How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism
… The wording used in the training said: “On May 27, 2021, the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported the discovery of an unmarked burial site containing the bodies of 215 children on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds. Although the discovery was shocking to many Canadians, many Indigenous residential school survivors had previously reported the existence of unmarked burial sites, and the unexplained disappearances of children; the discovery confirms what survivors have been saying all along.”
Heller and Berry asked to have the first sentence changed to “…Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported the discovery of a potentially unmarked burial site…” and to remove the reference to the bodies of 215 children.
They also asked law society members to delete the passage saying the discovery confirms survivors’ testimonies.
