Residential School GPR Anomalies
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This episode is brought to you by Western Standard, a Western Standard Member. Western Standard is a leading member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a government agency tasked with investigating the disappearances of Indigenous children from residential schools in Canada. Since its founding in the late 1980s, Western Standard has been dedicated to uncovering the truth about Indigenous child disappearances at residential schools across the country.
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The world got turned upside down with the anomalies discovered in the Kamloops residential
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school site in an old apple orchard, but there's been no effort yet to actually verify that
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there's actually any remains there, right? That's right, and I don't think there will be any,
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Corey. The only residential schools where they actually did this turned up absolutely no one.
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So there have already been searches at Pine Creek, and a couple of others, and they were the same
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stories about priests murdering and secretly burying children with the forced help of six-year-olds,
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that type of nonsense, and the people really believed it. That's the sad part, and when they
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dug this up, they thought, no, there was nothing there, and so Kamloops is, by now, they know
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that there are no bodies, and they are not going to be digging. They claim now as, well,
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this is a sacred ground or something like that, but we know that's not true because in Winnipeg,
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they just, the governments are spending $40 million to sift on a totally pointless search
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to dig up toxic landfill. So there aren't going to be any excavations there because they know
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that there are no bodies. That's, I'm quite sure that the sophisticated people in that community
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Yeah, I mean, a principled person would still want the mistake rectified. I mean, this has caused so
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much pain for the people who believe that these things happened, and uncertainty and division between,
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you know, social populations that already had enough division to begin with. And I mean,
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you know, to play the devil's advocate, what if there really are children buried there? It only
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makes sense that we would exhume them and find out if it was recent enough to try and find a perpetrator
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and also to try and reunite those remains with the family so they could be properly interred. It's
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ridiculous that they claim that these things happened, but then say that we aren't going to
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investigate further. Well, of course, and if there had been 215 children or then the thousands that
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were later claimed, you would have some history of that. You would have parents who had gone to the
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authorities or the chief and said, well, my children disappeared at residential school. Where are they?
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There's absolutely no history of it. No, we were, our group, I should explain, Corey, our research group
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came together very shortly after the original claim. I had written an article in a newspaper
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saying basically what I say now that, no, these are stories. This is a conspiracy theory. And
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we've been working on this for some time, and we recently found out some very interesting information.
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Our lead researcher has found out that really this is all part of a conspiracy theory, which goes back
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to the 1990s, and which really was incorporated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, this idea that
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there's thousands of disappeared children. It comes from a fellow named Kevin Annette, who was a
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defrocked United Church minister and made it his life's mission to tell wild tales about thousands,
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hundreds of thousands of children being killed at residential schools. And somehow, through our
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elected representatives, by the way, it was through an MP by the name of Gary Morasti, this eventually
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became part of TRC, that's the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's search. They had no business doing it,
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but they went on this wild goose chase. And that's why I believe, that's why Canadians are so willing to
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believe this absolutely improbable story about priests murdering and secretly burying children with the
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forced help of six-year-olds. So they've been basically conditioned that even all of the reporters in
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the mainstream news have sort of been conditioned to believe that this story must be true, but of course,
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it's completely false. You can become a Western Standard member for just $10 a month or $99 a year for