For years, Canadians have been browbeaten and gaslighted about the systematic neglect and potential murder of Native American children in the Catholic boarding schools Canada once had.
It was a convenient narrative to undermine the Catholic Church, which under the leadership of Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVII. were profoundly countercultural on a range of leftist issues, including the leftist sacraments of abortion, medical murder, and some LGBTQI+-/ issues. Since the moral authority of the Catholic Church had to be undermined (as it was in the United States by accusing traditional Catholics of being potential terrorist), this narrative was useful.
After 4 years of not finding one single body the Canadian Government is halting funding to the search for unmarked graves
— The Pleb 🌍 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) February 23, 2025
It was all one giant scam to make Canadians feel guilty about our past
Millions and millions wasted to virtue signal
I despise the Government so much pic.twitter.com/B8L7BHf0q6
It was, unsurprisingly all a hoax. And a very damaging hoax at that, even if you discount the erosion of the Church's moral authority. It inspired violence, church burnings, and derision of the Catholic faith.
Because there were no unmarked graves discovered. Once again, Canadians were bamboozled. Will they ever learn to stop trusting the government and media? And working themselves up into political tizzies designed to distract them from reality? pic.twitter.com/NKLRruh2Cg
— Meghan Murphy (@MeghanEMurphy) February 23, 2025
The Canadian government spent millions promoting this hoax, inspiring thousands of media stories intended to smear Catholics and the Catholic Church. This was entirely intentions, given that evidence that this was a hoax was obvious almost immediately. Anybody who followed the story closely knew years ago that it was a lie, but the media and the government promoted it nonetheless out of obvious malice.
For instance, NPR was promoting a film that was, of course, partially government-funded, promoting this hoax just a few months ago. That film is everywhere, and will resonate for years to come.
Yet there is zero evidence that the accusations are true.
The New York Times wrote a story about the scandal a few months ago as well, perpetuating the hoax.
At least the Wall Street Journal allowed skeptics to push their point of view...in 2024, long after the damage was done.
Progressives want the state to monitor truth in the public square, and some would give government the power to punish dissent from approved narratives. Last month Hillary Clinton proposed criminalizing speech she labels as “propaganda.”
Any first-year law student can tell you why that won’t fly under the U.S. Constitution. But in Canada protections for those who question conventional wisdom aren’t nearly so secure—even if the truth is on their side.
Last month, Leah Gazan, a New Democratic Party member of Parliament from Winnipeg, introduced a bill to criminalize “wilfully promoting hatred against Indigenous peoples by condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system in Canada through statements communicated other than in private conversation.”
The bill refers to government-sponsored Catholic and Anglican boarding schools that served indigenous children from the 1830s to the 1990s. Progressives argue the residential schools engaged in genocide against the Indian community. If the bill becomes law, Canadians who disagree could be hauled into court. New legislation drafted by the Trudeau government to outlaw hate speech might also be used to criminalize contrary views.
No doubt there were abuses at these boarding schools, and I don't want to justify a single instance. But none of these stories provide context, and that context is that abuse in Catholic schools was no more prevalent and perhaps even less than in public schools. And the numbers of abused children in non-Catholic schools or churches are dwarfed by those in other types of schools. Thousands of instances of rape and other sexual abuse by adults in public schools in the United States are reported EVERY YEAR. But because this fact doesn't fit The Narrative™, there is no widespread outrage.
Hundreds of millions were spent due to this hoax. Hundreds of millions, both searching for the nonexistent graves and as compensation for nonexistent victims.
Only four years later...Trudeau gov't to halt funds for 'unmarked graves' search after millions spent, no bodies found: https://t.co/RKMU0ljlRz
— Barbara Kay (@BarbaraRKay) February 23, 2025
Will ordinary people learn anything from this hoax, such as NOT TRUSTING NARRATIVES that conveniently back up leftist narratives?
No, at least not enough. The Establishment is still too trusted. They are not just liars, but perpetrators of harmful hoaxes.
This was not a "mistake." It was done with malice aforethought, or at least in many cases, indifference to the facts as they came out.
It blows my mind that people haven't woken up yet. Nobody wants to acknowledge the obvious: our elite is corrupt. It is too painful and would require too much work to follow the facts.
Ugh.
