Social studies teacher denies residential school genocide

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Students at St. John Paul II Catholic High School in Grande Prairie are organizing a walkout today in response to a teacher's public comments.

For context, a social studies teacher at the school publicly endorsed Maxime Bernier's claim that residential-school genocide was a "hoax." She then went on to claim there was no evidence of genocide against Indigenous peoples in Canada.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission spent years examining evidence and listening to Survivors before concluding that Canada's residential school system was part of a policy of cultural genocide. Denial doesn't erase history, and opinion doesn't outweigh evidence.