Truth-seeking is Residential School Denialism

The biggest story in the world several years ago was about how Canadian Christian schools were killing and burying Indian children. Even the Pope went to Canada to apologize. Many churches were burned down by arsonists.

It was all a hoax. No bodies were ever found in any grave.

The Canada National Post reports:

Just as the federal government suspends funding to a body designed to exhume residential school burials, a B.C. politician is being pilloried for saying that the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School contains “zero” confirmed children’s graves.

“The number of confirmed child burials at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site is zero,” wrote B.C. Conservative MLA Dallas Brodie in a Saturday post to X. ...

B.C. Indigenous Relations Minister Christine Boyle slammed Brodie’s post by saying there is “no place in B.C. for residential school denialism.” “This type of ‘truth-seeking’ rhetoric is nothing more than a smokescreen for anti-Indigenous racism,” said Stewart Phillip, grand chief of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, in a Monday statement.

But on the specific issue of confirmed graves at Kamloops Indian Residential School, Brodie and Heller are correct. Although many children died at the school, no children’s graves have been exhumed or confirmed on the former site. This includes the 215 suspected graves turned up in a May 2021 ground-penetrating radar scan commissioned by Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc, the First Nation whose land contains the former school.

This is just crazy anti-White, anti-Christian, anti-Canada propaganda. The entire press used this hoax to try to make Christian schools look bad, when the schools were performing a valuable public service.

Here is a Quillette essay on the hoax. It is astounding how the news media and elites accept this nonsense, without any proof, and just some unverified radar evidence.