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".
In fact, the Mounties would have sealed off the site as a crime scene on their own initiative if they had suspected there was any evidence of a crime in that old orchard. The police don't need to be "called in" by politicians. They investigate as they see fit, including getting search warrants or exhumation orders. The fact that they didn't do any of this and let the band council do its thing meant that they knew there was nothing to find there. If there were any bodies, well, what do you expect to find in an old graveyard? The important thing is that there was no evidence that any children ever went missing or died from anything other than disease.
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?
A recent poll showed that even though most Canadians reject a lot of the woke nonsense, 60-something percent believe that 215 children were buried in a mass grave at Kamloops. (Be thankful it's not 100%.) It shows how deeply this lie has got engrained into the Canadian psyche that it persists with majority belief nearly 3 years later.
Very good article in compactmag. You are courageous to speak out as a university prof.
This is all China, isn't it: Covid, fentanyl, trans, indigenous hoaxes, climate change. It's like a bullfight. One knife after another until the bull is on its knees.
Thank you. There is nothing better than the truth.
When this hoax first hit the news a number of months back a friend of mine who was somewhat politically savvy being an ex-major of one of the western cities, in a discussion with him he remarked to what do you think will be the out come of this? My reply was a big transfer of money that will do wonders to divide this country, well that is exactly what happened and the truth of the matter just got covered up.
In my younger days flying as a bush pilot in the north and having transported a number of children on their way to and from some of the IRS, I never once witnessed the police ripping little children out of parents arms and putting them in the aircraft to be carted off to some horrible fate. The parents brought the children to the airplane willingly and yes there was sadness (to be expected when there is temporary family separation), but I also witnessed joy when I would later drop them off back home after the term was over.
As a kid going to school I knew a few kids who had for various reasons left the IRS and became part of the school system I was attending. There kids were treated with respect by the majority of the other students and staff as far as I know. I have lost track of these people over the past sixty odd years. I do know the kids going through the system either the IRS or the public school system benefited. As in life there are always examples of inconsistencies and errors made by good intentioned people but we as Canadians don’t deserve to carry the burden of mis-informed and uninformed media outlets funded by a government that truly wants to divide the country instead of bring it together.
The education system which is funded by the same divisive government is spreading out right false information to the children in schools today. My 12 year old granddaughter informed me that she was doing a class project about how bad the native population has been treated in this country. I talked to her about it and was shocked when she started talking about mass graves of murdered kids. I tried to explain to her that none of that was proven. Her reply “If I say what you are telling me I will fail this project.”
Unfortunately we are the silent majority 95% of teachers and our Political leaders have lost the plot and now Trudeau is bringing in his personal Hate laws that may very well jail us all for simply having the temerity to disagree with his lies, outright frauds and disgusting behavior $20,000 fines and jail for life for not complying and a new thought police ministry snitch line that all cowards will be using to report their next door neighbor even children will be able to inform on dear old Mom & Dad, I hope he names these special people what they are (Gestapo).
I hear through one of my snitches in Govt that we will soon have gulags in the far north for the likes of us. If this new law comes into force I will not be making any more comments anywhere until my wife and I move to Panama.
Truly a cautionary tale about the power of a lie. Expect this hoax to have an extended shelf life because it is of such depth and extensive involvement that its exposure would expose the culpability and stupidity of the ranks of numerous politicians and their supporters. As Mark Twain once famously said, " Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
Could writing be any better: “Indigenous leaders, activists, political leaders, and bleeding-heart useful idiot citizens are so drunk off their own Social Justice kool-Aid that they haven’t bothered to deal with the inconvenient truth that Canada’s “George Floyd moment” is the biggest hoax of modern times.”
This will get harder with Bill C36.... From Canada Proud: #ElectionNow
More details of Trudeau's censorship plot emerge
Earlier this week the Trudeau Liberals introduced the latest iteration of their so-called Online Harms Bill to censor the internet. And more details are coming out.
One provision of the bill would allow Trudeau's attorney general to place you under HOUSE ARREST if someone fears that they WILL commit a hate crime. In other words, you can be confined to your house by Trudeau's underlings for an imaginary crime you haven't yet committed.
