Beyak blames political correctness, promises to stand up for freedom of speech. I would like to use my freedom of speech to denounce her as a deluded fool.
Here's the speech that she gave in the Senate last March: sencanada.ca/en/content/sen… I think it reveals a shallow, bigoted world view.
In passing, she acknowledges that terrible things happened at residential schools, but then quotes 19th century political figures who wanted to christianize the indians. 
She appears to think that was a good idea, likely because of her own faith, which she references. 
I think it is necessary to denounce this kind of thinking because the idea that the schools were on balance good, which seems to be her view, is wrong and dangerous.
After people objected to her speech, she sent out a release seeking sympathy, blaming 'fake news' for the controversy.
She is right that a lot of students at the schools had positive experiences, as the report takes great care to point out. 
But she only ever mentions the bad side of the schools in passing, and always ends by talking about wasted tax dollars.
In my opinion, those should be separate conversations. You want to talk about accountability in first nations governance, good. We need that. But to do so after babbling on about the good side of the residential schools is wrong.
She should consider the example of @PierrePoilievre, who apologized for linking the issues on the day that Harper apologized. cbc.ca/news/canada/co…
It's wrong, and it says something bad about her. I don't know what's in her heart, and I can well imagine that she is mistaken, not hateful, but she should stop.
Our country has many unmarked graves full of little bones of indigenous children who died at these schools after being terribly mistreated.
Governments and churches were complicit in a decades-long national crime. Parents were forced to let their children go or have their food rations cut off. They died of TB, were sexually and physically abused, had their culture and language destroyed.
And governments and churches knew or should have. In 1922, medical officer Peter Bryce published a book revealing that 24 per cent of children in western residential schools were dying each year.
It's a horrible history. Terrible to think of the powerlessness of the parents and the children. Beyak should think about it more, and she should read the report of the truth and reconciliation commission.
In the executive summary of the report, Murray Sinclair explained the problem, showed the way forward. 
