Just In From The Fraser Institute: The true cost of ‘Truth and Reconciliation’
A new Fraser Institute study says inflation-adjusted federal Indigenous spending surged nearly 300% over a decade — more than seven times faster than overall federal program spending.
Federal spending on Indigenous programs has nearly quadrupled over the past decade, climbing from $10.3 billion in 2014-15 to $40.8 billion in 2024-25 after adjusting for inflation, according to a new Fraser Institute study.
The study, The Cost of Federal Spending for Indigenous Peoples in British Columbia, found Indigenous spending grew at an average annual rate of 17.1 per cent from 2015-16 to 2024-25, compared with 4.3 per cent annually between 1969-70 and 2014-15.
“Ottawa’s Indigenous spending has skyrocketed in recent years, even more so than general federal spending which itself has increased substantially,” said study co-author and Fraser Institute senior fellow Tom Flanagan.
Overall, Indigenous spending increased 297.7 per cent over the decade, compared with 42% for federal program spending excluding interest — more than seven times the rate of growth.
The figures exclude spending on Indigenous lawsuits and settlements from 2015-16 onward.
Researchers estimate $8.8 billion in Indigenous spending went to Ontario and $6.3 billion to B.C., though the figures include administrative costs — not money directly received by individuals.
But the study questions whether the spending surge has produced corresponding improvements in living standards.
Statistics Canada’s The Community Well-Being gap barely changed from 1981 to 2016, while researchers attributed later gains largely to the Canada Child Benefit rather than Indigenous-specific spending.
Federal auditors have raised similar concerns about results.
In October 2025, Auditor General Karen Hogan found Indigenous Services Canada had made “unsatisfactory progress” on 18 of 34 recommendations examined across areas including drinking water, health care and emergency management.
The department’s spending increased roughly 84 per cent between 2019-20 and 2023-24 — from $13.3 billion to $23.9 billion. Yet 35 long-term drinking-water advisories remained as of April 1, 2025, including 9 that had lasted at least a decade.
A separate 2024 audit found Indigenous Services Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation spent $3.86 billion over five years on First Nations housing but achieved “no meaningful improvement” in overall housing conditions.
The Fraser Institute also raised concerns about financial transparency, saying Ottawa is not enforcing the First Nations Financial Transparency Act. Financial reports were publicly available for just 41 per cent of First Nations in 2024-25, according to the study.
Indigenous Services Canada previously reported compliance with the Act fell from 99 per cent in 2013-14 to 64 per cent by 2019-20, citing factors including capacity issues and community emergencies.
Ottawa stopped enforcing the Act’s compliance measures in 2015, shifting toward First Nations-led accountability, though the law remains in force.
Ottawa stopped using the Act’s discretionary compliance measures in 2015 as it shifted toward First Nations-led accountability. The law remains in force, and the department says more than 300 First Nations financial administration laws contain provisions requiring audited statements to be shared with citizens.
The transparency fight has also reached Federal Court.
In a recent case involving Frog Lake First Nation, Hans McCarthy sought band council records held by Indigenous Services Canada concerning payments from his community’s trust fund to council members for salaries and expenses.
According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which partnered with McCarthy, the fund contained approximately $102 million in 2013 but less than $9 million remained by 2024.
After Indigenous Services Canada refused access-to-information requests seeking Band Council Resolutions authorizing payments from the trust fund, McCarthy challenged the decision.
“If the purpose of the [Access to Information Act] is to enhance ‘accountability’ and ‘transparency,’ ‘promote an open and democratic society,’ and ‘enable public debate,’ the governance relationship between the Applicant and Frog Lake First Nation cannot be ignored,” the court said.
The court rejected the department’s blanket refusal and sent the matter back for redetermination concerning specific information. It also found information concerning chief and councillor remuneration was intended to be publicly available under the First Nations Financial Transparency Meryl Sarty – Political Activist
Indigenous Services Canada subsequently prepared a December 2025 briefing note titled “Appeal of the Hans McCarthy v Indigenous Services Canada Decision,” which was submitted to the department’s deputy head for a decision.
