From 1905 to 1910 the federal government “estimated that between 40 and 60 percent of children in the residential schools at that time were dying. Then they stopped monitoring that … because I think they were scared by the numbers”.
– Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Watch this and I guarantee you’ll feel a little less proud to be Canadian:
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Politics/Power+&+Politics/ID/2428753310/