Paul Bunner, hired last year by Alberta premier, previously worked as a speechwriter for Harper
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Kenney said his government denounces the horrors of the residential schools and the institutionalized racism that supported them, adding that the best way forward is for everyone to work together and listen.“I think we’re all learning about, for example, the reality and legacy of the Aboriginal residential schools,” said Kenney.
“The premier must address the profoundly racist views of his speech writer who called the residential schools experience of Indigenous people a quote ‘bogus genocide story,’” Notley told the house. He also suggested some survivors and lawyers are trying to exploit the misery for money through government funds aimed at promoting healing.
A total of 150,000 Indigenous children are thought to have spent at least some time in a residential school over a century starting in the late 1800s.
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