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Huffington Post

By Emma Paling

A Conservative senator who was criticized for praising “some good things,” about residential schools will not step down from the Senate committee on aboriginal peoples.

“I’ve made my statements and I stand by them,” Lynn Beyak told CBC News on Monday.

She said she’s received “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of letters of support since saying that the positive side of residential schools went unacknowledged.

“I’ve suffered with them up there,” Beyak said of residential school survivors in her northwestern Ontario riding. “I appreciate their suffering more than they’ll ever know.”