Residential school denialism is hate – Winnipeg Free Press

Nov. 27, 2024

Having represented Winnipeg Centre in Parliament since 2019, an issue I constantly encounter is the alarming rise of hate and misinformation that Canada has seen in recent years. It doesn’t take an expert to see this: for many people, including Black, Indigenous and other people of colour, and members of the 2SLGBTQ2S+ community, hate is something they regularly experience.

As of late, however, the rise in residential school denialism has been particularly concerning, as racist bad actors have sought to distort the truth and deny the obvious harms created by the Indian Residential School system. As the late Justice Murray Sinclair said, denialism is a major obstacle to reconciliation. Its growing harms were documented in the final report on Missing and Disappeared Indigenous Children and Unmarked Graves by special interlocutor Kimberly Murray, who stated the government has an obligation to uphold the truth and add residential school denialism to the Criminal Code.

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