CANADA
Parry Sound North Star
by Grand Council Chief John Beaucage - Wednesday, December 7, 2005
John Macfie saves his most important statement for last in his November 30 assessment of Indian Residential Schools.
“I never experienced the system from the inside,” he admits, after devoting several hundred words to offer his opinion to North Star readers that the church-operated and government-mandated schools were not “the hellholes they are now made out to be.”
That opinion is apparently based on his personal acquaintance over a brief period with a handful of survivors–we don’t call them students–of just one of the notorious networks of over 100 residential schools.