Goverment of Canada must stop experimenting with First Nations children

THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA must stop experimenting with the lives of First Nations children. Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee said the federal government’s plan to unilaterally push ahead with a First Nations Education Act looks like the latest in a long list of federal attempts to control the destiny of First Nations people. “They have used us like lab rats—sterilized us and starved us, and forced us to attend schools where we were beaten and abused and thousands of our children died,” Madahbee said.