Canada is still correcting unjust treatment of our Aboriginal citizens, and the end is not yet in sight. However, Canada has a better record, than another former British colony, South Africa. For 250 years, South African treatment of its original peoples, was an international shame. "Apartheid" meaning 'separateness' was the law and the policy of South Africa that defined an evil, racist system of denying the rights of non- white people in the country. Apartheid created …
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…even whipped, (as many as 24,595 people in one year) for violating Pass Laws, which controlled where they could live or work. Canada promises we have the right to "move to and take up residence in any province" and the right to "pursue the gaining of a livelihood in any province". Black people in South Africa could 'legally' be arrested and jailed for at least three months, without being charged with anything, or having a trial.