> In a nutshell it amounts to an ethnic cleansing of the lower socioeconomic classes, especially Indigenous Canadians, who are more at risk of succumbing to the perils of drug and alcohol abuse.
This hyperbolic aside sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise sober essay.
Canada has about 10,000 annual deaths linked to drugs and alcohol …
> In a nutshell it amounts to an ethnic cleansing of the lower socioeconomic classes, especially Indigenous Canadians, who are more at risk of succumbing to the perils of drug and alcohol abuse.
This hyperbolic aside sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise sober essay.
Canada has about 10,000 annual deaths linked to drugs and alcohol according to this hand-wringing CBC story:
The indigenous population of Canada is about 5% (1.8 million) and growing rapidly, at about 2% (36,000) annually, faster than any other group. That’s net any of those drug and alcohol deaths.
This is a strange kind of “ethnic cleansing” that results in higher population growth than any other group!
> In a nutshell it amounts to an ethnic cleansing of the lower socioeconomic classes, especially Indigenous Canadians, who are more at risk of succumbing to the perils of drug and alcohol abuse.
This hyperbolic aside sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise sober essay.
Canada has about 10,000 annual deaths linked to drugs and alcohol according to this hand-wringing CBC story:
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6712273
The indigenous population of Canada is about 5% (1.8 million) and growing rapidly, at about 2% (36,000) annually, faster than any other group. That’s net any of those drug and alcohol deaths.
This is a strange kind of “ethnic cleansing” that results in higher population growth than any other group!