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A Canadian Moral Outrage Party: BYOM

Doug Watt
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On May 21, 2021 a moral outrage party began in Canada. Bring your own matches — the accelerants were provided by Tkʼemlúps te Secwepemc First Nation, the Canadian government, and Canadian media. Attendees would join the party from US media outlets, as well European media.

On May 27, 2021, the Tkʼemlúps te Secwepemc First Nation claimed they had discovered the “heartbreaking truth” regarding the Catholic-run residential school after a ground-penetrating radar allegedly uncovered a mass grave of 215 children. Three years, $7.9 million, and at least 85 destroyed historic Catholic churches later, no human remains have been discovered, according to a May 9 report from Western Standard.

Now to be fair to our Canadian friends, citizens in the United States are quite adept and willing to throw a moral outrage party from time to time. Human nature that includes gullible individuals willing to engage in violence, arson, and fueled by lazy journalists, as well as Progressive politicians, is no respecter of borders.

Department spokesperson Carolane Gratton stated in the report that the department had allocated the $7.9 million to uncovering the bodies, and confirmed that no progress had been made. Both Gratton and the First Nation tribe have declined to disclose how the funds were utilized.

7.9 million dollars and the loss of 85 Catholic churches will probably disappear in the usual manner of being ignored by both the media and the current Canadian government.

Lying by both omission and commission is not unique to any nation. This story will reappear when the need for another moral outrage party is necessary to marginalize Catholics and Christians, the truth will not.

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  • Misthiocracy has never@Misthiocracy

    Tom Flanagan has been writing lots of stuff about this saga:

    fraserinstitute.org

    Open link

    This tidbit is especially shocking:

    The Indigenous spending total in fiscal 2021-22 was about $25 billion compared to more than $29 billion in 2023-24, an increase of $4 billion in two fiscal years. To put things in proportion, that $4 billion growth is equal to 40 per cent of the estimated increase in the overall deficit booked in the last five months.
  • Old Bathos@OldBathos

    Every Indian Catholic grave is a murder victim in this scenario. Smallpox, flu, accident? Nope.

    Woke teachers in the US and Canada work to convince the children of Christian normals that there is no societal future for their primitive beliefs and practices which can only hinder the child's progress and status. That is the exact crime of which the Catholic Church of more than a century ago stands accused.

  • Misthiocracy has never@Misthiocracy

    This is an information plaque in a park in my town.

    If you do the math, that's 0.04% 4% of the children in government-sponsored Residential Schools over a 125 year period.

    For perspective, according to this website, the overall child mortality rate (for kids under the age of 5) in Canada prior to the 1920s was over 25%. It didn't get below 5% until the 1950s.

    I haven't found a mortality stat for school-aged kids over that same period of time, but I wager that it might be higher than 0.04% 4%.

    (Math is hard. ;-) )

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