand before God! I'm sorry you went through this. I think of everyone of you often. May your journey be light. Let the sun refresh your Spirit. And, may our God, remove the pain, heartache and brokenhearted with peace. I stand with all of you. You are in my prayers.
I am sorry
@ynn Farley for #45 Its definitely fucked up and if these people were around today and did that shit, well if nobody else got to them first they would hopefully be strung up or even better thrown in jail where people that do things like this to children get much worse than a death sentence... karma.
I'd be speaking Gaelic, and there's a mass grave in Quebec with over 5,000 Irish refugee children in it, where's my "reconciliation" for my family being starved off their lands and sent here?
You're welcome.
My heart goes out to all the native communities that has and is effected, stripping the identity of one is wrong from the start, we need to come together and help to see this through, my arms are open to everyone who is effected
As if natives didn't strip each of identities during war, genocide,slavery and indoctrination of each other.....before Europeans came
I still feel so sorry and bad for the students who attended residential schools. The survivors still experience the horrifying trauma of the residential schools in their head. I wish this torture to indigenous people never existed anywhere in Canadian history.
My great grandmother was at one and I now have generational trauma about going to school
As much as it was a small step for them to make an apology, the fact that they've barely even done minimal work to actually help the FIrst Nations is insulting.
You can't just apologize and expect things to get better.
That's like stabbing someone, twisting the blade, pulling the weapon out, apologizing, and then wondering why the person is still screaming in pain.
If the people really wanted to help the Indigenous people, they'd start with giving the people on reserves clean drinking water.
yeah, and they should allow them to have more land bcoz it was their country since the beggining until they obnoxiously colonized it >:0
So what did Trudeau do except for going away on the holiday he created “for” the First Nations? Atleast he actually was apologizing and not just because it became a big story. Sickening
I mean I agree.
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it's because of your attitude that i agree. why bother apologizing? it's all about $
why do we still refer to them as "indians"? they didn't come from india.
Its just a name.. doesnt mean a whole lot
DreadlockDrummer you know how how there are different types of arabs for example an Arab from Kuwait or an Arab from Saudi Arabia
Yeah it's the same
Basically because the legal term for those schools were "indian residential schools". Further, The Indian Act is still in place, and was drafted in 1876. So Indian is a legal term in some sense, but officially the term to use is Indigenous.
but those two countries are within pretty close proximity to each other, so even though they're two different countries the people are not as genetically separated as indians from india would be from the native americans
Indigenous peoples were called "Indians" because when Christopher Columbus came to Canada the first time he thought he was in India.
A good sentiment at the time, but what have we done for First Peoples' since 2014?
this actually happened in 2008
We? What is this we? This is on the government. The government has to make amends. Why "we"?
@@onelonelypickle because people like you continue the perpetuation of systemic opression by refuting you have anything to do with this. you're not at fault for what has happened. but you are at fault for not taking action against it. discrimination is discrimination whoever it is against. dont stand for it. it is the people that push the government. until all white people become allies, nothing will change for us. the corrupt will remain in power, and whites turn a blind eye bc the systemic oppressions hardly affects them, and doesnt affect those in power at all. that's "why we". so stop being butt hurt over people calling out your attribution to systemic oppressions. you didnt make the system, but you sure as hell enforce it with that shitty ass attitude. "why we" pft. when will you guys start to listen instead of getting all defensive? we're not attacking you. we need you to help us to change the shit system. until the public realizes this, nothing will change. it is US who push the government to change atrocious policy. stop redirecting blame and fucking pull your head out of your ass.
@@onelonelypickle "we" are the one's who elect governments into power duh
@@koogshater1414 exactly. so people like Zach need to stop choosing shit people to govern Canada. the indigenous population literally make up 1.6 million comparative to the 35 million in this country. you think our numbers are effective alone? this is the importance of allies. jeez his ignorance is unbelievable, but unfortunately not surprising.