McCarthy has called for a dedicated First Nations auditor general. The idea is not new: the Assembly of First Nations and Ottawa previously commissioned research into establishing such an office as part of their work on a new fiscal relationship.
Ottawa says increased Indigenous spending is intended to advance reconciliation, improve services and support greater Indigenous self-determination.
The federal government estimated annual spending on Indigenous priorities rose from $11.4 billion in 2015-16 to $33.1 billion in 2024-25 and said more than $60 billion had been provided since 2016 to resolve Indigenous claims and compensate for historical harms.
Ottawa’s $33.1-billion figure is not directly comparable with the Fraser Institute’s $40.8-billion estimate because they use different definitions and accounting methods. The Fraser Institute focuses largely on Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and removes lawsuit and settlement spending from its post-2015-16 figures.
“Canadians need to understand the magnitude of Ottawa’s Indigenous spending in recent years if they’re ever to properly assess what that additional spending is achieving in terms of results for Indigenous people,” Flanagan said.
The study is the first in a planned series examining government spending on Indigenous peoples towards the goal of ‘Truth and Reconciliation
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By Nina Green
Why is the federal government trying to prevent Canadians from learning the truth about Indian residential schools?
On 24 September 2026, six days before Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Rebecca Alty issued a statement about so-called ‘Residential Schools denialism’.
Alty claims so-called ‘Residential Schools denialism’ ‘spreads false information by denying or casting doubt on the history of Residential Schools and the lasting harm they caused’. She offers no examples, which strongly suggests she could not provide examples if pressed to do so. The federal government is thus using Canadian taxpayer funds to attack a straw man of its own creation.
In fact, the federal government has gone far beyond using Canadian taxpayer funds to attack the straw man it calls ‘Residential Schools denialism’. It has even entertained bills which would criminalize it.
The federal government refuses to release residential school attendance records to the public which would disprove claims of missing children
In addition to using Canadian taxpayer money to attack so-called ‘Residential Schools denialism’ – a straw man of its own creation – and entertaining bills which would criminalize it, the federal government has actively prevented the truth about Canada’s Indian residential schools from coming out.
COMMENT:
This is like a Troglodyte shouting down one’s opponent in a debate. What is worse is these dim-witted clowns like LIEberal MP Alty must know the Residential School is a fraud, a scam, right off the bat..or ZERO proof …yet they support and promote the lie regardless in robotic zombie fashion .
This is VERY RECKLESS AND DANGEROUS as the more this continues unchallenged , the worse it will get. Non- Indigenous will be pushed to the brink. The LIEberals are playing with FIRE. I think we are getting very close to this brink.
For years there have been tales of thousands of missing Indian residential school students. The federal government has allowed these baseless rumours to proliferate, despite the fact that not a single name of a missing Indian residential school student has ever been produced by anyone, including the federal government.
Moreover the federal government has allowed these baseless tales of missing Indian residential school students to proliferate while actively concealing from the Canadian public the attendance records in its possession which disprove them.
An example is the attendance records for the Kamloops Indian Residential School. A close examination of the quarterly returns for the Kamloops Indian Residential School from 1943-1952, which are available online, establishes that every student is accounted for during that decade.
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” Every student is accounted for ”
Why would they NOT be accounted for ? The school is entrusted with the best and better interests of Indigenous children who were willingly transferred by their Indigenous parents ,.aka ” by choice”..FROM theReserves, TO the Residential schools.
If one single child was not accounted for, would that not become a public and be a major scandal.? Moreso as these were Christian- based schools which tend to be more strict and conservative .Do we Non -Indigenous not remember Roll Call at schools each school day ?
The government also has quarterly returns and other attendance records for the remaining years of the existence of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, 1952-1977, which it has not released to the public. Their existence is attested to by the federal government itself in the school narrative it prepared for use in the Independent Assessment Process (see attachment).
COMMENT:
WHY is there no release of these attendance etc. records from 1952 to 1977 ? ( ie 25 years) As time advanced and technology as well….the record keeping should be even better and also even more accessible.
