MONTREAL, Aug 1 — Hundreds of protesters in Canada’s capital called yesterday for a probe into a boarding school system for indigenous children, as outrage built after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at several of the facilities.
The demonstrators gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa after two lawmakers from the left-wing New Democratic Party called for a protest. “People have been shocked by the number of graves that have been found... These are not accidents, these are not tragedies they represent a policy that was about the destruction of a people,” NDP lawmaker Charlie Angus told public broadcaster CBC.
Civilised to death!