Let the truth speak for itself
The knee-jerk response of federal Justice Minister David Lametti to demands that those who question accepted wisdom about unmarked graves at former residential school sites be charged under the Criminal Code is disturbing.
Federally appointed Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray released her interim report recently into how the federal government can search for unmarked graves of missing Indigenous children. The report stated there are people who deny the existence of graves.
Saskatchewan Cree lawyer Eleanore Sunchild says that denial should be criminalized.
“If you deny that happened — if you deny the whole residential school system and its impact on Indigenous people and the trauma that was created from those schools and the deaths — then, of course, it should be seen as hate speech.”
Lametti indicated he’s open to such a law.
