Hmmmm. I suspect Senator Lynn Beyak isn't being as forthcoming as she should. She was on the Board of Education for Fort Frances/Rainy River and so probably met or heard about people who worked in the Residential School system. What's more surprising is that Senator Beyak comes from an town with a very high percentage of indigenous people and many First Nations communities in the surrounding area. She would have heard from those people who knew what had happened and how it had affected people. Quoting Tomson Highway is a strange choice to defend her stance as he has written about the abuse in his novel Kiss of the Fur Queen. Beyak sounds like she's trying to apply lipstick to a pig and it just doesn't make it look any prettier. She's just another example of Stephen Harper's poor judgement.