No 'buried children' have been found at the Kamloops residential school, and it's not racist for B.C.'s mandatory training course to say so

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“Be politically correct or we’ll call you racist” doesn’t cut as deep as it used to, but it’s an approach line that the BC First Nations Justice Council is willing to bludgeon over the heads of lawyers who favour truth.

Two B.C. lawyers are receiving this treatment from the Indigenous advocacy group because they are trying to correct, factually, their regulators’ training materials. Since 2021, all lawyers regulated by the Law Society of British Columbia are required to take a course on Indigenous culture, the materials for which contain the following inaccurate statement:

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“On May 27, 2021, the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported the discovery of an unmarked burial site containing the bodies of 215 children on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds. Although the discovery was shocking to many Canadians, many Indigenous residential school survivors had previously reported the existence of unmarked burial sites, and the unexplained disappearances of children; the discovery confirms what survivors have been saying all along.”

There were, in fact, no bodies discovered. In 2021, 215 “anomalies” — soil disturbances — were detected by ground-penetrating radar near the former residential school. They could be graves, and........

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