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House Hansard - 117

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 25, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 117 - Oct/25/22
Ms. Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)
  • Oct/25/22 11:02:14 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague brought up two words, “freedom” and “privilege”. Cassidy Caron, president of the Métis National Council, is calling on the Crown to apologize for its participation in residential schools. Paul Andrew, a residential school survivor, said the Queen was also a treaty member and had an obligation to live up to agreements that the Crown has never lived up to, such as the participation of the monarchy in slavery. Not everybody in this place we now call Canada has had that freedom and privilege we are talking about. In fact, many of us, in real time, are still fighting for freedom, still fighting for our rights, still fighting for our privilege, an erasure of genocide and colonial history that the Crown has participated in globally. I would ask the hon. member if he agrees with me that the Crown has participated in the violent genocide of groups of peoples across the globe.
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