Existing Canadian museums of human rights.

On the front page of todays Winnipeg Free Press there was a photo of PM Stephen Harper with reference to federal support for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and a caption in bold letters directing the reader to details in section B where on its cover page is a full half page colored photo of dignitaries involved in this project. This write up is so detailed that it required an additional page.
In contrast in the section AROUND CANADA on page 11 there is another headline (in Black and White) entitled " Hundreds flee flood " . The total length of this article is only 11 lines. It reads in part " ... Rising floodwaters has forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from a northern Saskatchewan reserve (Red Earth )and prompted a state of emergency , one of a dozen across the province ..."
In an earlier blog I had discussed the wisdom of building a Canadian museum for human rights. Some professionals might argue that the manner in which we have treated the aboriginal in Canada would put our behavior in the realm of violation of human rights. If such an assessment is indeed correct than we already have a museum of human rights violations- indeed there are probably hundreds of such living museums in Canada. There is no need to build anymore- especially since the estimated cost for building the proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights museum is $265 million with an annual maintenance cost in excess of $20 million. Directing such moneys to the elimination of our "living museums of human rights violation" would seem to be more humane- than reliving the past.