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By Chuck Chiang and Marcy Nicholson -CP-The B.C. Conservatives’ attorney general critic is defying Opposition Leader John Rustad’s request to take down a social-media post saying there are \u201czero\u201d confirmed child burial sites at the former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Dallas Brodie’s post on the social-media platform X was called “racist denialist rhetoric” by Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. “The comments made by Ms. Brodie are deeply disturbing, and ignore the ample physical, archival, and testimonial evidence which detail horrific human rights abuses and atrocities against Indigenous peoples at residential schools,” Phillip said in a statement on Monday. In Saturday’s social-media post, Brodie questions the \u201capparent mistreatment\u201d of a lawyer who had asked for the rewording of Law Society training material about… <\/p>\n

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By Chuck Chiang and Marcy Nicholson -CP-The B.C. Conservatives’ attorney general critic is defying Opposition Leader John Rustad’s request to take down a social-media post saying there are \u201czero\u201d confirmed child burial sites at the former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Dallas Brodie’s post on the social-media platform X was called “racist denialist rhetoric” by Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. “The comments made by Ms. Brodie are deeply disturbing, and ignore the ample physical, archival, and testimonial evidence which detail horrific human rights abuses and atrocities against Indigenous peoples at residential schools,” Phillip said in a statement on Monday. In Saturday’s social-media post, Brodie questions the \u201capparent mistreatment\u201d of a lawyer who had asked for the rewording of Law Society training material about... <\/p>\n

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