Robert-Falcon Ouellette is in the process of introducing the Indian Residential School Genocide and Reconciliation Memorial Day Act in the House of Commons. Not everyone likes this idea of having a day each year to “dredge up” or “dwell” on something that’s, you know, like, over and done with.
I’d guess that most people feel that way, actually.
And there is a wide variety of ways for naysayers to tell us why the Residential Schools Outrage doesn’t need to keep being brought up:
- “It was a different time, and I wasn’t around for it, and we need to move on, already, jeez…”
- “My family is from India/Russia/Paraguay/Equestria so I don’t see why it has anything to do with us or any other New Canadians”
- “It was the churches who did it, not the government. Blame the churchies for it. (and Praise Sagan/Hitchens/The Flying Spaghetti Monster, while we’re at it)”
- “Those aboriginals already get free money all the friggin time, man, so it’s not like they need some new form of handout and/or pat on the back”
But one of the newer ones I’ve seen, which I think is a much more clever way for someone to delude themselves, is this one:
“This was years ago, it’s in the past, and the First Peoples have not only survived, but thrived. And that’s what I choose to celebrate.”