Retired RCMP sergeant Bruce Pitt-Payne said he became alarmed when he read a post on the RCMP Veterans’ Association website that he said was a “gross misrepresentation” of what the residential schools were meant to do to Indigenous communities in Canada.
https://t.co/Dvdhp11B97
Good morning to everyone except Carolyn Bennet. The Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations who was hate-scrolling and decided to send an Indigenous MP a text suggesting that she was just here for the money.
Which is awfully rich coming from somebody fighting RSS in court.
It seems pertinent to point out that Doug Ford's government cancelled curriculum re-writing sessions with residential school survivors in 2018 + shut down the office of the child advocate, who investigated deaths of kids in foster care, a disproportionate # of whom are Indigenous
Residential school survivors told their truths. You can help make their dream of justice a reality- call your MP & demand the feds stop fighting Indigenous kids & residential school survivors in court & implement the TRC Calls to Action. https://t.co/VCB8biZ2MZ
Dont ask Indigenous people what you can do (I will not be responding to such requests):
❤️Read the TRC
❤️Implement calls to action (you don’t need to be a government - something for everyone)
❤️Donate your money
None of my schools had a graveyard when I was growing up, marked or unmarked.
The only things our schools buried in the ground were time capsules.
Child graves at schools is not normal.
It's genocide.
BREAKING NEWS:
Another 100 bodies found in Manitoba, Brandon Residential school, was posted 56 minutes ago. Sad the 215 is now 315, and it’s gonna get a lot bigger after these investigations keep going.
Interviewing a nun who says she doesn't believe children at residential schools her Catholic order staffed were abused since she doesn't have staff records of that. This is why the TRC's testimony records are so critical.
Doug Ford removed MPP’s right to vote on important issues by extending emergency powers and is now calling back the legislature to secure the power to silence his critics a year before an election.
Never in the history of our province has this been done.
#onpoli@fordnation
If you didn’t catch it Plett said he would withdraw the point of order b/c of what he calls “the current circumstances” but still wants rules about what is a prop- total non-apology and disrespectful to the 215 children to which he implied.
More than a dozen lawyers from across Canada have formally requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate the Canadian government and the Vatican for crimes against humanity following preliminary reports that the remains of an estimated 215… https://t.co/OftRf4jIRA
Winnipeg Centre MP Leah Gazan is speaking many truths in Parliament on the discovery of the 215 children. All the former schools should be "treated as crime scenes." "Genocide is genocide. You can't classify it. It falls under the UN Convention." @LeahGazan
I have 2 boys.
An 8 year old in grade 3 and a 10 year old in grade 4.
This afternoon my wife and I sat them down and told them we needed to have a talk.
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I ask myself would Jesus have dumped the flesh and bones of 215 children, one of them, a 3 year old, into a massive pit ? No tomb. No stone. No markers of any kind. The Church's mission was to “take the Indian out of the child” Seems to me they took the Christ out of Christian.
But please do not use this outrage to perform allyship or mine info from Indigenous folks. Don’t cry at us, tell us it’s shocking, or ask us to teach you more. All of the information you seek is literally at your fingertips...we have been screaming it into the abyss for forever.