Canada settles residential schools lawsuit for $2.8bn
Source: BBC World News
Canada has agreed to pay CAD2.8bn (USD2.9bn) to settle a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation for the loss of language and culture caused by its residential school system.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64362246
Can you imagine a story like this in the US?

Bernardo de La Paz
(59,462 posts)Canada is trying (perhaps could try harder) to work things out with our indigenous peoples. It will never be perfect, but it will be much better. There is a lot to do.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,462 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)Maybe the exchange rates fluctuated widely? Or the journalist goofed, as he/she was dealing with USD, CAD, and British Pounds.
Canada is doing the right thing. This measure doesn't make up for cultural genocide, but it's a start.
BTW: The greatest composer of all time, Ludwig van Beethoven, was terrible with arithmetic.
BradBo
(794 posts)Bayard
(27,377 posts)While we continue to take and defile Native land.
C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)Universal Health Care in all their Provinces, strict gun control, legalized marijuana, no capital punishment, and making amends for past injustices.
Canada has its RW nuts and other issues, but their problems seem paltry to America's.
Jedi Guy
(3,389 posts)Canada has been far kinder to me by just about any measure than the US ever was. I get homesick every now and again and I miss my family, but my life is here now and I'm glad for that. The US will always be my home and I'll always love it, but I don't foresee myself ever living there again unless a lot of things change.