Dear Editor:
Lately the news has been of disturbing news and discoveries. The discovery off the graves of 215 Indigenous children at Kamloops Residential school has been uppermost in my mind.
The rioters who have defaced and toppled statues of historic figures such as Macdonald and Ryerson have it all wrong! These figures were part of the government at that time when an act was passed by parliament to start the Residential schools. The only thing they did was to have people hired to build and staff the schools.
The real culprits are the staff at the various schools. Any given group of people has its share of perverts, sadists and abusers – sexual and physical. These are the people to blame for what went on in the schools like at Kamloops and many others. Unfortunately, these abusers were never voted out, and no one believed the children.
What acts passed by our present government will stand up to the scrutiny of future generations?
Alieda Murray,
Palmerston