Alberta UCP curriculum advisor denies Kamloops burial site part of indigenous genocide – CityNews

Jun 17, 2021

CALGARY – An advisor for the UCP’s social studies draft curriculum is facing criticism for denying the Kamloops burial site finding of 215 children’s bodies at a former residential school is evidence of genocide.

“Natural compassion should not be distorted into a big lie narrative that ‘we’ committed genocide or that Canadians are complicit in their own version of the holocaust,” wrote Chris Champion in an article published Thursday in The Dorchester Review.

The article also goes on to say “the media and social media class in Canada have seized the Kamloops discovery as evidence of ‘Canada’s holocaust’ as if the children had been deliberately killed or that death was the norm rather than the very sad exception.”

It follows tweets posted by the publication’s Twitter account, which write the children had an ‘absolute blast,’ at residential schools.

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