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<div> As a discussion frame for this Saturday. Based on this
alternative explanation I would like to discuss the relationship
of the dominant narrative and the actual facts. Who benefits
from the narrative?<br>
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Maybe I will be able to phrase it better come Saturday.<br>
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<p><span
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lang="EN-US">Art<br>
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<p><span
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lang="EN-US">From Phil Little<br>
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<p><span
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lang="EN-US">Pete Cross is retired from the RCMP and author
of the blog "Behind The Yellow Tape".</span><span
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<p><span
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lang="EN-US">Here are his thoughts on a most recent topic.</span><span
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<p
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size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalnews.ca%2Fnews%2F7902306%2Funmarked-graves-kamloops-residential-school%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245247265%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=PmOVhpRtm%2Bj2L40ZNLC1o5qOMqZVnJ9j3aVGM9UwQxA%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong>The
“discovery”</strong></a> of the children’s bodies
found on the property of the Tk’emlups te Secwopmc First
Nation in Kamloops, B.C has captured the attention and the
hearts of Canada.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">This
residential school operated from the 1890s to the 1960s
and now in 2021 pronouncements are circling the globe
claiming a “discovered” “mass grave”, where the bodies of
two hundred and fifteen children have been interred. The
clear and intended implication was that the bodies were
hidden purposefully to avoid criminal responsibility. The
discovery with the use of ground radar was now held up as
“proof” of the “genocide” of the Indigenous perpetrated by
the government of Canada, the Catholic church, and the
often not-mentioned Protestant religious groups.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">It
is an event or story which leaves even those some distance
from the issue, affected, wordless, searching for things
to say or at least some sort of explanation. The death of
any child, society’s innocents, layers us in emotion and
draws up unstoppable grief. As some anonymous person said,
“losing a child is like losing your breath... and never
getting it back”. It is routinely described as
unimaginable and easily overwhelming. It is a difficult
story, but there is a problem— it is not totally accurate.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">It
seems that we have reached a state of affairs in this
country where one must question almost all that is being
written or reported in the mainstream media. It is
becoming painfully apparent that almost everyone has an
agenda, whether it be political, or social, and, it is
permanently warping our ability to trust. Context is
almost always missing. Instead, we are being fed polar
views delivered by the loudest insistent voices of there
being only one truth. In this case, there is the immediate
gush of fury, followed by outlandish statements and
demands for retribution. There is a palpable governmental
and corporate fear of being on the wrong side of any issue
and the factual information is lost in the rush to
judgement.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">By
putting the deaths of children in “grisly” and “shocking”
terms, the headlines wrote themselves. All who may have
been directly or indirectly involved are immediately
identified and placed on the wrong side of the blame
spectrum; accusing fingers pointing at the presumed
guilty, the stain of that guilt never to be removed.
History has shown us many times that this quick need to
assign fault, the ignoring of rational alternative
records, has not served us well, nevertheless, we rarely
learn.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">To
ask questions, to examine the record, of that which is
being portrayed in this residential school story, risks
insulting the mainstream. Alternate stories are guaranteed
to offend almost all who only see black and white. Be
forewarned, I am about to offend those of you who only
think in straight lines. That rationale that it has been
said therefore it is true. The reality is that almost
always the facts are found in various shades of grey.
Often, a single one-sided glance can be deceptive.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">These
deaths are difficult to process, but it was equally
dismaying to see the commentary on the news; the reporting
of the deaths as a “genocide” a “crime scene” of
unequalled proportions all of which reverberated through
the radio, television and print media. Children “stolen”
from their homes and culture. The media in its various
forms showing no compunction in knowingly feeding the fire
of outrage. The oft-repeated story portrayed intrepid
searchers stumbling across the evidence of heinous crimes.
An unmarked gravesite, where children were buried in
anonymity. Predictably, politicians of every stripe
climbed on board the indignation train, innuendo solely
fed by untested claims of criminality.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Jagmeet
Singh, the Federal leader of the NDP, dramatically,
breathlessly, and tearfully, literally unable to speak.
