| Joelcool7 said: Apology accepted and sorry for my harsh tone in my reply. I just hate when American's tell me they know more about my country then I do. Its really arrogant. (1) As for how Canada treated its aborigionals. Canada as a nation was founded on July 1, 1867. As a country Canada has always treated its aborigionals and the blacks with respect and dignity. (2) All races have since Canada's founding been welcomed and treated fairly well. (3) Now when we go back to upper and lower Canada as colonies of the British empire it is a bit different. Also if we go further back before any form of unified Government existed it was terrible. But keep in mind this was the exact same as the US, why you ask? Because we were all under British rule. Now history lesson Brigadier General Custer worked for who exactly? The US Government in the mid 1800's. The US Government as an entity supported massive slaughter of native Americans. 1876 the battle of little big horn occured in which the american government tried to pretty much ethnically cleanse the natives from the area. (4) Now yes Canada has existed since well dawn of man. Under the name Canada since around 1523 named by the french. However what the french and the english did to the natives up until Canada's formation can't really be held against Canada as a soveirgn state and country. (5) |
1. I'm Canadian, now.
2. This is not true. One book you can read up on the subject is Conrad and Finkel's Canada - A National History. Refer specifically to Chapter 16, Entering the Twentieth Century, and you can read quite a lot about the plights of aboriginal Canadians during the early 20th century. No, they were no treated with respect. The major federal policy in regards to the aboriginal peoples in Canada wa sone of forced removal in a way that would not provoke violent responses. Learning about the obstacles aboriginals faced in the 20th century will break your heart.
3. Similarly not true; the Chinese in particular had a lot of probems in the 19th and 20th centuries, and you might want to read up on the kind of things you guys did in WW2 (here's a hint: it was like the US, more or less, only even more reactionary and intense).
4. Not relevant when talking about the current state of things.
5. A great number of Canadians don't know as much as they should about the history of their own country. More books I recommend on the subject:
Haig-Brown and Nock's With Good Intentions: Euro-canadian And Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada
Long and Dickaon's Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues
Kuichyski's Unjust Relations: Aboriginal Rights in Canadian Courts
And those are just about aboriginal Canadians. The issue goes a lot deeper and a lot broader than that. It's why taking a class on the subject can be so edifying.
