Did you know that if you are born an aboriginal male on a reservation in Canada today, you are statistically more likely to finish your life at your own hand than you are to finish high school?
That is an utterly shameful and reprehensible statistic. What are the Canadians doing about it?
Nothing.
Oh, there's the predictable platitudes about respect and blah blah blah.
But that's about it. Lots of blah blah blah. No action.
This from a nation that never misses a chance to strut around lecturing everybody else about the sanctity of human rights. The nation that prides itself on being the cradle of the R2P doctrine. The nation that has hundreds of millions of dollars available to bomb Libya while a host of First Nations reservations right here in Canada don't even have drinkable drinking water.
Every Canadian should be ashamed.
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