By Hymie Rubenstein ——Bio and Archives--December 25, 2023

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On October 27, 2022, Leah Gazan, a New Democrat member of Canada’s federal parliament and the half-Indigenous daughter of a Holocaust survivor, succeeded in getting the following motion unanimously passed by the House of Commons without debate and without presenting any evidence to back it up:

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Not content with getting that spurious motion passed, Gazan raised the bar in February 2023 by proposing the enactment of legislation to criminalize denial that genocide took place at these residential schools, an even more illegitimate effort than false genocide charges given Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms protection of unpopular speech along with the absence of evidence of even a single Indian Residential School child murdered by a staff member during the 113 years the schools were government-funded institutions.

According to Gazan, “Denying genocide is a form of hate speech …. That kind of speech is violent and re-traumatizes those who attended residential school."

Always eager to label Canada a genocidal nation, the former federal minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, Marc Miller, quickly said he would be interested in reviewing any proposed legislation.

A recent episode in this saga occurred on June 16, 2023, when special interlocutor on the missing children, unmarked graves, and burial sites, Kimberly Murray released her interim report arguing “urgent consideration” should be given to legal mechanisms to combat residential school denialism.

Unsurprisingly, her “opening words” to the report state, "my role is to give voice to the children. It is not to be neutral or objective – it is to be a fierce and fearless advocate to ensure that the bodies and Spirits of the missing children are treated with the care, respect, and dignity that they deserve” even if that “conflicts with my responsibility to function independently and impartially, in a non-partisan and........

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