The Liberal Apology Party, having apologized several times
before, to no avail, are now demanding apologies from the
Vatican— a political sleight of hand designed to make you
look the other way. The wokes scurrying around the country
trying to hide the statues of Sir John A., the now damned
originator of residential schools.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">The
purpose of this post is not to examine the policy of the
residential schools. Was it an attempt by colonists to
wipe out the Indigenous culture, or on the other hand was
it an effort to assimilate and educate? The answer is
likely somewhere in the middle. The currently accepted
view was that it was a misguided policy at the very best
and it is likely equally clear that many of those involved
in the early years were unconcerned at the time with
preserving the “culture” of the First Nations. That is a
never-ending circular debate. The purpose of this post is
to merely examine what the evidence actually shows up to
this point in time.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">The
early reports of the findings by the use of “ground radar”
gave one the impression of it being an unexpected “grisly
discovery”. Grisly yes, but it was not a “discovery”.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US"><font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">The<span
style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"> </span></font><span
style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnctr.ca%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245247265%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2B5KBG6YnKurO%2F6r8Xx2S80o2bGNPubBKEI1ExYLD4Mg%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong><font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">National
Centre for Truth and Reconciliation</font></strong></a></span><font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> in examining
residential schools identified the names of, or
information about, more than 4100 children who died of
the 150,000 children (some estimates are lower at 3200
children). That represents a fatality rate of 2.7%, or
if one accepts the lower rate, 2.13%.</font></span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US"><font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">In 1950, in
Canada, the</font><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macrotrends.net%2Fcountries%2FCAN%2Fcanada%2Finfant-mortality-rate&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245257221%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=HXP2x1fpdc7oluFI8bU5Kx96jdlgI3XmpHWr6ZGOVKs%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong><font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> infant
mortality rate</font></strong></a></span><font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><span
style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"> </span>was 2.92%. A higher
death rate nationally than in the residential schools.</font> <font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">. Infant
mortality rate on reserves would have been much above
the national average.</font></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US"></span> </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">That
aside, that children were dying in saddening numbers in
the years of the residential schools is a fact. However,
the biggest killer in 1900 was pneumonia and influenza and
those two illnesses alone recorded 202 deaths per 100,000
people in Canada. There were other killer diseases
lurking: smallpox, typhus, cholera, yellow fever, and
tuberculosis. TB by itself was widespread in children
after WWI. It was also deadlier, as it was slow to
recognize, as it affected the glands, bones and joints
rather than the lungs. Those children that contracted
tuberculosis had a very low survival rate. So this is
being reported as a “genocide” when to date, there has
been no evidence of anyone being purposefully killed.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">The
second question was why were they then placed in unmarked
graves on the property? Was this an attempt to hide
wrongdoing? There is a simpler but yet unpalatable answer.
The cost of returning the bodies to the families was
prohibitive during those austere times. That has been
documented. Secondly, record keeping in those times both
on the Reserves and by the Church was spotty at best and
often totally absent. Many children had only their
assigned names and a guess as to their true age.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">So
the children were by necessity, dictated by the times,
buried on the property. The fact that the children were
buried on the sites of the residential schools throughout
the country— some in unmarked graves, others in marked
graves, has been known for a very long time.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">The <span
style="color:rgb(102,0,0)"><a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca%2Feng%2F1100100015576%2F1571581687074&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245257221%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=huQB63%2B%2Bab5IhW38rlX04ej0pxDCF6MeFL1Cvi2hew0%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong>Indian
Residential School Settlement Agreement</strong></a></span> had
already recognized that there were 139 residential schools
across the country. (These are only those that received
Federal support, there were others run solely by religious
orders or provincial governments). An undertaking to
return the bodies to the families would be, even to this
day, a logistical nightmare.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">The <span
style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trc.ca%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245267187%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QnsI5g52bTA0JtTO9n7aNuxf5fa%2Fvb87AQQWJjSAu0U%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong>Truth
and Reconciliation Commission in 2015</strong></a></span> in
releasing their report even included a section on missing
children and burial grounds. They recommended 94 calls to
action. One of those calls was for the Federal government
to work with churches, indigenous communities, and former
students “to establish and maintain an online registry of
residential school cemeteries, including where possible,
plot maps showing the location of deceased residential
school children”.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">So
two years ago, in the 2019 budget, the Liberal Federal
government allocated $32 million to implement the burial
recommendations. There is still $27 million left. Now, Mr
Trudeau says the government is leaping into action and is
going to distribute the money “on an urgent basis”. These
graves were not uncovered and fully documented sooner for
a simple reason—government and Indigenous bureaucratic
inefficiency. We should also keep in mind that the
Provincial government paid for the examination of the
Kamloops residential school site. This clearly was not a
cover-up.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">There
is the additional claim running rampant as part of the
cover-up theory— that the Catholic Church and the Federal
government is withholding records from the schools.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">In
fact, the Federal government did indeed destroy documents
related to the residential “school system between 1936 and
1944, including 200,000 Indian Affairs files”. Were the
records destroyed as a result of a governmental cover-up,
or were they destroyed as a matter of routine? Government
records often run on a twenty-five or fifty-year timeline.
