Yet as of this week, it’s not even clear that Chrétien understands what the residential schools were. It’s difficult to pick the most calamitous moment in Chrétien’s Tout le monde en parle appearance, but it might have been when he likened his own boarding school experiences to those of Indigenous children. “In Shawinigan, we didn’t have a college. We had to go to Trois-Rivières or to Joliette,” he said. “We had no choice. … I ate baked beans and oatmeal. And to be sure, it was hard living in a boarding school, extremely hard.”
Conspiratorial news: A Leger poll conducted for Elections Canada finds most Canadians trust the elections agency but a surprisingly large number harbour conspiracy theories, Global reports.
The polling company found that two in five Canadians (40 per cent) considered it “definitely” or “probably true” that “certain significant events have been the result of the activity of a small group that secretly manipulates world events.”
Maclean’s live! Join Paul Wells TONIGHT at the NAC in Ottawa when he sits down with Anne McLellan and Lisa Raitt, who will be fresh from co-chairing their two-day summit, Coalition for a Better Future. If you’d like to attend in person (proof of vaccination required) register here. Tickets are free but limited!