Thank you Michelle for a very powerful, articulate and thoroughly accurate post. Unfortunately, I doubt very much that Eby will read it, or acknowledge it or most importantly, act on it. In the delusional world of politics, perception is far more important than reality. The current cabal of indigenous activists have become very proficient at playing the blame game with all its collateral rewards. Shrewdly, they have managed to morph their cultural pathology into victimhood in which an unsuspecting public sympathetically and generously acquiesces to. Perhaps it is more than timely for the media to look behind the grassy knoll and see who is really behind this conspiracy.
I went to Michelle's own Substack to thank her for this piece. As part of my comment there, I added this:
I've just gone through the comment thread following Eby's April 1 Facebook post. FB shows that there were 173 comments logged, but only about 40 remain visible, even when I select for "All Comments" and open all replies in the thread. I wonder what the other 130 people had to say? No doubt there were many horrid and boorish remarks that deserved to be deleted, but surely those 130 commenters weren't ALL ignorant trolls (?)
We are currently living in an intellectual desert bereft of reason, logic and common sense that only George Orwell can appreciate. Reading my daily news feed has become a very depressing activity. Just curious if you have heard anymore on the move to designate the Kamloops Res School as a historic site. This isn't a joke. See below:
The Former Kamloops Indian Residential School National Historic Site
Joan, if you find this news traumatizing, please feel free to access the emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-Hour National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419. Rosanne Casimir will be waiting to take your call.
Eby praises Willie Sellars. Sellars not only pushes the deeply anti-Catholic blood libel that priests fathered babies with indigenous children and roasted the babies, he claimed that they threw indigenous corpses into lakes, and rivers and for decades the government, RCMP and churches conspired to keep this all secret. This is truly crazy stuff, but Eby and the B.C. Law Society promote it. BC is rotting from within
We live in a "post truth" world. There are narratives underpinning all our institutions: education, criminal justice, and social welfare systems to name a few. Anything that supports these narratives is considered "true" and anything that refutes them is considered "denialism". But the facts won't just go away simply because activists and politicians ignore or deny them. Their day of reckoning is coming.
Good move. What Eby will do with it who knows. Also yes all those Chiefs who requested (twice) that the Fed Govt not close the residential schools should be held accountable. Of course they are dead but their legacies can be affected — just like Macdonald and others…
I suggest forwarding a copy of this article to Premier Eby, at premier@gov.bc.ca
We need to let the Premier know that we expect him, and his government, to seek the Truth as part of the Truth & Reconciliation process. Spreading the false narrative of this "documentary" is damaging to that process.
It’s great to have facts and truth about this issue. The Eby socialist government tends to ignore the facts and truth every time they get a chance. I thank you Michelle Stirling for your diligence and persistence dedication to truth and facts. Our problem is Socialism rebuffs truth and reality.
I wonder if National Geographic knows all this? They surely must be aware of the controversy over the false allegations of "mass graves" - and yet they're backing this movie anyway?
For some reason I thought they were better than that. Perhaps they're trying to counteract the allegation of "racism" that Leftists from within its ranks have made it against it? "In March 2018, the editor of National Geographic, Susan Goldberg, said that historically the magazine's coverage of people around the world had been racist. Goldberg stated that the magazine ignored non-white Americans and showed different groups as exotic, thereby promoting racial clichés."
But by pushing a movie about the supposed "mass graves" NG has blundered badly, it would seem. That entire story was a hoax. The real story is how it was used by "indigenous sovereignty" anarchists to burn down churches, how no arrests were made for that, and how Trudeau and the CBC made excuses for it.
What lies behind all this? It's neo-Marxist "ideological subversion", a way to destroy the West from within, through false allegations of racism. In the USA, they use slavery and in Canada the residential schools. The point of the exercise is to demoralize Canadians and weaken them with "white guilt", a sort of national struggle session designed to wipe away the ancient regime and impose the new "progressive" globalist state autocracy.
Who benefits? Globalists, Communist China, NGOs and race-grifters, and in the short term it means more money for native groups. But have they thought through the long-term strategy of allowing Communist China to take over Canada? In the end, the CCP will do to them what it has done to the Uyghurs. It will be ten devils worse than the worst European colonialist. Already, China is trying to encroach: "China has looked to build in northern communities, [NWT] premier says" https://cabinradio.ca/205143/news/economy/infrastructure/china-has-looked-to-build-in-northern-communities-premier-says/
It starts with building infrastructure, which gives China a stake in a foreign land (they are in 140 countries through the Belt and Trade Initiative). It's the Chinese form of global imperialism. It's their foot in the door, so to speak. The long-term goal is to control the country and take its resources. Globalists are okay with that. They would prefer to be a Communist country than to be "the 51st state."
