Random doodle

 

Canada Day 2021

 

 

Here are some amazing facts about Canada:

• We created the Space Arm
• Canada has the longest highway in the world
• Superman was co-created by a Canada, Joe Shuster

 

Some not so amazing facts about Canada:

 

•  There are nearly a thousand young children's dead bodies that have been found at residential school sites. See here for a timeline of Canada's failure to support Indigenous families. 

 

The gap I feel inside between what educators, people of the Catholic Church, anybody, should have done something at a policy level to keep these kids safe.  These kids were not safe, kids in the foster system, many which are Indigenous, are not safe.  I'm even more irritated at the Pope's lack of initial understanding of the issue (or his social media team) and the lack of understanding from the Canadian Catholic bishops, who spoke about persecution of the Church because of these findings, because some people were maybe a little upset that people in their families were reported missing when maybe they just died and no one told them.   

The failure on so many levels of church and state to acknowledge the harms committed, is hard to understand, almost as hard to understand that there are children's graves in large numbers connected to a place where kids were supposed to be given food, shelter and education.  And definitely not culturally appropriate education.  Definitely not education by people that young people could trust.  

Racism is not going away.  Bad faith actors are not going away. (The latest London, ON incident as a prime example). There have to be better systems put in place to protect the vulnerable.  Especially kids. Especially Indigenous kids.