The North American country enjoys good press, even more when compared to the United States, but a detective series reminds us that not everything is as we are told.
Diego Sacchi addressed these issues in his column on international news on the radio program El Círculo Rojo, broadcast every Thursday from 10 p.m. to midnight on Radio Con Vos.
A few days ago I finished watching the detective series Three Pines (Tres Pines) whose protagonist is Alfred Molina, you surely know him for the role of Doctor Octopus in Spiderman.
The series takes us on the investigation of a series of murders in Quebec, Canada, and if the police intrigue is very gripping, it is also very interesting as the social intrigue shows us.
If I say Canada, we will surely think of a country that has a very good reputation, especially compared to its neighbour, the United States. But the truth is that this North American country also has its dark side and it appears a lot in the series.
From the beginning, the question of Aboriginal peoples in Canada is centered on two facts: one current, the disappearance of the women of the Aboriginal peoples, the other historical related to the residential schools for Aboriginal children,
In the first of eight chapters, we see a group of women expressing “What do we want? Justice! When? Now!” Approximately 1,017 First Nations, Inuit or Métis women and girls were killed between 1980 and 2012.
According to the IACHR, “Indigenous women and girls in Canada have been killed or gone missing at a rate four times higher than the proportion of Indigenous women in the Canadian population, or 4.3%”.
Another great protagonist is an old house where a children’s boarding school operated, it is the protagonist at many times, but what happened in these places?
In the 1870s, Canada adopted an Indian Act which, among other things, allowed the government to intervene in the education of children by creating a system of residential schools run by Christian religious orders.
When they reached the age of five, indigenous children were separated from their families, transported thousands of miles and forced to forget their language and culture. More than 150,000 indigenous children were forced to attend Christian boarding schools, with the last boarding school closing in 1996.
The harassment they suffered came to light following complaints and protests from indigenous nations. According to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission report released in 2015, approximately 6,000 Indigenous children died in residential schools. The Commission itself called it “cultural genocide”.
The issue of indigenous peoples crosses Canada, even in key issues such as energy, there have been great protests against the government’s attempts to use the territories of different nations for the benefit of the big oil companies.
I recommend you watch Three Pines, you can find it on HBO, because they have very good performances and a very interesting plot that will lead us to see the dark side of Canada.
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