One could presume that death records of any kind should
never be destroyed, but that is a separate issue.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">In
the early times of the residential schools, accurate
record-keeping was in short supply. Children were coming
in from Indigenous communities where there were often no
records of births or deaths, that was the custom. The
schools upon receiving these children, were also seemingly
sparse with their documentation when compared to standards
of the 21</span><sup><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"
lang="EN-US">st</span></sup><span
style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US"> century. Also
contrary to the current reporting, in fact, records at the
Kamloops residential school have already been provided. It
showed only fifty-one deaths compared to the two hundred
and fifteen, but is that the result of poor and absent
record-keeping, or was it a conspiracy to only reveal some
of them?</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Mary
Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the academic director at the Indian<span
style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"> <a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Firshdc.ubc.ca%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245267187%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=KtIRn212CMbjaEKtbFoXaT73BMrJjcqDrIKkbpZ4T%2Bs%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong>Residential
School History and Dialogue Centre</strong></a></span> at
the University of British Columbia, stated that the
records from the Kamloops residential school had not been
provided to the Truth and Reconciliation group. However,
she admits that the “churches handed over most residential
school records, but in a few cases, the narratives were
withheld, notably at Kamloops and St Annes (in Ontario)”
So the Church records, like the children’s bodies were and
are hiding in plain sight. The fact that no one has acted
on them is probably the story that should be pursued.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)" size="4"><span
style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">The final
question is whether or not this is a site where there is
evidence of criminal activity. Is it as NDP MP Leah Gazan
says, that all the residential schools are the sites of
“active crime scenes”?</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US"><font
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Well no, they
are not crime scenes, because crime scenes need to have
evidence or confirmation of wrongdoing. Now some may
argue that the stories told by the Indigenous
“survivors”, is evidence enough of criminality. In
recent years we seem to have taken the approach that
allegations standing by themselves are sufficient
evidence of wrongdoing. As any homicide investigator
will tell you, that is an untenable position</font>.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Little
is yet known as to the condition of the bodies. Ground
radar (actually it works like sonar) shows very little,
other than shapes in the ground. The exhumation of the
bodies and subsequent pathology could possibly show
evidence of assault, or lead to estimations of causes of
death, but to pronounce it so, so early in the
investigation is unprincipled.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Was
there wrongdoing at the schools in the form of physical
abuse or sexual deviance? Let's ask the current Armed
Forces or the RCMP whether it's possible that their
organizations have been open to abuse and sexual assaults
over the last number of years? Would we think the Catholic
churches any different? It would seem impossible that the
Catholic church, whose wrongdoings have been hauntingly
exposed during the last several years around the world,
would not be guilty of some criminal offences over such a
lengthy span of time. However, the evidence in the burial
site will not likely aid that level or type of
investigation.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Even
if one is to assume that this was in fact a crime scene,
then it should be suggested that the RCMP do more than
“offer its full support” to the First Nations who are now
in attendance and overseeing the “crime scene”. A crime
scene by the way, which will now be forever tainted in the
event something is discovered amongst the bodies. The
RCMP, if they believe that this is a possible crime scene,
should be taking charge and control of the scene if that
were the case. Instead, <span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalnews.ca%2Fnews%2F7915929%2Fbill-blair-rcmp-residential-schools%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245277134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=5fxy5FKtSuuMmk8%2Frp4wWHhwAb%2FWRAXBgMqVIAlfSs0%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong>Minister
