An NDP MP is pushing forward with legislation that would outlaw attempts to deny or downplay the harms caused by Canada's residential schools.I thought that the whold thing was a hoax. There were big stories about mass graves, but none have been found.Leah Gazan, New Democrat MP for Winnipeg Centre, introduced a private member's bill in the House of Commons on Thursday to add residential school denialism to the Criminal Code.
"If the government is serious about reconciliation, then they need to protect survivors and their families from hate," Gazan said.
"The residential school system was a genocide designed to wipe out Indigenous cultures, languages, families and heritage. To downplay, deny or justify it is cruel, harmful and hateful."
Catholic schools were teaching eskimos. There was no genocide.
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The alleged hoax to which you refer is one school. The shortcomings and inhumanity of the residential school system are widely acknowledged, except by the usual suspects of course.
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