Senate Passes Anti-Hate Bill but Rejects Proposal to Criminalize Residential School Denialism

AGAR: Senator's amendment to criminalize residential school denialism a dangerous move

If you want to know how quickly freedom can be taken away, you need only look to the Canadian Senate.

Senate Passes Anti-Hate Bill (C-9) But Rejects Proposal to Criminalize Residential School Ddenialism

Marco Vigliotti The Senate has rewritten the government’s hate crime bill to include a ban on anti-Black symbols, but rejected a proposal to criminalize residential school denialism. Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard’s amendment to Bill C-9 was the only one to pass at third reading on Thursday, after the chamber rejected the report on the bill...

Senate vote against residential school denialism bill sparks disappointment among chiefs

Several assemblies representing First Nations across Canada are expressing “profound disappointment” over the Canadian Senate’s vote against an amendment that would have rendered residential school denialism a punishable crime. Sen. Nancy Karetak-Lindell, a residential school survivor herself, had proposed the amendment, which had been adopted by the Senate Committee on Human Rights, on June 3. But the Senate as a whole voted down the amendment …

'Derailing our own progress': Residential school denialism remains legal in Canada

Amendment to anti-hate bill would have seen those found guilty of publicly 'condoning, denying or downplaying' the residential school system face up to two years in prison

Senate passes anti-hate bill but rejects proposal to criminalize residential school denialism

The Senate has rewritten the government's hate crime bill to include a ban on anti-Black symbols, but rejected a proposal to criminalize residential school denialism.

British Columbia and Ontario First Nations Leadership Condemns Senate’s Rejection of Residential School Denialism Protections

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