Bill Blair</strong></a></span> says the RCMP
continues to go forward with its “work towards
reconciliation”</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Mr
Blair also apologizes for the RCMP having performed
according to the law and carried out the “clear and
unavoidable role”. He is late to that apology, probably
confused, because Commissioner Zaccardelli apologized in
2004, and then Commissioner Paulson apologized in 2014.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Despite
all these inconsistencies, the fallout damage in the
reporting on the residential schools is now done. The
political gains that the Indigenous movement hoped to
engender have been cemented. The world is now believing
that Canadian history includes the genocide of their
Indigenous population.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Now,
of course, when pressed on the word “genocide” the
spokespersons are falling back to the more acceptable
argument of “cultural genocide. And, only yesterday an
Indigenous spokesperson walked backed away from the “mass
grave” description and now clarifies the record to say
that they were actually “individual” un-marked gravesites.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">The
Perry Bellegarde’s of the Indigenous movement will now
proffer up the discoveries as a lever to aid in the battle
to get passed– the recently introduced Liberal legislation
Bill C-15— the <a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.ca%2Fnews-releases%2Fgovernment-of-canada-introduces-legislation-respecting-the-united-nations-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-866026951.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245277134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=KPoBzmzu7uBztLKG2%2BjfGjQ58THzYgJLf4HEngpagWU%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong><span
style="color:rgb(252,192,64)">United Nations
Declaration <span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">on the
Rights of the Indigenous Peoples Act</span></span></strong></a><span
style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">.</span> Who would dare to
question the bill, while expressing their overwhelming
guilt in the treatment of the Indigenous? There is a valid
argument that this future Act could give the Indigenous
possible veto power over the economic development of
Canada. One would have to be incredibly naive to think for
a moment that this point has been lost on the Indigenous
leadership in Canada.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">In
the next few months, monies will be provided for further
examination of marked and unmarked gravesites throughout
the country, a process which could take years and years of
painstaking “investigation”. The Mounties will no doubt
dutifully continue to “standby” and “provide support”.
Commissioner Lucki will be the lead social worker.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">The
Indigenous can and will be encouraged by the media to
continue to narrate the verbal claims of abuse and
“incarceration” at the schools. The dominant reported
narrative, like the one surrounding the Indigenous Missing
Women’s task force, will remain by its very origin,
clearly slanted. The masses will be satiated with
apologies or flowered monuments. The truth will have to
surface on another day and in another time.</span><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">Prime
Minister Trudeau and Minister Mark Miller will continue to
ask the Pope for an apology as their preferred policy
option. It is interesting to note that <a
href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctvnews.ca%2Fcanada%2Fcanadian-archbishop-says-trudeau-comments-on-church-s-role-in-residential-schools-unfair-1.5458553&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ccbf9a56cf3874f5ffcc008d9363beb8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637600453245287089%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ie51Q5%2B4X8NmRpMTv9yiiG6WzeCjpRiVFdD9SzzkjIw%3D&reserved=0"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong><span
style="color:rgb(252,192,64)"><span
style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">Cardinal Thomas Collins</span> </span></strong></a>of
Toronto of the Catholic Church, said that he felt
Trudeau’s comments were “unhelpful” and “not based on real
facts”. Amen to that.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font
size="4"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)" lang="EN-US">That
truth is that children were removed from often desperate
situations and sent to sparse boarding schools during a
time of disease and illness— ailments from which this
country could not protect them; run by religious groups
who brought with them their own inherent dysfunctions.
This is a difficult story, but up to this point in time,
only a partial story.</span></font></p>
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