It is beyond obvious that to provide this irrefutable information would blow a huge hole in the Residential School scam arguments These are PRE – MEDITATED cover -ups and censorship. Criminal charges should be laid.
CUI BONO is the corruption by these Chiefs and our treacherous/treasonous Politicians who have reached that classic Fork-In -The- Road re LIES. They are tip- toeing through “Mine Fields” of Truth and just one misstep and its game over . They are in so deep that they have ZERO exit strategy.
Quarterly returns were the basis on which the Department of Indian Affairs calculated the per capita grant which covered the operating costs of the school. School officials ensured they were meticulously accurate in order to obtain as large a grant as possible based on current student enrolment, and the Department of Indian Affairs likewise demanded that they be meticulously accurate to avoid the federal government overpaying the school.
COMMENT: VERY IMPORTANT PARAGRAPH ( ABOVE )
Whilst these Residential Schools have a large spiritual and religious(Christian) component, realistically they need secular resources aka $$$$$. Effectively the Gov’t contracted out these needed services instead of taking it on.
The same funding criteria applies today = a $$$ funding figure is attached to each and every student in the BC school system. The home school gets these per student funds.
” Missing/Buried ” Indigenous children? Makes no sense. This would be like Ronald McDonald killing and burying the customers …..not very good idea for business.
It is thus of the greatest significance that on pp. 7-8 of the attached school narrative, the federal government provides a table of total attendance figures for the years of the Kamloops Indian Residential School’s existence. The figures given by the federal government for the years from 1952-1977 are not estimates. They are very precise numbers – 402, 424, 381, 390, for example — indicating that they are derived from attendance records in the federal government’s possession, and in fact the federal government’s heading on the table reads ‘most are September figures for each year and based on Quarterly Returns where possible‘.
COMMENT:
Key = PRECISE NUMBERS…… not rounded up or imagined numbers
It is thus clear that if released by the federal government, the quarterly returns underlying the figures in this table would establish conclusively that not a single student from the Kamloops Indian Residential School went missing between the years 1952-1977, yet the federal government refuses to release these attendance records so that the Canadian public can learn the truth. Instead, the federal government allows the damaging and completely unfounded myth of thousands of missing Indian residential school students to proliferate, and even to be promulgated beyond Canada’s borders (as, for example, in the recent hearings of the Rome-based Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal).
The federal government needs to release these attendance records, not just for the Kamloops Indian Residential School, but for all Indian residential schools in Canada, so that the Canadian public can learn the truth, i.e., that federal government records establish that not a single student is missing from an Indian residential school.
COMMENT:
This is disgusting as ROT from these BLATANT LIES has ever increasing collateral damage. The Public Psyche is relentlessly pounded and damaged. The Indigenous and the politicians use these LIES as leverage to not only stifle objective and critical thinking, but they are demanding any/all questions of these obvious blatant scams be criminalized .
A recent publication furthers the straw man of ‘Residential Schools denialism’
This September saw the release of the University of Manitoba Press’s Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism, edited by Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba and Niigaan Sinclair, son of the late Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Murray Sinclair. The book includes a chapter by Andrew Woolford of the University of Manitoba, one of the ‘judges’ at the aforementioned Rome-based Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal hearings, a conflict of interest if there ever was one.
The book is replete with factual errors. Because of space constraints, only two will be highlighted here.
Michelle Good’s egregious misinterpretation of a statement made by Samuel Hume Blake, and her erroneous attribution of it to Dr Peter Bryce
The egregious misinterpretation of Samuel Hume Blake’s statement was dealt with earlier in relation to the Globe and Mail’s admission that it had failed the Canadian public in its reporting on the Kamloops Band’s claim to have found ‘the remains of 215 children’ at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021. As explained earlier, in the course of its apology to Canadians, the Globe and Mail made the egregious error of misinterpreting a statement by Samuel Hume Blake as a reference to conditions at Indian residential schools when in fact Blake was talking about conditions on Indian reserves. See the full explanation of the Globe and Mail’s error here.
