Riddle me this

How can someone who is Indigenous and has spent her entire life and career on the native narrative be an "independent" special interlocutor (first we had David Johnston, who was a special "rapporteur".  What's next, a Ouiji Board?) when it comes to investigating possible burial sites on residential school grounds and recommending they be dug up?

I am referring to Kimberley Murray, who has just tabled her report on "Residential School Denialism" -- whatever that means.  Pulling back the curtain, which The Globe and Mail's coverage doesn't do, we find her background and resumé:

• Member of the Mohawk Kahnesatake nation,
• Executive director of the Truth and Reconcilation Commission,
• Ontario assistant deputy minister for Aboriginal Justice,
• Executive lead to the survivors' secretariat, and
• Fifteen years with the Aboriginal Services of Toronto

 

Ms. Murray, advocate for more digging and more money.

Even before I read her recommendations, I googled her.  I wondered if each would be biased, one-sided and therefore suspect.  They are, but who is this person?  Now I know.  As one of my CBSA friends, who worked on the border in Kahnesatake said, "That whole reserve is a huge criminal operation smuggling drugs, guns and people."  That's where she is from.

There is absolutely no way Ms. Murray can be objective and independent.  No way whatsoever.  Did she interview such experts on the file as Judge Brian Giesbrecht or historian Conrad Black?  Of course not.  They would have destroyed her narrative that thousands of children were killed at these schools.  I have blogged this many times, but have a re-read of "I am not alone on this file," April 14, 2022.  Here is part of Black's column:  

"The research of the Frontier Centre and Judge Giesbrecht has unmasked the dearth of conclusive evidence of the claims of atrocities committed against the infamous 215 Indigenous children who were allegedly killed and secretly buried in Kamloops, B.C. 

"This charge began with the revelation by First Nation of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir that she “knew” of this secret burial because “knowledge keepers” told her about “oral histories” of six-year-old children being taken from their beds at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the dead of night to bury fellow students in the apple orchard. Stories such as these have been circulating for decades, and were amplified by less precise allegations about mysterious unmarked graves near the locations of other residential schools."

This has been completely de-bunked, but nevertheless, Murray trotted it all out again and no one challenged her!  To even begin to be objective, a co-chair should have been appointed from the non-Indigenous academic or legal community.  That would at least have offered some balance.  But, of course, no such co-chair was.

Now to even question such nonsense, one can be charged under the Criminal Code!  Ms. Murray's bottom line, of course, is money.  She demands 42 "obligations" to address "denialism" and lays out a framework to support, "the search and recovery of missing and disappeared (read "killed") children and unmarked graves.

She charges that "denialism" exists across religious and political institutions, the academic institutions and the media.  I wonder why?  Is it because there is much to deny?  Is it because evidence proves otherwise?

So now the Canadian taxpayer is going to have to shell out millions and millions to dig up "possible" graves and landfills to "possibly" find something.

It's an outrage.