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6 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

The UK had a policy in the 50s of removing children from single mothers and problem families, and shipping them off to Australia, put in homes, where they were abused. It seemed like a good idea, give them new lives in a new environment..

Not just to Ozland but to Canada as well.

Between 1869 and the late 1930s, over 100,000 juvenile migrants were sent to Canada from the British Isles during the child emigration movement. Motivated by social and economic forces, churches and philanthropic organizations sent orphaned, abandoned and pauper children to Canada. Many believed that these children would have a better chance for a healthy, moral life in rural Canada, where families welcomed them as a source of cheap farm labour and domestic help.

After arriving by ship, the children were sent to distributing and receiving homes, such as Fairknowe in Brockville, and then sent on to farmers in the area. Although many of the children were poorly treated and abused, others experienced a better life and job opportunities here than if they had remained in the urban slums of England. Many served with the Canadian and British Forces during both World Wars.

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Before the residential school scandal, we had the Mount Cashel Orphanage scandal.  Ireland had the Magdalene Laundries.  No one was willing to listen to the victims.  It's not much different from the Rotherham scandal - marginalized kids are easy to exploit because they somehow deserve it and addressing the problem would cause inconvenience to the establishment.

Incidentally, no one has been charged for residential school abuse even though abusers still live and there is plenty of sworn testimony.

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13 hours ago, MiloMorai said:

Is that Hitler's or tRump's?

That remark shows that you're an anti-semite - at least if we apply the rules of your side consistently.

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On 7/8/2021 at 12:01 AM, sunday said:

Are you also for parental abuse of children? Rape? Incest?

Don't be so upset, I am not a competitor of the Roman Catholic Church.

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1 hour ago, Adam Peter said:

Don't be so upset, I am not a competitor of the Roman Catholic Church.

So much time to find a lame retort...

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When a election threats on the horizon, begin to wave the bloody flag of historical grievances.

We have some of that around here, too.

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Hmm. How much of this is draconian policy and how much is demographics and population density? Will Canada be seeing more cases over time? This doesn't appear to be going away. 

What's your suicide and alcoholism rate look like? 

Canada Cases: 1,428,683 

Deaths: 26,570

Recovered: 1,396,646

Population (Est) 39,110,000
0.06% Death rate

3.6 % case rate among population

97% recovery rate

US
US Cases: 35,489,634 

Deaths: 628,116

Recovered: 29,604,332

Population 332,570,062

0.18% Death Rate among total population. 
10.% Case rate among population
83% Case recovery rate

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5 hours ago, rmgill said:

Hmm. How much of this is draconian policy and how much is demographics and population density? Will Canada be seeing more cases over time? This doesn't appear to be going away. 

What's your suicide and alcoholism rate look like? 

Canada Cases: 1,428,683 

Deaths: 26,570

Recovered: 1,396,646

Population (Est) 39,110,000
0.06% Death rate

3.6 % case rate among population

97% recovery rate

US
US Cases: 35,489,634 

Deaths: 628,116

Recovered: 29,604,332

Population 332,570,062

0.18% Death Rate among total population. 
10.% Case rate among population
83% Case recovery rate

Wikipedia says 2019 suicide rates per 100 000 were 10.3 for Canada and 10.0 for the US.

World Population Review shows 2019 male alcoholism rates as 5.43 for Canada and 5.48 for the US.

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But what is the change? 

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7 minutes ago, rmgill said:

But what is the change? 

I suspect that the vast majority of the difference between the US and Canada when it comes to COVID-19 is down to 2 factors:

1. Universal health care

2. De-politicization of the issue in that, with some exceptions, the political parties are on the same page when it comes to health measures and follow the science, not what they think will get them votes.

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2 hours ago, Allan Wotherspoon said:

I suspect that the vast majority of the difference between the US and Canada when it comes to COVID-19 is down to 2 factors:

1. Universal health care

2. De-politicization of the issue in that, with some exceptions, the political parties are on the same page when it comes to health measures and follow the science, not what they think will get them votes.

For example, NYC was caught in political infighting and empire making between mayor and governor.  Here, it is no secret the Mayor of Toronto and the Premier of Ontario are less than best buds, yet their respective administrations cooperated reasonably well.

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3 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

 

Hardly surprising a PPP candidate is annoyed that the leader of his fringe party that has no seats, isn't going to get any, and stands at 3.6% in the polls isn't being invited to share the stage with serious candidates.

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