Posted on 03/03/2025 5:23:44 PM PST by george76
The Canadian government has halted an inquiry into claims of mass burials of children at former Church-run residential schools – after not one grave was discovered.
Claims of the abuse and murders of hundreds indigenous children have triggered arson attacks, vandalism and the desecration of about 120 churches across Canada amid an outpouring of national grief.
The hysteria even reached the Vatican with Pope Francis using an Angelus address to lament “the shocking discovery of the remains of 215 children”.
The Canadian government set up the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools, Missing Children and Unmarked Burials to investigate the claims and the full extent of the alleged abuse and murder of Indian children by Christians of European extraction.
But after three years of searching for bodies, at the cost of $216.5 million, not a single set of human remains have been found.
The government has now quietly withdrawn funding for the investigating committee and will disband it at the end of this month.
Crystal Gail Fraser, a member of the committee, described the move as “betrayal” in spite of the failure to find any corroborating evidence of murder.
“We are losing sight of our values around truth and reconciliation,” she told CBC news.
Hysteria broke out in 2015 with the claim that 215 burial sites had been discovered at Kamloops Indian Residential School by ground-penetrating radar scans.
Although subsequent searches yielded no bodies, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed in public, even as late as last year that murders had taken place.
The schools, run mostly by Catholic and Anglican churches and funded by the government, were founded to educate Indian children from the late 19th century until the 1990s.
Some children died at the schools but records showed such deaths was mostly from such diseases as tuberculosis.
In spite of evidence to the contrary many Canadians remain reluctant to admit that the allegations have been proven unfounded.
Regent College, an evangelical graduate school on the University of British Columbia campus, for instance cancelled a public lecture, due to go ahead this Thursday, by Lord Biggar, a British Anglican vicar and distinguished historian, after students called him a residential schools apologist and “mass graves denier”.
In response to his cancellation, Lord Biggar accused the college of “aiding and abetting the continuing reign of an aggressively repressive culture in Canada, which is invested in a story that thoroughly and unfairly discredits the work of Christian missions and justifies the razing to the ground of dozens of Christian churches”.
That whole “dead indigenous children” was one big made up fantasy.
It was all a lie. I remember my wife was appalled and just had to tell me about it. My first reactions was skepticism even back then, we even argued about it. Something was just wrong about the story, it seemed to implausible, and I recall they kept talking about mass graves but had no evidence.
Now years later still none.
Gut was right, never trust the media.
There are a lot of Liberal fairy stories like that.
Virtue signaling based upon limited knowledge. Not very pope-like.
I bet they smeared feces on them too!
Oh wait...
“ Now years later still none.”
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The search for buried dead indigenous children was about as unfruitful as the search for the elusive buried Oak Island treasure… just not as entertaining.
That’s OK. The damage was done. Most people will for years believe it was true because they only think what the gaslight press tells them to think.
Knew Justin Trudeau lying that murders had taken place.
Some folks will hear a horrible story, and they almost want it to be true, so that their most negative opinions are validated. And that makes them feel real important!
at the cost of $216.5 million
I rate your comment as,
fact check: 100% TRUE
Taylor Sheridan’s “1923” perpetuates the myth of the Church murdering indigenous people. Whoever wrote that series REALLY hates the Catholic Church.
“Regent College, an evangelical graduate school on the University of British Columbia campus, for instance cancelled a public lecture, due to go ahead this Thursday, by Lord Biggar, a British Anglican vicar and distinguished historian, after students called him a residential schools apologist and “mass graves denier”.”
My parents supported Regent College for decades. And my mother still does. I am going to urge her to stop and fund something less steeped in worldly propaganda and lies.
Also, Canadian politicians are trying to criminalize denying a “holocaust” that never happened.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-mp-private-members-bill-residential-school-denialism-1.7334916
Rabbit Proof Fence was along the same line. Then there’s 12 Years a slave. Guilt trips first.
Important for readers here to keep “Regent College” in Canada separate from Regents University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
This nonsense is even in 1928 show.
And for clarity, I am married to a 100% Mescalero Apache, grew up with basically only Apache friends, and my kids are all Apache.
It’s all navel gazing BS. So happy I married into a non-pussy tribe.
Pope Francis actually went to Canada to apologize!
For what?!
Hatred for the Catholic Church from the secular government killed the Church in that once Catholic country.
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