20 Replies to “Somehow I Don’t Think This Will Be The Final Word”

  1. The final word, tl/dr version: “We didn’t find jack, because we didn’t really look. At all. But they’re totally out there, man.”

    1. Because my stomach wouldn’t allow me to read more than a few pages, I used the search function to search for the word ‘bodies’. There were 32 hits, but only a few referred to actual bodies (as opposed to organizations/groups of people). And none of these few references said that an actual human body has been found. Not one. Not a single one. In fact, according to the report:

      “Some Indigenous families, communities, and Nations are choosing, at least for now, not
      to excavate potential burial sites or exhume the children’s bodies who have been recovered.

      How convenient!

      1. “And none of these few references said that an actual human body has been found. Not one. Not a single one.”

        Because if they -had- found even one, they would have paraded the remains down Sparks St. in front Parliament. It’d be held enshrined next to the Centennial Flame fountain.

        “… choosing, at least for now, not to excavate potential burial sites or exhume the children’s bodies who have been recovered.”

        Because “potential burial sites” sounds a lot better in a report than “we got nuthin’.” The “Elders” say there’s a hundred genocide victims in that field, and if turns out $200 million bucks later those were groundhog holes and the odd willow root, that’s embarrassing.

        This is not to say that no kid ever died at a Residential School. We know they did. There are records, grave yards etc. This is not to say that Residential Schools were a good thing, that’s arguable either way. (Obscene government overreach is my personal opinion for whatever that’s worth. Like the Japanese Internment, but it went on longer.)

        It -is- to say that the current uproar is all smoke, mirrors and morons pounding the table because they made a bunch of sh1t up and they don’t want to look bad for lying like that. Go stick a shovel in the ground, morons.

  2. When preparing reports, the Executive Summary is only one page. WTF is this being called as such?

    1. A real executive summary, if this were a real report, would list that one single point on a single page. But that is essentially the purpose of this “report”.
      The whole thing is a bunch of gobily gook that says nothing and everything.

      1. The term is, “gobbledegook”. Think of it as, what the pimp says to the whore as he points at the Korean john. Handy mnemonic, what?

    2. When “Reparations” appears in the ‘Introduction’ … you better all be prepared to watch the Can. $ drop further and further.

    3. “They want more money.”

      Always.

      But what happened to the millions of dollars we gave you to dig all those supposed ‘grave sites’? You refused to actually dig any, so can the Canadian taxpayers have that money back now?

  3. I’m afraid those residential schools didn’t do a very good job if this is the best that the alumni can turn out.

    I skimmed it but it is so unbalanced that I couldn’t bring myself to read the whole thing.

    1. BINGO!!!
      … and I stopped reading after the words … “mother turtle” showed up.
      This interlocutor calls itself “independent”? And speaks in the mythologies of the indigenous? Hey sporto! It’s 2025.

      And … “disappeared”? Really? Who? Who exactly was “disappeared” … names please. And who “disappeared” them? Nuns and Priests? Or did their alcoholic parents just misplace their child?

  4. The report should have stated “This report intentionally left blank.” There, I provided an executive summary.

  5. First two pages of Conclusions and Obligations basically states Canada is not capable of investigating Canada.

    Indigenous lead investigation and recovery, plus a lot more money, required.

    This report was BS.

  6. I made it just two sentences in, until I came across “survivors”. Nope….not using your loaded, manipulative language. Not waiting for “genocide” to show up, either.

  7. I couldn’t get through it, but what I could manage leaves me with the impression that it’s total BS from start to finish, beginning with fraudulent assumptions and proceeding from there. As well, the astounding declaration that this report is proof–PROOF–of genocide and crimes against humanity is jaw-dropping.

    If this is genocide, they weren’t very good at it.

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