Manitoba Indigenous leaders call out minister, provincial gov’t over defence of residential schools – Toronto Star

July 19, 2021

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Grand Chief Arlen Dumas took direct aim at newly-appointed Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations Minister Alan Lagimodiere during a Monday press conference, after the PC MLA made comments last week defending the intentions of Canada’s residential school system.

“Who in their right mind can say we found 1,505 babies murdered, murdered in these schools, hidden and buried in the ground, and in the same breathe say the residential schools were a good thing?” Dumas asked during a fiery and impassioned speech on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature on Monday.

“Who can say that in their right mind?”

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