"...The Truth and Reconciliation Commission highlights that this deplorable situation was well known, quoting documents in the National Archives of Canada that said: “As many as half of the aboriginal children who attended the early years of residential schools died of tuberculosis, despite repeated warnings to the federal Government that overcrowding, poor sanitation and a lack of medical care were creating a toxic breeding ground for the rapid spread of the disease.”
The TRC’s historical documentation is a damning indictment of Canada’s treatment of students at residential schools. However, it does not record any lurid stories of murder or torture.
Children in the schools died at a far higher rate than school-aged children in the general population, due largely to high rates of disease, particularly tuberculosis.
“Failure to establish and enforce adequate standards, coupled with the failure to adequately fund the schools, resulted in unnecessarily high death rates at residential schools,” reads the TRC’s Missing Children and Unmarked Burials report.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/michael-higgins-truth-ignored-as-teacher-fired-for-saying-tb-caused-residential-school-deaths
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