Juno News - June 19, 2023


Thought Crimes to be made ILLEGAL in Canada


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In response to the release of an interim report by the federal government on unmarked graves, the government wants to make it illegal to engage in what they call "Resident Indian School Denialism." What exactly is this denialism, and why should it be illegal?

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00:00:00.040 Not to worry everyone, things are of course totally normal in Canada these days. The federal
00:00:12.160 government has only signaled its intent to make thought crimes illegal in this country. If the
00:00:16.720 arresting of political dissidents wasn't enough, if the outlawing of peaceful protest wasn't enough,
00:00:22.200 if the seizure of private assets and money for opposing the government wasn't enough,
00:00:26.640 and of course if the censoring of the internet wasn't enough to convince you that Canada
00:00:30.560 is no longer a free and democratic country, maybe this will. The release of an interim report by the
00:00:35.840 federal government on unmarked graves proposes to make it illegal to engage in what they call
00:00:41.200 residential school denialism. What exactly is residential school denialism? Well, despite the
00:00:47.360 report being over 180 pages, definitions for such a thing just didn't seem to make the cut. I wonder
00:00:53.760 why. In their words, the federal government wants to impose civil and criminal sanctions on those
00:00:59.360 that engage in denialism. That means you could be fined for having bad thoughts, but as the
00:01:04.400 government would surely prefer, you could also rot in a jail cell for having bad thoughts.
00:01:09.360 The Attorney General was delighted at these findings and he stated on the record that he
00:01:13.280 would be in favor of outlawing denialism. I'll break it down for you. You either believe that Canada
00:01:18.800 is an evil, genocidal country guilty of crimes against humanity, or you'll rot in a jail cell 0.99
00:01:24.720 long enough until you believe that Canada is an evil, genocidal country guilty of crimes against 0.99
00:01:29.600 humanity. That's where we're at right now in the Great White North. Every day it feels as though 0.84
00:01:33.680 Canada is straying further away from the country that we were promised as children and newcomers to
00:01:38.320 this land, and closer to the country that Justin Trudeau most admires, the basic dictatorship of China.
00:01:44.240 Drop a like in the video, help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel, and the comment
00:01:48.240 question for the episode is this. What will it take to restore the basic principles of freedom
00:01:54.080 and democracy back into Canada? Let me know in the comments and let's get into it.
00:01:59.360 Kimberly Murray, the woman appointed by the federal government to the role of independent special
00:02:04.560 interlocutor on unmarked graves, not to be mistaken with independent special rapporteur, also a fake
00:02:10.720 position, has called on the government to make it illegal to engage in denialism, to make thought
00:02:16.320 crimes illegal in Canada. And like anyone who's proud of her findings and recommendations to the
00:02:21.280 government, she released this report on Friday afternoon. In her 180-page report, she makes no
00:02:27.920 mention of what denialism actually means. But she does go on to say that engaging in denialism is, quote,
00:02:35.760 violence. Words are violent, according to Kimberly Murray. As the Canadian press reports on the
00:02:41.200 findings, Murray raised concerns about increasing attacks from denialists who challenged communities
00:02:48.000 when they announced the discovery of possible unmarked graves. This violence is prolific, the report
00:02:54.560 said, and takes place via email, telephone, social media, op-eds, and, at times, through in-person
00:03:02.720 confrontations. As the report directly states, denialism is a uniquely non-indigenous problem.
00:03:10.080 It therefore requires non-indigenous people to actively work to counter denialism and to create
00:03:15.920 and implement strategies to do so. Urgent considerations should be given to legal mechanisms to address
00:03:22.080 denialism, including the implementation of both civil and criminal sanctions. So it's quite clear,
00:03:29.280 residential school denialism from Kimberly Murray's own report is not denying the existence of
00:03:35.760 residential schools. It also includes denying the findings and claims of unmarked burials
00:03:42.480 across the country. We all know that not a single body has been exhumed. Not a single bone has been
00:03:49.920 discovered in any of the claims of unmarked graves outside of residential schools. But in Canada,
00:03:56.320 according to Kimberly Murray, the independent special interlocutor, along with David Lamedi,
00:04:01.360 it would be a crime to deny that that exists, despite the fact that it doesn't exist.
00:04:06.560 Here's what Canadians had to say on Twitter about this report.
00:04:09.680 So we're going to make it a crime to question any absolute facts advanced by government authorities
00:04:15.120 and have an opposing opinion. What kind of oppressionist country are we becoming?
00:04:19.600 Critical thinking is a must in today's environment of mis- and disinformation.
00:04:23.520 A great way to change people's minds is to provide enough evidence to do so.
