There is no denying that some indigenous children were mistreated in residential schools. But the mass murders and mass burials used to justify attacking churches in general and the Canadian Catholic Church in particular were quite literally a piece of agitprop mythology.

Yet amid the mass-graves fever, many Canadian journalists and scholars, including men and women of the left, found themselves ostracized or even out of a job for daring to question the mythology. The Mount Royal University in Calgary, for example, fired the progressive political scientist Frances Widdowson for promoting anti-indigenous views (her real “crime” was questioning the NGO-advocacy industrial complex that, in her view, hinders real development for the community by ginning up fake grievances). The few reporters who did real digging came under severe fire, as Terry Glavin documented for Canada’s National Post.

[It’s disgusting, and the Trudeau government in Ottawa owes apologies to Catholics in Canada. And so do the media outlets that amplified the allegations without any evidence of their veracity. — Ed]