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Prof. Anthony Hall returns to discuss his new article “Grave Error on Alleged Mass Graves in Canada.” Excerpt: “In recent months mass graves were created along with the Israeli occupation and destruction of hospitals in Gaza. These grave sites are being dug up between rounds of Israeli bombing of Palestinian civilians. The evidence of mutilated humans coming out of Gaza’s mass graves have reportedly contained evidence of organ removal, handcuffing of doctors and patients, as well as point-blank executions including shots to the head.”

Did anything remotely similar happen in Canadian residential schools? The book Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth About Residential Schools) says “no.” Prof. Hall, an expert on indigenous issues, tentatively concurs: :

“The authors of Grave Error’s prove that a solid evidentiary basis has not been established to support the new thesis that mass murder and mass graves constitute an integral part of the history of Indian residential schools in Canada. I do not agree, however, that these findings preclude the need to look at the possible role of various forms of genocidal activity in the transformation of northern North America from pre-Columbian times to the Canada that exists today.”

Is the cancelation of “mass grave deniers” like Frances Widdowson a threat to academic freedom? Tune in and see what Tony Hall thinks.

L to R: Anthony Hall, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, ex-PM Joe Clark

From the interview:

Anthony Hall: In Canada, Indian people had treaty agreements with the Crown that they would have education provided. By the late 1800s and throughout much of the 20th century, this education was provided in schools where Indian people lived. And then it started to come out a couple of decades ago that a lot of child abuse happened in these institutions, that there were rapes and just very ghastly things that happened.

But it took a leap forward in 2021, when there was an announcement that mass graves had been discovered adjacent to the Kamloops Indian Residential School. And mass graves—we see the implications in Gaza. Mass graves often point to genocide.

And suddenly there is this conception put out, and it was very quickly adopted by the government, by the media, that this was in fact true. And of course, if there are mass graves, unmarked mass graves, there’s mass murder to go with it—secretive, surreptitious murder.

So suddenly the record of Canadian history—and certainly, you know, one of the obvious dark spots in Canadian history, like every other New World country, is the treatment of Indigenous people And we see this in Gaza, where there’s this phrase called settler colonialism.

And so there was a very quick jumping on the bandwagon. What had happened at the Kamloops Indian Band was the chief had made an announcement, had done some kind of ground-penetrating radar, and something had showed up. Now, ground-penetrating radar isn’t like doing an X-ray, where you see outlines of specific things. There was evidence that something was under the ground in this area, but that’s it.

But somehow it was just announced that a mass grave had been discovered. And lo and behold, the New York Times is covering it, the Washington Post is covering it. Every media outlet is covering it. Next thing you know, Trudeau shows up, starts handing out money.