Carney moves away from the opinions of the deceased father on indigenous children, in residential schools
Warning: This story contains an obsolete language and discusses physical and sexual abuses in residential schools.
The liberal leader Mark Carney moved on Saturday from the comments that his deceased father did 60 years ago as an educator who was contemptuous towards some natives and his subsequent defense of residential schools in the last years of his life.
“I love my father, but I do not share those opinions, to be absolutely clear,” said Carney in an event of the campaign in Oakville, ont.
He was responding to an indigenous story of the CBC that Comments explored by his fatherCatholic educator Robert J. Carney, who died in 2009.
During a 1965 CBC radio interview, the elderly Carney spoke of a program in an Indian day school in Fort Smith, NWT, where he was principal, for “culturally delayed children”.
He defined a child as one “from a native background who, for various reasons, did not regularly attend the school” or a student with a non -English language background that is behind their studies.
His opinions reflected the assimilationist attitudes at the time in Canadian society, in particular among the educators, said the historian Jackson Pind to indigenous CBC.
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During a stop in Oakville, Ontario. On Saturday, the liberal leader Mark Carney was asked about the comments that his father Robert Carryy did 60 years ago on the residential school system.
In an agreement in 2019, the federal government recognized the school system of the Indian day children divided by their familiesHe denied them their inheritance and submitted many to physical, emotional and sexual abuses.
Carney’s father continued to hold various positions before becoming a university professor. In a studio commissioned to the 1991 church, he interviewed 240 former students from residential schools, finally reporting accusations of extreme physical abuses and 15 alleged cases of sexual abuse in eight residential schools of western Arctic.
He recognized the abuse in his relationship, saying that these students had been “scarred”. But in the following comments he stressed that a number of interviewees had had positive experiences and the work of educators “cannot be considered totally destructive or badly in the name”.
He later criticized his indigenous guidance studies by highlighting the negative effects of these schools as a side e unbalanced.
The schools caused “fundamental damage”
Saturday, Mark Carney said that the residential schools and Indian day schools are “a long and painful part of our history”.
He said that he and the country learned “fundamental damage of residential schools and day schools to those who attended (and) those who were their descendants”.
The progress of truth and reconciliation, he explained, was a fundamental element in his short mandate as Prime Minister before the electoral call. He said he would continue if his party was re -elected.
“This is my basically and profound personal commitment.”
Historians claim that it is not clear if Robert Carry’s opinions evolved after the 1996 Royal Commission report on Aboriginal peoples has been released.
In 2006, the government reached an agreement with the students of the residential schools. Carryy died three years later.
