Politicians in British Columbia’s election campaign are paying their respects on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
NDP Leader David Eby will be marking the day on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation, which came under a spotlight on the weekend when an apparent group of white nationalists stood at the reserve and unfurled a banner in reference to what are believed to be unmarked graves on the site.
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Eby was invited to mark the day and his campaign says that in light of recent events, the leader wanted to be there.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak will also attend the same event at the Powwow Arbour on the reserve.
The First Nations Leadership Council issued a statement Tuesday condemning what it says is white nationalist activity on the reserve, and Regional Chief Terry Teegee called on the Canadian government to acknowledge residential school denialism as hate speech in the Criminal Code.
B.C. Green Party Leader Emily Lowan said in a statement that on the eve of the day of recognition, her heart goes out to Indigenous nations that oppose the multibillion-dollar LNG Canada 2 project that was announced Tuesday.
Well that’s the way the British operated back 100 years or more, India for precious stones, china for tea, ruled Hong Kong yeah they were unruly and barbaric animals fuelled on opium and booze.
My truth is we vote Conservative. My reconciliation is with my ancestors who conquered the land we live on.
150 to 90 years ago people were buried close to where they died. They didn’t have refrigeration back then. We didn’t have penicillin. There are 100s maybe 1000s of abandoned church and ghost town cemeteries all over this country. A simple wooden crosses would have long since been weathered away.
While I am 100% sure there would have been cases of abuse and neglect, the vast majority of these deaths were and are still fully documented in the records as deaths due to illness. Like everywhere else people were dying of Spanish flu, bronchitis, pneumonia etc etc.
The whole school thing is a very tragic story and massively flawed social experience, but it was not deliberately designed to be a tool of genocide.
The FN refusal to dig up these graves and prove the above should be all anyone needs as proof for this whole thing to be called a horribly failed social experiment.
Hey let’s strap a photocopier on top of a lawnmower and run it over the neglected Graves we know about and call it unmarked graves let’s insinuate that children were murdered there. We have the ear of wokey liberals who believe everything is factual we can extort billions of dollars from Canadian taxpayers and call it reconciliation.
Out hunting today on “crown” land.
Public Land!
And another poll out today (Liaison) has the Cons ahead.
The Canada poll aggregator (338Canada) has them in the lead too, and the projected seats are now 49 (and rising) for the Cons, and 42 (and dropping) for the NDP.
Bye bye Eby, you clown!!