If we are going to have reconciliation in Canada, we need to be able to speak the truth, not criminalize it.

A bill before Parliament would see people jailed for up to two years for “condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system in Canada or by misrepresenting facts relating to it.”

Too much of the discussion on Canada’s residential school history has been distorted since the May 2021 announcement of 215 unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Now, New Democrat MP Leah Gazan, with the support of much of Canada’s media,

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