Co-chair of Liberals' Indigenous commission resigns after questions emerge about ancestry

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[algore]

Suzy Kies, the co-chair of the Indigenous peoples' commission of the Liberal Party, has resigned from the position after her claim to Indigenous ancestry was called into question.

The story came following controversy over a book-burning project at a francophone Ontario school board in which Kies was involved. The event, which was carried out by the Conseil scolair

e catholique Providence in 2019, has resurfaced during the election campaign and has attracted condemnation by federal leaders.

The event was meant to promote reconciliation by burning and disposing of books the school board deemed to contain outdated and inappropriate depictions of Indigenous people.

The books included novels, comic books and encyclopedias, according to a documentary obtained by Radio-Canada. Nearly 5,000 books were disposed of, but only around 30 were burned.

The school board told Radio-Canada Wednesday that it regrets the event, and that it will revise its process for removing books it deems harmful to Indigenous people.

[algore]

I wonder if the looney canadians included books such as 1984 and farenheit 451 in their burn fest ?

(we are getting there, just starting with flags and statues first)

[PJBankard]

Another Fauxahontas.

[OttawaFreeper]

I’m looking forward to when Jody Wilson-Raybould’s book comes out next week. Bound to have all sorts of really flattering stuff about Justin.

[The Louiswu]

Book burning…crazy days

[SkyDancer]

(we are getting there, just starting with flags and statues first)

Well they were banning books in Boston years ago like Mein Kampf. If people had read it back then there might have been a different outcome pre-WW2.

[freedumb2003]

When they checked her bookcase, they found “Forked tongue: faking your heritage for political power and profit” by lizzie “call me squaw” warren.

[Retrofitted]

*Sigh* And she had high cheekbones, too.

[TonyinLA]

What is Canada coming to when a fake indian can’t hold an old fashioned book burning!

[lowbridge]

"The event was meant to promote reconciliation by burning and disposing of books the school board deemed to contain outdated and inappropriate depictions of Indigenous people."

Those nazis sure were ahead of their time, promoting reconciliation before it became a thing.

[Seruzawa]

The event was meant to promote reconciliation by burning and disposing of books the school board deemed to contain outdated and inappropriate depictions of Indigenous peoplepeople who never had the gumption to advance beyond primitive shamanism.

Fixed it.

[Daaave]

“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.” So wrote Heinrich Heine, one of Germany’s greatest poets, who was of Jewish origin.