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Michael Higgins: It's not reconciliation when law societies exaggerate anomalies as 'graves'

B.C. lawyer Jim Heller has settled defamation case against the Law Society of British Columbia

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Making criminals out of people who merely ask questions about the residential school system is not the path to reconciliation, says B.C. lawyer Jim Heller.

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Goodwill and open dialogue are needed far more than trying to imprison people under a “denialism” law, according to Heller, whose defamation suit against his own law society over potential graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was recently settled.

Michael Higgins: It's not reconciliation when law societies exaggerate anomalies as 'graves' Back to video

Heller sees the Kamloops controversy as a societal sickness where facts and truth are sidelined in favour of ideology.

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