The State makes Canadian Prime Minister apologized in a speech in Parliament, has been allocated funds to $ 2 billion to be allocated to former students and descendants of the natives. "Compensate abuse and violence." An investigation found that in more than 100 institutions with physical and sexual abuse took place more than 150 000 victims. The children were taken away from their families and forced integration. After the historic apology Australian ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=uERSO_9M75k ) and the Norwegian government's earlier apology with a case pending before the court of human rights for the so-called "children of Hitler, now you also add an apology Canadians. And 'awakening of consciousness of states that have committed crimes that affect the fundamental rights of the person (whoever that is) and as such are not subject to any limitation because an act of destruction to another person is the worst crime a man can do and these crimes are, unfortunately, successful.
Shards of broken lives that today the Government of Canada through the words of Prime Minister Stephen Harper will ask officially apologize. Not only that. For 90 000 of them, which include the survivors and descendants will receive compensation, $ 2 billion.
The wind has changed and is changing for many states that have had this behavior.
In the process the change can be seen from the statement of Minister of Indian Affairs, the present, Chuck Strahl: "It 's a respectful and sincere recognition of widespread cultural devastation, physical trauma that included sexual abuse, and continues to haunt those generations today. " The measure followed a few months the Australian Government in respect of Aborigines. But Canada has gone further, and added in addition to an official apology to monetary compensation. A deal with the compensation committee will be created with a part of $ 4.9 billion, the highest figure in the history of the country, reached at the end of an agreement between government, religious and indigenous representatives, at the end of a class action brought by the natives. Receive compensation for all school students complained of, and a further sum will go to victims of sexual abuse. A coordinating committee will be Harry Laforme, the first and only Aboriginal to be appointed Judge of the Court of Appeals. Laforme will travel across the country to hear stories of students, teachers and witnesses, and to educate Canadians on the "dark side of the country's history."
Indigenous communities point the finger toward the colonization program, not just cultural, and consider the root of the high rates of suicide and alcohol and drug addictions that plague their communities. Although ethnic minorities are treated relatively well in Canada, remain the poorest and disadvantaged in the country.
Tonight Canada will stop. Giant screens were set up in many cities to follow the discourse of reconciliation, the prime minister. The Parliament will stop all work. There is great expectation among the associations of natives, who are now more than one million. Some of them, mostly Inuit (those who were once called Eskimos, a term now considered pejorative) and Metis (descendants of Indian families crossed with Europeans), complaining that the compensation should be extended to persons excluded because their schools are not part of " blacklist.
Before long we will see some good about this ......
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