If as the documentary below suggests the media has filled in the blanks to make it appear things were VASTLY more sinister and unspeakably evil than was actually the case without minimally adequate evidence much of the reporting would seem akin to "crying fire in a crowded theatre" to an extent which -it seems to me- is criminal and should be prosecuted. If correct, the churches, I think, should absolutely sue the media.
"...the legacy media have drummed up a tremendous media narrative stating that Canada committed genocide -- and that these graves prove it. They’ve raised the temperature so high that extremists are burning down churches, and mainstream commentators are cheering them on. But is that actually true? Are these graves evidence of genocide?"
"Churches burned on Canada Day long weekend,
and the media is partially to blame."
"These are not mass graves. Several media outlets, both in Canada and international outlets like the BBC, Al Jazeera, the New York Times and the Washington Post have recklessly and erroneously labeled these findings as mass graves... This is incredibly irresponsible.
All three chiefs themselves have explicitly stated these are not mass graves..." -ibid
"Many children who died at these schools died of natural causes. According to the Truth and Reconciliation Committee report in 2015, the number one cause of death was Tuberculosis... -ibid
"It's possible these weren't even unmarked graves... wooden crosses that originally marked the gravesites had been burned or deteriorated over the years... what we are more likely talking about is abandoned graves at an existing cemetery. where people of different backgrounds — not just children from residential schools — were buried. What an amazing leap to go from an uncared for community cemetery to mass graves, mass murder and genocide."
"Genocide requires intent. It requires a concerted and systematic effort to conduct mass murder and eliminate an entire race of people. Canada’s residential schools, however misguided, had the intent of educating children, assimilating them into the broader Canadian population, and ultimately lifting them out of poverty.
The policy was wrong, clearly. It was flawed and much harm resulted. But there are a few orders of magnitude that separate the misguided intent of Catholic priests, nuns and Canadian government officials versus those of Nazi firing squads and gas chambers." -ibid
