September 2026
Ahead of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on 30 September, Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations Rebecca Alty decided it was time to scold Canadians in a video posted on-line, stressing her government’s commitment to “supporting public education and awareness.”
The text accompanying the video stated, “Denying, distorting or minimizing the history and lived experiences of Survivors of Residential Schools causes harm and threatens the work of truth and reconciliation.” Minister Alty further adds in the video that “It’s an insult to the memory of the children who were taken from their homes and never returned.”
No, what’s an insult is when lies are presented as the truth and you can’t debate and call out those lies without being called racist or a denier. There is no such thing as “my truth,” or “your truth.” There is only “The Truth.” Period.
Let’s get one thing straight first off: I’m not a residential school denier. I want the truth. Yes, bad things did indeed happen at the former residential schools, but there is currently no evidence that children were murdered and clandestinely buried in mass graves. We need the truth to be told, regardless of what the truth is in the end. The truth doesn’t care about your feelings.
You would think that the fact that no bodies have been found would be a great relief, seeing as that could mean no children were murdered and clandestinely buried. Instead, it appears there is too much money and power involved in keeping the murder narrative going, such as the over $12 million in taxpayer money given to the Tkemlups te Secwepemc First Nation for an excavation that has not happened as of today. Why not?
Are there any First Nations across Canada that have records of children who went to a residential school and simply vanished? If so, what efforts were undertaken then and now to determine what happened to them? If not, why? It’s a well-documented fact that many students and adults died at the residential schools from influenza, tuberculosis, or from the many of the common diseases of the day that killed many people before our current medical advances. For a variety of reasons, some were not repatriated to their home Nations for burial.
Now you’re spending another $5 million on “education?” Will this education include all aspects of this admittedly shameful part of Canada’s history, good and bad, or just the “facts” that suit your agenda?
As that great Canadian and master of both official languages, former Prime Minister Chrétien famously said, “A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.”
Sources: Facebook.- Government of Canada Indigenous, Reconciliation Overreach: Help Me Follow the Money and Find the Truth, Facebook – C2C Journal.
