Is Canada's dark legacy over?

Is Canada's dark legacy over?  

  By: Lindsay.Reese on Oct. 13, 2021, 7:23 p.m.

Canada's dark legacy of oppressing and trying to assimilate indigenous children is not over yet.
Global News did a report on this on June 26, 2021 where they investigated indigenous children in the foster care system. Federal government records show that there is an estimated 14, 970 indigenous children in care. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a direct result of residential schools is that intergenerational trauma resulted in poverty, addictions, and domestic and sexual abuse, which in many cases is the reason indigenous children end up in the foster care system.
Then, after years in the foster care system, many indigenous adults end up incarcerated.According to Global News, indigenous adults make up 31 per cent of Canada’s incarcerated population in 2018-19.
The article can be found here https://globalnews.ca/news/7983112/indigenous-family-separations-advocate/

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Re: Is Canada's dark legacy over?  

  By: PaytonK on Oct. 19, 2021, 7:50 p.m.

Hi Lindsay- after I read what you wrote I did some research and it is very sad to read. Multiple news articles write that foster care for Indigenous youth is todays version of a residential school. A quote on this article linked below states that "the residential schools and genocide waged against us has evolved into the foster care system and the suicide epidemic we see today." As well as "Indigenous genocide is a 21st century problem." This article was from June 2021

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foster-care-is-modern-day-residential-school-1.6054223

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