I’m a grandson of survivors of residential schools both sides of grandparents are survivors. So sad how they went through I question them at times how it was in that school sometimes I get silent treatment.....
dayum. well now u know the fax
@FIGHTFANNERD9 survivors of residential school bro
Yeah my great grandma told me story’s as a lite kid and it’s horrible and the things I remember most are that she told me everyday she went in the corner and cried and that she almost died but her aunt came and made them let her out because she was gonna die. If she was alive I’d be speaking Cree right now
A shining opportunity to get it all right. Don’t stop the momentum. Thank you RUclips for making sure we have this as reference and to the leaders of the time: First Nation and Government for making a cohesive dent in our history that was positive. May we keep going…there’s work to be done as we know.
Who else watching in 2020? Corona time
Social Studies a bitch lol
Me
me. I took 1st ppl class :))
ela homie
I Am its December now , I still believe this apology thing was wrong , All it did was made a whole bunch of people think they are above everyone else , even above the Law . All children were treated badly a Century ago or even 50 years ago ,Up into the 1900s and beyond even in certain places, Kids were worked in Factories and Mines ,some 4 or 5 years old .Some worked in dangerous places cleaning the machinery in tight hard to clean areas and back then there was no shut downs. Lots were killed and thousands were also missing , Orphans with no families , buried in poppers or unmarked graves .Some buried on top of each other .It was bad for all kids not just native kids.
Apology? I take it but what will you do to pick up the pieces that you broke? An apology is only the beginning of a long process of healing between people. Don't just leave it there.
+Andre Just be happy that he did something #stephanharperisbae
Ya his government formed the ruth and reconciliation commission, and a two billion dollar compensation package for survivors.
Coriolanus Snow Money means nothing really for compensation
karen
@@BenGoegan be happy that you are not one of the abused, beaten and killed children. An apology is the beginning, but NOT enough to be happy
His WORDS werent followed up by ANY actions that reflected care...if anything I'll always remember that when Harper was asked if there would be an inquiry for MMIW..his response " it really isn't high on our radar to be honest"
Harper initiated the TRC but didn't get a chance to implement any of its recommendations because the report was released in 2015, just before he was defeated in the October election of that year.
Harper sensed that an inquiry on MMIW would never achieve its desired objectives and that it would probably end up doing more harm than good for the victims, and it looks like he was right. That whole exercise was a fiasco from start to finish.
Not true, it was being investigated along with all the other children that disappear every year from Canada, there are hundreds of thousands of children that disappear world wide every year. Just ask President Trump. He was saving the children of this world. Tim Ballard-Underground Railroad. Timothy Charles Holsmeth.
I hold only hope for the future between our two peoples and perhaps
with time and healing we may see each other as one
with many golden hearts and minds and not throw each other aside as if only pennies
Residential schools affected generations, I can’t barely understand my parents when they speak Cree, soon everyone will forget the language..
But it is up to you then, to revive the Cree language, my friend. 🙌🏽😌
The way how he said that some Indigenous people said they had "positive" experiences, but we have yet to hear of any of those experiences and how he talks about those "positive" experiences being overshadowed by negative ones is absolutely disturbing and absurd. Nothing good came out of these residential schools and for him to say there are "positive" experiences that Indigenous people have said to me is an outright lie. I don't like him at all
I have got to hear these stories of said "positive experiences"! I would bet they are made up stories from people who never set foot in a residential school!
It's Stephen Harper what do you expect
Yeah you're right nothing good came out of those schools, literally
Totally over shadowing the entire apology. Many had positive experiences?
The single biggest thing that has happened since this time was Trudeau rescinding the enforcement of the Accountability Act, something that indigenous had fought YEARS to get! He had that little wink-wink-nudge-nudge meeting before the election, remember? He even sent buses to some of the reserves to see that all got to the polls, and chiefs instructed their bands to vote liberal. As though keeping his part of the deal, one of his first actions was to rescind the enforcement, something that only FIVE bands were appealing! In doing that, Trudeau ensured that the chiefs kept cozy in their haciendas with 2-3 satellite dishes on the roof and 2-3 Escalades in the driveway while pleading poverty to their band living in drafty shacks with poor schooling and houses, and with a high rate of addiction, suicide, crime, abuse, and violence, and a myriad of social ills typical to living in poverty. This was a GIANT step backwards!
