Letter to the editor — McCrae correct to question whether the term ‘genocide’ is applicable
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Re: “No room on board for unchastened apologist (July 28).”
In an attempt to pejorate James McCrae in his campaign to be elected to the school board, the Editor questions “the wisdom of entrusting the continued education of our children to an individual who has gone to great lengths to downplay the harms caused by the Indian Residential School system.”
Why should we trust educating our children to people who want to convict Canada of IRS genocide without any presumption of innocence?
McCrae was correct to question the applicability of the term, “genocide,” to the IRS system. For one, the Rome Statute prohibits any prosecution for genocide to any events that occurred prior to July 1, 2002. This means that those accused of committing IRS genocide cannot either be convicted nor exonerated in any court of law.
Is it just that the accused also be denied recourse to the court of public opinion? Is it healthy to teach our children that the accusation of genocide is also the verdict?
If McCrae is an apologist for the schools, what do we call someone who wants to depict them as something like the Holocaust, who seeks to distort the history of the schools to peddle an irredeemable view of them and thereby shackle Canada to the fate of a fugitive Nazi war criminal?
It seems that we call them, “Editor.”
Michael Melanson
Winnipeg