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Norman paul's avatar

At one point in my career I became an honorary member of a indigenous tribe east of Toronto. Ultimately the joint venture on the reserve failed but what I learned is the incredible divide in the community. The halves who escaped the atrocities and thrive and then the have nots who really cannot survive because of such tragic abuse with no end in sight

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Meaghie Champion's avatar

I write Gladue Reports for the courts. I see first hand on a regular basis the varying degrees of impact that the Residential Schools and Day Schools, and Foster Care System has on my fellow Indigenous people. My mother was a residential school survivor. I was 60's scoop. I was taken from her, and she committed suicide in 1975. I came home to my community 27 years ago and have been learning about these matters since then. In my estimation, there are no easy and quick fixes. I've seen what happens when the solution is to just hand over big sums of money. Some people did well with their settlements. In other cases, the access to all that capital simply hastened their early demise. I honestly am just horrified by what has happened this week and I'm hoping that with the strains being brought to bear on people because of sky-high inflation and other pressures... That this isn't the beginning of a spate of such events. I worry that we are on the cusp of worse things to come in this regard. I know how alarmist that sounds. I fear that because of COVID and systemtic cascading failures, decisions have been made in error to release people, who are simply (tragically) unsafe for the community to cope with.

I appreciate you taking the time to inform and educate people about the lasting and powerful impact of trauma on our society. It's a very important subject/topic to consider and discuss.

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