It does matterwho is holding the rug.Which rug you say? The rug to sweep things under, particularly if you are a politician.
The only allowable mantra, according to today's ins, is that residential schools were terrible places, nothing good ever happened there, any suggestion otherwise is "swept under the rug."
My first encounter with residential schools occurred in the late 1950s. I was working in northern Manitoba. According to the local Indigenous youth, they were apprehensive that they might not get to go to high school in southern Manitoba that year, that there might not be a place for them. For such horrible places, why were they so eager to go? Of course I knew nothing about residential schools at the time, I only knew that I was talking to fellow teenagers who wanted to go to school.
Somehow I find myself supporting Senator Lynn Beyak, a person being castigated, vilified, ostracized and "pushed under the rug," all for having said there were some good people who worked in those schools and that some good things happened there.
If I was holding the rug, I might sweep Andrew Scheer and Carolyn Bennett under it.
But I'm not an "in."
Paul Wodchyc
Prince George
