Canada needs legal tools to deter emboldened residential school denialists, says special interlocutor

Indigenous Peoples need protection from hateful denialism, but education and precise reporting are required to put ‘truth before reconciliation,’ say professors Niigaan Sinclair and Sean Carleton.

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, left, House Speaker Anthony Rota, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Governor General Mary Simon attend the unveiling ceremony for the location of the Residential School National Monument on Parliament Hill on June 20. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

June 28, 2023

Canada’s special interlocutor for unmarked graves says any proposed legislation to combat residential school denialism has to deter already-emboldened naysayers, and allow more effective enforcement of existing laws against inciting hate and the desecration of burial sites...

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