Thanks you whom are willing for better. 😊
Why is it "Indian" and not First Nation.
Because times were different back then. Another few examples of this is how the politically correct term for people of colour used to be “negroes” and the medical term for mentally handicapped people used to be “mental retardation”
The term “Indian” refers to the legal identity of a First Nations person who is registered under the Indian Act. The term “Indian” should be used only when referring to a First Nations person with status under the Indian Act, and only within its legal context. Christopher Columbous made a mistake and thought the people where Indian since he was heading to India and didnt expect to find the Caribbeans and Americas in the way. hence that's where the incorrect phrase of paleo-indians comes from. because of this for a couple hundred years people actually thought this hence a lot of the outdated names and terms
Why are they clapping it's just Canadians apologizing
Ikr
yeahhhhh, i was cringing at the clapping also lol
That is what we do when we like what someone is saying.
This did NOT age well.
It seems back in 1964 the Queen made way with 10 children and those children never to be seen again, oh the past is never brought to the surface.
50,000 kids have said too gone missing.from these schools
But it was in this speech?
Yes I read that story last year and the court case was in Brussels last March and the star witness was murdered the day before the court case.
An apology barely even feels like an apology nowadays. Now it just seems like something someone can do, without even meaning a single word of it, and then saying "I apologized so you can't be mad at me anymore".
Mhm, its like those peeps who tell their friends in front of an Arab that all Arab's are terrorists, then saying no offense to the Arab.
lmao who had a positive experience? I'll wait
I'm probably wrong but I was told a very small amount actually did
@@t_man7259 Which also doesn’t change anything. There were those who had a pleasant experience during the Japanese occupation of Nanking, but it doesn’t change shit about the 200,000+ who died.
@@henrymudgett2646 No i get that but I'm just saying when we were learning about this in highschool it was mentioned a small amount had a somewhat pleasant experience but that's not saying much.
@@henrymudgett2646 ???
he's just saying a select few enjoyed it? no clue why you need to go so much on the offensive as he was replying to a question
Not Trudeau I, not Turner, not Mulroney (a fake conservative), not Cretin, not Martin. Stephen Harper does this. The greatest Prime Minster this country has ever had. (It's September 30, 2021, and Trudeau II is surfing).
and what did Harper do after this speech?
Wtf😂😂😂he ain’t great at all
@@henrymudgett2646 Started the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
@@henrymudgett2646 far more than Trudeau. Trudeau took indigenous children to court.
Just watched a movie about that...those schools were disgusting ! Lots of kids were abused ...!
Thank you! Finally someone understands!
Just watched the movie " Indian Horse". The treatment of the indigenous communities is disgraceful. This reminds me of what happened to the indigenous people of Australia. Watch the film "Rabbit proof fence" and you will see chilling similarities.
had to write about it, too
So much minimizing and has a tons of subtle excuses built in. This apology was not even close to good enough, sincere enough, or showed a level of understanding of the horror and damage caused to generations of human beings. "great harm" does not cut it. ugh
As a first Nation in northern Manitoba Canada. I would never forgive this government and everything that they did to great people's of North America
Good, we can therefore stop apologizing and pandering and actually govern the country you presently derive EVERYTHING from.
@THARSHANTH JEYAMOORTHY Just like those select ingenious people raped and pillaged other ingenious groups in the vicious cycle of blood and conquest that is human history. You gonna accept that fact or you gonna keep milking historical sentimentalism for selfish political gain?
Don't waste your time trying to explain the cause for pain among the Natives. One must have a heart to care. One must have a Spirit to sympathize. One must have a brain to understand. Without one of these attributes, they are nothing more than a shell of a man. This is the mentality that took away our culture. This type of mentality saw our people as nothing more than an animal! This mentality raped and killed our children. All the while, they did not sense any guilt or shame. Its this mentality that says ñEvil is Good, and Good is Evil. We will never understand why they think the way they do. Nor do we want to understand! And to think, they called us "savages!"
cringe maximillianmus wannabe
But that was then, not now. As more and more people wake up and are shattered at what happened. It should never have happened. I can't imagine the pain of what the children went through or the Parents. The Great Awakening.
