Quebec Philippe Couillard and Residential Schools

cultural genocide: It slated to be rolled out more widely in classrooms starting next year, according to CBC. Montreal group fights to make genocide studies compulsory in Quebec Philippe Couillard agrees with term 'cultural genocide' to describe residential schools The course was originally developed under the previous Parti Québécois government, which had campaigned in 2012 on a promise to emphasize Quebec struggle for nationhood in the provincial school curriculum. The curriculum, obtained by CBC News, is being piloted this year in several dozen schools across the province, including at least three English schools. John Commins, a longtime Quebec history teacher, is concerned about the province new curriculum. One of the toughest things about teaching history is when you can't relate it to your students on a very micro level by talking about them, their stories, their grandparents, their ancestors and how they are related to this political space in Quebec." Demands and struggles of nationhood' The 83-page document outlines the focus of the course, which starts in the 1500s and runs to present day. John Commins, a longtime history teacher in the English Montreal School Board, said he concerned the course focuses too narrowly on the "narrative of an embattled minority." "The plural nature of our society and the diverseness of our community isn't represented at all in the program as I read it," Commins said in an interview. "I think this is a deep concern. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.