The prime minister's statement was, as ever, filled with pointless platitudes

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The enfeebling ambiguity of Canada as a government and a state among the nations of the world is underlined almost every week. The prime minister’s statement on the removal of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was commendably critical of the former president and skirted international law questions in a way that permits Carney to claim to recognize them without aggravating our relations with the Trump administration with whom delicate trade negotiations are underway. All the while, agitation continues in Parliament for the criminalization of those who would justify the native residential school system or minimize the negative consequences of it.

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Bill C-413 in 2024 and Bill C-254 last year regard any downplaying or justification of the Indian residential school system as a criminal promotion of hatred. What are proposed are amendments to the Criminal Code modelled upon existing laws against a denial of the Holocaust in which six million Jews and six million non-Jews were murdered in the Nazi death camps of Central Europe in the 1940’s. It is explicitly stated that the residential schools were genocidally inspired and this was confirmed in a 2022 motion in Parliament.

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