(LifeSiteNews) — Nearly two-thirds of Canadians require concrete evidence before accepting the residential school “unmarked graves’” narrative.
According to an Angus Reid poll published August 14, 63% of Canadians demand proof of “unmarked graves” before believing the mainstream media account that thousands of Indigenous children were secretly murdered and buried at residential schools.
“As the four-year anniversary of the discovery passed in May, there is, however, widespread hesitancy to accept claims made by the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc First Nation without additional evidence,” the press release explained.
“To date, no human remains have been confirmed or exhumed and suspected anomalies remain unverified,” it continued.
Fifty-six percent of Indigenous also required proof before accepting the “unmarked graves’” claims. Younger women are the only demographic where a majority accept the claims without additional proof.
Saskatchewan and Manitoba, provinces with the highest number of Indigenous people, polled at 72% and 75% in favor of only accepting the claim “if further information is publicly available to verify through excavation.”
Likewise, the majority of Canadians (61%) opposed legislation to criminalize questioning the claims surrounding residential schools and the alleged unmarked graves.
According to the survey, most Canadians were aware of the story when it broke in 2021. At the time, the mainstream media began promoting inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran once-mandatory residential schools.
Canada’s Residential School system was a structure of boarding schools funded by the Canadian government and run by both the Catholic Church and other churches that were open from the late 19th century until the last school closed in 1996.
While some children did tragically die at the boarding schools, evidence revealed that many of the children passed away as a result of unsanitary conditions due to underfunding by the federal government, not the Catholic Church.
Now, four years later, there have been no mass graves discovered at residential schools. However, following claims blaming the deaths on the Catholic clergy who ran the schools, over 100 churches have been burned or vandalized across Canada in seeming retribution.
Since then, the Canadian government has quietly backtracked on its claims, refusing to publicly acknowledge its mistake.
Furthermore, as LifeSiteNews previously reported, internal emails revealed that federal workers questioned the residential school narrative as early as 2023 despite gaslighting Canadians who were suspicious of the media’s claims.
