Dear Minister Miller,
We are writing as members of Canada’s justice and human‑rights community to express strong support for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and its upcoming exhibition Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, opening June 2026.
Your mandate includes promoting multiculturalism, combating racism, strengthening human‑rights education, and ensuring that national institutions present accurate, evidence‑based histories. Supporting under‑represented communities in telling their own stories is central to this work.
The Nakba—the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948—is a well‑documented historical event recognized by scholars and human‑rights bodies, and many Canadians trace their family histories to it. Including this history in a national museum aligns directly with your mandate by ensuring Palestinian narratives are represented, strengthening public understanding, and countering the longstanding erasure of Palestinian experiences.
The CMHR’s exhibition exemplifies the role of a national heritage institution: presenting complex human‑rights histories with integrity and independence. Efforts to pressure the museum to alter or suppress this exhibition threaten these principles and risk undermining the ability of all communities to see their histories reflected honestly.
We urge your office to affirm its support for the CMHR as it carries out this important work. A public statement reinforcing the museum’s independence and its responsibility to present factual human‑rights histories would demonstrate Canada’s commitment to diversity, equity, and truth.
Thank you for your leadership and for upholding a heritage mandate that ensures all communities in Canada are represented with dignity and accuracy.
Contact Information:
Email: hon.marc.miller@pch.gc.ca
cc riva.harrison@humanrights.ca
cc Isha.khan@humanrights.ca
cc Your Member of Parliament