Well it’s just an opinion article.

We knew 6000 children died in these schools since ages, I learned it in elementary school. Can we not reconcile with just this? Why are we digging graves in the first place?

I like this comment from a supposed FN person:

I was really weirded out by the fact that it seemed people were cheering for bodies to be found. There was no other way to interpret the sentiment, and as an FN person, it was kinda disturbing to see the entire discussion play out. We know the history, let’s quantify it like sensible researchers instead of cheer for different body counts like a reaper’s scoreboard.

How many churches were burned because we decided to sensationalize this rather than wait for the actual truth?

Also, do you remember when our justice minister said this?

Kimberly Murray called on lawmakers to consider “legal mechanisms” that could address the practice of denying or minimizing the abuses Indigenous children suffered at residential schools in her interim report released back in June.

One way to do that is by amending the Criminal Code to criminalize such actions, Murray said in a recent interview, noting Ottawa did so last year on the issue of Holocaust denialism.

“We could do the same for Indigenous people,” she said. “Make it an offence to incite hate and promote hate against Indigenous people by … denying that residential (schools) happened or downplaying what happened in the institutions.”

How can you pass a law like that if you have not gotten the facts yet? That’s insane.