I love you Stephan. 😊
Harper@😊
now do something about reserves
@roza wiatrow why? Huh? Natives just want to be treated like everyone else but I guess not with people like you, natives ain’t causing harm lol you’re asking for it. For the natives, everything for them would have been better without the Europeans coming too North America. Let the natives be. Bulldoze your cities.
Yeah eliminate them
Yeah, they should have access to clean water. Since we got rid of Harper, now the Trudeau's will help the first nations, right????
Reading the words, you would say that it is a moving speech, but with him? I have heard more emotion in people reading traffic updates.
My mom told me before she passed on that I wasn't even supposed to be born. In 1958 my parents had a baby boy. Life went on, as usual, my dad boated people from remote reserves and boat them to Gold River, BC. During this time my mom went about cleaning and preparing for supper when she didn't hear any sound coming from the baby's room, so my mom went to check on Billy. Well, sadly Billy passed what we know today as crip death. My dad contracted TB which was quite common, so my mom said that she put her foot down with my dad and said no more kids. Then I was born.
I was born with club feet, death in both ears and borderline retardation.
I was taken out of my home at 3 years old and taken to a residential school only to be almost killed there. One day I walked over to the principal who was a priest, and I kicked him in the shins and said I wanted to go home. The principal looked at me with anguish and he grabbed my arm and dragged me over to the basement door. He looked at me for what he thought would be his last time. He puts his hand on my back and he throws me down the step. Remember to breathe. If you believe in angels as I do, I felt an angel wrapping himself around me preventing me from hurting myself while rolling down the steps. He gently lands me at the bottom of the steps. Of course, the principal saw that I was still alive and he runs down the steps. He grabs my arm and puts me in a 5by5 cage and he handcuffs my leg to the cage so that I would try to escape. I was 3 years old, where would I go.
They didn't want me thereafter, and I was taken to the Supreme Court to be made a ward of the courts. I was then handed over to the social service to be put into the foster care system.
I remember being brought to the Williams home, I couldn't walk, so the social worker carried me to the steps of the Williams. The social worker gave me a teddy bear that I still have today and his name is Boo Boo.
Things weren't the greatest at the Williams, I couldn't hear, but I saw that Mrs. Williams was always yelling and throwing her arms around. Today I'm an advocate for first nations people here in Canada and the US I am a consultant. I have been doing this now for 38 years. The reason is what I learned as an advocate is that anytime social service wants to hide any child they put them under the foster parent's name. I was born Billy George, while in foster care at the Williams I became Billy George Williams. The Williams was getting 1800.00 dollars a month for looking after me in the 60s, that's a lot of money. Mrs. Williams always fought with their family doctor to get me to see a specialist about having feet and ear operations to see if it would be possible. I was sent to see a specialist for my feet and another specialist for my ears. The end result was that it was possible to have feet and ear operations. The first time I was able to walk straight I was 10 years old, and I was 12 years old when I heard for the first time. When social service found out that I was walking straight and hearing, they brought the money the Williams was used to getting and brought it down to money of the day for foster parents which were 3 or 4 hundred dollars a month. The Williams didn't like that and they kicked me out. I went to my social worker and then I was brought into the supervisor's office and I was told that I would be put on independent living at age 13. Read that again. Imagine any child living on their own, this is why I am an advocate today because it still happens to children being put on their own. This happened 9 months after I first heard it, I didn't even know what the noise was when someone knocked on the door.
Two weeks after I was on my own, I was kidnapped, raped by a man up in the mountains, almost killed, and left for dead up in the mountains stark naked. And today I'm a filmmaker telling our story. The documentary I am working on is called Indigenous Success Stories series: tube.bgwfilmstudios.movie/v/uRhoJD ruclips.net/video/CoNizE_-Wmo/видео.html
They were just awarded another 23 billion, the largest lawsuit settlement in Canadian history!!!!
I had to write a 250 word letter to him for an assignment, let's just say I am not happy about his apology at all, wasn't sincere either. Utter bull if I have to say. If this was a real apology, he wouldn't have to look at his paper countless times to read nor make the remark about "positive experiences"
Hey I'm writing a similar assignment can you send me yours.
