Unable to find any Indigenous writers to weigh in on Canada’s new holiday marking residential schools, senior editorial staff at Maclean’s said they had no choice but to ask a former communications official from the Harper government who now lives in the United Kingdom.
The magazine’s managing editor, Blache DeWit, said an exhaustive search of the area immediately around their office turned up nothing.
“We looked everywhere, on the street corner, the coffee shop downstairs, even the adjacent parkade,” DeWit said, looking underneath papers on her desk and beneath her mug for emphasis.
“We just couldn’t find any Indigenous writers at all.”
Wit also said she didn’t feel too bad because the Harper government had such an incredible relationship with Indigenous Peoples so therefore who better to ask than one of their officials.