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Unofficial gathering place for supporters of Jagmeet Singh, Canada's New Democratic Party, and its provincial sections.

The NDP is a centre-left to left-wing political party that contests federal and provincial elections in Canada.

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This is a complete rejection of reality and a slap in the face to survivors of the genocidal residential schools system.

In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches. The school system was created for the purpose of removing Indigenous children from the influence of their own culture and assimilating them into the dominant Canadian culture, "to kill the Indian in the child." Over the course of the system's more than hundred-year existence, about 30 percent of Indigenous children (around 150,000) were placed in residential schools nationally. The number of school-related deaths remains unknown due to an incomplete historical record, though estimates range from 3,200 to upwards of 6,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system

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