Brian Giesbrecht: Our Children Are Being Misinformed

The Canadian flag on the Peace Tower flies at half-mast on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 2, 2021, in recognition of the discovery of potential children's graves at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Commentary

I regularly drive by an elementary school. Like many Canadian schools its fence is festooned with 215 orange plastic ribbons, signifying the 215 Kamloops residential school students who are alleged to have met their death by foul means, and were then secretly buried by priests—with the forced help of children “as young as six.”