The Canadian government will set aside $40 billion — more than $30 billion in U.S. currency — to compensate Indigenous people who faced abuses as children in the country’s residential schools, officials announced Monday. The funds will also be used to reform the country’s troubled child welfare system.

Hmm. Well, if asked, I would say that some dollars going to towards the troubled child welfare system is okay. What happened years ago, though, was done by a few select individuals, and I don’t believe that the working man today, that didn’t have anything to do with them issues, should have to put their hard-earned dollars towards something that wasn’t of their doing. 30 Billion dollars of that could go towards making vaccines right here in Canada, which would save thousands of lives in the coming days, months and years. What happened in the past should remain the past. My opinion only.

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