CBC’s Rosemary Barton falsely claimed remains of Indigenous children were found across Canada
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After the French debate, Rosemary Barton accused your journalist, Drea Humphries, of trafficking in misinformation. And she fact checked her live on television claiming that, yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places across the country.
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After the French debate, Rosemary Barton accused your journalist, Drea Humphries, of trafficking
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in misinformation, and she fact-checked her live on television claiming that, yes, there have been
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remains of Indigenous children found in various places across the country. Let's play that clip.
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I have to sort of address the elephant in the room. How are these people chosen to answer these
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questions? And I don't know if either one of you have an answer for that, but I think there will
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be people at home saying, some of these seem like odd questions, some of them aren't getting
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answered how come we've heard so often from this one particular outlet any idea what's going on
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there's three right-wing um very right-wing uh media we can call them media websites that are
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present uh in there they get in line to ask a question like anybody else their accreditation
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has been approved by the commission of debates and so they get the right to stand in line and
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ask a question uh that they choose to ask in this case you saw mr singh and this has been his
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position for some time to refuse to answer questions rebel news in particular traffics
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and misinformation facts uh lack of facts and uh as you heard in that question which was uh woven
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with some truth and some things that weren't true yes there have been uh burnings of christian
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catholic churches uh yes there have been remains of indigenous children found into various places
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around the country which she misrepresented we'll see if mr polio gets any questions from
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right-wing organizations i would suspect no we track this stuff pretty closely ezra and every
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time they've done an excavation which haven't there haven't been very many right most of the time
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you know the the industries behind the first nations unmarked grave thing they really want
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to drum up the accusation and then when it comes to the actual report they bury it they don't want
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it done they don't want to excavate they've never excavated in cantaloupes where the initial 215
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soil disturbances were found and so when rosemary barton said that i i thought you know she actually
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believes the propaganda she believes lies because i think that she was in good faith trying to fact
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check because she believes that she knows the truth and the reality is that she's not very
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well informed ezra because yes there have been some excavations they have never found remains
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they have never found remains and so even the cbc this is i'll give someone at the organization
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credit for this this fact check popped up april 17th so here let me read it this is what it says
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buried at the bottom of a cbc news story right rosemary barton didn't have to apologize but they
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did have to issue a correction for what she just said here it says on april 16th during a live
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broadcast following the french language federal election leaders debate on cbc news network chief
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political correspondent rosemary barton said quote yes there have been remains of indigenous children
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found in various places across the country unquote as cbc news has reported on multiple occasions
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what several indigenous communities across canada have discovered on sites of some
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former residential schools are potential barrier sites or unmarked rake