Stop the cover-up on residential schools

DEAR EDITOR:

This is the story of St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont.

I’ve been following this story with member of Parliament Charlie Angus for a long time.

Attorney General David Lametti may be contemplating an obstruction of justice by destroying documents that are still relevant to the multiple court cases for compensation for the former residents (CBC, Dec. 14).

The feds are hiding people and dragging this out by making up procedural steps to keep it in the courts for as long as they can. It’s a travesty.Who are they hiding and why?

The Liberal government’s Constitution was written by lawyers for lawyers. Read it, it’s obvious.

Why do the courts need proof anyway? Do they think they’re lying?

Everything they tell us is true, including eating their own vomit. Does that offend people? Just talking about it makes people uncomfortable.

I was at St. Anne’s Academy in Victoria when I was between ages 6 and 8. We didn’t have to eat vomit, just sit next to it and finish our breakfast.

Humiliation was the name of the game. The nuns would make the kids laugh at one of them until they cried. Having a nun walk up behind me made me catatonic.

This is minuscule compared to what was done in those residential schools. I always knew that my parents loved me and I was there for a reason, but the residential school children were told that their parents didn’t want them and that they were not allowed to speak their own language.

Much worse was done and there was no intention of educating them (that’s an arrogant concept anyway).

To even attempt to whitewash this experience, as the ultra-Conservative, Erin O’Toole and quite a few in his caucus does, is despicable.

Donna Stocker

Cawston