The Apologizer-in-Chief was up in Nunavut today, apologizing for the racism inflicted on the Inuit population during a tuberculosis epidemic from the 1940s till the 1960s.
It was ugly. It was racist. It was colonialism. PM Trudeau is so very sorry...
On the same day he's in Nunavut apologizing, a story comes out about how the TB rate in Nunavut is 290 times higher than the rate for TB in non-Indigenous populations in the rest of Canada.
Not fifty or sixty years ago, but today. Right now, even as PM Fluffy stands before the locals crying crocodile tears for past abuses.
According to the experts cited in the story, the Nunavut TB epidemic of today would be much ameliorated by ensuring food security, adequate housing, and access to proper health care.
Unfortunately for the Inuit, that would cost Ottawa some money.
It's fiscally far more prudent to just wait another fifty years and then send the PM of the day up there to apologize again.
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