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chinese food dripping sauce spicy beef and noodles steaming vegetable rice eggrolls and plum dip spareribs and garlic delightful food oh so delicious- most of us have all the food we want but wait I do not have to go far away within canada in my proud country there is starvation poverty and death now this will never be taught in schools but not a secret that our first prime minister sir john a macdonald starved aboriginal people into submission deliberately to clear a path for the canadian pacific railway his national dream . . . it was not enough that fur trades brought diseases small pox measles influenza but they hunted the bison almost to extinction leaving the aboriginals starving and desperate the government withheld food until the first nation people agreed to live on reservations designated areas trapped and humiliated unable to leave they could not farm not hunt dependent on the government for food and if they complained the substandard food rations were cut food contaminated withheld children died many died sir john boasted of the indigenous people "on the verge of actual starvation" some hero and even today 2015 there is widespread poverty starvation on first nation reserves in canada infant mortality access to drinking water(laced with e coli) high price food (brought by air) living on welfare (with no way out) oh no I do not have to go far to see starvation slum conditions overcrowding sewage backups garbage and broken houses and extreme poverty it is a national disgrace oh yes there are some sanitized reservations there are some really pretty places but still there are many not so nice it is a horrible situation the hopelessness agonizing and what is the answer the circle that goes on and on since sir john a macdonald stole their land their way of life the government of canada should be ashamed to allow this in this day and age of abundance in my proud country it is breaking my heart _____________________________ July 2, 2015 Poetry/Epulaeryu /Free Verse/breaking my heart Copyright Protected, ID 07-685-988-02 All Rights Reserved, 2015, Constance La France Written for the Standard contest, Food Can't Live With, Can't Live Without It Sponsor, Debbie Guzzi, Judged o8/2015 First Place
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