An ex-Judge from Manitoba and Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, says the Kamloops Residential School site should be excavated. Journalists are encouraged to investigate for the truth.
Brian Giesbrecht claimed that the ground-penetrating radar analysis that suggested 215 corpses has never been made public.
They can detect soil disturbances that could be almost anything, including tree roots that could be a badgerhole, Giesbrecht said to the Western Standard.
So that’s what makes it really suspicious, because you’d think if they had something, some solid evidence to put forward, they’d want people to look at it. They’d want people to be able to test it and that sort of thing. But no, they simply won’t release it.
Giesbrecht pointed out that the Kamloops radar analyst, an anthropologist, used community knowledge at a press conference last summer and in an a CBC Fifth Estate storyJanuary
This is basically hearsay. In other words, the community has the knowledge. The evidence that bodies are under there is very thin. But for reasons that are not clear to me, the press just ran with this, they didn’t ask any questions. The whole country was in a state of panic over this. Giesbrecht stated that it was very strange.
One of the most common claims is that priests impregnated indigenous girls and then threw the fetuses into the furnace. Another common claim that you will see is that children are awakened in the middle of night to help their classmates be buried.
Giesbrecht said that no evidence has been provided to support the stories, or to back up the claim of 215 deaths. Records show that 51 students died in the school’s history, and death certificates often indicate that disease was the cause.
Some died in residential school, while others died elsewhere. However, most of them are buried back in their community. Some were buried in cemeteries near the residential school. Tom Flanagan called it the biggest fake news story in American history. I think that’s the truth, Giesbrecht said.
The country has been criticized both internationally and nationally. We’re now thought of as a genocidal nation and that’s just simply not true. I think our media is going to be exposed as being completely incompetent, the fact that they haven’t even asked questions.
Giesbrecht sayid has a question that is worth asking: How could so many children disappear, without a trace, and without being found?
There would be 215 parents desperate for information about their children. There is no historical evidence or newspaper report that any parent would be looking for their child. Indigenous parents are just like other parents. They love their children and would be devastated if the child was lost. And they would go to the police, they’d go to the chiefs, there would be an uproar. But there’s never been anything like that,” he said.
Giesbrecht also wonders about why prominent alumni in Kamloops, and elsewhere, didn’t mention alleged atrocities earlier.
Len Marshand was the indigenous federal cabinet minister. He went to Kamloops School. Giesbrecht said that his only complaint was about the food.
You have someone like that, a distinguished alumni, who has not said anything about burials in the apple orchards or similar. There are also many distinguished indigenous teachers who went through the school and have written about their experience. Nobody has ever mentioned secretly buried corpses.
Giesbrecht believes digging up the ground is the only method to find the truth.
You don’t have to exhume the bodies, what you’ve got to do is excavate. And if you excavate, you’ll find out whether there are any graves there or not. The decision would then be made about whether to exhume or no. He said that they would not excavate and that was also very suspicious.
This will continue for as long as it continues. The residential school problem has been a financial boon. It has been the subject of billions upon billions. The money claims will continue as long as people continue accepting all of these claims without hesitation.
Lee Harding is a Western Standard contributor who lives in Saskatchewan.