COMMENT:
Crucial/critical point is errors are acknowledged and identified. Residential Indian Schools VERSUS Indian Reserves .
HUGE DIFFERENCE. When I look at photos and videos of Indigenous children at these Residential Schools they seem to be healthy, well -fed and happy. They were supported by OUR NON – INDIGENOUS TAX $$$. Was there any other solution for the best and better interests of these children given the logistics and home environments of the day?.
Look at Reserves NOWADAYS…..they are run down, depressing.
Also: Where do the Indigenous go to school now in 2026 ???? = likely Evil“Settler” “UNinvited guests” Public Schools.. which WE pay for as the Indigenous do NOT pay taxes.
In her chapter in the newly-released Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism, Michelle Good makes the same egregious error as the Globe and Mail in claiming that Blake was referring to conditions at Indian residential schools when in factBlake was talking about conditions on Indian reserves, and Good then compounds her error by erroneously attributing the statement to Dr Peter Bryce, rather than correctly attributing it to Samuel Hume Blake.
On page 204, Good writes:
As Bryce explained, “doing nothing to obviate the preventable causes of death” in residential schools “brings the Department [of Indian Affairs] within unpleasant nearness to the charge of manslaughter.”
Dr Bryce never said those words. Samuel Hume Blake said them, and he was talking about conditions which caused rampant TB on the reserves, not, as Good mistakenly writes, conditions which caused TB in residential schools.
Good took her erroneous misrepresentation much further:
Negligence causing death is a criminal act, and the negligence in the residential schools that nurtured tuberculosis epidemics and the resulting colossal death rate among the children must no longer be dismissed with the deaths being attributed to natural causes. This negligence must be considered as reaching the level of criminality that is obvious upon careful consideration of the evidence.
COMMENT:
Another litany of lies,… but even worse when they libel, slander and misquote another person in the heated and charged Indigenous political environment . UNfortunately,these outright lies tend to stick regardless of retractions and apologies. ” They ” don’t care with more slander and libel forthcoming. Hypocrites.
In fact, if Good had actually given ‘careful consideration’ to the evidence, she would have learned, as explained here, that Dr Bryce found that TB was rampant in residential schools because almost every child arrived at residential school already infected with TB, usually in a latent form. In other words, students contracted TB on the reserves, and brought it to the schools.
Inflammatory and false statements such as Good’s resulting from faulty research harm reconciliation in ways that cannot even be calculated, yet it appears Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Rebecca Alty intends to use Canadian taxpayer funds to promote inflammatory false statements like Good’s while simultaneously suppressing the release of residential school records in the federal government’s possession which would disprove damaging myths such as the false claim that there are thousands of missing Indian residential school students (see above).
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” In other words, students contracted TB on the reserves, and brought it TO the schools”
Case Closed…An error,..corrected.
I am sure the authorities of the day, charged with the full time care of the Indigenous students , would do a full investigation of the TB sources and formulate a plan. Again ,in just pure economics, you want live healthy clients.
The Residential schools were found not at fault (” innocent” )re TB spread which would allow for better focus of medical resources accordingly. For the Govt’s to maintain and sustain these blatant lies puts into question what other lies Gov’ts are lying hiding . I am sure it would be proven to be overwhelming if made public.
As I post many times these lies are NOT sustainable…they cannot be maintained forever,… they will implode and stick to the perpetrators …. that is certain. Their LIES will become more and more absurd..like ” They communicate with the spirits of the missing children in UNmarked graves ” (OMG…)
Raymond Frogner’s erroneous claim of 31 missing children
Raymond Frogner, Head Archivist for the National Centre For Truth And Reconciliation (NCTR) at the University of Manitoba makes a similar egregious error based on faulty research in his chapter in Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism.
On pp. 78-9, Frogner claims that 31 students who were listed in the quarterly return for June 1942 are absent from the quarterly return for September 1942, and that there has been no application for discharges for these ‘missing’ 31 students.
Firstly, Frogner has the wrong year. The year was 1941, not 1942.
