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And then there is the forced sterilization of indigenous women that is still happening, specially in Alberta:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sterilization-indigenous-1....

This is unbelievably shocking. Why is this not front page new across the world? Or at least the west? Good god, it’s unbelievable. The doctors should be instantly arrested, why haven’t they been arrested? This isn’t a law suit it’s a criminal investigation. I’ve not heard anything so absolutely disgusting about a first world country in quite some time.

More details here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization_in_Ca...

It does appear that the most forced sterilizations, which were part of a eugenics-like program, were stopped in the 1970s based on this article. And there were lawsuits involved by those affected.

I imagine whenever the major news outlets try to investigate, they get phone calls from people they don't want to get phone calls from.

Canada likes to whitewash stuff like this because we have a weird superiority complex towards the US. We just treat people better, have less racism and everything is better just by the virtue of being Canadian and not American. It usually goes "Oh first Nations are getting forcefully sterilized? But what about x thing happening in the US?". Remember, Native men were literally kidnapped by the Saskatoon police department and some of them just "disappeared" and it barely made the headlines for a few days. I think that's what people here mean when they boast about living in a "consensus based society", not like those savages south that actually have gasp political opposition & aren't shy of societal debates.

But what else would you expect from a country that is so deep into performative show of virtue that it fully admitted to perpetrating a literal genocide not even 2 years ago just to then proceed to not do anything about it, punish anyone or even really following up on that pretty huge allegation it made against itself? Keep in mind that a lot of the people involved in the disappearence of indigenous women (aka the genocide) are still alive. Tons of those people working for the government who by the government's own logic were directly involved in enabling or ignoring a genocide are still working for the federal gov because firing people, that's a bit too much of to ask for, right? Admitting to genocide is just the path to least conflict, so they did it to avoid a public debate

(And whether you agree with it being a genocide or not, the moment the PM and the government say that it was you should at least expect them to actually do... something about it?)

Anyone interested in a skeptical take on Canada's self-presentation might be interested in the Canadaland podcast:

https://www.canadaland.com/tag/indigenous/

On the subject of forced sterilization, the US funded forced sterilisation of Puerto Rican women up to the 1970s, sterilising over 30% of the population: https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/health-and-society/dark-histo....

According to the article the incident in question happened in 1978. It may be still happening, but this article does not make that claim. Rather it says it happened 40 years ago and there should be an investigation to its extent.

EDIT: I was wrong. In addition to the specific incident discussed and the focus on the past, there is this:

"New research shows the forced sterilization of Indigenous women is not just a shameful part of Canadian history. Reports from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and the territories suggest it is still happening."

This case is from 2010: https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kj3vp/this-woman-says-a-hos...

Here another one from 2017: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november...

No, it makes the claim.

'New research shows the forced sterilization of Indigenous women is not just a shameful part of Canadian history. Reports from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and the territories suggest it is still happening.'

But it doesn't provide any evidence or even details related to this beyond the class action lawyers statements like "if we have 60 people in Regina then there are many more out there". I read thje entire article waiting for some form of details about numbers, dates, etc. and nothing. This is typical BS modern "reporting" and it's inexcusable when the subject is so important.

You are correct, I've amended by comment.

Your article references what’s happening in Saskatoon which is not in Alberta?

And the claim is coerced sterilization.

The typical scenario is an indigenous woman going to the hospital to give birth, and the doctor refusing to give her the newborn until she "agrees" to ligation. It's not official government policy, just as killing people for driving while black is not official government policy in the US, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, nor that it is punished when found out.

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