Bill C-9 amended to criminalize "residential school denialism"Never heard of it? Wikipedia has a whole article on it:On Monday evening, a Senate committee added a controversial amendment to criminalize "residential school denialism" with a penalty of up to two years in prison.
Residential school denialism is negationist ideology that trivializes, downplays, or misrepresents the effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. Despite decades of recognition and acknowledgments, denialist claims remain a factor within Canadian society. Residential school denialism often includes claims that the number of reported deaths has been inflated by the "reconciliation industry", that there were only isolated cases of child sexual abuse, and that many survivors are untrustworthy or are merely seeking compensation.It ends with an example:
In 2025, Dallas Brodie made posts on X that read in part: "The number of confirmed child burials at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site is zero. Zero. No one should be afraid of the truth. Not lawyers, their governing bodies, or anyone else." The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs responded with a statement condemning the posts and calling on Brodie to apologize "for promoting abhorrent rhetoric which minimizes the harms of Residential Schools and for misleading and emboldening the public against Indigenous people". On March 7, 2025, Brodie was removed from the Conservative Party of BC caucus as a result of her decision to publicly mock and belittle testimony from former residential school students.It is true that the number is zero. Even if any are found, they are almost certainly from children who died of natural causes. The whole story is known as the "Mass Grave Hoax".
It doesn't matter if there were no children who died, or many in this case.
ReplyDeleteThe state simply does not have the authority or right to tell anyone what their opinions are and then threaten them into agreement. To hell with the Canadian government and any special interest group there preaching what people SHOULD think or say. Jordan Peterson was completely right about what Canadian compelled speech laws would lead to.
You don't get to bitch about fascism and nazis while doing exactly what totalitarian governments do, trying to control what people think. That the idiots running maple syrup land into the ground are even considering doing this is alarming.