Letter to the editor: Less parroting, more journalism

Notes: "The Sept. 2013 'Anglican Journal' contains misleading and inaccurate statements" with regard to the story on page 1 entitled "An 'appalling, inhumane' experiment". "Dr. Ian Mosby's research paper makes clear that, while some children were given nutritional supplements or different food, no child received less or a poorer quality of food than had been received prior to the experiments". "[W]ould [most Canadians] say this was 'inhumane' ? 'Appalling' ? The words used by Bishop Mark MacDonald in his response to media reports of the experiment are ill-considered and inflammatory. His choice of words speak of an ill-informed posturing and playing to the crowd. Dr. Mosby concludes his paper: 'These experiments therefore must be remembered and recognized for what they truly were: one among many examples of a larger institutionalized and, ultimately, dehumanizing colonialist racial ideology that has governed Canada's policies towards and treatment of Aboriginal peoples throughout the twentieth century".; See also response of Bishop Mark MacDonald in his column "Walking together: Finding our way to the truth" on page 4 of this issue.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools - Anglican Church of Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada; Colonialism - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; MacDonald, Mark L. (Mark Lawrence), 1954-; Hiltz, Fred (Frederick James), 1953-; Mosby, Ian, 1980-