Editor's Note: this blogpost was caught up in Draft status and never published. Now, eight years after the planned publication date, here is the post. You can see that Red Indian activists never stopped lying and the lack of pushback from this first one simply emboldened them.
The first lie from the "Truth" and Reconciliation Commission has hit the ground running.
The Alberta government is overhauling the school curriculum to incorporate recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to ensure students learn about the legacy of abuse.Half a page about Residential Schools is already too much. Children should be learning about real things, not about a bunch of complainers from an undeveloped child race who are upset that corporal punishment used to exist in boarding schools.
Provincial officials do not have a timeline for the changes, but say work has already started.
"There is about a half a page within the Grade 10 text book, information about residential schools so they don't go into depth about it. It's not enough," said Amanda Gould, First Nation, Metis and Inuit liaison for students at an Edmonton school.
