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OneBC Leader’s Comments Drive Indigenous Delegation from Legislature (The Tyee)

Representatives of the Métis Nation British Columbia visiting the legislature Monday got up and left the public gallery in disgust as OneBC Leader Dallas Brodie asked a question rooted in residential school denial.

Brodie’s question “felt incredibly disrespectful,” said Patrick Harriott, the organization’s acting vice-president.

“We have people, we have relatives that went to residential schools that witnessed these things, and so it’s denying all of those statements from all of those people and all that inter-generational trauma that’s still being carried" ...

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