The meeting comes in light of the mainstream media reports through last year, vilifying the Catholic Church over the reported ‘mass graves’ found at Kamloops Residential Schools, though no evidence of graves has yet been substantiated.
‘With the Kamloops Reserve cemetery close by, is it really credible that the remains of 200 children were buried clandestinely — on the reserve itself — without any reaction from the band council until last summer?’
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association board of directors praised Harsha Walia for stepping down despite her tweet that supported violent acts.
The reporter had pressed Trudeau, 'When will you speak about the 20 vandalized churches? They’re burning churches and vandalizing them and you’re not calling it a hate crime.'
'Tax exemptions, as a whole, are supposed to be for groups that do the community good. It’s very clear that the Catholic Church hasn’t done the community any good,' said Iqaluit Mayor Kenny Bell.
“There’s no discovery, we knew it was there, it’s a graveyard,” Pierre said. “The fact there are graves inside a graveyard shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.”
The executive director of the British Columbia organization's stunning reaction to unmarked graves found at residential schools drew strong condemnations.
Eleven Christian churches sustained damage, and five Catholic churches were destroyed across Canada in violence resembling last summer's Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots in the United States.