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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 11:16 PM Jul 2013

"Harper must address decades-old nutritional tests on aboriginals: Atleo"

Harper must address decades-old nutritional tests on aboriginals: Atleo

CTV News Staff

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/harper-must-address-decades-old-nutritional-tests-on-aboriginals-atleo-1.1371153

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Recently published research by food historian Ian Mosby revealed that Canadian government researchers used hungry aboriginal children and adults in nutritional experiments in the 1940s and 1950s.

Starving people and kids became unwitting subjects in tests involving vitamins, minerals and caloric intakes. Nutritional supplements were given to some, but not to others to see how a starvation diet affects the body. Milk rations were kept low at one residential school and dental work was withheld from some children to determine the study’s effects on gums and teeth.

“Our children were literally lab rats for the most unconscionable, horrific testing,” Atleo said, adding that his own father was among the “lab rats” at a residential school in British Columbia.

The federal government released a statement saying it’s looking into the matter.


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"Harper must address decades-old nutritional tests on aboriginals: Atleo" (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2013 OP
I wonder how Harper will respond. He only seems to want to be a wet blanket when it comes applegrove Jul 2013 #1
Good question. Joe Shlabotnik Jul 2013 #2
I imagine he thought - or wanted to claim afterwards - that that'd be that Posteritatis Jul 2013 #3

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
1. I wonder how Harper will respond. He only seems to want to be a wet blanket when it comes
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 11:17 PM
Jul 2013

to aboriginal youth and self esteem.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
2. Good question.
Fri Jul 19, 2013, 12:38 AM
Jul 2013

Harper shocked everyone including party insiders when he agreed to apologize for the residential schools, because although he didn't offer any restitution (naturally), at the time he didn't have anything to gain from it. Now with emergence of Idle No More, FIPPA challenges, and dwindling time before 2015, would another empty apology accomplish anything? His already volatile base will freak out if he loosens the government purse strings now.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
3. I imagine he thought - or wanted to claim afterwards - that that'd be that
Fri Jul 19, 2013, 05:25 PM
Jul 2013

You know, do the whole "I said I was sorry, why aren't you over this yet?" schtick.

Canadians have had a really ugly kneejerk reaction to anything First Nations-related for awhile - the first reaction when something bad happens to them is usually "how much of my money will they want now?" - and an out-of-the-blue apology with no action behind it feels practically engineered to encourage more of that response when-not-if future awful things come to light.

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