The Patriot Post® · The Tragic Cost of Ideology-Motivated Misconceptions

Canadian bigotry against Christians is alive and well. This particular story vis-à-vis indigenous mass graves has been three years in the making, starting back in May 2020. Canada, like the U.S., had a “summer of rage,” but it was driven by a different cry of victimization.

Canadian newspapers declared that mass graves had been discovered at several Catholic-run Indian Residential Schools and churches near Indian reservations (Kamloops and Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, respectively, to name two) in British Columbia.

Residential schools, which in subsequent years have been labeled pariahs, were institutions where indigenous children were sent to help westernize them. In Canada, they were also places to send native children in difficult family situations. The indigenous people of Canada have learned to resent these schools as representative of the colonization that happened to their communities when the French and English settled in Canada.

Sadly, there is plenty of testimony from adults who attended these schools of abuse they encountered while there. Ergo, anything to discredit these schools is gleefully promoted by people looking to get back at their “oppressors.” The biggest rumor they set about disseminating is that the priests and nuns murdered hundreds of children over the years.

In 2020, someone decided to run a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) machine over the school and church grounds and reportedly discovered hundreds of places where the ground had been disturbed. One article claimed that at Kamloops, there were 215 “burials,” some with children as young as three.

Woke Canadians were horrified. The country erupted in a wave of violence and church burnings — 83 churches were destroyed by deranged activists, with the people in power saying “burn it all down.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanded that Pope Francis, leader of the Catholic Church, fly to Canada and apologize.

But as this writer predicted back in January 2022, the “mass graves” theory has turned out to be a hoax. Or at least it is at one location, Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, where they actually excavated and finally wrapped up the investigation of the GPR “anomalies.”

Kamloops Residential School, the other location with the “mass graves” albatross, has yet to be excavated. However, there are indications that this too is a hoax.

Though some children, priests, and nuns who lived and worked at the schools and churches did die and were buried on the grounds, it is by no means hundreds of graves, and most of them are marked. In fact, in other residential school locations where there have been graves of children uncovered, it was discovered that they all died of contemporary childhood diseases such as tuberculosis or typhoid.

Until Kamloops is excavated, it’ll be difficult to put this particular rumor to bed. However, it does bring to the forefront the anti-Christian and anti-Catholic bigotry that is absolutely rife in Canada.

It’s a terrible thing when ideology-driven assumptions lead to retaliatory actions — especially when they are proving to be untrue. Now the real villains are the erstwhile “victims” and their woke activist allies.