WINNIPEG (MANITOBA, CANADA)
CBC News

February 16, 2018

Residential school survivor Mary Jane McCallum pens open letter to controversial Ontario colleague

[Includes a PDF of McCallum’s letter.]

The senator from Barren Lands First Nation, Man., is taking Ontario colleague Lynn Beyak to task over her controversial defence of Canada’s residential school system, and her refusal to strip letters supporting that stance from her Senate website.

“No amount of good times can ever override the bad times in the institution, especially if it involves sexual abuse,” Sen. Mary Jane McCallum wrote in an open letter to Beyak shared online on Thursday.

“No amount of good memories can override the negative experiences I have gone through in the past sixty years due to the ‘teachings’ of residential school.”

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