CANADA
CBC News

Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak reiterated her defence of residential schools in an interview with CBC News on Monday, saying, “I made my statements, and I stand by them.”

Beyak, who had earlier said that residential schools were responsible for “good deeds,” has argued there’s no reason for her to step down from her position on the Senate’s Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, despite suggestions from the chair that she should consider it.

“I think, if you go across Canada, there are shining examples from sea to sea of people who owe their lives to the schools,” she said in her CBC interview, though she did acknowledge that the bad parts of the schools were “horrific.”

Jesse Wente, an Indigenous pop culture columnist for CBC Radio’s Metro Morning, spoke with host Matt Galloway on Tuesday about his reaction.