Canadian officials will no longer be searching for the supposed mass unmarked graves due to the government cutting them off. After all, the committee and organization whose task it was to dig up these “mass graves” — which were reportedly discovered outside of a Catholic residential school — haven’t even found one body.

In 2021, the claim went out that the Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School and Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in British Columbia had mass unmarked graves that had been uncovered by ground-penetrating radar. These graves were likely of children, some as young as three, claimants declared, and the implication — or explicit accusation — was nefarious deeds at the school.

This macabre idea was seized upon by anti-Christians and the indigenous people of Canada who believed anything to discredit these former Catholic residential schools. They gleefully promoted this claim as a means to get back at their “oppressors.” The biggest rumor they set about disseminating was that the priests and nuns murdered hundreds of children over the years.

There was a pageantry of riots, apologies, and self-flagellation by both the Catholic Church and the Canadian government. Fifty-five churches were burned or vandalized in retribution for this supposed mass murder.

In January 2022, this claim was declared a hoax, at least for Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church. Kamloops remains un-excavated to this day.

It’s been four years since the National Advisor Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials and Survivors’ Secretariat conducted their excavations. And this year, the gravy train has ground to a halt. The committee will run out of funding in March.

Since 2021, the Survivors’ Secretariat organization has received around $10.3 million. Its leader, Laura Arndt, believes that the nonprofit’s failure to receive more funding was due to its open criticism of the current liberal government. The Canadian government claims it won’t provide more funding because the nonprofit still has $4.2 million left.

But that was not all of the taxpayer waste. Apparently, $12.1 million was paid to the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation. These funds were budgeted for publicists and consultants and not for the recovery of the bodies of ostensibly dead indigenous children.

This definitely feeds the theory that this was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s attempt to create his own George Floyd moment in Canada and manufacture outrage.

Money paid to First Nation to “find mass graves” was not to find “graves” - it was to pay for Publicists and PR.

Giant Lie.

There are No Mass Graves.

They are not even looking in Kamloops. They are preventing any investigations.

Every other site that has been investigated… https://t.co/bZiYFDQqBt

— Andrew Haynes (@AndrewJWHaynes) January 27, 2025

The people of Canada aren’t pleased that this is how their tax dollars have been spent.

Canadian media lied about the “mass child graves” using it to fuel white hatred narratives and directly caused dozens of Catholic Chruches to be burned by natives. The Canadian government didn’t step in to help. https://t.co/3bpghwZT7C pic.twitter.com/UYwIy7KaDa

— Alexander Augustine (@WurzelRoot) February 26, 2025

In Canada, there is a strong leftist element that is determined to justify its position that the “mass graves hoax” isn’t a hoax. A study conducted by Sean Carleton and Reid Gerbrandt through the University of Manitoba sought to debunk the notion that the media whipped this announcement into a frenzy that turned out to be a hoax.

Carleton and Gerbrandt explain that though no bodies have been found, that still doesn’t excuse the fact that 51 children did die at Kamloops according to their records and that 4,000 children died in association with residential schools. They also claim that since indigenous people never called them mass graves, then it’s not a hoax. This debacle is more a myth than a hoax, they conclude, because it contains some truthful elements. Ergo, those who persist in calling it a hoax are engaging in denialism.

Two things can be true at once. This story promoted the lie that there were hundreds of unmarked graves but also smeared residential schools as brutal places where much suffering occurred.

The consensus among Canadians seems to be that they cannot gracefully extricate themselves from this fiasco. Officials can’t claim they made a mistake, and the government won’t fund any more digging. Perhaps they hope that people will just forget about it or that the next crisis will distract them enough for this story to die.

I doubt the Christians who attended those dozens of burned churches will very soon forget.