The single biggest Canadian news story of 2021 was a giant hoax. Politicians, media, “non-profits,” activists, and others screamed that Catholic boarding schools for Canadian-Indians secretly dumped dead children in unmarked mass graves. These schools operated with state funding from 1883 until 1997.
The entire narrative turned out to be an utter and complete hoax. No mass graves were ever found. No undocumented individual graves were ever found.
However, the damage was done. Fueled by false stories of mass graves, dozens of Catholic properties were attacked, and several churches were burned to the ground to get revenge for a falsehood that never occurred.
Now, Canadian MP Leah Gazan wants to make it a crime to debunk alleged racial grievances against these schools. Leah Gazan says she is half Lakota Indian and half Jewish, and that her bill is based on the “holocaust model.” She says criticism of her conspiratorial grievances against the schools is “school denialism.”
