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> “The government sees me as expendable trash, a complainer, useless and a pain in the a*," the woman said in a video filmed on February 14th, eight days before

> “The government sees me as expendable trash, a complainer, useless and a pain in the a*," the woman said in a video filmed on February 14th, eight days before her death. HN would be wise to keep in mind that, as a general rule, governments think this about majority of their citizenry (those who are not in power). You might think someone in there is looking out for your best interests because you're an upstanding citizen working a tie-and-suit job making revenue for IRS, CRA or whoever, but don't be fooled, you're one foot in the grave from their perspective and they will not give it a second's worth of thought to push the other one in there for you. The rising costs/inflation, real estate, and a multitude of other problems that are coming to fore serve as examples. But it's what isn't being said, or talked about, that you should be on the look out for.

glitchc 4y ago
This deeply cynical and distrustful view of govt. is very US-centric. Perhaps it's driven by the fact that govt. frankly stopped working for the average US citizen a long time ago. It doesn't hold true elsewhere in the world. Edited: OP is not the top-voted comment any more, thank goodness.
- antiverse 4y ago
  I've lived in Canada and abroad; I've vacationed a few times in the US so I'm amused my commentary is US-centric. The US and Canadian governments are far, far better in terms of hiding corruption than a lot of other ones. But corruption still exists. There's way more cynicism out there than my commentary. And it would be close to the truth of things. Edit: you probably haven't heard about the bodies they recently exhumed of native school children that the government poisoned, after they took them away from their parents, abused them, and ultimately killed them, so you might be under the impression that we're all sherry and giggles up here with Trudeau. Nothing could be further from the truth.
  - glitchc 4y ago
    Sure. And yet I believe social media is contributing to your mistrust, as many of these events occurred in the past. If you are indeed Canadian, then I suggest you read David McLaughlin's article in the Globe today and reflect on his thinking. Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-trust-that-binds-canada-together-is-cracking/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-trust-th...
    - antiverse 4y ago
      You mean governments worldwide have had a change of heart since "Social Media" has become a thing, and have changed for the better? Now pull the other one.
  - moistly 4y ago
    > you probably haven't heard about the bodies they recently exhumed of native school children that the government poisoned You have invented that story out of whole cloth. You can not provide any story of “recently exhumed, poisoned, Canadian, native children.”
    - harambae 4y ago
      It's a real story, but there's a ton of misinformation around it (including, probably, in his comment). The real explanation is something closer to the kids dying of the Spanish Flu and they were buried by the school because they were orphans. (And no, I won't look up a source; this is completely tangential to the subject of this story and I'm sure some debunkers took it on if you care)
      - antiverse 4y ago
        https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mas... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unmarked-graves-indigenous-children-60-minutes-2022-02-06/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unma... https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poisoned-river-mercury-poisoning-grassy-narrows-first-nation/ https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poison... >During the 1960s and early ‘70s, the chemical plant at the Reed Paper mill in Dryden, Ont., which is upstream of Grassy Narrows, dumped 9,000 kilograms of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River. The fish in the river were full of poison, and the people from Grassy Narrows, who relied on the fish as a staple in their diet, were full of it, too. >Once ingested, mercury never goes away. It “bioaccumulates,” meaning it passes from one generation to the next, from mother to child, through the placenta. And so on.... This sort of thing is covered in University-level courses in Canadian History. But nevermind that - it's just "misinformation" that I have invented "out of whole cloth." Native schools and residencies were built downstream rivers from factories that produced toxic chemicals and dumped them into said rivers. Again, it's not new knowledge, it's just labeled as misinformation because people are ignorant and they would rather not know. This subject is directly covered in the aforementioned coursework. How gullible you want to be is a choice you have to make.

glitchc 4y ago

This deeply cynical and distrustful view of govt. is very US-centric. Perhaps it's driven by the fact that govt. frankly stopped working for the average US citizen a long time ago. It doesn't hold true elsewhere in the world. Edited: OP is not the top-voted comment any more, thank goodness.

antiverse 4y ago
I've lived in Canada and abroad; I've vacationed a few times in the US so I'm amused my commentary is US-centric. The US and Canadian governments are far, far better in terms of hiding corruption than a lot of other ones. But corruption still exists. There's way more cynicism out there than my commentary. And it would be close to the truth of things. Edit: you probably haven't heard about the bodies they recently exhumed of native school children that the government poisoned, after they took them away from their parents, abused them, and ultimately killed them, so you might be under the impression that we're all sherry and giggles up here with Trudeau. Nothing could be further from the truth.
- glitchc 4y ago
  Sure. And yet I believe social media is contributing to your mistrust, as many of these events occurred in the past. If you are indeed Canadian, then I suggest you read David McLaughlin's article in the Globe today and reflect on his thinking. Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-trust-that-binds-canada-together-is-cracking/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-trust-th...
  - antiverse 4y ago
    You mean governments worldwide have had a change of heart since "Social Media" has become a thing, and have changed for the better? Now pull the other one.
- moistly 4y ago
  > you probably haven't heard about the bodies they recently exhumed of native school children that the government poisoned You have invented that story out of whole cloth. You can not provide any story of “recently exhumed, poisoned, Canadian, native children.”
  - harambae 4y ago
    It's a real story, but there's a ton of misinformation around it (including, probably, in his comment). The real explanation is something closer to the kids dying of the Spanish Flu and they were buried by the school because they were orphans. (And no, I won't look up a source; this is completely tangential to the subject of this story and I'm sure some debunkers took it on if you care)
    - antiverse 4y ago
      https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mas... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unmarked-graves-indigenous-children-60-minutes-2022-02-06/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unma... https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poisoned-river-mercury-poisoning-grassy-narrows-first-nation/ https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poison... >During the 1960s and early ‘70s, the chemical plant at the Reed Paper mill in Dryden, Ont., which is upstream of Grassy Narrows, dumped 9,000 kilograms of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River. The fish in the river were full of poison, and the people from Grassy Narrows, who relied on the fish as a staple in their diet, were full of it, too. >Once ingested, mercury never goes away. It “bioaccumulates,” meaning it passes from one generation to the next, from mother to child, through the placenta. And so on.... This sort of thing is covered in University-level courses in Canadian History. But nevermind that - it's just "misinformation" that I have invented "out of whole cloth." Native schools and residencies were built downstream rivers from factories that produced toxic chemicals and dumped them into said rivers. Again, it's not new knowledge, it's just labeled as misinformation because people are ignorant and they would rather not know. This subject is directly covered in the aforementioned coursework. How gullible you want to be is a choice you have to make.