@@aceasaiyan7211 That I cannot do, that is plagiarism
@@storm_pubgm5986 lol
@@aceasaiyan7211 Bruh he's not gonna give you his hard work
@@aceasaiyan7211 Not unless you pay him some good money
Truly, an honest stirring address and a sincere apology by the Rt Hon. PM Sh. Stephen Harper Sahib inside the Parliament of Canada 🇨🇦🌎 .... . God bless Canada 🇨🇦🌍 ... 🎄🗻🌳🌄🌈🌹🌷🌻🌸🌸🙏🙏🙏🙏
Lmao what
I live in the United States in Southern Cali, and recently we been learning about Native American assimilation and cultural genocide. For anyone living in Canada;
Has the government apology been enough to recognize their mistakes to the First Nations?
They preach reconciliation. They throw funds in our face and expect us to keep quiet while they still steal our lands. In 2019, our crisis for MMIW was considered a genocide. In my own reserve we’re fighting a land development on the doorstep of our community #1492LandBackLane. Jus last night they arrested a Haudenosaunee Woman in front of her children while at a Walmart for delivering food to the camp. She stayed over night in jail. They do these things in the called the starlight tours where the cops just drop off native ppl in the cold and jus leave them there. They spend millions of tax dollars in court fighting residential school survivors. They spend millions of tax dollars on a government agency proven to kill our people at a higher rate. They spend millions of dollars on resource extraction methods on unneeded territory, creating a forceful removal of indigenous peoples, not in the 1800’s but in 2020.
The government apology means nothing when you don’t seriously address the systemic issue that’s been perpetrated since the existence of this country, which was to remove the “Indian problem”. Failure to adequately implement change systemically is apart of the reason we still have major issues today.
ruclips.net/video/jxc1TNWKFoM/видео.html
@@pAuLWA05 I agree with you. I'm a Settler in what is now Ontario taking a FMNI teacher course. The environmental nonsense drives me nuts--it is a huge case of business/corporate interest (money) over people. It impacts all of us--in my suburb in Toronto they keep tearing down forests to build bigger homes. Then people turn around and complain that the displaced coyotes are in "their" yards. In Education we are seeing significant shifts which is a positive as the younger generations are more aware. One just hopes that the awareness keeps up into adulthood before the money over everything else mentality takes over. I'm just shocked that we are still debating running/clean water, exorbitant food costs, access to other basic needs, the much higher percentage of incarceration and mistreatment, missing women...the list goes on and on. It's been a topic since I was in school in the 1980s...just like climate change. People need to listen and catch on that the world does not only revolve around them. And, absolutely, systems definitely (!) need to change.
@@pinlight97 precisely, my culture is about the science of ecology and respecting the value of ecosystem. Value to them is a perception of human needs centred around the individual. This centralization of the human species completely disregards any other living organisms on earth. That is the fundamental difference and why there is always a clash between my government and your government (Haudenosaunee and Canadian).
How I met so many aboriginals folks
The family I lived & worked with them in Canada ( Mennonite )
13 kids one of her son build RT home
We go there & set it up red Indian reserve . Very nice folks
Is this enough?
the final chapter of residential schools in Canada.
Sir John A. Macdonald this is not the final chapter. We have so much more healing to do. That was just the beginning
@@kfcr Healing sure is expensive for the rest of us Canadians
My opinion in what an apology is
An apology can heal the emotional wound. Something simple as an apology can relieve the anger the person or community may have. It’s extremely important to notice thier own actions. That way, an apology is genuine and shows respect as well as empathy towards the person being apologized to. Of course, an apology can’t undo the harmful actions that have been done, but it can undo the effects of the action. If it’s not genuine, the person may repeat in the behaviour or not bother keeping thier word for the promises they have made. Which, Indigenous people are still being mistreated and almost, forgotten by many. Such as, foreigners who come to Canada don’t know the history of the country they want to live in. Canada seems peaceful, but that’s because the harm, and war of the past made the present we live in today. That harm still lives on from actions that happened, it’s inter generational. Then again, I’m only 17 so what do I know?
