First Nations Demand Hate Speech Label for Residential School Denial | Winnipeg News

Winnipieg News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 16, 2026 · 2m

First Nations chiefs across Canada have united in a powerful demand, calling on the federal government to legally classify residential school denialism as hate speech — a historic move aimed at stopping the ongoing trauma inflicted by the erasure of truth. Adopted at the Assembly of First Nations annual meeting, the resolution seeks to criminalize the denial of the genocide inflicted on Indigenous children through the residential school system, which was enforced by government policy and policing. Frustrated by recent setbacks, including a Senate rejection of a related amendment, chiefs argue…