Yes, National Geographic knows. Many of us have written to them to point out the deceptive nature of this film. In my own letter a couple of months ago I pointed out many of the facts that Michelle outlines here, and I also asked the Nat Geo execs to consider what would constitute actual EVIDENCE of “a pattern of infanticide.” My letter continued as follows (long):
<< It would be women reporting – either today or in the past, and in a documented way – that they had carried pregnancies to term while living at the residential school, and that the babies they delivered THERE were taken from them and mysteriously vanished.
<< The school was 10 minutes outside the Sugarcane reserve; it was a major employer of local, Indigenous people, and people came and went daily. Where are the women who bore these infants and ostensibly delivered them at the school, and where are their testimonies?
<< No fair saying that some unnamed someone had this happen to them, but they never told anyone because they were too afraid, or too ashamed, and then they died in an accident or committed suicide. And everyone close to them, every friend or relative, is also deceased, or won’t talk about it because it’s too traumatizing …
<< Also not fair: implying that young Indigenous women were only ever impregnated by priests, or were never sexually active outside of school.
<< What we do have are three known cases of unmarried ADULT women getting pregnant while EMPLOYED at St. Joseph’s and delivering their babies in homes for unwed mothers (off site and under the care of doctors and nurses) and then those infants being either given up for adoption or not surviving. No doubt there could have been more such cases, because the principal was known to have helped make these kinds of arrangements for young women in trouble. It’s what was done in those days, all over the country and all over the world, and not just for women involved with the residential school system. It was done quietly, for the sake of the women, but there was nothing nefarious about it. It was, of course, traumatic for those young mothers.
<< Although one of those women is now deceased (of cancer at age 68), the other two are still alive and active in their communities. One of them had not only been a student at St. Joseph’s but had also worked at the school for 13 years. Why didn’t the investigators interview HER in Sugarcane, to find out if she knew of infanticide occurring at the school during her 20 or more years living there?
<< Were there sexual improprieties by priests? Yes, some documented, some not, some consensual, some likely not. At St. Joseph’s a priest fathered a baby in a relationship that spanned several years with an adult female employee. But that’s a whole different thing from “a pattern of infanticide,” for which there is no documented evidence, and none is presented in this documentary. >>
[In case you're wondering: no, I never received a response to this letter.]
Honesty is not the best policy in Canada. It does not promote truthfulness, does not encourage fiscal honesty and allows politicians to engender their destructive Marxist ideologies on the rest of us.
Thank you Michelle for a very powerful, articulate and thoroughly accurate post. Unfortunately, I doubt very much that Eby will read it, or acknowledge it or most importantly, act on it. In the delusional world of politics, perception is far more important than reality. The current cabal of indigenous activists have become very proficient at playing the blame game with all its collateral rewards. Shrewdly, they have managed to morph their cultural pathology into victimhood in which an unsuspecting public sympathetically and generously acquiesces to. Perhaps it is more than timely for the media to look behind the grassy knoll and see who is really behind this conspiracy.
I went to Michelle's own Substack to thank her for this piece. As part of my comment there, I added this:
I've just gone through the comment thread following Eby's April 1 Facebook post. FB shows that there were 173 comments logged, but only about 40 remain visible, even when I select for "All Comments" and open all replies in the thread. I wonder what the other 130 people had to say? No doubt there were many horrid and boorish remarks that deserved to be deleted, but surely those 130 commenters weren't ALL ignorant trolls (?)
We are currently living in an intellectual desert bereft of reason, logic and common sense that only George Orwell can appreciate. Reading my daily news feed has become a very depressing activity. Just curious if you have heard anymore on the move to designate the Kamloops Res School as a historic site. This isn't a joke. See below:
The Former Kamloops Indian Residential School National Historic Site
https://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/lieu-site/pensionnat-kamloops-residential-school
Joan, if you find this news traumatizing, please feel free to access the emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-Hour National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419. Rosanne Casimir will be waiting to take your call.
Eby praises Willie Sellars. Sellars not only pushes the deeply anti-Catholic blood libel that priests fathered babies with indigenous children and roasted the babies, he claimed that they threw indigenous corpses into lakes, and rivers and for decades the government, RCMP and churches conspired to keep this all secret. This is truly crazy stuff, but Eby and the B.C. Law Society promote it. BC is rotting from within
We live in a "post truth" world. There are narratives underpinning all our institutions: education, criminal justice, and social welfare systems to name a few. Anything that supports these narratives is considered "true" and anything that refutes them is considered "denialism". But the facts won't just go away simply because activists and politicians ignore or deny them. Their day of reckoning is coming.
Truth is Pain...... keep telling it. ❤️
No pain, no gain.
Good move. What Eby will do with it who knows. Also yes all those Chiefs who requested (twice) that the Fed Govt not close the residential schools should be held accountable. Of course they are dead but their legacies can be affected — just like Macdonald and others…
I suggest forwarding a copy of this article to Premier Eby, at premier@gov.bc.ca
We need to let the Premier know that we expect him, and his government, to seek the Truth as part of the Truth & Reconciliation process. Spreading the false narrative of this "documentary" is damaging to that process.