You speak from a place of “intergenerational abuse” which is just a hype word or an excuse for repeating trauma. The only way to heal from such is individually, the great tragic scheme pushes victim mentality and false charity. The only solution is in the individual recognizing that the only time that matters is the this very second that you are interacting with the world. God bless
It’s 2024 and I’m watching it
Everybody speaks about apologies but what about state designed restitution ? Canada, make it right. The national language of Canada should be the languages of the indigenous people. Give them back their land and teach this story in every Canadian school. It must never happen again.
sigh I am kinda sad of the comments in here :(
why is that?
@@averongodoffire8098 bc there is just as much ignorant polarization as there was back in 2008. nothing has been done in the form of true reconciliation. and the comments continue to be like "indigenous people need to stop crying over it" , "why do we need to help, its the governments fault", "shit has been done we give millions to you guys", when we are literally STILL facing BLATANT genocide in 2021 (MMIW inquiry report 1), we are still a population of 3rd world status in a FIRST world country, we have had boil water advisories for over 25 FUCKING YEARS on our reserves, we are disproportionately discriminated against in the criminal justice system, education system, healthcare systems (need i fucking go on), our ENTIRE populous have deemed (via the gov't) stuck in a chronic a suicide endemic over the last 10+ years, alcoholism, drug addictions, fucking everything dude. and what is being done? NOTHING. absolutely sweet fuck all. but yeah, everyone else says shit is being done when all the government is doing is "throwing money at the problem" and the public says "its not our fault, why should we fix it? its the governments responsibility" fucking acting like we dont live in a democratic society where the PUBLIC PUSHES THE GOVERNMENT FOR CHANGE. may as well call it a facist society at this point. this entire comment section is filled with ignorant butt hurt babies that think the indigenous population is attacking them personally when we are really pleading for their help in the form of action, and standing up against the perpetuation of systemic racism and opression that has plagued our people for over 500 fucking years. thats "why". :)
not enough.
too much
@@asmodeus1234im sorry, but how?? and ive literally seen you in a bunch of replies being very dismissive and kinda rude towards indigenous communities.
wow, at least they had the ball and courage to talk about it and acknowledge it. great country
Was* a great country
It’s heartbreaking , The darker side of Canada
thats not just it... there are much more to the _dark_ side of Canada..
@@chungzhen64tan56 of course
How many apologies has this been?
😆 if any of these apologies were sincere they wouldn't have to apologize every few years
he didnt sound sincere at all
I don't think sincere and politician ever go together.
Is he supposed to cry like the drama teacher who's a phony.
The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.
You would think that Justin Trudeau would be doing more for Indigenous people. Canada has a lot more work to do to help communities yet you barely hear anything. Orange Shirt Day is something but they should be doing more.
May you Indians from Canada
Stand up for better if not 9r never best.😊
He was ahead of the game
I am disgusted by what the g had done to the Aboriginal people of this country. No one should ever go through what they went through.
Well said Mr Harper
"god keep our land"
god keep our land
glorious and free
@@sketchbook_worm "Glorious and Free" Also President: Imma take away all your land and give you some land back. Also that returned land is shitty as hekk, there are only barren terrains.
very educational... i guess?
This is my final project assignment and this is the vid I have to base on to get full marks, so i guess it educational
Glory days of Canada! I regret voting Liberal!!
its 2022 as im writing this, and 34 of my peoples nations still don't have clean drinking water. this is not a 3rd world country this is canada.
Get off youtube help instead of clogging up the comment section then
I wish all races would get along
@javacanda only the states is the worst with this racism the only country that’s the worst they only think white lives matter all lives matter including ours
I believe we all could get along if it weren't for one party being greedy and desiring to take, own, sell, destroy everything around them. In the U.S., people got greedy for the land. We didn't look at the land as a way of enriching ourselves. We see the land as our responsibility care for it. We never took more than we needed. We never wasted anything. We always gave thanks for the bounty the land provided. We lived well by our standards. To other people. That want enough. They wanted the land for the minerals, the oils, the timber, to put a hotel on it....we were just in the way. The rest is history. Now, they complain about climate change. Our government is trying to fix what they broke. They will never be able to repair the damage done. Greed caused all this!
