Anti-hate bill passes without residential school denialism clause

By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio While an anti-hate bill passed in the Senate earlier this month, an amendment that would criminalize residential school denialism did not receive the votes required to be included in the bill. Bill C-9, dubbed the Combatting Hate Act, was introduced into the House of Commons by the minister of justice in September as a way to address hate speech and hate crimes. On June 1, Senator Nancy Karetak-Lindell of Nunavut proposed an amendment to the bill that would criminalize statements made outside private conversation that minim…