马尼托巴省省长瓦布·基纽表示，否认印第安人寄宿学校历史的行为虽然令人憎恶，但并不违法，这种情况也不应改变。他并不赞同马尼托巴省联邦新民主党议员莉亚·加赞试图将此类行为列入《刑法》的提议。
Residential school denialism is detestable but not illegal, and that shouldn't change, says Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, who disagrees with federal Manitoba NDPer Leah Gazan's efforts to add it to the Criminal Code.
“我非常敬重加赞议员，但我认为我们不应将这种行为定为刑事犯罪。我认为我们应当继续致力于对民众开展教育，努力消除错误信息，”基纽于周五对CBC马尼托巴台的主持人马西·马尔库萨说道。
"I have a lot of respect for MP Gazan, but I don't think we can criminalize this. I think we have to just do the continued work of educating people and trying to combat misinformation," Kinew told CBC Manitoba host Marcy Markusa on Friday.
2024年10月，加赞首次提出了C-254号私人议员法案，旨在修订《刑法》中关于禁止煽动针对原住民的仇恨的相关条款。不过随着2025年春季大选的临近，该法案未能获得通过。
Gazan first introduced Bill C-254 her private member’s bill to amend the Criminal Code regarding the promotion of hatred against Indigenous people, in October 2024, but it died when the spring 2025 election was called.
“如果政府真心致力于与原住民实现和解，那就必须保护寄宿学校事件的幸存者及其家属免受仇恨言论的侵害，”加赞在最初提出该法案时说道。
"If the government is serious about reconciliation, then they need to protect survivors and their families from hate," Gazan said when she first introduced it.
“印第安人寄宿学校制度本质上是一场种族灭绝行动，其目的就是摧毁原住民的文化、语言、家庭与传统。任何淡化、否认或为这一制度辩护的行为都是残忍、有害且充满仇恨的。”2025年10月，加赞再次提出了该法案。该法案旨在规定：除私人谈话外，任何人若通过任何方式认可、否认、辩护或淡化加拿大印第安人寄宿学校制度，均属违法行为。
"The residential school system was a genocide designed to wipe out Indigenous cultures, languages, families and heritage. To downplay, deny or justify it is cruel, harmful and hateful." She reintroduced it in October 2025. The bill seeks to make it illegal for anyone to condone, deny, justify or minimize the Indian residential school system in Canada through any statements beyond a private conversation.
目前提交议会审议的该法案旨在将“否认寄宿学校历史”的行为定为违法。
Bill before Parliament would outlaw residential school 'denialism'
SCO谴责《温尼伯太阳报》及其首席执行官发表质疑寄宿学校属于“谋杀与掩盖行为”的专栏文章。所有法案在获得御准并正式成为法律之前，都必须经过三次审议，期间还需经过委员会审查与最终辩论。此次提交属于第一次审议，该法案尚未进入第二次审议阶段。
SCO condemns Winnipeg Sun and its CEO for column questioning residential school 'murder and concealment' All bills must go through three readings, which also involves committee reviews and final debates, before being granted royal assent and enacted into law. The introduction was the first reading. The bill has yet to reach a second reading.
从19世纪30年代起至1997年，在长达150多年的时间里，原住民第一民族、因纽特人及梅蒂斯人的儿童被强行从家人与社区中带走，送往往往远离家乡的寄宿学校。这些学校大多由政府出资，由基督教宗教组织负责运营。
For a period of more than 150 years, from the 1830s until 1997 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were taken from their families and communities to residential schools, often far from their homes. Most were government-funded and run by Christian religious organizations.
这些学校的设立旨在将原住民儿童同化到欧洲-加拿大文化中。据估计，加拿大全国约有15万名儿童曾就读于这些学校，而国家真相与和解中心已记录了超过4000名在就读期间死亡的儿童。
The schools were designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. An estimated 150,000 children across Canada attended the schools and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has documented more than 4,000 who died while attending them.
9月30日，基纽宣布该省与布兰登市合作，购买了一处热门的露营地，该露营地曾是布兰登寄宿学校的一部分，而这所学校从1895年运营至1972年。
On Sept. 30, the Kinew announced the province partnered with the City of Brandon to buy a popular campground property that was once part of the Brandon Residential School, which ran from 1895 until 1972.
该省在宣布购买当天发布的一份新闻稿中表示，这片后来成为露营地的土地包括一处前学校墓地，该墓地在1895年至1912年间使用。该省称，这片土地中仍埋有儿童遗骸。
The site that became the campground included a former school cemetery, used from 1895 to 1912, the province said in a news release on the day the purchase was announced. The property still contains the remains of children, the province said.
