On January 18, 2025, Tom Flanagan, Michelle Stirling and Frances Widdowson discussed Leah Gazan’s views on “residential school denialism”. The talk was moderated by Ted Vizzutti. Gazan is a NDP MP for Winnipeg Centre who proposed Bill C-413 – a piece of legislation attempting to make “residential school denialism” a crime.
Gazan came to Powell River on January 20, 2025 and gave a talk. A recording of this talk is available on Frances Widdowson’s Soundcloud.
After listening to the recording, Frances Widdowson took notes on the talk and then provided a summary of it.
Widdowson also has made a video response to Gazan’s January 20 talk that uses the following images in association with her summary of Gazan’s talk so as to raise questions about how we can think critically about the claims that Gazan makes.
