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Ben's avatar

I taught at a Residential school and was never told to suppress language or culture in any form. I expressed in public these facts and at the appropriate time was let go from my position of Town Crier of Duncan BC ,based on the discovery of the alleged 200 plus graves found at Kamloops IRS. Under Murrays proposal I should be prosecuted. I will not be quiet. I had a unique experience in the community and when we left Grouard Mission the Indigenous trustee of our school board, Ellona Willier and her husband ,John ,asked us to board their daughter when she attended nursing school at the U. of Alberta. What an honour! We are indeed in Orwellian society of 1984. I do not need this stress at my age but I will go down fighting for the truth. Shortly I will be taking on a retired Anglican Bishop who is fomenting a Decolonization movement in our church. Its going to get messy but articles like this are a great help, Onwards and upwards!

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Jim McMurtry's avatar

This article couldn't be better. It takes on all the lies and shibboleths of the aboriginal industry. My favourite passage: "It is deeply offensive to suggest there is anything in common in the Canadian history of Indian Residential Schools with the genocide of the Jews in the Holocaust of World War II. My rejection of this myth and provision of factual information is not a criminal offense. It is an act of truth and honesty in keeping with the Elders’ wisdom."

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