基纽于9月30日在该地主持了纪念仪式，他周五表示，此类活动有助于向公众普及关于寄宿学校的知识。
Kinew, who dedicated a memorial at the site on Sept. 30, said on Friday that such events help educate the public on residential schools.
“相关记录非常详尽，这段历史也极为重要。因此，我们必须确保作为一省，我们将这段历史鲜活地保留在集体记忆中，”他说。
"It's very well-documented. It's very historic. So let's make sure that we keep that history alive in our living memory as a province," he said.
苏族谷达科他族拥有这所学校曾矗立过的土地，他们将指导有关前墓地的相关决策，并正与大学研究人员合作，确认他们相信埋葬在该地的50多名儿童的身份。
Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, which owns the land where the school once stood, will guide decisions around the former cemetery and is working with university researchers to identify the more than 50 children it believes are buried at the site. Rev.
斯坦·麦凯牧师表示，他的外祖父母一生中有大部分时间被迫就读于布兰登寄宿学校，但他们从未提及这段经历。他将墓地土地的购买称为和解过程中“非常重要的一环”。“那里并不是一个好地方，”麦凯在该省宣布消息当天说道。
Stan McKay, who said his maternal grandparents were forced to attend the Brandon Residential School for a good part of their life and never talked about it, called the purchase of the cemetery land a “very important piece” of reconciliation. "It was not a good place," McKay said the day of the province's announcement.
他的几个姐姐也曾在这所布兰登学校就读两年，而他自己则是费舍尔河和伯特尔寄宿学校的幸存者。
His eldest sisters also attended the Brandon school for two years, while he is a survivor of the Fisher River and Birtle residential schools.
加拿大联合教会是长期运营布兰登学校的三家教会组织之一。后来，麦凯作为首位领导该教会原住民，创造了历史。
The United Church of Canada was one of three church organizations that operated the Brandon school during its long history. Later, McKay later made history as the first Indigenous person to lead that church.
他说，在意识到自己已被教会“殖民”后，他差点离开教会。麦凯称，那些“同样与教会存在一些矛盾”的长辈们则劝他留下来，在体制内工作并参与推动教会的变革。
He said he nearly left the church after an "awakening" that he had been colonized by it. Elders, who also "had some difficulties with the church," encouraged him to stay and work within the system and be a part of helping it change, McKay said.
麦凯希望曼尼托巴省的学校能增设有关寄宿学校历史的课程，并将教学内容本地化，重点讲述该省曾存在的18所寄宿学校的相关故事。
McKay would like to see more education in Manitoba schools around the residential school experience and have it localized to stories about the 18 schools that operated in the province.
周五，基纽对此表示赞同，称如今学校在相关教育方面所做的努力远胜于过去几十年。
Kinew, on Friday, agreed that would be a good idea and said much more is being done in schools now than in previous decades.
“如今的孩子们在K-12阶段所学到的有关寄宿学校的知识，与过去相比简直天差地别，”他说道。
"How much did we learn about residential school in K-12 versus what a kid today learns? It's night and day in terms of being so much more," he said.
曼尼托巴省购下无标记墓碑的寄宿学校旧址堪称历史性时刻：大批民众游行至布兰登原寄宿学校旧址向幸存者致敬。基纽指出，那些已不再上学的成年人同样需要接受相关教育。
Manitoba's purchase of site of unmarked residential school graves a historic moment: Sioux Valley chief Large crowd marches to former Brandon residential school site to honour survivors There is a need for those no longer in school to be educated as well, Kinew said.
“在筹备布兰登相关活动期间，我与几位共事多年、非常聪慧的同事一起翻阅了真相与和解委员会记录儿童死亡情况的资料集。大家都震惊不已，他们此前根本不知道死亡人数竟如此之多，”他说道。
"As we were preparing for Brandon … I was talking to some of my staff that I work with very closely — very smart people — and I pulled out the volume of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that documents the child deaths. People were shocked.
“因此，K-12教育体系确实需要加强相关教育，但我认为在职场、教会、体育界以及所有曼尼托巴人聚集的场所，我们同样需要持续传播这段历史。
They didn't know [the number of deaths]," he said. "So for sure there's more needs to be done in the K-12 system, but I think there's also a lot in the workplace, in churches, in sports, all the venues where we gather as Manitobans, where we need to keep this thing alive.
我们最不希望看到的情况就是这段历史从人们的记忆中逐渐淡去，最终被遗忘；那样的话，我们本应汲取的那些惨痛教训或许又会重演。”
"The thing that we don't want to happen is for this to fade from our living memory, and then we forget, and then maybe some of the the negative lessons we should have learned start to re-emerge."
如今的孩子们比父母辈了解更多有关寄宿学校的信息，但专家指出这绝不能只是一次性的教育举措。
Kids are learning more about residential schools than their parents, but experts say it can't be a 'one-off'