Grave Error challenges the prevailing media narrative on residential schools in Canada
A collection of articles published by True North and a book called Grave Error: How The Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools), which was distributed in the community by Quesnel Mayor Ron Paull’s wife, Pat Morton, has provoked council outrage, feigned or real.
One copy went to the parents of Councillor Tony Goulet, also president of the North Cariboo Métis Association, who complained, “With my dad going to residential school, he brought up a lot of stuff; let me tell you it was contesting that they didn’t exist. Those things are real and they did happen to Indigenous people who went through the school, and especially if you were just picked up and taken to the school.”
Goulet, who claimed to have read the entire book, said that his issue is with its distribution to the community.
Goulet left unmentioned that none of the book’s writers or its two editors have ever questioned the existence of the Indian Residential Schools or the poor experiences of some of its students, especially those sent there from broken or orphaned........