We didn’t make the new rules but hey if you did then…
CBC- Untangling Mark Carney’s father’s ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school
“A culturally retarded child in the context of the Northwest Territories is a child from a Native background who for various reasons has not been in regular attendance in school,” said Carney.
National Post- CBC unfairly attacks Carney’s father
But the attempt to smear the elder Carney backfired. What Carney’s writings and the interview provided actually suggests is that Robert Carney was a good man, genuinely concerned with both the education of Indigenous children and the maintenance of their cultural pride.
