text: It's interesting to read some actual facts - which is the fundamental flaw of the TRC.  There is no frame of reference.  For example, we hear about the estimated 6,000 children dying out of 150,000 over roughly one hundred years.  But there is no reference to childhood deaths among children on reserves as a comparison.  We know tuberculosis and influenza were responsible for a good number of deaths in the early part of the last century across Canada but the media is drawn to the dramatic with the CBC tells us that the death rate in residential schools was higher than soldiers in the Great War.    
  
  I think ordinary Canadians (not settlers) are tired of the endless victim routine and demands for cash.  I know I am.