Time to dismantle Indigenous Affairs, ban feds from Indigenous education and child welfare, prosecute church leaders

Workers at some of the residential schools are still alive and walking amongst us and they must be prosecuted. Church leaders need to be prosecuted. The Catholic Church needs to pay its reparations. The federal government needs to dismantle the Department of Indian Affairs, and forthwith be banned from Indigenous education and child welfare.

Officials and schoolchildren, pictured outside the Providence Mission Indian Residential School, Fort Providence, N.W.T., circa 1920. A whole line of political and civil service leaders through history didn’t want you to know the truth—truly a Canadian pact of forgetting. Those who continue to spew some propaganda to uphold 'the good intent' of residential schools need to be held accountable, writes Rose LeMay.Photograph courtesy of the Library and Archives Canada

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

July 26, 2021

OTTAWA—What does accountability look like in the face of mass graves of Indigenous children? A mass grave was just found in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of more than 500 mass graves from the war in 1992-1995. The largest mass grave had 629 Bosnian victims. Serb President Radovan Karadzic was found...

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