Commentary
The announcement by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc indigenous band of Kamloops, B.C. on May 27, 2021, about finding remains of 215 children on the grounds of an Indian Residential School instantly became headline news worldwide, even though the band’s press release said that “At this time we have more questions than answers.”
Across Canada, the meagre information given was sufficient to provoke mournful vigils, flags on government buildings lowered to half-mast for months, statues of former Canadian heroes defaced and destroyed, and the destruction, vandalism, or desecration of some 70 churches whose denominations ran most of the schools.
Nearly all of Canada has accepted the claim made by the band based on ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data as absolute truth: the mainstream media, the political class, the churches, the intelligentsia, and most ordinary Canadians….