Secondly, every single one of the 31 students was formally discharged. See the attached list of the 31 students Frogner is talking about, and the attached discharge forms from the Admission and Discharge file for St Anne’s available here.
In each case, the reason for discharge is given. Three students had reached the age at which they should be discharged. Five were sick. Eleven required rest, indicating they were not strong enough to meet the demands of classroom education. One had returned home to help her mother. Eleven had been kept at home by their parents.
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“……Secondly, every single one of the 31 students was formally discharged. See the attached list of the 31 students Frogner is talking about, and the attached discharge forms from the Admission and Discharge file for St Anne’s available here.
In each case, the reason for discharge is given. Three students had reached the age at which they should be discharged. Five were sick. Eleven required rest, indicating they were not strong enough to meet the demands of classroom education. One had returned home to help her mother. Eleven had been kept at home by their parents…..”
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As per usual everything appears to be formally accounted for with proper records, mathematically AND accompanying rationale for absences..
The last two reasons for discharge are highly significant in terms of the endlessly-repeated myth that 150,000 children were ripped from their parents’ arms (as falsely claimed by former TRC Commissioner Marie Wilson) and forced to attend Indian residential schools. Canadians can see in these discharge forms that far from being ripped from their parents’ arms and forced to attend, students went home to help when their parents needed them, and stayed home when their parents decided not to return them to residential school.
COMMENT:
I think one of the main overriding points that sticks out and resonates is that with respect to the Indigenous parents is that they were in FULL CONTROL re: choices were made BY THEM ie such as THEIR CHILDREN attending residential school.
They were not coerced, the only exception was if the home environment was abusive and toxic to the children and were removed by the authorities from this abuse etc. (NOTE :If the authorities wanted them dead.. why would they remove and save them ? )
Frogner starkly exposed the incompetence of the NCTR when he wrote further:
NCTR Archive staff have not found a resolution to these missing numbers. They have been identified at the NCTR as records of missing children that require more research. The NCTR’s Missing Children Project has identified slightly over 17,600 “indications of loss”. These are cases such as Fort Albany above, where the records of loss remain unresolved.
In an endnote, Frogner stated:
The destinies of the missing children, identified with numerical identifiers in M. Langlois’s September 1941 Quarterly Report, remain unknown.
Canadians should be stunned at Frogner’s false claim that these are ‘missing children’ whose ‘destinies remain unknown’. It took only a few hours of research in a file which is available online to refute Frogner’s claim that these 31 children are missing. They were all formally discharged (see the attached forms) and accounted for. None are missing, and in fact one of them, Gabriel Etherington, was readmitted to St Anne’s in 1942! (see attachment). Yet Frogner, who is Head Archivist at the NCTR, claims the NCTR staff ‘have not found a resolution to these missing numbers’. Clearly the NCTR and its ‘Missing Children Project’ are the problem, not the solution.
COMMENT:
I would hazard a guess that many Indigenous parties had NON Indigenous friends. Would not these Non Indigenous parties report a missing Indigenous friend ?. Or an Indigenous friend report any/all missing Indigenous associates ?
These disgusting liars are in essence,domestic terrorists ruining innumerable lives.
Summary
The federal government is at an obvious crossroads. It needs to decide whether it will use Canadian taxpayer funds to obscure the truth about Indian residential schools, and whether it will continue to refuse to release records which establish that there are no missing children, or whether it will actually further reconciliation by allowing the truth to come out. In short, the federal government has to decide whether it will continue to waste Canadian taxpayer funds to promulgate myths which are harmful to reconciliation, or allow the truth to come out which will promote reconciliation.
COMMENT:
Nina Green is an EXCELLENT researcher She is much like a Lumberjack as she chops away persistently , consistently and undermines the litany of lies .This Tree of Lies ‘ collapse is WHEN not IF . The Indigenous and the Gov’t instead continually double down in their desperation to avoid exposure.
As Ms Green’s article lays out..almost EVERY LIE is exposed with FACTS .
