By Stephanie Taylor THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA-Canada’s justice minister is considering options raised by the independent adviser on unmarked graves, who says Indigenous leaders want Canada to move on criminalizing residential school denialism. Kimberly Murray called on lawmakers to consider “legal mechanisms” that could address the practice of denying or minimizing the abuses Indigenous children suffered at residential schools in her interim report released back in June. One way to do that is by amending the Criminal Code to criminalize such actions, Murray said in a recent interview, noting Ottawa did so last year on the issue of Holocaust denialism. “We could do the same for Indigenous people,” she said. “Make it an offence to incite hate and promote hate against Indigenous people by denying that residential (schools) happened or…
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