Despite the recommendations of hand-picked government advisers, Alberta elementary school students will learn about residential schools in a new curriculum, the education minister says. The adviser, or advisers, also say lessons should cover residential schools in the broader context of "harsh schooling." The documents also said the problems of residential schools applied to "a minority of children." "It deliberately misrepresents what teaching about residential schools was all about. LaGrange's press secretary has previously said Champion was one of several people who authored the leaked social studies documents.

Source: CBC News October 22, 2020 12:00 UTC