Vive Le Canada, Canada
For far too long, indigenous peoples’ lands have been taken away, their cultures denigrated or directly attacked, their languages and customs suppressed, their wisdom and traditional knowledge overlooked or exploited, and their sustainable ways of developing natural resources dismissed.� --Kofi Annan, August 9, 2004
We like to stand on our human rights record here in Canada, and it is a record that’s better than the records of most countries on this planet. We have a skeleton or two in our national closet, though. Our treatment of our native peoples is one of those skeletons. It is a skeleton you’ll find in many closets...the way indigenous people have been treated has been a travesty for a very long time.
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