A new Senate committee report is recommending the federal government take “every action necessary” to combat “residential school denialism.”
“The committee heard about ongoing denialism about residential schools and that some individuals deny the negative effects on generations of indigenous peoples,” reads the report released on July 19, “Honouring the Children Who Never Came Home: Truth, Education and Reconciliation,” and first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Of real concern to the committee is the small group of vocal individuals who try to undermine survivors’ accounts of the hardships and abuse they experienced at residential schools.”
The report from the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples comes after an initial meeting on March 21, 2023, to examine the work of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). The committee heard testimony from a residential school survivor Elder Barbara Cameron, the NCTR’s Executive Director Stephanie Scott, independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray, and independent legal counsel of the Office of the Independent, Special Interlocutor Donald Worme….