I'm working on this as a full article, but I may have to do it over a couple days
First of all, look here at the wikipedia page on Canadian Human Rights Abuses
Then consider these( some are past stories which I will link to media reports):
-Africville
-Japanese Canadian internment
-Canadian residential school system
-Canadian doctors and government used to sterilize mentally ill up until 1972!!!
-Mentally ill used as guinea pigs for brainwashing experiment in 50's-70's
-First Nations in Canada relocated to reserves with little or no resources
-Don't forget the infested blanket genocide that the original settlers used on the First Nations!!!
-At least 10 children per province die each year in poorly regulated foster care, in some provinces it's as high as 100 children dead or missing
-Canada spends over $100 per day for each inmate to recieve 3 square meals and shelter while honest Canadians who end up on welfare between jobs get $230/month for food and other expenses, their max shelter allowance is $$375 and anything over that comes out of their food money
-there are shortages of up to 2000 shelter beds in each major city. Yet prisons are growing in size and shelters are not.
-1 in 4 women are raped or molested in Canada, but the number is far larger when you consider women forced into prostitution through economic poverty and a culture of misogyny
-Although laws exist to protect gays and lesbians, the majority of police in canada would be considered homophobic, and laws protect queer folk from hate speech or attacks are seldom enforced
-Queer bars and other gathering places for people of non "standard" sexual orientation have been systematically shut down throughout the west and central canada over the last 20 years by right wing conservative governments using City Inspectors to create flimsy reasons for business interruptions and violent racist gangs as shock troops to silently deter attendants
-Murders and beatings of queer persons are regularly dismissed as random violence rather than hate crimes, investigation is minimal by homophobic police, especially in the prairies
-Poverty is so pervasive that human slavery of person born in Canada is as much of a problem as persons imported into slavery
-The KKK is actually growing in size in Canada, not diminishing
-Poverty is creating massive influx of persons joining gangs, gangs are split along racial lines
-for years First Nations children were abused in forced residential schools
-persons born with ambiguous genitilia in Canada are operated on in infancy without regards to the childs rights, similiar to genital mutilation in other countries
-People who smoke are not given ANY PLACE where they can gather together and sit comfortably and smoke and talk
-Young people who are experiencing molestation are regularly placed back in the care of their molesters
-Bullying of racial minorities and queer persons in Canada is actually growing extremely fast since its low point in the early 80's
-As in many other countries, police are regularly used to harass the poor and homeless using fabricated violations that require multiple court dates to deal with, these people lose touch with witnesses and lose track of dates leading to more arrests for failure to appear
-City public works and engineering employees are being used to harass the poor in cities
-Mental health patients in Canadian cities are regularly arrested since the facilities they used to be housed in have been sold to developers. The criminalization of the mentally ill is a serious human rights violation being perpetuated daily in Canada.
-I've said it before, I'll say it again, child pornography is going on in Canada, and it's not being investigated, we're talking about RINGS here, not just isolated happenings. It's BIG money.
-23+ hookers, poor people who had no other safety net and no other way to pay for their rent, driven to prostitution by a christian society of "deprivation will help them succeed" and greed disappear into a B.C. pig farm over a 5 year period and no one investigates, 20+ hookers and runaways found in the Edmonton ravine system over the last 15 years, 16+ dead young female hitchhikers on the northern BC highway. People disappear all the time in Canada and no one cares.
-police in the Canadian prairies have been proven to take drunk First Nations people out to the middle of nowhere miles from town in -30 weather and leave them to die.
-police in a number of CBC investigations were shown using interrogation tactics proven by numerous international university psychology programs to create false confessions
-Police complaints commissions in canada are run by ex-police officers and don't actually pay out compensation, that has to be done by the victim in civil court
-Canada doesn't keep true poverty statistics, because they don't really want the truth to be known. Actual poverty in Canada is anything under $28k (it's not Nigeria, it costs about $500 min for rent and most heating bills in winter are past $200/mo.
-Indigent deaths are way up over the last 20 years, but you won't find any federal data on that...
-Suicides are going up over the last 2 decades
-Protests in Canada are consistently the target of police surveillance, and peaceful protests are often attacked by officers with pepper spray intent on clearing out citizens protesting
-way back when: all of the founders of medicare had huge RCMP files. They were labeled "communists" for their social welfare ideas
-People in Canada aren't being killed by malfunctioning tasers. They are being killed by being tasered 30 consecutive times in less than 5 minutes. It's not a "mistake" when someone gets stabbed 30 times, same with a taser.
-There's SO MUCH more!!! but I have to work on it over a couple of days and I'm broke and hungry and living in a barely heated windowless hovel with no computer of my own to write on....
So Happy International Human Rights Week!!!
