Trudeau’s disastrous visit to Tk’emlúps First Nation
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally visits the Dikimailles First Nation and things get pretty awkward. We ll talk about his disastrous visit. Today's episode of The Candice Malcolm Show is brought to you by True North Media.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally visits the Dikem Loops First Nations and things get pretty awkward.
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We'll talk about his disastrous visit. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the show, tuning into the podcast.
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We've had a busy week here at True North on Monday.
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We did a live stream covering the Alberta municipal election as well as the referendum question on equalization.
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I had Aaron Gunn on my show yesterday. He's running for leader of the BC Liberals and he sounds totally different than a normal politician.
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He speaks with common sense and conviction and he's not afraid to discuss issues that are thorny and to go against the woke left mob.
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Well, in all of the excitement that was going on this week, I didn't cover this trip that the Prime Minister took to Kamloops, to the Dikem Loops First Nation.
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And I want to go through it on the show today because it was pretty awkward, pretty uncomfortable for the Prime Minister to finally go and I want to unpack that.
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So today I want to talk about this awkward, awkward trip that the Prime Minister took to Kamloops.
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But I'm going to give you a little bit of background first because there is a lot of underlying stories and narratives here
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and the underlying stories are so important to the stories.
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So in case you've been living under a rock and you haven't been paying attention to the sort of prevailing media narrative
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over the past six months or so, it all started here.
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I'm talking about the unmarked graves found at residential schools.
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The story that blew up across the international media led to really egregious claims against Canada,
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accusations of mass graves, which were untrue, accusations of genocide that Canada committed, which is untrue,
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horrible, terrible, unfair comparisons, basically saying that Canada's residential school programs
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were the equivalent of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews, which is just absolutely wrong on so many levels.
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And I'm one of the only voices, I think, in Canada who has been willing to come out and challenge this narrative
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to say that it's untrue, to talk about the facts, to bring the narrative back to the facts of the story
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and to talk about how so much of the sensationalism, the moral panic that came from this story
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was not in fact tied to the facts on the ground or tied to reality.
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I had a piece over at tnc.news that went viral.
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It's the most read piece in the history of True North.
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It's called Six Things the Media Got Wrong About the Graves Found Near Residential Schools.
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I encourage you to head on over and take a look at that if you haven't already.
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And things got so out of hand from that narrative, from that false narrative that the legacy media pushed
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and the moral panic that they created, that we then saw dozens and dozens of churches across Canada,
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over 50, get vandalized, desecrated, or burnt to the ground without really much of a reaction,
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without really any kind of outcry, outroar from the political class.
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Instead, we saw people, elites in our society, actually cheering them on, justifying it,
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making excuses for the arsonists and for the vandals.
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It was really quite something, one of the worst displays of behavior in recent memory in Canada.
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And it all originated from this band, from the Takenloops First Nation,
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from a press release that they put out saying that they had confirmed that there were unmarked graves on their property.
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And again, if you go back to my piece that I wrote, many people would assume from the narrative,
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from the way that the media reported on it, that there had been some kind of an excavation,
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that they had actually found the remains of children.
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They used ground-penetrating radar, which is a very rudimentary technology.
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And basically, all that they determined was that there was some soil movement.
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And even the lead researchers came later, did a press conference where they explained that they had no way of knowing
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how many graves were there, how many bodies were there, whether they were children, whether they were First Nations.
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However, it still blew up into this huge narrative.
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So that's the first important context and background.
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The second important piece of background for this story today is that this chief, Chief Roseanne Cashmere,
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was very public in inviting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to come to her ceremony on Truth and Reconciliation Day.
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So September 30th of this year, Canada observed Truth and Reconciliation Day the first time in our history.
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The holiday was created by Justin Trudeau and the Liberals.
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Instead of taking up the invitation from this chief, from this very high-profile chief,
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and her reserve that everyone knows is the one that started the whole narrative about the unmarked graves,
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Trudeau instead chose to lie to the public to say that he was in Ottawa in official meetings
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when, in fact, where he actually was, was in Tofino.
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Instead of observing this national holiday that so many Canadians do,
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so many Canadians instinctively understand that our history isn't perfect,
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that there were things that happened, that we all deeply regret programs
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and federal government initiatives that were wrong,
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that have had very negative impacts on First Nations, Canadians, and those communities.
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And I think residential schools is absolutely one of those.
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In no way, shape, or form have ever defended residential schools.
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I generally oppose large, sweeping federal government programs,
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especially ones that break up families and remove kids from their homes.
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My criticism was always about the media narrative and the way that they talked about the story
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in a way that was sensationalizing it and pushing ideas that weren't true.
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So all this is to say that Trudeau got into big, big trouble for not commemorating this holiday
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that so many Canadians did observe, rightly so,
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and taking steps towards more reconciliation, more fairness,
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and more quality of outcome for First Nations Canadians.
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So instead of doing any of that, Trudeau was off on the beach, and it was very, very bad.
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almost three weeks after he skipped the original invitation to visit on Truth and Reconciliation Day.
