Indigenous Residential Schools - Frances Widdowson

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  • Опубліковано 3 лют 2025

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  • @manoverboard4677
    @manoverboard4677 Рік тому +25

    Thank God for the voice of reason.

  • @maryellenmeyers5525
    @maryellenmeyers5525 Рік тому +28

    I support France Widdowson in her fight for the right to speak and debate these issues. With the Special Interlocutor now calling for "urgent consideration for legal mechanisms to address denialism in both civil and criminal law", we need Frances' strong voice. Freedom of speech is at risk for all Canadians. We need the real truth about Kamloops to be revealed now....the presence of a single grave has not been confirmed. We all need to speak out against this Indigenization to save our freedoms and our country!

  • @ralphkilloran8065
    @ralphkilloran8065 Рік тому +25

    Censorship has become the new norm in Canadian Universities.. "Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built. Any restriction of freedom of speech is a restriction upon democracy."

  • @canuckflxnfly
    @canuckflxnfly 9 місяців тому +10

    The voice of reason. Sadly, she is punished for it.

  • @pringlel
    @pringlel 10 місяців тому +9

    For a rational, intelligent person, it must be hell to argue with people who are either stupid or politically driven. Why should this woman's valuable time be taken up fighting such nonsense?

  • @ronmac9066
    @ronmac9066 9 місяців тому +14

    Often overlooked is the establishment of these residential schools were part of the original treaty obligations between the First Nations and the government of Canada. At the time the First Nations leaders recognized that their way of life was gone forever and that next generation needed an education and trade skills in order to fit in the new economy.

    • @62426637
      @62426637 3 місяці тому +1

      Along with regulation of the alcohol! Harold Johnson's book Firewater starts by turning upside down the usual narrative about the Drybones case, by pointing out that the Supreme Court case striking down laws that were actually promised to natives by Treaty.....

    • @pseudonamed
      @pseudonamed 3 місяці тому

      Which treaties included details about education?

    • @AndreComtois
      @AndreComtois 2 місяці тому

      @@pseudonamed “Her Majesty agrees to maintain a school on each
      reserve hereby made, whenever the Indians of the reserve should desire
      it” (Morris, 1991/1880, p. 315). From the outset, Treaties 1 and 2
      established both the treaty right to and policy context for the provision
      of educational services when First Nations requested them. As well, the
      treaties established the Crown’s fiduciary obligation for First Nation
      education. The treaties gave the First Nations responsibility for the
      implementation and control of education, and when and where
      educational services were to be provided. Treaty 3 (1873), and
      subsequently Treaty 5 (1875) and Treaty 6 (1876), state: “Her Majesty
      agrees to maintain schools for instruction in such reserves hereby made
      as to her Government of her Dominion of Canada may seem advisable,
      whenever the Indians of the reserve shall desire it” (Morris, 1991/1880,
      p. 323).

  • @rodneynorfolk9737
    @rodneynorfolk9737 Рік тому +9

    thank you. Good work.

  • @martinliehs2513
    @martinliehs2513 Рік тому +20

    Sadly, this discussion has received only 498 views on UA-cam as of June 23, 2023. There should be thousands of views just from Canada, IMO.
    It is disappointing to see how close-minded Canadian academia as well as Canada's government and institutions have become since 2016 on this issue, as well as many others. At the risk of being labelled a "denialist" (the latest Canadian hate crime du jour), I can understand the desire that drove the RS policies back around the time of Canada's founding in 1867 and later, as the western territories joined into confederation. While there were certainly some bad actors, the overall goals were noble despite the flaws.
    Interesting that today, we face similar challenges as the school system is trying to once again socially engineer society. Again, the same lack of nuance is thrown at parents who object to the unnatural and radical gender ideology that has appeared out of nowhere in recent years. Any challenges to this new orthodoxy are labelled as being against the entire LGBT group. This view that every ideology, religion or ethnicity represents a monolithic bloc, and that a criticism of any segment of these blocs is an attack on all its constituents, signals the end of any reasoned dialogue on almost any cultural issue.
    Not a good sign for the future of a multi-cultural society like Canada, in my opinion.

  • @blader45bc
    @blader45bc Рік тому +24

    Frances is one of about five sensible, honest people in Canada.

    • @rodneynorfolk9737
      @rodneynorfolk9737 Рік тому +3

      and i'm not too sure about you and me!!! lololol

    • @pudmina
      @pudmina Рік тому +5

      There are a lot more than 5 sensible, honest people in Canada, it is just that the idiots tend to be more vocal ... and more visible like our "beloved" PM.

    • @just_another32
      @just_another32 Рік тому +2

      woah! GB has at least 15 (not including myself!)

    • @calvinscott3120
      @calvinscott3120 Рік тому

      I hope Denis Rancourt is on your list

  • @oleinfidel
    @oleinfidel Рік тому +14

    Finally, some sanity to disrobe The Indigenous Drama Money-making machine.

