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Robert's avatar

James;

You have written an excellent and honest account of the Residential School hoax. The first thing any sane Prime Minister would have done under the circumstances is call in the police and conduct an inquiry. Not Trudeau....he couldn't pass up the chance to be the centre of attention that this story afforded him; Whether it was true or not evidently didn't matter to him. And as the truth unfolds these political accomplices fall deaf and dumb. You and others deserve a lot of credit for shining the light of truth on Ottawa's elected 'Ministers without shame".

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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

While it is important to point out that the Kamloops story is simply not true, it's even more important to ask: what work is this not true story doing? I could be wrong, but my own feeling is that the work the story is doing is telling the majority of Canadians they are trash and have always been trash, whatever they have right now they don't deserve, and it's justice for their lives to get worse going forward.

This story is preparing the majority of the Canadian population (a majority which is multi-racial; this is not, ultimately, about identity) for a massive decline in their standard of living, which would otherwise make them very indignant. Stage one is: you deserve this. Stage 2 is: you who are now so poor and helpless, what are you going to do about it?

Arguing about "this is not true!!!!!" is useful but it's also important to argue back in the form of: why are you pushing this lie? What is this lie getting done for you?

https://www.compactmag.com/article/canada-s-convenient-victims/

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