Hey, my name's Jamie Poisson, and I'm the host of Frontburner.

It's the CBC's Daily News Podcast.

And every day we're discussing the big events and fault lines shaping Canada

and the world.

Politics, economics, social movements, you name it. Sometimes we even

talk about really fun stuff like the enduring relevance of Lord of the Rings.

You can hear Frontburner on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcast.

This is a CBC podcast.

Before we start, this is a podcast about Canada's Indian residential schools and it contains descriptions of sexual violence, suicide, and abuse.

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I'm Duncan McHugh. I'm a journalist. Anishnabe de bardimal in Dow.

I'm Duncan McHugh. I'm a journalist, an indigenous journalist.

I'm doing a podcast about Indian residential schools.

And if Canada had had its way, I wouldn't be here.

Because the whole point of creating a network of church-run state-funded boarding schools that operated for over a century in Canada was to get rid of people like me,

to eradicate, assimilate, kill the Indian in the child.

But I'm here. My ancestors went through a lot to get me here. So let me tell you a story.

It's good to be here finally. Oh yeah, I was wondering if you were going to make it. I kept looking at the time and I was thinking

Oh, maybe they're lost we were we were kind of running on Indian time. Oh no no such thing

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