Don't believe us?
Here's the text of the bill: "A person may, with the Attorney General’s consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit (a) an offence under section 318 or any of subsections 319(1) to (2.1); or (b) an offence under section 320.1001." At which point an accused person can be forced to: "Wear an electronic monitoring device" "Return to and remain at their place of residence at specified times" "Provide, for the purpose of analysis, a sample of a bodily substance" "Abstain from communicating, directly or indirectly, with any person identified in the recognizance."
So if you're so much as ACCUSED of intending to commit hate speech in the future by one of Trudeau's activists, Trudeau's attorney general can make you wear an ankle bracelet, confine you to your home, violate your bodily autonomy and prohibit you from communicating with people.
THIS IS THE BIGGEST ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH IN MODERN CANADIAN HISTORY And that's why we're working daily to put an end to this government.
We're currently running a MASSIVE pressure campaign against the NDP to make them END THEIR ALLIANCE with the Trudeau Liberals and FORCE AN ELECTION.
But if we want to defeat the Trudeau Liberals before they succeed in their censorship agenda, we need your support. https://canadaproud.org/donate/
Of course children went missing from native communities and residential schools. Of course mass graves exist across Canada. I have been to one in Montreal. I have met people from communities where children were taken and never returned. It's one thing to demand more evidence-- believe me, I have witnessed coverups, witness intimidation, and destruction of evidence in my own home town, where there is a notorious "pigsty cemetery" at one end of town hiding remains of hundreds of Orphans, makeshift graves behind a mental hospital and under its swimming pool , and other sites including an orphanage housing a basement crematorium -- I have spoken to survivors and witnesses. Until you're prepared to consider and investigate ALL the reports, you're committing perjury by dismissing a national crime with thousands of victims. Provide real proof that "no children died" -- you simply can't. You're playing ideological games with your gullible readers. Wishing doesn't make it so. Sorry. You are a fraud.
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".
In fact, the Mounties would have sealed off the site as a crime scene on their own initiative if they had suspected there was any evidence of a crime in that old orchard. The police don't need to be "called in" by politicians. They investigate as they see fit, including getting search warrants or exhumation orders. The fact that they didn't do any of this and let the band council do its thing meant that they knew there was nothing to find there. If there were any bodies, well, what do you expect to find in an old graveyard? The important thing is that there was no evidence that any children ever went missing or died from anything other than disease.
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/
A recent poll showed that even though most Canadians reject a lot of the woke nonsense, 60-something percent believe that 215 children were buried in a mass grave at Kamloops. (Be thankful it's not 100%.) It shows how deeply this lie has got engrained into the Canadian psyche that it persists with majority belief nearly 3 years later.
Very good article in compactmag. You are courageous to speak out as a university prof.
This is all China, isn't it: Covid, fentanyl, trans, indigenous hoaxes, climate change. It's like a bullfight. One knife after another until the bull is on its knees.
I don’t think China is behind this? But maybe I did not understand your comment.
Maybe I just mean the Left, like rust, never sleeps. They are why we can’t have nice things.
Kathleen, I just read your article. It is fabulous. You write so cogently and clearly.
many thanks Jim!!!
Thank you. There is nothing better than the truth.
When this hoax first hit the news a number of months back a friend of mine who was somewhat politically savvy being an ex-major of one of the western cities, in a discussion with him he remarked to what do you think will be the out come of this? My reply was a big transfer of money that will do wonders to divide this country, well that is exactly what happened and the truth of the matter just got covered up.
In my younger days flying as a bush pilot in the north and having transported a number of children on their way to and from some of the IRS, I never once witnessed the police ripping little children out of parents arms and putting them in the aircraft to be carted off to some horrible fate. The parents brought the children to the airplane willingly and yes there was sadness (to be expected when there is temporary family separation), but I also witnessed joy when I would later drop them off back home after the term was over.
As a kid going to school I knew a few kids who had for various reasons left the IRS and became part of the school system I was attending. There kids were treated with respect by the majority of the other students and staff as far as I know. I have lost track of these people over the past sixty odd years. I do know the kids going through the system either the IRS or the public school system benefited. As in life there are always examples of inconsistencies and errors made by good intentioned people but we as Canadians don’t deserve to carry the burden of mis-informed and uninformed media outlets funded by a government that truly wants to divide the country instead of bring it together.
