Genocide of our indigenous population mostly. The worst of it ended in 1996 when the last residential school closed. Basically, the Catholic Church under the authorization of the Canadian Federal Government in the 1800s and onwards, abducted children from indigenous communities, took them to boarding schools where they attempted to assimilate them into Eurocentric culture by punishing them for speaking their own language and practicing their own culture. Beatings, sexual abuse, and neglect were commonplace, with many children dying of illness, exposure, or violence. Many children survived the schools and are still alive today to tell us about it. There are also mass graves at several of these schools where children’s corpses were dumped and hidden from public view, until ground x-ray technology came around and we found the graves.
Also, random weird fact: women weren’t allowed to have bank accounts in Canada until like 1964.
For me, in the US, Canada is like that child where, if things are quiet, you know they’re doing something bad. Because we in the US rarely ever actually hear anything bad about Canada.
Compared to the US which is loudly doing bad things constantly.
So this is really not about what Canada alone did, but what Catholic church and Canada did.
The US called their residential schools “boarding schools,” but I don’t know if those had the same kind of lasting legacy Canada has, based on the schools they had in the US.
Other random weird fact: Women weren’t allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.
Women weren’t allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.
Except it was effectively true, because banks were allowed to consider marital status as a risk factor. That was made illegal in 1974. It’s in your own article.
The article says the 1974 law concerns credit applications, not bank accounts
I’m going need a 90 minute documentary and a giant bowl of popcorn to absorb all this
Are you going to give someone a checkbook without checking their credit? A checkbook was ye old credit card, and a checking account was how you got it.
Except it was effectively true,
Only in the same way it was true that men couldn’t vote in the US until shortly before the Civil War. Because before that most states didn’t have state laws mandating that all free male citizens be allowed to vote.
I don’t know what to tell you. At least one of my grandmothers needed their husband’s signature to open a bank account in the 60’s, and it wasn’t because she didn’t have assets in her name.
Any chance you have a link to a reputable source, or a site anyone else besides you has heard of?
Not without their husband’s permission. That is to say, they were allowed as long as their husband was happy with their wifely performance.
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I think thats a bit of a generalization.
Certainly not in the past, while they’ve calmed down a little with the hate these last few decades, they coming back with full force now.
You’re still making completely baseless assumptions. I bet there have been people opposed to slavery, xenophobia, racism, ect all throughout history. That’s why it’s important to study history and read old books.
… Ok…
Fucking white males. Thank God they aren’t as racist as Asians, we’d all really be fucked then.
Wait… it didn’t close until 1996?
Canadian Federal Government? So Britain then? /S
What does that have to do with the Geneva conventions?
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okay but what did Canada do wrong tho?
Didn’t hide it well enough.
https://lemm.ee/comment/5632652
This seems to be the only comment chain that actually explains it, the rest of this post is mostly Americans bringing up every crime and misdeed that Canada has ever participated in or even is connected to.
Sorry you got downvoted for bringing up the point of the original post, which was the title and linked image, everyone else on their hate parade and is too busy.
Oh I don’t I’m just trolling the hippies.
Really. We found the Graves of dumped children? So we finally have a body?
If you’re wondering why Stanwich here is acting weird, it’s a common right-wing conspiracy in Canada that these unmarked graves are “unproven” because they were discovered with ground-radar instead of dug up. They won’t accept that there were deaths at these schools until they’re dug up and the remains positively identified, at which point, one assumes, they’ll accept that the attempt at cultural genocide that went on at these schools also had a side effect of mass graves.
Or they’ll do some mental gymnastics and claim it’s all a conspiracy to make the Church look bad or that it wasn’t as bad as it is. Can’t trust conservatives to ever admit being wrong, because they almost never do.
The Nazi’s got the term, and concept, ‘final solution’ from a Canadian:
“It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness by habitating so closely in these schools, and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone does not justify a change in the policy of this Department, which is being geared towards the final solution of our Indian Problem.”
“…the system was open to criticism. Insufficient care was exercised in the admission of children to the schools. The well-known predisposition of Indians to tuberculosis resulted in a very large percentage of deaths among the pupils. They were housed in buildings not carefully designed for school purposes, and these buildings became infected and dangerous to the inmates. It is quite within the mark to say that fifty per cent of the children who passed through these schools did not live to benefit from the education which they had received therein.”
EDIT: I transposed Laurier and MacDonald here, as someone pointed out. The above quotes are from Duncan Campbell Scott, as Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs under MacDonald. Laurier was a key architect of the Residential School system. TLDR; MacDonald started the genocide, Laurier built upon it.)
The Nazis were inspired by New World colonialist, racists policies. Even Hitler admit he was inspired by the eugenics movement from the US.
I’m not disputing any of your points, but Civ 6 has Wilfred Laurier as Canada’s leader
Thank you for pointing that out, I switched Laurier and MacDonald after quoting MacDonald’s Deputy. Cheers!
A lot
This reminds me of the murals at the Pawnee city hall in parks and rec
Side note: for this atrocity, we Canadians punished the Catholic Church by… Checks notes… Publicly funding all Catholic schools in Canada.
I immediately thought of Parks & Rec when I saw it. They should hang this up in parliament
And how did we punish the RCMP? By allowing them to still exist and making the old uniforms a national icon.
The RCMP are like the Texas Rangers, they have this clean cut hero PR image, when in reality they’re a bunch of thugs and corrupt narcissists.
Even our police are fucked up and almost as bad as American cops, never forget the G20!
Not only do you let them still exist, you let them get away with continuing to do whatever evil bullshit they want
ARCMPAB
“Publicly funding all Catholic schools in Canada.”
