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That does sound plausible.

Free health care? Sure! Drinkable water? Fuck no!

The only good thing you can say about Canadas treatment of it's First Nations is that we haven't recently given them small-pox filled blankets.*

*that has been caught on film and verified by 300 independent labs.

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A not insignificant contributor to the higher levels of hepatitis is intravenous drug use. You could also depress yourself to no end if you reviewed the levels of suicide amongst indigenous Canadians. It's genuinely shocking.

https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/indigenous-suicide-preve...

We didn't give them any ever. And the only reservations that don't have drinkable water are doing it by choice. They get millions of dollars and band leaders choose to spend it on themselves instead of their communities. Stop acting like non-whites are all retarded children that white people must babysit and do everything for. The more you treat people that way, the more they act that way.

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