::::::::
I am in New Zealand, but I was born and raised in Canada, and retired from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Many Canadians are showing that they don't have any idea what it is like to live in your own country and be treated like you don't exist. If they had to live like the majority of Aboriginal people in Canada, the cry would carry around the world over and over.
The Aboriginal people have been denied even the most minimal Constitutional and human rights in Canada and even today this goes on. However, with most people, if it's out of sight and not in the news, it doesn't exist. But I can tell you from personal experience I have not only seen it but took part in this atrocity against them.
Canada, through the governments empowered in the past and present, continue these horrors against Aboriginal people and receive praise for their actions. The rest of the world looks at Canada now with disgust. A country that claims to be free, safe and full of compassion for others and its citizens, is now seen by the world for what Canada cruelly is: a country full of hate, prejudice and greed.
Don't get me wrong. I love Canada, I have Canadian flags all over the place, even on my vehicle. I just hate what Canada and most of the unknowing people say and do to the people that have only wanted one thing from them: to be treated as equals in their own country. Maybe hate is too strong a word, maybe pity would be more appropriate.
Edward Omahkataayo
