Canada doesn't tolerate xenophobia - and calls for the resignation of the offending official
An incident denying discrimination and extermination of indigenous people occurred in Prince Edward Island.
In a small community — just 300 people — in Prince Edward Island, a rare political scandal has struck. A local official spoke skeptically about discrimination against Indigenous Canadians and questioned the country's painful past.
Village Councilman John Robertson posted a sign on his property with the following inscriptions: "Truth: mass grave hoax" and "Reconciliation: Redeem Sir John A.’s integrity".
What does that mean?
In May 2021, Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Indigenous people reported the discovery of a mass grave near a British Columbia residential school. At that time, the remains of 215 children were found, and it sparked a revival of the residential school debate.
Such institutions were built en masse in North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to introduce Indian children to the lifestyle of white immigrants. Often such "introduction" was carried out in a brutally violent way, the conditions in the boarding schools were torturous, and the educational measures were applied in the most severe way, as evidenced by the found burials.
Sir John A. is obviously John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister and the architect of Confederation and the system of these very residential schools. He consistently advocated a policy of assimilation and violence against indigenous peoples.
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