— Indigenous Children were NOT murdered at these Residential Schools
— If nothing else the Residential Schools via pure economics would have revenue decline for deaths as well as criminal charges. Duly note that no charges were laid THEN …nor NOW, yet magically almost 50 years after the schools were closed ” 215 BODIES ” without proof magically show up.
—-Indigenous children were accounted for in great detail. Absences were also accounted for and based on Indigenous rationale for returning home aka NO ONE WENT MISSING !!! That is almost unheard of outside of the Residential School system compared with Society in General where people go missing all the time.
IN HINDSIGHT: Residential Schools may have been THE safest environments for any children let alone the Indigenous. This should be cheered and celebrated, and not be twisted into sick self – serving libelous and slanderous propoganda.
Finally ….the logic implies a code of silence being imposed actively or subtlety on those who know ” THE TRUTH’ .
We don’t need Martyrs…we need ” WARRIORS FOR THE TRUTH “
Masks, Media, and the Message Who Marshals Whom? October 1, 2026 What happened At about 7:25 a.m. on Sunday, September 27, a group of masked men dressed head to toe in black gathered near Chief Eli Larue Way, close to the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Police confronted them there and tracked them as they moved through the city. Hours later, men who appeared to be the same group stood on the Pacific Way overpass above the Trans-Canada Highway holding a banner that read “Got bones?” The timing was deliberate or at least unmistakable: three days before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and five years after the 2021 announcement that turned Kamloops into the symbolic centre of Canada’s residential school reckoning. Within 48 hours the RCMP, city council, the First Nation and every major B.C. party leader had condemned it, and the story was running nationally. How many men were there depends on who is counting. Castanet reported “more than a dozen”; Culture Alberta put it at about 30; a local observer who studied two photographs counted 19, possibly 20. That gap is the first sign that this is a story as much about how an event gets told as about the event itself. The official response The condemnation was fast and furious, but no charge has been laid, and police have not named an offence.
Kamloops RCMP. Supt. Jeff Pelley called the banner plus masks “a cowardly attempt to avoid accountability for actions and messages that are clearly intended to intimidate, provoke fear and division.” Staff Sgt. Andy Lot said only: “We’re looking into the matter, we’re still investigating.” Police have asked the public for photos, video and word of any future gatherings.
Chief Rosanne Casimir and the Nation. The Nation’s statement said “the presence of individuals associated with white supremacist and white nationalist activity in our community is deeply concerning.” The Nation issued a safety warning and began a security review, and said white supremacy “will not instill fear” in survivors.
Kamloops city council. Council called it “an act of racism and intimidation that has no place in the community” and a “painful reminder” that reconciliation work is unfinished.
Provincial leaders. The leaders of the NDP, Conservatives, Greens and Centre BC all issued statements against it. B.C. Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson called the gathering “hateful and meant to intimidate.”
Advocacy groups. The Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society and others used the moment to call for federal legislation against residential school denialism.
Prime Minister Mark Carney. On Sept. 28 he called it a “cowardly act” and “abhorrent,” adding: “My thoughts are with everyone who are shaken and hurt by this disgusting display of hate.”
Syilx Okanagan Nation. In an open letter, tribal chair Clarence Louie wrote: “This denialism will not divide our nations or erase our histories.” Briefing city council on Sept. 29, Pelley said officers “focused on those individuals” through the day. “They were there to intimidate and incite fear and we take that very seriously,” he said, adding that no arrests were made because the investigation was “in its infancy.” Who they are said to be Nearly every outlet has tied the group to Second Sons Canada, but the published reports describe the men as “believed” or “appearing” to be associated with it rather than citing a claim of responsibility. The basis offered so far is the look: white face coverings, black clothing, caps, flags and a banner stunt on an overpass. That is the same uniform presentation Second Sons has used at cenotaphs, monuments and overpasses from Dartmouth to Sudbury to the Alberta foothills since its first public appearance in March 2025. The academic framing arrived almost as fast as the police statements, though not quite as furious. On September 29, the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Canadian Dimension published an excerpt under the names of University of Manitoba historian Sean Carleton and Anishinaabe scholar Niigaan Sinclair. The piece opens with an italic introduction, written in the magazine’s voice, saying it follows “a gathering of masked white nationalists” near Kamloops “where members of Second Sons Canada displayed a banner invoking residential school denialism.” What follows that introduction is not a response to Kamloops. It is the conclusion of Carleton and Sinclair’s new edited collection, Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism (University of Manitoba Press, 2026), and it never mentions Kamloops, the banner or Second Sons. The excerpt notes that Canada has completed only 15 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, warns of rising anti-Indigenous racism and denialism, and prescribes education under the book’s principle: truth before reconciliation. Carleton, an associate professor of History and Indigenous Studies, has spent years tracking denialist rhetoric and is among the most quoted Canadian academics on the subject. So the Second Sons link, stated as fact without the “believed” or “appearing” qualifiers found in the other media reports, appears to be the magazine’s own editorial framing on September 29, then attached to their names and to a book written before the event. As of September 30, the Second Sons had not publicly claimed the Kamloops event. What some locals are saying Away from the podiums, not every resident reads the event the way officials do. Some see a small, amateurish stunt inflated by the coverage.
