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By John Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Mar 27, 2017
Senator Lynn Beyak says she doesn’t need any more education about the horrors of the residential school system because she “suffered” alongside Indigenous people who were sent to the institutions.
The Conservative senator from northwestern Ontario reiterated her defence of the schools in an interview with CBC News on Monday.
“I made my statements, and I stand by them,” she said. “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, while acknowledging that the bad parts of the schools were “horrific.”
“I’ve suffered with them up there. I appreciate their suffering more than they’ll ever know,” she said. “The best way to heal is to move forward together. Not to blame, not to point fingers, not to live in the past.”
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