Some People Are, Well, "Special"

And by "special", I mean above reproach:

“There’s really no point in terms of denying these facts, and also further to that, it’s up to First Nations on what we’re doing in a very careful, very — I suppose — traditional and sensitive way to deal with these grave sites.”

 

Yes, now, about that: 

In the seven months since this shocking news broke, not one body has been found, and not a single shovel-full of dirt has been excavated from the site in question. Contrary to the worldwide media coverage last summer, nothing, in fact, has been “discovered” on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

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In Edmonton, 21 sites of alleged burials of indigenous people identified by GPR were excavated.

ZERO bodies were found.

GPR readings don't mean there is a body.

Is this why people don't want to investigate Kamloops further? https://t.co/JiwZ3h8BES

— Cory Morgan (@CoryBMorgan) June 19, 2023

 

But the Narrative IS the Narrative, so ... :

Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says he is open to the recommendations in a new report that proposes civil and criminal sanctions against Canadians who engage in residential-school denialism.

Lametti was responding to an interim report by his appointee, Kimberly Murray, a member of the Kahnesatake Mohawk Nation in Quebec, who was tasked in June 2022 to identify measures including legal ones to address what the government said were unmarked graves and burial sites of children at former Indian residential schools.

“Sacred Responsibility: Searching for the Missing Children and Unmarked Burials” was released on June 16 in Saskatchewan, at the Cowessess First Nation’s Marieval Survivors Gathering, according to a news release.

Murray’s interim report said that the federal government should give “urgent consideration” to using legal tools to deal with “denialists,” which should include both civil and criminal sanctions. “Many international experts point out that denialism is the last step in genocide,” the report says.

Lametti participated in the event by video conference and said he is open to all suggestions to deal with alleged residential-school denialism. He said that includes “a legal solution and outlawing it,” stating that Canada can consider how other countries have criminalized Holocaust denial.

“Today’s report will provide crucial guidance as we continue to acknowledge the truth of what has happened and strive to write a different story for the future of our country,” said Lametti in the news release.

 

This sounds vaguely familiar:

In April 1943, just less than two years after it broke the nonaggression pact by invading the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany announced the discovery of a mass grave in the Katyn Forest that held some of the bodies of the executed Poles.

An International Committee of the Red Cross commission established to investigate the site determined that the Soviet Union was responsible for the massacre, an allegation denied by the Kremlin.

In 1943, after Smolensk was liberated by Red Army forces pushing back the Nazi invasion, the Soviet Union set up its own investigative body, which concluded that the massacre was carried out by Nazi forces.

This is the position that would become known as the Katyn lie.

 

After accusing an entire nation of genocide, wouldn't it be wise to determine if a genocide DID occur and to what extent?

I think so.

Or will one just hand over swathes of land to make this go away?

 

 

But Big Aboriginal isn't the only one who is "special":

Immigration of African francophones is “crucial” to saving French in Canada, says Languages Commissioner Raymond Théberge. “We need to recruit where there are pools of French speakers” like Mali and the Ivory Coast, he testified at the Commons languages committee: “It is clear the future of French is found in Africa.”

But they're not Quebecois, are they?