(LifeSiteNews) — Internal emails have revealed that federal workers questioned the residential school narrative as early as 2023, despite gaslighting Canadians who questioned media’s claims.
According to confidential staff emails published by Blacklock’s Reporter on July 4, Parks Canada, the government agency which manages national parks, admitted that claims of hundreds of graves found at an Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia were unfounded and likely false.
“Authors refer to the 215 ground-penetrating radar hits that were reported in 2021 as ‘graves’ or ‘burials,’” wrote one Parks Canada consultant. “But none of these sites have been investigated further to determine that they are graves.
Like most Canadians, Parks Canada staff initially believed the alleged discovery of 215 so-called “unmarked” graves in Kamloops during the summer of 2021. The story alleged that hundreds of Indigenous children were killed and secretly buried at the residential school.
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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 ran from the late 19th century until the last school closed in 1996.
While some children did tragically die at the once-mandatory boarding schools, evidence has 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.
In 2021, Parks Canada hired historians “to help identify any gaps or errors” in the claim of finding 215 unmarked graves before designating the Kamloops Indian Residential School as a historic site.
However, according to their internal emails, Parks Canada discovered that the technology used to discover the “graves” is often misleading and cannot be relied upon.
“Ground-penetrating radar often throws up false positives, anomalies that are not indicative of anything significant,” a consultant wrote. “I suggest that until there is further investigation of the sites at Kamloops the report refer to them as ‘possible graves’ or ‘probable graves’ or ‘likely graves’ rather than ‘graves.’”
As a result, Parks Canada changed their report to list the anomalies as “probable unmarked graves” rather than “unmarked graves.”
“The challenge is that ground-penetrating radar does not provide evidence of potential unmarked graves,” said the staff email. “It provides evidence of anomalies. I am quoting the archaeologists here.”
“Regarding the topic of ground-penetrating radar, I’ve made a suggested revision,” wrote another manager. “It might be preferable to not use the term ‘anomalies’ for now.” Staff were also advised to “stay extra quiet” on the designation of the Residential School as a national historic site.
To date, 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.
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Despite their conclusions, Parks Canada refused to publicly contradict the residential school narrative. On their website discussing the schools, the government agency does not mention the unmarked graves and also fails to debunk the claims of mass unmarked graves.
Furthermore, while the agency internally questioned and doubted the validity of the claims, Canadians who publicly opposed the mainstream narrative were condemned as denialists and often punished.
Despite the lack of physical evidence, in 2022, Canada’s House of Commons under Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, formalized the controversy and declared the residential school program to be considered a historic act of “genocide.”
