{"id":17649,"date":"2021-10-27T02:57:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T02:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17649"},"modified":"2021-10-27T03:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T03:10:53","slug":"yesterdays-man-on-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17649","title":{"rendered":"yesterday&#8217;s man on book tour&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51Bh9W7KnzS._SX332_BO1204203200_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17654\" width=\"334\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51Bh9W7KnzS._SX332_BO1204203200_-1.jpg 334w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51Bh9W7KnzS._SX332_BO1204203200_-1-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 85vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Chretian.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17652\" width=\"766\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Chretian.jpg 766w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Chretian-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p><em>Jean Chr\u00e9tien now 87 ,appears to have memory problems from his tenure of Minister of Indian Affairs between 1968-1974.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Former prime minister&nbsp;Jean Chr\u00e9tien&nbsp;said Sunday that during his tenure as <strong>minister of what was then Indian Affairs<\/strong>, he never heard anything about abuse happening in residential schools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chr\u00e9tien&nbsp;made the comments during an appearance&nbsp;on the popular Radio-Canada talk show,&nbsp;<em>Tout le Monde en Parle<\/em> as he conducted his recent book tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This problem was never mentioned when I was minister. Never,&#8221;&nbsp;said Chr\u00e9tien, now 87, of his time in the department from 1968 to 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the French interview,&nbsp;Chr\u00e9tien&nbsp;appeared to draw a&nbsp;comparison between&nbsp;his own experience attending a&nbsp;conventional college boarding school as a teenager&nbsp;to that of Indigenous children who were forced to attend residential schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Court-Painter-yesterdays-man.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17653\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Court-Painter-yesterdays-man.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Court-Painter-yesterdays-man-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Court-Painter-yesterdays-man-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Chr\u00e9tien now 87 ,appears to have memory problems from his tenure of Minister of Indian Affairs between 1968-1974. Former prime minister&nbsp;Jean Chr\u00e9tien&nbsp;said Sunday that during his tenure as minister of what was then Indian Affairs, he never heard anything about abuse happening in residential schools.&nbsp; Chr\u00e9tien&nbsp;made the comments during an appearance&nbsp;on the popular Radio-Canada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;yesterday&#8217;s man on book tour&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17659,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions\/17659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}