NEW BOOK #2 - SEPARATING FAMILIES A THROWBACK TO THE 17th CENTURY

Different Strokes: Answers to the Perplexing Differences Between Americans and Canadians is the product of the theory, investigation and subsequent proof. The answers emerge from the beginnings of each country. Knowing this helps to explain what we see and read in current events.

It is shocking to see children separated from their parents now, when we know how damaging and traumatic it can be in the long run.  Indigenous people in Canada and the Canadian government are still dealing with the emotional fallout from First Nation, Inuit and Métis children sent to residential schools.

In America the separation of children from their parents was a regular occurrence during the era of slavery. The Slavery Code of 1698 in the southern states was a carry over from the one in Barbados, where the American southern planters originated. It was the most brutal slavery code at the time.  This punitive code was not universal; slave owners in Virginia were much more humane in their dealings with their slaves.

Punishment has also been a common theme in America. When the republic was formed in 1776, anyone who was not with the republic was considered a traitor. Land was confiscated and Loyalists were persecuted. That is why 50,000 Loyalists left to go to England, the Caribbean Islands and the majority to Canada.

Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist, resigned from his position because of the child-separation policy. (Mason, Gary, The Warning…Op Ed column, Globe and Mail, June 22/18) Schmidt compared this policy to some of the worst abuses to humanity in the country’s history. “It is connected by the same evil that separated families during slavery and dislocated tribes and broke Native American families.”

Now there is a president in America who is impulsive, demeans people from Mexico and other Central American countries, plays to his base and has no concern for the chaos he is causing in their lives. He is carrying on some of the most inhumane actions perpetrated in the past in America.

By the Way: There has been a huge outcry against his actions because the majority of Americans has moved on from that inhumane behaviour or would never have acted that way in the first place.