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Related: About this forum"Harper must address decades-old nutritional tests on aboriginals: Atleo"
Harper must address decades-old nutritional tests on aboriginals: AtleoCTV News Staff
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/harper-must-address-decades-old-nutritional-tests-on-aboriginals-atleo-1.1371153
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Recently published research by food historian Ian Mosby revealed that Canadian government researchers used hungry aboriginal children and adults in nutritional experiments in the 1940s and 1950s.
Starving people and kids became unwitting subjects in tests involving vitamins, minerals and caloric intakes. Nutritional supplements were given to some, but not to others to see how a starvation diet affects the body. Milk rations were kept low at one residential school and dental work was withheld from some children to determine the studys effects on gums and teeth.
Our children were literally lab rats for the most unconscionable, horrific testing, Atleo said, adding that his own father was among the lab rats at a residential school in British Columbia.
The federal government released a statement saying its looking into the matter.
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applegrove
(118,808 posts)to aboriginal youth and self esteem.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)Harper shocked everyone including party insiders when he agreed to apologize for the residential schools, because although he didn't offer any restitution (naturally), at the time he didn't have anything to gain from it. Now with emergence of Idle No More, FIPPA challenges, and dwindling time before 2015, would another empty apology accomplish anything? His already volatile base will freak out if he loosens the government purse strings now.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)You know, do the whole "I said I was sorry, why aren't you over this yet?" schtick.
Canadians have had a really ugly kneejerk reaction to anything First Nations-related for awhile - the first reaction when something bad happens to them is usually "how much of my money will they want now?" - and an out-of-the-blue apology with no action behind it feels practically engineered to encourage more of that response when-not-if future awful things come to light.