It was a chaotic scene at the University of British Columbia on Thursday when a crowd of protesters confronted OneBC leader Dallas Brodie and a group of her supporters.
Brodie was attempting to speak outside the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, but was shouted down by the crowd.
The protesters were calling out her group for spreading residential school denialism.
Previously, Brodie was criticized after a photo of her denying the deaths of children at Canada’s residential schools was circulated on social media.
The image, taken in front of a sign in Penticton that references the 215 suspected unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School site, showed Brodie holding up a sign that said ‘Zero Bodies.’
Dallas Brodie defends actions
Brodie has said that an industry has been created on supposed false claims about what happened at the Kamloops Residential School.
“All of this reaction here is so crazy because why can’t we just talk about it,” Brodie said at UBC on Thursday.
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“What we really should have is a debate going on inside a forum at UBC where we can hear both sides of this story.”
One of Brodie’s associates, fired Mount Royal professor Frances Widdowson, was seen being carried away from the scene by Vancouver police officers.
“This isn’t about free speech, it’s about hate,” Brodie said. “I think it’s about truth.”
Police were also called in December to the University of Victoria when Brodie and her supporters held an unsanctioned event.
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