Even if Beyak's claim that the "silent majority" supports her position (and that is highly doubtful) all that would mean is that the "silent majority" is as woefully ignorant and uninformed on the issue of residential schools and the policies that motivated them as Beyak.   Hey even Mussolini got the trains running on time and the South African apartheid government managed the economy well... at least for the white minority.

Persons with much more intellectual, political, experiential and judicial heft than Beyak certainly disagree with her.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin says Canada attempted to commit “cultural genocide” against aboriginal peoples.

Senator (and former Justice) Murray Sinclair who chaired the Commission agrees with the Chief Justice.

The federal government was wrong to tear thousands of aboriginal children from their parents and communities and force them into residential schools where they were subjected to maltreatment and abuse - PM Harper