00:04:27.760 It's not the job of government to dictate which opinions are correct.
00:04:31.440 Stop propagandizing us and pushing for totalitarianism. Enough already.
00:04:36.080 And this comment I really wanted to highlight on the show from a user called Cardinal Wayne.
00:04:40.560 No, no, no. That is criminal censorship.
00:04:43.840 My dad attended a residential school and he would not have supported anything like that.
00:04:49.280 All of this started in the spring of 2021 when the Kamloops to Shwetmik Reserve claimed to have found
00:04:55.280 the remains of 215 children buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
00:05:02.000 The former newspaper and now leftist propaganda rag, The New York Times, without doing any actual
00:05:07.920 journalism, jumped on this story and titled it as Mass Graves of Indigenous Children.
00:05:14.800 From that point on, Indigenous reserves and bands across the country would make similar reports of
00:05:20.400 findings of unmarked graves. You had the Washington Post for example, again without doing any
00:05:26.400 journalism, claim that 751 unmarked graves containing the bodies of Indigenous children
00:05:33.120 were found at the Quesis First Nation at the site of the former Merivelle Residential School.
00:05:39.760 Despite the sensational claims from news outlets across the country claiming that 751 unmarked
00:05:45.520 graves were found, the Quesis First Nation from the outset claimed that they didn't discover any
00:05:51.360 graves at all. Crosses and headstones at pre-existing cemeteries had gone missing under disputed
00:05:59.040 circumstances decades earlier. The Quesis Chief Cadmus DeLorme even told CBC News that the findings
00:06:07.040 were from an existing Roman Catholic cemetery. The truth is, all of these claims of unmarked graves
00:06:14.480 and burials were made with ground-penetrating radar technology. Not a single body has been found in any
00:06:22.000 excavation attempts. But that didn't stop almost every single news outlet from reporting on mass graves
00:06:28.640 being discovered across the country. However, excavations have taken place. In 2021, a series of
00:06:36.080 21 excavations in Edmonton were undertaken to try and find the remains of Indigenous children. As this
00:06:43.360 CBC article writes, 13 spots flagged by ground-penetrating radar were dug up earlier this summer.
00:06:49.520 Over the past two days, another 21 such anomalies were uncovered but only found debris. And earlier this
00:06:56.400 here, the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools, Missing Children, and Unmarked Burials
00:07:02.240 refused to work with the International Commission on Missing Persons, a Hague-based organization designed
00:07:08.880 to help governments with identifying missing persons and exhuming mass graves. The reason why the National
00:07:15.520 Advisory Committee refused the assistance of this Hague-based group was because they were non-Indigenous.
00:07:22.080 Perhaps it was because this Hague-based organization might uncover the fact that the claims used to
00:07:28.320 label Canada as genocidal are complete nonsense. We all know what actually happened in the spring of
00:07:34.160 2021. First Nations leaders, with the help of the Canadian legacy media, the international media,
00:07:39.840 and even the federal government, would make reported findings of unmarked graves at the site of former
00:07:45.920 residential schools using ground-penetrating radar, which uncovers nothing at all, and claim that this is
00:07:51.360 evidence of the slaughter of Indigenous children. That Canada is guilty of genocide and crimes against
00:07:56.720 humanity, and therefore we must enter into a national state of mourning. And that is exactly what Canada
00:08:03.040 did. Because of the claims of unmarked graves being found at residential schools, despite there being
00:08:08.640 zero evidence to back up these claims, our country descended into chaos. 71 churches in Canada were
00:08:15.600 attacked because of these claims that have not been proven. Several of these churches were completely
00:08:20.880 razed to the ground. Most of these churches, by the way, served Indigenous Canadians. All the while, 1.00
00:08:26.640 the federal government did nothing as a national attack on Christians took place across the country.
00:08:32.880 Even worse, Justin Trudeau's former Principal Secretary Gerald Butz made excuses for the persecution of
00:08:38.480 Christians across the country during that summer of 2021, saying that it was understandable that these 1.00
00:08:45.280 churches were being razed to the ground. The Prime Minister ordered all flags across the country to be
00:08:49.680 flown at half-mast for months in a prolonged national state of mourning for claims that were unfounded
00:08:55.760 and unproven. Not only that, on Canada Day in 2021, a statue of Canada's Mother of Confederation,
00:09:02.960 our first head of state, Queen Victoria, was brutally torn down on the grounds of the Manitoba legislature.
