The Senate of Canada chamber in Ottawa in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
The Senate Human Rights Committee has voted to amend the Liberal government’s anti-hate Bill C-9, proposing to make Indian residential school denialism a criminal offence.
Sen. Nancy Karetak-Lindell, who introduced the amendment criminalizing the denial of the impact of residential schools, said the change is needed because of “growing anti-Indigenous racism, violence, and rhetoric surrounding the lasting harm of the Indian residential schools.”
