A majority of senators rejected an amendment by the Senate Human Rights Committee that would have made Indian residential school “denialism” a criminal offence.
A total of 41 senators voted against the amendment on June 3, while 32 senators voted in favour, and two abstained. Prior to the vote, Sen. Pierre Moreau, the government representative in the Senate, said there had been “online backlash” to the amendment, and that he would vote against it.
