With hate crimes exploding in Canada in the last couple of years, Canada’s Senate has passed a bill that would criminalize more Nazis symbols, the noose and make it illegal to block people from attending places of worship. An amendment for Indigenous hatred was rejected before the final bill was approved. 

Sen. Nancy Karetak-Lindell is Inuk from Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut and she brought the amendment to the senate floor. 

She included the amendment: “making it a criminal offence to willfully promote hatred against Indigenous Peoples by condoning, denying or downplaying the Indian residential schools system.”