The following excerpts have been taken from an article entitled The ‘Mass Graves’ Hoax is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable, written by Matt Walsh posted on The Daily Wire, an American conservative media company founded in 2015 by political commentator Ben Shapiro and film director Jeremy Boreing.
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— OPINION —
By Matt Walsh
Feb 27, 2025, DailyWire.com
. . . I need to explain what exactly the Canadian government has just done. As you may remember, for several years, Canada’s government, along with the country’s state media, has been advancing an extraordinary claim as if it’s the truth. They’ve said, again and again, that unmarked mass graves had been found at Canada’s “residential schools” — which were boarding schools for Indian children that existed for around 100 years, peaking in the early 20th century. And the discovery of these unmarked mass graves was significant, Canadians were told, because Christian churches were running these residential schools.
In other words, for years, the dominant narrative in Canada has been that Christian schools were so horrific that Indian children died all the time, and they were just tossed in unmarked graves when they expired. Therefore, Canadians were told that Canada is a genocidal state, and Christianity is bad. So predictably, dozens of Christian churches burned. And in response, the country’s outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said the arson was “understandable.” They only made one arrest in the wake of those arson attacks on churches, by the way — some of which were within a few miles of the U.S. border. Canadians, for the most part, stopped celebrating their Independence Day, out of shame over this story. Canadian secondary schools put images like this one up on the wall:
As you can see, it tells students that nearly 2,000 “unmarked graves” have been found. This has been an all-out, all-encompassing narrative in Canada. But to be clear, this narrative about the residential schools was not simply pushed by Canadian state media. In fact, the narrative actually had its origins in U.S. media — including in outlets that, we now know, were taking money from the Biden administration.
The New York Times, for instance, was one of the first outlets to report back in 2021 that “unmarked graves” had been discovered in Canada. They did a whole series of reports on the topic over the summer, all of which were premised on the idea that “ground-penetrating radar” had discovered evidence of grave sites.
Then “60 Minutes” joined in, with reports like this one. Watch:
So Anderson Cooper is very concerned about the hundreds of unmarked graves that have supposedly been discovered. He specifically mentioned the hundreds of graves that were allegedly discovered at a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. And Canada’s state media said much the same thing. The CBC for example reported: “Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said Thursday.”
When you see television segments and news articles like this, you might assume — naturally — that some amount of vetting has been done to ensure that these claims are at least potentially accurate. These are obviously incendiary claims that are being made, so presumably, you might think that someone would have looked into them before publishing. But that was never true in this case. More than three years later, not a single body has been found in an unmarked grave at any residential school in Canada. And they certainly haven’t been uncovered in Kamloops. It turns out that, in fact, the alleged “unmarked grave site” in Kamloops was, in reality, a 2,000-foot long, 3-foot-deep trench that was established in 1924 as a septic field to store sewage from the school. As the Dorchester Review reported, “Ground penetrating radar cannot distinguish between a trench lined with clay tiles and a putative child’s grave.”
This is the kind of information that, if you’re dealing with honest people, would lead to mass resignations and terminations, for starters. Obviously, no one with any self-respect in the Canadian media or in the Canadian government should keep their job after spreading an anti-Christian lie that caused dozens of churches to go up in flames. But instead of admitting they were wrong; Canada’s government is of course taking the dishonorable approach. They’re slowly slinking away like the cowards they are.
We’re talking about organizations that have received millions of dollars from Canada’s massive, 300 million-dollar “Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund.” These nonprofits have fancy names like “Survivors’ Secretariat” and the “National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.” And now, after collecting millions of dollars in taxpayer money, they’re finally getting cut off, because it turns out that the entire animating idea behind their “nonprofit” was in fact a scam. The Canadian government is now rolling back its financial investments in this deranged and destructive lie. For all intents and purposes, the residential schools’ hoax is finally dead.
But that does not mean that the Canadian government is admitting, outright, that it was wrong. That would take an ounce of integrity that they simply do not have. So instead, both political parties in Canada are now rallying around the idea that no one should be able to question the narrative that they’re now retreating from. In other words, Canada has now entered a kind of reality distortion field, where everyone knows the government was wrong for the last several years, but no one can admit it.
This is footage from just a couple of days ago. It aired on CBC. Watch:
. . . They’re telling this politician to retract her factually accurate statement about unmarked gravesites in Canada. No one in that clip actually refutes anything she said. Instead, they just tell her that it’s inappropriate to state the truth about these unmarked graves, because it contradicts a broader narrative they want to establish.
. . . while the conclusion of the mass-graves hoax was anticlimactic at best, Canadian leaders actually see it as a springboard for more authoritarian crackdowns and more overt anti-Christian, anti-American hostility. Whatever credibility Canada had as a staunch American ally, or a legitimately Christian nation, is now completely gone. Canadian leaders would rather lie than admit the truth that everyone can clearly see. No country can survive for long when it’s committed, to such a great extent, to the denial of reality. And though they don’t seem interested in admitting it, that is the commitment Canadian politicians have now made.