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And when speaking to the press, this is what I'm talking about when things get awkward,
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she is absolutely unintimidated by the Prime Minister.
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She's not impressed by him, and she lets him know it.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sitting next to Chief Roseanne Kashmir,
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She absolutely destroys him while he is sitting right next to her.
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He is just being put in his place, being shamed in a way that MPs in Ottawa,
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you know, maybe it does happen from time to time with Conservatives,
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but Trudeau is usually just so smug when it comes to any criticism.
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So to see him being criticized very fairly and rightly by a First Nations woman,
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a strong First Nations leader, a strong woman, is absolutely classic.
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And just watch, just look at the look on Justin Trudeau's face.
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What a sad, sorry, pathetic excuse for a leader in this country.
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When we imagined welcoming Prime Minister Trudeau to our community,
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it was envisioned that it would be an opportunity for him to interact
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with a wide array of survivors, intergenerational survivors,
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and many different First Nations as part of September the 30th,
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the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
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Two letters of invitations were sent to his office to participate in our event.
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For us, it was to show his commitment to rectifying the historical wrongs of residential school
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and to grieve with our residential school survivors,
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whether in person or by a virtual prerecorded greeting and message for all of us here.
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Instead, in the middle of truth-telling, cultural grounding, and sharing that unfolded
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as part of the commemoration of the very first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation,
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in this arbor, a journalist quietly informed us that the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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The shock, anger, and sorrow, and disbelief was palpable in our community,
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and it rippled throughout the world, to say the least.
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Today is about making some positive steps forward and rectifying a mistake.
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So, pretty devastating stuff, pretty awkward for the Prime Minister,
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and again, good for Chief Kashmir for just putting him in his place.
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And while on that visit to Kamloops, that wasn't the only bad thing for Trudeau,
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he also got fact-checked by a First Nations group
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and basically got called out for saying something that wasn't true.
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So, here's a story in the National Post about it.
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It says, Truth and Reconciliation Centre disputes.
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Trudeau claim all residential schools' records have been transferred.
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So, while Trudeau was in Kamloops, he told the media that all requested documentation
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Ottawa has on residential schools had been turned over to the National Centre
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We will continue to look to make sure that there are no others that we have remaining to turn over,
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but we have, in our understanding, turned over all of those records.
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Well, that is not true according to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation,
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and they have rebuked his claim on their website.
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At present, we are still waiting for Canada to provide the final versions of school narratives
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and supporting documents used in the independent assessment process to the NCTR.
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That's the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
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At present, we are also still unable to access Indian hospital records, federal health records,
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All of these records are crucial not only to support missing children research,
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but to fully and truthfully document the residential school system,
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the children who died in the schools, and the ongoing legacy.
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If the Prime Minister is telling all Canadians and Indigenous peoples
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that the National Truth and Reconciliation Centre holds all the records,
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So again, pretty devastating stuff for a Prime Minister who virtue signals a lot
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and likes to pretend that he is very empathetic and caring
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and that he is the one that is going to help First Nations people in Canada
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We all know that Justin Trudeau doesn't really care about this stuff.
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He doesn't actually like doing the hard work and following through on his promises.
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And so that is all coming to light, and it is pretty amusing stuff.
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And now all that being said, I think it is important,
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especially on this show, on the Candace Malcolm show,
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that we dissect the statements that both sides make.
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So we don't let one side get away with statements that aren't true
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just because the other side is saying things that aren't true.
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So one of the things that Chief Kashmir had said
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So to this day, there's still no follow-up and no proof
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the main researcher said that the 215 number wasn't even true.
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215 was the number that we heard over and over again.
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And that number has sort of become a rallying cry.
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Well, according to the lead researcher who did the report,
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she said that that 215 number isn't even accurate.
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It isn't true, that the claim is more something about 200.
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They expect roughly 200 graves that were found.
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And she reiterated the idea that it is basically impossible
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whether they were children at the residential school,
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The only way to confirm that would be to do excavations,
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do carbon dating on the bones and all that kind of thing,
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which is something that isn't happening at this point.
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I can't imagine First Nations people wanting to do that,
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are likely to contain burials and missing children,
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and remote sensing, such as ground-penetrating radar,
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merely provides some spatial specificity to this truth.
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she also stressed her findings can't be confirmed
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but that we do need to say that they are probable
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So again, the main researchers, the scientists,
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the archaeologists say that these are probable graves.
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And so when you have the chief of a First Nations
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We can't confirm any details about the individuals
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This is from a University of Lethbridge professor
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the radar isn't going to tell you who's down there,
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by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship,
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as well as the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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And according to the Canadian Archaeological Association,
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will likely assign different levels of confidence
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It is just to say that we should take some caution
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But by pushing stories that are sensationalized,
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We don't need to exaggerate them to make them worse.
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And when it comes to the story of the unmarked graves,
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and not allow the media and left-wing activists
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to blow it out of proportion to sensationalize it.
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Yes, horrible things happened at residential schools.
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when we're talking about such a sensitive issue.