Hungerplan West : long before Hitler did it to eastern Europe, John A did it to western Canada

Canadians mock Americans for their crudeness : for shooting up aboriginals to be rid of them, for example.

So crude, so open honest and public, so un-Canadian.

Much more subtle, much more guilt-free, much more secretive, much more Canadian is to simply withhold and delay and decay most of their publicly promised needed food and shelter supplies.

(Good news : we're publicly announcing we're taking in another 20,000 refugee kids. The bad news ? Our secret plan is actually to build in enough government delays that most little kiddies will have starved - or drowned - by the time their final visa approval arrives.*)

Withheld supplies to such an extent that the aboriginals ever so slowly, ever so quietly died from diseases brought on by lack of food and warm housing coupled with high levels of stress and despair.

That was John A's way, as chronicled by James Daschuk's "Clearing the Plains".

The Canadian "Hungerplan West" quickly and quietly cleared enough of the aboriginals off their lands as to let the railways be built and the now mostly empty lands be handed over to whites.