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OTTAWA New Democrats are calling on the federal government to recognize what happened at residential schools as genocide.
In a motion to be tabled in the House of Commons tomorrow, NDP MP Leah Gazan is asking fellow lawmakers to unanimously deem the institutions’ history as the deliberate, systemic destruction of a cultural group.
Gazan says that “there is no reconciliation without truth,” and that the traumatic legacy of residential schools continues to impact First Nations communities today.
At a news conference with Gazan this morning, Grand Chief Arlen Dumas of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs said denying an act of genocide would “belittle the history and the reality” of survivors of schools that continued to open into the 1970s.
NDP calls on Ottawa to recognize residential schools as genocide
NDP MP Leah Gazan rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick June 09, 2021 - 8:24 AM
OTTAWA - New Democrats are calling on the federal government to recognize what happened at residential schools as genocide.
In a motion to be tabled in the House of Commons tomorrow, NDP MP Leah Gazan is asking fellow lawmakers to unanimously deem the institutions history as the deliberate, systemic destruction of a cultural group.
Gazan says that there is no reconciliation without truth, and that the traumatic legacy of residential schools continues to impact First Nations communities today.