@@julianderrick1386 Are you high? have you been outside North America? Hit the middle east and Asia if you want to see real racism bro
What led the government to finally apologize ?
its actually pretty shallow. not a month prior the aussie govt made a nation wide apology (thats only part but a major catalyst to canada's apology). harper wanted to prevent the mass outcries that were going on in aussie, from happening in canada. basically the apology was to prevent inevitable riots---no follow up in the form of true, indiginized reconciliation was made with this apology. any work that has been done by independent groups are constantly roadblocked by the lack of gov't support.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was created as part of this apology wasn’t it?
As of this weekend in British Columbia the remains of 215 indigenous children have been found. Some as young as 3 yrs old #everychildmatters
Stephen Harper was good educated man. I sent him a paper I had written in engineering thermodynamics and urged him to withdraw Canada from the Kyoto Protocol which he did. Green leader Elizabeth May is a public drunkard. She denounced Harper. At a leaders debate she based her religion on a paper written by Svante Arrhenius, "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground". At that time only wet chemistry knew of Carbonic Acid. Carbonic Acid can only be made at low temperature, else explodes. With spectroscopy we know Carbonic Acid explodes into carbon dioxide CO2 + H2O. Elizabeth May would be the first to say "I don't like chemicals in my food". She is a hypocrite. Food like all matter is chemicals. This may not be understood by all who have been influenced by the 68 year old secular religion of "Greenhouse Global Warming" started by English Professor Frank Baxter, but ecologist Dr. Patrick Moore would understand.
It's never enough for certain people. An apology is an admission that the government will make financial reparations to the victims . The man standing in Parliament ,(Steven Harper), was not responsible for residential schools.He is speaking on behalf of the governments BEFORE his own.Grow up.
Grow up ? Tell you what,, we will come and take your children away. We will put them in special schools to teach them what we believe in. We will cut off their hair. We will beat them for speaking their own language. We will let our religious leaders rape them Those who do not survive the beatings and rapes, we will bury in shallow , unmarked graves behind the schools and churches that serve as their torture chamber. We will do this for three generations. You need to " grow up " Harper's apology was written by someone else for him to " recite". He didn't have the common decency to memorize it,in honor of those children ! let alone read it with any degree of sincerity !
@@gfygfy9512 stfu lol
just as indigneous peoples werent responsible for the acts committed against them but they're still facing the intergenerational consequences.
calmest Crusader LMAOOOOOOO i expect this of white people so it doesnt surprise me or make me mad :P
@@franktarbs2797 LOL
Interesting
What a waste of time, the only thing they want is more handouts
better than receiving nothing. not the solution, but better than nothing
Guy on the left looks like Bruce Willis if he didn't bald when aging
Canada misses you Prime Minister Harper!
Very much so!
Yes we do
Naha
Nope
Why do you miss Harper when you have Trudeau adopting all of his awful policies?
Bro all i hear is sorry, sorry, sorry, apologize, apologize, sorry, apologize.
with no action to back it up. right.
Agreed. They think that since they said sorry so no one can rebut them again and the issue is closed >:(
ROYALS HANDY WORK
Took 200 years to figure out treating people inhumanly was barabaric and to apologize. What the fuck, did it really take 200 years for a western society to grow a heartbeat?
Canada confederation (ally with British monarchy) happened 161 years ago, treaties between the monarchy and First Nations can be observed to this day. Residential schools were ran by the Catholic Church under or above British direction. When do we come to a point of relinquishing victim mentality. And historically who is to blame and bear responsibility
@@laurendika8607 The last residential school closed in 1996. This apology only came 14 years after that system was gone
I'm so confused if you hate him, why did he help Canada?
that doesnt make any sense, hitler helped germany, doesnt mean people cant hate him (not trying to say they are in any way similar just the first thing that came to mind, im pretty much indifferent to harper, seemed like an ok dude)
Hailey Stewert LMAOOOOO yh i expect this logic of white people :P
@Braydan duchene lol
He make a apology then at the end he said God bless our land Not Your Land Indians. STILL saying it's their land.
