Quesnel, B.C., Mayor Ron Paull has won a lawsuit against the city after facing censure and being barred from committee involvement due to complaints he brought a book about residential schools to a meeting.
Councillors voted to take away Paull’s travel expenses and ban him from participating in committees last April after he was accused of sharing a book that was critical of the media’s coverage of alleged graves found at residential school sites.
Paull said he brought the book to a regional district meeting and showed it to two colleagues on March 22, 2024.
The book is titled “Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools)” by Thomas Flanagan and C.P. Champion. It contains a series of essays that examines the media’s response to the May 2021 announcement of the discovery of a site at the Kamloops Indian Residential School said by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nations to be a mass grave site for indigenous children. …