All the other sentences in this thread are obviously atrocious, but this one is plain old infuriating.
I know it’s an “American” thing, but the people of a country should never be forced to pay for someone else’s religious bullshit especially when it’s indoctrinating and essentially torturing a portion of the populace.
It’s fucked we pay for only one specific religion’s education system, especially when that religion has trillions of dollars in their coffers
they didn’t get those trillions by spending their own money
Lol wait that’s a real mural?!
This was a very informative painting and article! Thank you for sharing this!
That was a great read, thank you.
We… Don’t have the best track record with indigenous relations (facepalm)
“A Lively Fisting”
What’s the name of this piece, and the context?
It’s called “Sunday Boxing” and it’s a joke painting from the show Parks & Rec where it hangs in the fictional Pawnee’s City Hall.
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The map of atrocities that’s just a solid color 😂😢
“Good” at war : ✅️
Human rights : ❌️
Supporting catholic genocide : ✅️
We have a really weird history that isn’t really something to be proud of…
To be fair, that’s in line with every country.
Where’d that article from earlier go… https://www.readthemaple.com/the-trudeau-government-has-opposed-every-peaceful-method-of-palestinian-resistance/
And There in lies what annoys me with Trudeau. He is the epitome of the morally pompous kid that shows up in the middle of the fight and decides right then who is the bully and the victim without getting the full story of how the fight started and just doesn’t care. Cringefully and willfully naive with an unhealthy side of ego. The worst kind of Canadian.
With citizens, ignorance can be an excuse. With politicians, it’s their job to know, and if they’re on the wrong side that pretty much means they’re complicit.
With politicians in his position they should have intel. So I’m deeply disturbed if his intel on this is lacking why he’s acting this way when even the most basic news outlet is describing it pretty basic. There’s just no way citizens should be that much more educated than their prime minister. If he does have intel no one else has on the citizen level but to then go off calling them as supporting terrorist as a result is just shameful.
Never ask a woman her age
Never ask a man his salary
Never ask Canada what the “indigenous boarding schools” were for
Never ask Russia, America, Hamas or Israel why they all see the Geneva Convention as a to-do list
There were also jewish refugees that were not allowed into Canada. Afair, the bigger arsehole in that story was the UK, that panicked and decided that everyone who fled Germany during some 193x–194x must certainly be a german spy. They forcefully moved people to camps, and also to foreign territories, but it didn’t work terribly well with Canada, too.
I though this to be the article I first heard this story from, but it doesn’t seem to address that. Here I found some more details, e.g. on how refugees were in prisoner of war camps along with actual nazis.
Edit: But those are likely not related to the question of what Canada did to become example of how Geneva convention should be, so maybe an unnecessary info ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Least racist treatment of Jews in 20th-century Europe
Ignorance aint so bliss anymore lmao
To add to the list: internment of Hungarian and Ukrainian Canadians in WWI in Canada (some other Eastern Europeans too); internment of Japanese Canadians in WWII in Canada.
So like non-francophones in Quebec, but without the beatings.
The Geneva suggestions…
Add Canada to the list of countries not to mess with.
I love how most of the comments in this thread completely ignore the context of the post, and instead are “Canada bad!” posts that seem to delight in bringing up every horrible thing the country ever did.
Yep, not a single mention of anything having to do with the Geneva Conventions.
No there was one, literally one comment chain.
https://lemm.ee/comment/5632652
The rest is mostly Americans screaming about Canada to make themselves feel better about themselves.
The mask is slipping…
The report indicates that new investments by Canadian mining companies in Tigray have increased as the region has been plunged into a major humanitarian crisis from military attacks by the Ethiopian and Eritrean government, whom the United Nations has accused of deliberately “starving Tigrayans.”
The U.N has warned that hundreds of thousands of people in Tigray face starvation, as the Ethiopian military—backed by Eritrean troops and militia from Ethiopia’s Amhara region—have raped women and children, committed massacres, burned crops, and blocked aid to the region as they conduct a lop-sided military offensive against the Tigray People
Yes this is definitely all of Canada doing this, not a corporation.
Do you say things like this when a company from your home country invests in a troubled region? Is it their government and peoples that you hold at fault? Or is this a problem with capitalism, and you have some motive to disparage Canada as a whole for the actions of a few rich assholes that the average Canadian would gladly have arrested for these actions?
What is your motive here, exactly?
Ethiopia Is Committing Genocide Against the Tigrayan People, Say Priests From Region
During this genocide against the state of tigray canda and it’s black-face president prospected gold mines in tigray. You canadians supported a genocide to steal tigrayan gold. I wonder if you would still feel the same if it was your mum and your daughter being sexually abused or your cousin or dad being put against a wall and shot.
Are you insane? “you canadians” lmao, yes I went to Africa myself and attacked these people, what country are you from exactly? Are you personally responsible for every thing every company of your country ever did?
What. Is. Your. Motive? Stop dodging the question, why are you attempting to defame the entire country of Canada and all its citizens?
edit LMAO judging by your post history about American politics, you’re American aren’t you, how the fuck do you sit there and judge Canada for the actions of one corporation, your entire countries corporate history is drenched in international blood, what a fucking hypocrite.
What is your motive here, exactly?
What is yours?
Don’t dodge the question.
These are valid criticisms but you approached this conversation in the worst way possible. If you are trying to get people on your side, this aint it dude.
Well Justin Trudeau basically had an “Aww shucks” attitude to churches being burnt down because it took focus off of his grandpa’s “residential schools”
And then he filled MAID full of loopholes to encourage mass genocide of the poor.
