{"id":101227,"date":"2026-03-07T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101227"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:14:54","slug":"canadians-were-told-there-were-215-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/07\/canadians-were-told-there-were-215-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"“Canadians were told there were 215 graves”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the social media site formerly known as Twitter<\/em>, John Rustad<\/a> expresses his anger at the federal government’s apparent connivance in concealing information from Canadians in the not-really-an-investigation into the alleged mass graves at a former Residential School in British Columbia:<\/p>\n

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Canadians were told there were 215 graves.<\/p>\n

The country lowered the national flag for months. Churches were burned. International headlines declared the discovery of mass graves at a former residential school. The federal government responded by allocating $12.1 million in taxpayer funding specifically to support investigation and exhumation work to verify those claims.<\/p>\n

Now we learn that no remains have been exhumed.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has released the activity reports tied to that funding, but every meaningful detail has been redacted. The reports describing what work was carried out, what investigations were conducted, and how public money was spent have been blacked out and labelled confidential.<\/p>\n

That is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

When the federal government spends millions of your taxpayer dollars to investigate a claim that shook the entire country, Canadians have a right to transparency. They have a right to know what work was performed, what evidence was found, and how their money was used.<\/p>\n

This is not about denying history. It is not about attacking Indigenous communities. It is about basic public accountability.<\/p>\n

If the government funded an investigation, the public deserves to see the results of that investigation.<\/p>\n

Let me be clear: The records should be released in full. The spending should be explained clearly.<\/p>\n

Canadians deserve the truth about what was done with their money. And if that money was not spent for the purpose it was granted for, then the public deserves accountability, including repayment of those funds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, John Rustad expresses his anger at the federal government’s apparent connivance in concealing information from Canadians in the not-really-an-investigation into the alleged mass graves at a former Residential School in British Columbia: Canadians were told there were 215 graves. The country lowered the national flag for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,7,28,53],"tags":[491,438],"class_list":["post-101227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-history","category-media","category-politics","tag-bc","tag-firstnations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qkH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101229,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101227\/revisions\/101229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}