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NDP MPs Call For An Independent Investigation Into Residential School Abuses
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Publishing date: Jul 09, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 4 minute read A memorial to the Afzaal family at the corner of Hyde Park Road and South Carriage Road in London, Ont., on Wednesday, June 23. Photo by Derek Ruttan /Postmedia Network
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It is June 6, 2021, a lovely summer evening as a family of grandmother, parents and children go for a walk in their nearby park. It has been difficult in the pandemic lockdowns, and the idea of being outside walking together is appealing. Imagine them standing at the intersection, waiting for the lights to change, unaware that death is seconds away. Death would come violently and suddenly at the hands of an angry young man full of hatred but unknown to this innocent family, the Afzaals.
Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq and Charlie Angus, who represents Timmins-James Bay in northern Ontario, called for the federal government to reopen talks to have Oblate priest Johannes Rivoire face trial for his alleged crimes, either in Canada or his native country.
And they demanded the federal justice minister appoint a special prosecutor to ensure that everything done to Indigenous people in all the institutions to which they were taken is revealed and perpetrators tried. Enough is enough, said Qaqqaq. Indigenous people need truth and justice, not only about individual abusers like Rivoire but about the hellhole of all genocidal residential school systems. We need a full and independent investigation that has the power to shine a light on every facet of this national crime and has the power to bring perpetrators to justice.
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