Does Being Liberal Mean Never Having To Say, “I’m Sorry?”
Many of us, like me, who were paying attention to the news back in 2021, were shocked when the reports out of Canada alleged that many unmarked Indian children’s graves were found near and in former residential schools.
from BlazeMedia:
The residential schools were part of a federally mandated campaign to both educate Indian children who had no alternative local school options and to assimilate them into contemporary Canadian society.
These schools operated from the 1880s until the second half of the 20th century.
While neither the Catholic Church as a whole nor the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops were associated with the system, various Catholic dioceses helped administer a plurality of the schools. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches were also involved. An estimated 150,000 children attended the schools over the course of a century.
Years after the last school was shuttered, a grievance industry began to grow around claims of abuse and so-called “cultural genocide” in the schools.
The formerly called Kamloops Indian Band — announced in May 2021 that it had confirmed the discovery of children’s remains in an apple orchard near a former Catholic-run residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.
The apple orchard was originally selected for a survey partly on the basis of “Knowledge keepers’ oral histories” and a tooth belonging to a juvenile found nearby. The chief of this tribe said that ground-penetrating radar surveys had uncovered the remains of 215 “missing children” whose deaths were “undocumented.”
Not unexpectedly, liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to the alleged discovery, stating he was “terribly saddened.” The Canadian leader suggested further that the supposed unmarked graves served as “a shameful reminder of the systemic racism, discrimination, and injustice that Indigenous peoples have faced.”
Not to be outdone, the Canadian Parliament observed a moment of silence to “mark the discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Kamloops.”
When I read about this back in 2021, I was horrified. However, … there is “the rest of the story … “
Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada, told Blaze News, “Three years after a moral panic broke out following the supposed discovery of ‘mass graves’ at the Kamloops residential school, we now know that it was all a hoax. No bodies were found even after $8 million was spent to find them.”
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been blown on the other investigations — ostensibly also fruitless pursuits.
“But like other moral panics, this one was instrumentalized by far left activists and the Trudeau government to demonize Canadian history and Canadian society,” continued Bernier. “Among the awful repercussions of this demonization is the fact that it likely motivated hateful criminals to torch over 80 churches across the country during these three years, with new ones being added almost every week.
Any apologies from Canadian officials? … err, no apologies yet!
Any apologies from Trudeau? …err, no apologies yet!
Perhaps when we Adam Schiff apologize for his lying about the stuff he had on Trump, we will hear something from the mendacious Canadian liberals, but … don’t hold your breath!
6/7/24