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Michael Higgins: Put the Kamloops narrative to rest

The issue isn’t that no bodies have been found, it’s that we were told that the graves of children had been 'confirmed'

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Five years ago Canada was sold a narrative so emotionally charged that it changed this country for the worse.

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Truth has been twisted out of proportion, people’s lives have been devastated, hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and all based on a spurious investigation that hoodwinked the nation.

Michael Higgins: Put the Kamloops narrative to rest Back to video

On May 27, 2021, Chief Rosanne Casimir, of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, issued a statement “confirming” that ground-penetrating radar had found the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

“Some were as young as three years old,” said the statement.

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The next day, she gave a press conference in which she said, “This loss is unthinkable,” and added that she believed other bodies were waiting to be discovered........

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