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Senate votes to jail Canadians for 'residential school denialism'

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Canadians could be jailed for up to two years for so much as “downplaying” the Indian residential school system under an 11th-hour amendment introduced in a Senate committee.

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On Monday, the Senate’s standing committee on human rights introduced a one-line clause to the Combatting Hate Act criminalizing the act of “condoning, denying or downplaying the Indian residential school system.”

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Any Canadian caught doing so, unless it was in “private conversation,” would be “guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment not exceeding two years.”

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