The education system which is funded by the same divisive government is spreading out right false information to the children in schools today. My 12 year old granddaughter informed me that she was doing a class project about how bad the native population has been treated in this country. I talked to her about it and was shocked when she started talking about mass graves of murdered kids. I tried to explain to her that none of that was proven. Her reply “If I say what you are telling me I will fail this project.”
Pretty sad.
Unfortunately we are the silent majority 95% of teachers and our Political leaders have lost the plot and now Trudeau is bringing in his personal Hate laws that may very well jail us all for simply having the temerity to disagree with his lies, outright frauds and disgusting behavior $20,000 fines and jail for life for not complying and a new thought police ministry snitch line that all cowards will be using to report their next door neighbor even children will be able to inform on dear old Mom & Dad, I hope he names these special people what they are (Gestapo).
I hear through one of my snitches in Govt that we will soon have gulags in the far north for the likes of us. If this new law comes into force I will not be making any more comments anywhere until my wife and I move to Panama.
Truly a cautionary tale about the power of a lie. Expect this hoax to have an extended shelf life because it is of such depth and extensive involvement that its exposure would expose the culpability and stupidity of the ranks of numerous politicians and their supporters. As Mark Twain once famously said, " Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
As the saying and song go "you gotta be cruel to be kind". You are doing important work.
Could writing be any better: “Indigenous leaders, activists, political leaders, and bleeding-heart useful idiot citizens are so drunk off their own Social Justice kool-Aid that they haven’t bothered to deal with the inconvenient truth that Canada’s “George Floyd moment” is the biggest hoax of modern times.”
This will get harder with Bill C36.... From Canada Proud: #ElectionNow
More details of Trudeau's censorship plot emerge
Earlier this week the Trudeau Liberals introduced the latest iteration of their so-called Online Harms Bill to censor the internet. And more details are coming out.
One provision of the bill would allow Trudeau's attorney general to place you under HOUSE ARREST if someone fears that they WILL commit a hate crime. In other words, you can be confined to your house by Trudeau's underlings for an imaginary crime you haven't yet committed.
Don't believe us?
Here's the text of the bill: "A person may, with the Attorney General’s consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit (a) an offence under section 318 or any of subsections 319(1) to (2.1); or (b) an offence under section 320.1001." At which point an accused person can be forced to: "Wear an electronic monitoring device" "Return to and remain at their place of residence at specified times" "Provide, for the purpose of analysis, a sample of a bodily substance" "Abstain from communicating, directly or indirectly, with any person identified in the recognizance."
So if you're so much as ACCUSED of intending to commit hate speech in the future by one of Trudeau's activists, Trudeau's attorney general can make you wear an ankle bracelet, confine you to your home, violate your bodily autonomy and prohibit you from communicating with people.
THIS IS THE BIGGEST ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH IN MODERN CANADIAN HISTORY And that's why we're working daily to put an end to this government.
We're currently running a MASSIVE pressure campaign against the NDP to make them END THEIR ALLIANCE with the Trudeau Liberals and FORCE AN ELECTION.
But if we want to defeat the Trudeau Liberals before they succeed in their censorship agenda, we need your support. https://canadaproud.org/donate/
Yep.
Preach it brother!
Of course children went missing from native communities and residential schools. Of course mass graves exist across Canada. I have been to one in Montreal. I have met people from communities where children were taken and never returned. It's one thing to demand more evidence-- believe me, I have witnessed coverups, witness intimidation, and destruction of evidence in my own home town, where there is a notorious "pigsty cemetery" at one end of town hiding remains of hundreds of Orphans, makeshift graves behind a mental hospital and under its swimming pool , and other sites including an orphanage housing a basement crematorium -- I have spoken to survivors and witnesses. Until you're prepared to consider and investigate ALL the reports, you're committing perjury by dismissing a national crime with thousands of victims. Provide real proof that "no children died" -- you simply can't. You're playing ideological games with your gullible readers. Wishing doesn't make it so. Sorry. You are a fraud.