afransen
Senior Member
The last residential school closed in 1996. It's not ancient history. None of it excuses China's current human rights abuses.
Had nations threatened to boycott the 1976, 1988 or 2010 Olympics over Canada’s continued treatment of our indigenous peoples would Ottawa have acquiesced to their demands?The last residential school closed in 1996. It's not ancient history. None of it excuses China's current human rights abuses.
So, that's the disctinction then? Fair enough.It seems to me that they are not trying to eradicate Uighurs, but to erase or neutralize them culturally.
I’m pretty sure you just described Indian residential school.We don't and never had mass sterilisations, organised rape and torture, mass surveillance, forced labour, etc
I’m pretty sure you just described Indian residential school.
You’re the one downplaying the testimony of residential school survivors. Rampant sexual abuse and coerced or involuntary sterilization have been talked about for years. China is more technologically advanced than Canada was, but that is expected. By nature of being a residential school, the children were being monitored.Sorry, where the hell was mass sterilisation and mass rape in residential schools?
I can't find any of that in the TRC report I have here at home.
Mass surveillance? Excuse you but the entirety of Xinjiang is a mass surveillance camp. The FN DID NOT have that here. Nice try. First of all, the technology being used didn't exist.
As I said above, anyone who thinks it's the same thing or on the same scale needs their head checked.
And trust, as someone who has had their head checked I know what the precipitory condition looks like and I'm seeing it here.
In any case, Parliament voted on the matter and every single MP but one Liberal and the cowardly government voted for the Conservative motion calling out China's genocide in Xinjiang.
There was one Liberal non-government MP who abstained. The cabinet abstained as well. All other MPs including all Liberals voted for the motion.
All the NDP, Bloc, Greens, Conservatives, all the Independents, and all but one Liberal.
I watched the vote live. I was actually surprised, as I thought there might be a handful of MPs voting against, but I guess, unlike you lot, they bothered tuning in to the parliamentary committee testimony.
I think the fact that that whole band of adult children voted for the motion tells us all we need to know.
If you're interested in educating yourself and learning about how it's not like what happened here, you can start by finding the relevant parliamentary committee videos on CPAC.
Or you can carry on with bullshit equivalencies.
In any case, if it were the same thing on the same scale, then it's even more imperative that as a thusly shamed nation we speak out against such horrors.
Open your eyes and learn about what's happening there. The Jews in 20th Century Europe wish they had sattelite images and witness accounts of the horrors they faced with which to unmask their tormentors.
I mean, I'm glad you're all comfortably ensconced in your Canadian homes with food in the fridge and nobody forcing you to do anything. Good on ya. Carry on.
I am not.You’re the one downplaying the testimony of residential school survivors.
I have not. Read again, or better yet, stop seeing only what you want to see. Or, as I also said above: don't bother.You want people to recognize the horrors in China, but have no problem dismissing the horrors that took place in Canada.
Yes, fairly sure I said the very same thing.More than one thing can be horrific and a tragedy. It’s not a goddamn competition.
Sorry, that's much too clever for me. No idea what that might even mean.Your whole condescending post just screams “tragedy hipster”.
So, Health Canada has approved three vaccines now and maybe four soon. What does the CPC have to say about this?