This deeply cynical and distrustful view of govt. is very US-centric. Perhaps it's driven by the fact that govt. frankly stopped working for the average US citizen a long time ago. It doesn't hold true elsewhere in the world.
Edited: OP is not the top-voted comment any more, thank goodness.
I've lived in Canada and abroad; I've vacationed a few times in the US so I'm amused my commentary is US-centric. The US and Canadian governments are far, far better in terms of hiding corruption than a lot of other ones. But corruption still exists.
There's way more cynicism out there than my commentary. And it would be close to the truth of things.
Edit: you probably haven't heard about the bodies they recently exhumed of native school children that the government poisoned, after they took them away from their parents, abused them, and ultimately killed them, so you might be under the impression that we're all sherry and giggles up here with Trudeau.
Sure. And yet I believe social media is contributing to your mistrust, as many of these events occurred in the past. If you are indeed Canadian, then I suggest you read David McLaughlin's article in the Globe today and reflect on his thinking.
It's a real story, but there's a ton of misinformation around it (including, probably, in his comment).
The real explanation is something closer to the kids dying of the Spanish Flu and they were buried by the school because they were orphans. (And no, I won't look up a source; this is completely tangential to the subject of this story and I'm sure some debunkers took it on if you care)
>During the 1960s and early ‘70s, the chemical plant at the Reed Paper mill in Dryden, Ont., which is upstream of Grassy Narrows, dumped 9,000 kilograms of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River. The fish in the river were full of poison, and the people from Grassy Narrows, who relied on the fish as a staple in their diet, were full of it, too.
>Once ingested, mercury never goes away. It “bioaccumulates,” meaning it passes from one generation to the next, from mother to child, through the placenta.
And so on....
This sort of thing is covered in University-level courses in Canadian History. But nevermind that - it's just "misinformation" that I have invented "out of whole cloth."
Native schools and residencies were built downstream rivers from factories that produced toxic chemicals and dumped them into said rivers. Again, it's not new knowledge, it's just labeled as misinformation because people are ignorant and they would rather not know. This subject is directly covered in the aforementioned coursework.
How gullible you want to be is a choice you have to make.
> Some of those found had succumbed to disease, Yellowhorn said, citing one cemetery where it became apparent many children perished from the Spanish flu a little over a century ago. [0]
Yes, the mercury dumping by a corporation is the whole cloth from which you wove your story about the government running around deliberately poisoning the little native children. By twisting culpability, you created misinformation. Just as you do with the Kamloops story: debunked by the Chief for Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, it is not a mass grave and bodies have not been found; the media invented the narrative you now provide as “proof.”
You are abusing history, making claims and stories that are loosely based on history but are not actually real history. you, my friend, are the gullible one.
Edited: OP is not the top-voted comment any more, thank goodness.
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