As unmarked residential school graves have reinforced, Canada can’t falter in confronting racism and hate

The government needs to push forward as quickly as possible on this, although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s continued status as minority government leader could make decisive action difficult.

A rally in Support of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders marches in downtown Ottawa on Feb. 7, 2020. As the upsurge of far-right intolerance has evolved in Canada, Indigenous people experienced an increase in digital attacks and threats after the Wet’suwet’en Nation hereditary chiefs’ protest in B.C., writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

September 29, 2021

OTTAWA—The recent discovery of more than 1,000 unmarked graves of children who disappeared at so-called Indian Residential Schools has awakened Canadians more forcefully to the century-long cultural genocide visited on Indigenous youth and their families. In all, at least 3,000 Indigenous boys an...

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