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House Hansard - 303

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 19, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 303 - Apr/19/24
Mr. Mark Gerretsen (Kingston and the Islands, Lib.)
  • Apr/19/24 10:04:09 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-29 
Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Nepean. Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge that Canada's Parliament is located on the ancestral unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. Our collective journey on the path of reconciliation, healing and understanding is not merely a path we choose to walk; it is an essential step toward a better future and an acknowledgement of past wrongs. This is about acknowledging that while we cannot change the past, we have the power and, indeed, the responsibility to shape a better future, which is exactly what Bill C-29, the piece of legislation we are debating today, is all about. Simply put, it would establish a national council for reconciliation.
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Context: House Hansard - 303 - Apr/19/24
Ms. Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)
  • Apr/19/24 10:09:47 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I do feel that the implementation of the calls to action certainly need oversight because the final report of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation came out in 2015, and the government has barely moved on it. I appreciated the member's comments, particularly about acknowledging history, because we are in a time when there is a rise of residential school denialism. In fact, the Conservative leader, the member for Carleton, on the day we were meeting with families searching the landfill, was doing fundraising with a group that puts out articles regularly citing residential school denialism, particularly with unmarked graves. I am wondering what my colleague thinks about a need to put in place legislation to deal with residential school denialism as a form of hate speech.
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