It’s great to have facts and truth about this issue. The Eby socialist government tends to ignore the facts and truth every time they get a chance. I thank you Michelle Stirling for your diligence and persistence dedication to truth and facts. Our problem is Socialism rebuffs truth and reality.
I wonder if National Geographic knows all this? They surely must be aware of the controversy over the false allegations of "mass graves" - and yet they're backing this movie anyway?
For some reason I thought they were better than that. Perhaps they're trying to counteract the allegation of "racism" that Leftists from within its ranks have made it against it? "In March 2018, the editor of National Geographic, Susan Goldberg, said that historically the magazine's coverage of people around the world had been racist. Goldberg stated that the magazine ignored non-white Americans and showed different groups as exotic, thereby promoting racial clichés."
But by pushing a movie about the supposed "mass graves" NG has blundered badly, it would seem. That entire story was a hoax. The real story is how it was used by "indigenous sovereignty" anarchists to burn down churches, how no arrests were made for that, and how Trudeau and the CBC made excuses for it.
What lies behind all this? It's neo-Marxist "ideological subversion", a way to destroy the West from within, through false allegations of racism. In the USA, they use slavery and in Canada the residential schools. The point of the exercise is to demoralize Canadians and weaken them with "white guilt", a sort of national struggle session designed to wipe away the ancient regime and impose the new "progressive" globalist state autocracy.
Who benefits? Globalists, Communist China, NGOs and race-grifters, and in the short term it means more money for native groups. But have they thought through the long-term strategy of allowing Communist China to take over Canada? In the end, the CCP will do to them what it has done to the Uyghurs. It will be ten devils worse than the worst European colonialist. Already, China is trying to encroach: "China has looked to build in northern communities, [NWT] premier says" https://cabinradio.ca/205143/news/economy/infrastructure/china-has-looked-to-build-in-northern-communities-premier-says/
It starts with building infrastructure, which gives China a stake in a foreign land (they are in 140 countries through the Belt and Trade Initiative). It's the Chinese form of global imperialism. It's their foot in the door, so to speak. The long-term goal is to control the country and take its resources. Globalists are okay with that. They would prefer to be a Communist country than to be "the 51st state."
Yes, National Geographic knows. Many of us have written to them to point out the deceptive nature of this film. In my own letter a couple of months ago I pointed out many of the facts that Michelle outlines here, and I also asked the Nat Geo execs to consider what would constitute actual EVIDENCE of “a pattern of infanticide.” My letter continued as follows (long):
<< It would be women reporting – either today or in the past, and in a documented way – that they had carried pregnancies to term while living at the residential school, and that the babies they delivered THERE were taken from them and mysteriously vanished.
<< The school was 10 minutes outside the Sugarcane reserve; it was a major employer of local, Indigenous people, and people came and went daily. Where are the women who bore these infants and ostensibly delivered them at the school, and where are their testimonies?
<< No fair saying that some unnamed someone had this happen to them, but they never told anyone because they were too afraid, or too ashamed, and then they died in an accident or committed suicide. And everyone close to them, every friend or relative, is also deceased, or won’t talk about it because it’s too traumatizing …
<< Also not fair: implying that young Indigenous women were only ever impregnated by priests, or were never sexually active outside of school.
<< What we do have are three known cases of unmarried ADULT women getting pregnant while EMPLOYED at St. Joseph’s and delivering their babies in homes for unwed mothers (off site and under the care of doctors and nurses) and then those infants being either given up for adoption or not surviving. No doubt there could have been more such cases, because the principal was known to have helped make these kinds of arrangements for young women in trouble. It’s what was done in those days, all over the country and all over the world, and not just for women involved with the residential school system. It was done quietly, for the sake of the women, but there was nothing nefarious about it. It was, of course, traumatic for those young mothers.
<< Although one of those women is now deceased (of cancer at age 68), the other two are still alive and active in their communities. One of them had not only been a student at St. Joseph’s but had also worked at the school for 13 years. Why didn’t the investigators interview HER in Sugarcane, to find out if she knew of infanticide occurring at the school during her 20 or more years living there?
<< Were there sexual improprieties by priests? Yes, some documented, some not, some consensual, some likely not. At St. Joseph’s a priest fathered a baby in a relationship that spanned several years with an adult female employee. But that’s a whole different thing from “a pattern of infanticide,” for which there is no documented evidence, and none is presented in this documentary. >>
[In case you're wondering: no, I never received a response to this letter.]
Honesty is not the best policy in Canada. It does not promote truthfulness, does not encourage fiscal honesty and allows politicians to engender their destructive Marxist ideologies on the rest of us.