Snowrose Party Yeah sorry but I'm still not giving it back. Some fucking apology. Might as well just shut the hell up.
Coriolanus Snow read and learn about residential schools before talking about Native History or if you think modern Natives haven't suffer like their ancestors did...
It is a native land, until we were invaded.... Learn your history!... Know the facts before saying something its that simple
@@paultalley4870 but europeans developed this nation a lot more also dont act like first nations were peaceful they did bad things to
@@zz-uq2ow but bro ... In order to form a society they had to kill the natives and take who's left and be part of them .. To be slaves!
SLAVES I TELL YOU!
lol but yeah its a good thing tho lol because if they didnt rn there would still be wars 😰 and not these foreign countries vs america and canada wars lol
Man, I stepped into the wrong comment section 0_0
FIGHT FOR THE FIRST NATIONS-
Lol jk
@@chungzhen64tan56 fight for all POC. Period.
@@ItzNiahh_ whats POC 🤔
Fight for everyone except the top 1%. They are trying to get us all to hate each other to give themselves even more power over us.
Even today, new immigrants or cross borders have more right than the Not Indians but original habitats of the land and will continue to stay the same.
PRO
shut bebay
You remind me off Oaul Fitzgerald the 2nd 😊
Hey canada
Fake apologies everywhere smh.
If they were really sorry they'd leave and give the country back to them. . .
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard
if only life were that simple
yeah all 35 million of us are gonna move to another country as an apology, like obviously we were in the wrong taking the land but you’re stupid if you think that’s how it works😭
Game Drop, thanks man, finally someone makes sense whos non-aboriginal, i like u :3
if we COULD make white people leave our country, we'd let u stay if u want haha
@@mcheckler2498 LMAOOOOOOOOOO i love how u got more thumbs up more than the original poster Game Drop, thats white people for ya :3
thats hilarious loooooooool
im sorry INDIAN? did he say
Well yeah, I suspect he was quoting what the schools were named. Chill
@@fireplaceninja but he could've just called them residential schools, saying indian is not accurate.
@@jasminedaw8359 yes it is, the schools were called IRS, hes quoting what aboriginals were previously called, the only times he said Indian was when he was saying Indian residential schools, which is right, calling them residential schools is like shying away from the problem of treating them like people they aren't. the only other time he said Indian was quoting when he said "to kill the Indian in the child"
@@cthulhuaid2998 Look at it like this. We used to have things like "coloured washrooms" but as people realized how wrong this was, there's no such thing as "coloured washrooms" anymore. (Not where I live anyway.) We know the term Indian is a racial slur, hence I personally feel we should try to use a less offensive term, even if it's referencing.
Chichi LuvsU a lot of indigenous people in reserves still use the term “indian” to refer to themselves
I never ever been against Harper
I know he was educated in
Albert or Edmonton
I visited those cities towns so many times while I was working with beef head man
Then again I visited few times slave lake with my friends to obtain oil field ideas .
Even though I met him once my answer was straightforward I am liberal .
Just a show, a sham...meant nothing as shown in 2001
This speech was given after 2001.
i had to write a paper for this. got 0.5 on it. I hate Stephan Harper
+soundwavedarnell same
+soundwavedarnell about the paper, not the 50% or the hate
+soundwavedarnell Me too I have to write 5-10 lines on it, but I don't hate him.
omg same
"I hate Stephan Harper?" Why?
K I E R F E N R E N A U D
Education and integration should have been a positive experience and in unison with their own culture.
The government did not parent children you abused and neglected and still do all school children. You heard and treat like a transaction vs a human being. This is world wide.
Maybe leaders need a course in nurturing and humanities.
The ruling elite must be made to live in differening realities to expierance that of the people before they are in office as a prerequisite. Lol
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this apology is sad and pathetic
a reflection of your life
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SHEEP K
No apology could ever cover up what the government and catholic church did.
This was dry asf
When will Siberians apologize for genociding the Huron? The true natives of north america...not siberian usurpers.
Best prime Minister
Mid ahhh apology
thank-you Mr harper
Not a good look for him to end this speech by saying "God bless all of you. God bless our land." Like, seriously? Just how tone deaf can you be?