B.C. Conservative MLA refutes charge of residential school denialism [Video]

A B.C. Conservative MLA has refused her leader’s request to take down a social media post that critics say amounts to residential school denialism — a charge Official Opposition attorney general critic Dallas Brodie refutes. 

Brodie is facing backlash for a post on X.

“The number of confirmed child burials at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site is zero. Zero. No one should be afraid of the truth. Not lawyers, their governing bodies or anyone else.” 

Brodie, a lawyer, was coming to the defence of another lawyer, James Heller. 

Last year, Heller pushed the Law Society of B.C. to change its training material to say there were “potentially” burial sites at the former residential school in Kamloops —  instead of more definitive language.

Heller is suing the society for what he calls “false and defamatory” allegations of racism.

Brodie says …