Virtually every CBC program and news item about residential schools alleges that “150,000 indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools”. This is false information.

Here is the truth — all of which, as CNN‘s Don Lemon might say, can be Googled.

Some boarding schools (residential schools) for indigenous children predated Confederation. They were religious schools owned and run by Catholic and Protestant denominations. Catholic indigenous parents sent their children to Catholic schools, and Protestant to Protestant. There was no legal requirement that parents do so.