There is a significant push for the Canadian government to prosecute those who contest the existence of residential schools. This problem has been brought to light by Kimberly Murray, who is in charge of looking into unmarked graves and missing children.
Although the existence of residential schools in Canada’s past is universally accepted, some people think that mainstream narratives about these institutions exaggerate or misrepresent them. When someone casts doubt on historical stories, they are frequently ignored and never provided with a satisfactory response. Moreover, there’s concern that a significant amount of historical records and information related to residential schools could be lost over time. This loss of historical documentation could make it even harder to understand and acknowledge the full extent of what happened in these schools.
I don’t have any special skills for investigating, but when I looked at the historical records myself, I found some things about the residential school story that don’t seem right. For example, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report says that surviving a residential school is like surviving World War II. But when I asked experts in Canada called actuaries, they all said that the two things aren’t similar and can’t be compared.
I would like an official from the government to clarify how the accounts of residential schools are being exaggerated. Here’s the reason: According to the Truth and Reconciliation Report, there were 139 residential schools in Canada during its 120-year history. Additionally, they claim that at that time, 4,200–4,500 students either vanished or failed to return home. Now, Senator Sinclair stated that it may be possible to locate up to 6,000 children, so let’s use that figure. You obtain 50 students a year if you split 6,000 students by 120 years. The result is roughly 0.36 when you divide that by 139 schools. If we take their estimates seriously, that indicates that somewhat more than one-third of students disappeared from each school year.
The claim being made to Canadians is that residential schools were the only places where Indigenous kids went missing or lost their lives. However, they fail to consider the impact that illnesses such as the Spanish flu had on Canadians as well. Approximately fifty thousand Canadians died from the Spanish flu, which was particularly dangerous for children under five.
Indigenous Canadians have been allowed to level several complaints against non-Indigenous Canadians by the mainstream media, including CBC. We were accused of genocide, but they offered no evidence. That infuriated me and a lot of other patriotic Canadians. I made the decision to learn the truth for myself. But nobody’s excavated any graves or employed forensic science to determine the cause of these children’s deaths. For Canadians who genuinely want to know what actually happened, this is unfair.
