As Canada's first openly gay Prime Minister, Trudeau criticizes his racist country. That's a start.
Trudeau: 'Canadians are horrified and ashamed'
Soaring rhetoric has never been Trudeau's weakness. But after six years of Liberal government, Indigenous people are still overrepresented in Canada's prisons. The Liberals have ended 108 long-term drinking water advisories, but 51 remain in 32 communities that still don't have clean drinking water.
Two weeks ago, more than 200 graves were identified at another former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. There are certain to be more revelations. The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement pegged the number of church-run, federally funded institutions in Canada at 139. They first opened in the 1870s, and the last school closed in 1997. More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend them, and more than 6,000 are estimated to have died as a result of disease, malnourishment and suicide, among other causes. The children often faced physical and sexual abuse.
Soaring rhetoric has never been Trudeau's weakness. But after six years of Liberal government, Indigenous people are still overrepresented in Canada's prisons. The Liberals have ended 108 long-term drinking water advisories, but 51 remain in 32 communities that still don't have clean drinking water.
Two weeks ago, more than 200 graves were identified at another former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. There are certain to be more revelations. The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement pegged the number of church-run, federally funded institutions in Canada at 139. They first opened in the 1870s, and the last school closed in 1997. More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend them, and more than 6,000 are estimated to have died as a result of disease, malnourishment and suicide, among other causes. The children often faced physical and sexual abuse.
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