Action4Canada - June 19, 2026


No Convictions, No Charges — So Why the Genocide Narrative?


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

136.82

Word count

396

Sentence count

20

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Summary

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Heather, Tanya, and Heather talk about the shlockumentary "Sugarcane" and the lies it spreads about Catholics in Canada's residential schools, and the people who spread them. Plus, they talk about why Canada must stand up against residential school denialism.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What's a potential unmarked grave? It might be roots, it might be rocks, it might be an animal
00:00:05.580 burrow. So everyone has the right to question that, because until these claims are proven in
00:00:12.360 a court of law with evidence, they're just claims, they're allegations. And what could be more
00:00:18.360 destabilizing to society than promoting a blood libel on Catholics in Canadian history? And here's
00:00:26.500 Minister Miller Promoting Sugarcane, which, as Tanya and Heather mentioned, is a so-called
00:00:34.520 documentary, which is now distributed by National Geographic. But when Nina Green and I looked at
00:00:41.580 the facts, it's fake. It's a shockumentary, a schlockumentary. So it turns out that in Sugarcane,
00:00:52.440 the mother of the abandoned child pleaded guilty to that charge and was sentenced to one year in
00:00:58.540 jail. And what was the claim about? Well, Sugarcane misleads the public. Mark Miller promoted the
00:01:04.780 documentary Sugarcane that claimed that at St. Joseph's Indian Residential School, also known
00:01:11.000 as Caribou, claimed that Catholic priests impregnated students, illicit babies were
00:01:16.660 Burnett School incinerator, and that Ed Archie Noiscat is the only baby known to have survived
00:01:23.020 the incinerator. But the facts are that the mother of baby Ed was a woman named Antoinette Archie,
00:01:31.120 actually the grandmother of one of the show's producers. Think about doing that to your
00:01:37.380 grandmother. She was a 20-year-old adult. She was not a student and not a student at the school. 0.99
00:01:44.440 Baby Ed's father was a guy named Ray Peters, not a priest.
00:01:49.300 He was 11 years older than her.
00:01:52.620 He fathered at least 17 children with five different women. 1.00
00:01:57.400 And it was Antoinette who put little Ed in the school's incinerator.
00:02:02.040 She spent a year in jail for abandoning her baby, who she told the court she thought was dead.
00:02:07.020 so these are the people who are rewriting canadian history with lies so here's tanya talaga we'll get
00:02:17.860 into a bit more about her later canada must stand against residential school denialism
00:02:23.000 and here's stephanie scott executive director of the national center for truth and reconciliation
00:02:29.600 those who deny the reality of residential schools history isn't yours to rewrite and here's of
00:02:36.400 of course, Leah Gazan, claiming that the first genocide that was recognized within Canadian
00:02:41.200 borders. Well, I'm sorry, people, but no one has ever been charged or convicted
00:02:48.060 of genocide in Canada in relation to Indian residential schools.