Kimberly Murray recommends outlawing the wilful promotion of hate against Indigenous peoples in her final report
The federal government must address residential school denialism by amending the Criminal Code to make it an offence to wilfully promote hatred against Indigenous peoples by downplaying or justifying the harms the institutions caused, a special interlocutor has said in a final report.
In her report, Ms. Murray says residential school denialism must be taken seriously because it puts at risk the work of truth and reconciliation. It should not be dismissed as a “harmless fringe phenomenon,” she said. that ground-penetrating radar had discovered unmarked graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Pleasemod Report Speech Truth Government Denialism School Interlocutor Member NDP Truth And Reconciliation Commission Saskatchewan
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