  • @62426637
    @62426637 3 місяці тому +3

    I could believe that 10-20 bodies are at the Kamloops site. After all, some of the Indigenous knowledge keepers may have been legit; I would hypothesize that a large fraction of the 14 students who were not accounted for, plus a small fraction of the students who were recorded as having died at the School, could have been buried in the Apple Orchard. This story is all about what happens when you have 215 soil disturbances instead of the 10-20 bodies that you had reason to believe might be there. BUT the majority of those kids would have been buried in individual marked graves, given last rites, etc. in the same way as described in volume 4 of the preliminary TRC Report.

  • @encyclopath
    @encyclopath Рік тому +2

    I’m not sure which side of the debate this is on, going in.

    • @encyclopath
      @encyclopath Рік тому +1

      Oh thank god

    • @mowich7
      @mowich7 23 дні тому

      Debate? Not hardly. There are the tall tales being promulgated by native activists then there is the truth. Frances speaks to the truth.

  • @cvan7681
    @cvan7681 3 місяці тому +3

    If it turns out that no bodies are found, or very few, what about the emotional stories from the Indigenous elders who talk about the children who went missing? How could they not have been accounted for? The sad stories of assimilation attempts by the (insane) Catholic Church are terrible, but a large part of this story is based on buried bodies and the term "genocide". The truth needs to come out, the sooner the better, regardless of what is found. Anyone claiming genocide must be forced to prove that claim.

  • @lane99
    @lane99 Рік тому +4

    EveryTileMatter$

  • @BludShotiiiiis
    @BludShotiiiiis 10 місяців тому +2

    glad to hear the elders drum her out of Quesnel and cheers to MT Royal. Good heavens lol

    • @joanr3189
      @joanr3189 5 місяців тому +3

      A blank mind and an empty mouth response to an important nvestigation. And this is the real problem.

    • @grahammcisaac4254
      @grahammcisaac4254 2 місяці тому

      You have to be kidding.The Kamloops hoax is one of the largest hoaxes ever recorded in the history of Canada. There are no missing children or children buried at Kamloops. No one has named any missing child and no parent has ever reported any child as missing. No genocide occurred.

    • @mowich7
      @mowich7 23 дні тому

      It is such a shame that certain native people refuse to let the truth come to light. Those elders are living in the past preventing the from moving forward along with anyone that they are indoctrinating. Such a shame.

  • @anthonyjames2378
    @anthonyjames2378 11 місяців тому +1

    "Colonialism" is an enormous subject and huge in its continuing impact in all kinds of ways. Colonialism in "settler colonies" like Canada and Australia, two of the so-called "White Dominions," was very different in it nature that what transpired in, say, India or Nigeria. In Western Canada much of the brunt of colonialism impacted Indigenous societies mostly in the twentieth century. The resource takeover is an ongoing process, not some relic from history. The host is far too glib in his explanation of colonialism as some universal pattern that is over and done with. And then there are the questions that arise in "de-colonization," a big topic for, for instance, some of the BRICS countries, the so-called Global South and the so-called Non-Aligned countries during the Cold War and after. George Manuel's book The Fourth World, does a good job of applying the principles of the Non-Aligned movement to Indian Country.

    • @mrepix8287
      @mrepix8287 9 місяців тому

      The conquerers have a right to all the land and all the resources they conquered

  • @kensparrowhawk2289
    @kensparrowhawk2289 Місяць тому

    There's two sides to each story.but if you want any credibility stop misusing the word WOKE. It means beware of danger. Caring love etc

  • @bshunter9290
    @bshunter9290 8 місяців тому

    Put a sock in it and go flip some burgers Mrs Widdowson

    • @nunufyerbizness4867
      @nunufyerbizness4867 5 місяців тому +6

      Could you link to any hard data that counters anything she has said?

    • @bshunter9290
      @bshunter9290 5 місяців тому

      @@nunufyerbizness4867 information is all over the place, particularly on the Canadian government website, take your finger's off your nose and look it out, I'm not your secretary

    • @mowich7
      @mowich7 23 дні тому

      It truly puzzles me why certain native people are so afraid of hearing the other side of the story. Nothing is one sided in this world, yet they would have us think it is. Shame, shame, shame.

    • @TammyDSaxton
      @TammyDSaxton День тому

      Irony always escapes ideological types like yourself.

    • @mowich7
      @mowich7 День тому

      Thankfully Frances and an ever growing number of other intelligent well informed people are stepping up to counter the aboriginal activist mafia's mantra of poor poor me, I am just a victim. I deserve lots of money. Well boo hoo. There is a new government on the horizon that will put an end to the graft so best they start leaning how to make do with the billions already handed out.