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Canada was colonized at the expense of its Aboriginal Peoples. The British started the forced assimilation and genocide of Aboriginal people in North America but the newly federated Dominion continued the policy with zeal after 1876. Canada’s official policy of forced Aboriginal assimilation started with its first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald, and used four primary tools to destroy Aboriginal culture and infrastructure. They are: wardship, the Indian Act, forced relocation and forced residential schooling. Central in the Government of Canada’s plan was the utilization of the Christian church. The Canadian Department of Indian Affairs oversaw Christian mission work to “civilize” Aboriginal people and mandated most of the residential school administration to Christian churches.
In the early 1900’s, as high as 50% of the Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents and communities died each year in the care of Canada’s Indian residential school system. There are conflicting reports as to when Indian residential schooling stopped in Canada, but they were all closed by 1996. Many, many Aboriginal people died at the hands of Canada and its religious groups as a result of forced assimilation policies and the Indian residential school system. There was no, and will never be an, excuse for atrocities perpetrated by religious groups and non-Aboriginal Canadians against Aboriginal people.
CAID is about undoing what has been done. It is about truth, reconciliation and rebuilding what was destroyed; Aboriginal societal infrastructure and a shared destiny with Canada. This can all be accomplished through a process of meaningful consultation.
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