00:09:09.600 And also, a statue of Queen Elizabeth II, our head of state at the time, was also torn down that same
00:09:16.560 day outside of the legislature, while sitting Canadian MPs cheered it on on social media. Also,
00:09:22.960 a statue of Egerton Ryerson, a man lauded by the First Nations community in his day, given the
00:09:28.000 honorary name of Chichok by an Ojibwe chief for spending a year living with the Ojibwe Cree nation,
00:09:34.960 his statue was also brutally torn down as politicians stayed silent. This is to say
00:09:40.400 nothing at all over the countless attacks and vandalism against John A. Macdonald's statues across
00:09:45.520 the country. City councils and towns voted to remove John A. Macdonald's statues because we had to
00:09:53.200 engage in a serious state of mourning, despite there being zero evidence to prove any of the claims.
00:09:57.680 If denialism of these unfounded claims of unmarked graves is violent, and as the Attorney General
00:10:03.600 says needs to be outlawed, well, there are quite a few people in this country that need to stand trial 1.00
00:10:09.200 for daring to question the narrative peddled by the federal government. Let's start with the 61
00:10:14.080 historians who are members of the Canadian Historical Association that signed an open letter criticizing that
00:10:20.080 same organization for saying that there is a scholarly consensus among historians that Canada engaged in
00:10:26.080 genocide. In this open letter, these 61 historians make mention of the fact that criticizing the narrative
00:10:32.960 being peddled by the federal government is already enough to jeopardize one's career in academia.
00:10:38.400 What about famed indigenous author and journalist Richard Wagamese? In 2008, he published a story in
00:10:45.200 the Calgary Herald titled, the good side of the residential school story is valid too. As a
00:10:51.200 journalist since 1979, he writes, I have heard people credit residential schools with the foundation for
00:10:56.800 learning that allowed them to pursue successful academic careers. My mother has never spoken to me
00:11:01.760 of abuse or any catastrophic experience at the school. She only speaks of learning valuable things
00:11:07.520 that she went on to use in her everyday life, things that make her life more efficient, effective,
00:11:12.480 and empowered. How about Dr. Chile Obo-Asuji, the former president of the International Criminal Court?
00:11:20.560 He told band chiefs in Edmonton at the National Gathering of Unmarked Burials that there was no
00:11:27.520 pathway to the International Criminal Court for the situation of the historical Indian residential school
00:11:32.800 system in Canada. What about the award-winning indigenous playwright Thompson Highway? Highway
00:11:38.640 described his residential school years as nine of the happiest years of his life. What about
00:11:45.840 Leonard Marchand, the first indigenous member of parliament and indigenous cabinet minister? In his
00:11:51.440 book, he writes that they meant well by us, they genuinely cared about us, and they all did their
00:11:57.760 duty by us as they saw fit. Dr. Ian Gentles, a distinguished professor of history at Tyndale
00:12:02.960 University, whose writing provided a lot of evidence for this video, would most certainly be
00:12:07.760 standing trial for the crime of denialism if this government had its way. Also, in the Truth and
00:12:12.880 Reconciliation Commission report, they buried positive memories from indigenous Canadians about their time 1.00
00:12:19.760 at residential schools. Would these people be charged for the crime of denialism? What about Lillian
00:12:24.640 Kennedy, who attended the Fort Alexander residential school? In the TRC report, she is quoted as saying
00:12:30.960 that she enjoyed being at the residential school. I think I learned lots from the nuns that were there,
00:12:35.920 and I got along with everybody. What about Alphonsine McNeely? She says that on the weekends,
00:12:41.200 the students at the Roman Catholic school at Aklavik used to go for school picnics. Then we'd play outside,
00:12:46.880 we'd go sliding, we'd play all kinds of games on the lake, and we'd just have fun. A woman named
00:12:53.120 Geraldine Schenguse is also quoted in the TRC report. She says that she has fond memories of
00:12:59.120 the Lestock school principal. One of the things I wanted to share about Father Desjardins was that
00:13:05.040 I really, really liked him, she says. He treated us good. He was the principal of the school, and that,
00:13:12.080 I know, he meant in his heart to take care of the kids. Just the staff that were there didn't.
00:13:17.760 So I wonder if these three women, who are quoted as having fond memories of the residential school time,
00:13:22.800 which apparently is genocidal, would be tried for the crime of denialism. You know who wouldn't be
00:13:27.680 tried for denialism in Canada? Every single member of parliament in Ottawa, including the conservatives,
00:13:33.280 who unanimously passed a motion calling the residential school system genocide. Making it 0.99
00:13:38.800 illegal to question that for which we don't have the evidence to support is not just wrong,
00:13:43.680 it's completely absurd. When the government decides to ban free speech and criminalize thought,
00:13:48.960 I have no doubt in my mind that that government is not telling the truth.
00:13:53.040 Alright everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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