One man who spoke on condition of anonymity thinks the masks, not the men, made the story. “The reason it drew attention is what they were wearing,” he said. “Their faces were covered, so it gave the impression they were up to bad stuff.” In his view, “if these guys weren’t masked and they wore regular clothes,” there would probably have been no news story at all. Another anonymous person suspects the performance was the whole point. “The action is part of the message. Maybe the biggest part of the message. They’re not really conveying any information by doing this. Just the presence.” Another dismissed them as “wannabes” and expects the story to “just go away.” Someone asked whether the coverage would have been the same if the masked men had been Indigenous or South Asian, and called the instant reaction “stereotyping. Automatically thinking they’re just a bunch of white radical white supremacists. Maybe they are, maybe they’re not.” His broader frustration is with “people that are uneducated and misinformed, ready to point fingers, yet they know nothing about the situation.” A longtime resident of Falkland said the event lands on an older resentment over the 2021 announcement. “There’s a lot of issues with the native situation, and it started in Kamloops,” he said. “They’re mourning a situation they cannot prove happened. And it’s got a lot of people annoyed and frustrated with the social mess.” A North Okanagan man, who also asked not to be named, put the case for restraint bluntly. “Why even bring it up?” he said of the grave claims. “You’re starting [trouble] by doing that.” Asked whether the same logic applied to the men on the overpass, he agreed that it did. The fallout reached well past the overpass. A school bus driver was due to take students to a council event later this week, which has been cancelled because of the gathering. Someone else was skeptical of how the day itself played out. A free hot-dog event in Vernon for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, he said, drew mostly white residents, and he questioned how involved Indigenous people were in it. Those views run into a hard fact. The banner did say something: “Got bones?” A direct reference to the unmarked-graves claim, displayed on the Nation’s own doorstep days before a national day of mourning. Media messaging The coverage of Kamloops got the essentials right, but it moved faster than its evidence on two points and slower than it should have on one. Faster on identity. Almost every headline named Second Sons or “white nationalists” within a day. The link is plausible given the group’s uniform and track record, but the reports rest on appearance and “belief,” not a claim or a police finding. Faster on scale. Counts ran from “more than a dozen” to 30. A group of that size got national treatment normally reserved for organized threats. That serves the group: attention is the product such groups are built to generate.
Slower on the message. Much commentary treated the masks as the offence. The banner was the substance. Critics who say the men “weren’t doing anything wrong” are right that no crime was committed. They are not right that nothing was said. The result is a familiar ‘Canadian’ loop. A group stages a provocation; officials and media amplify it; the amplification becomes proof, to sympathizers, that dissent is being stereotyped and silenced; and a stalled denialism law gains fresh momentum. The question is whether anyone gets a clearer picture of what happened on that overpass. And for those still attempting to understand Marshall McLuhan, the medium is the message and the moment. — Rudiger
TWO COURT RULINGS, 13 DAYS APART, SPARK QUESTIONS ABOUT CANADA’S JUSTICE SYSTEM
Two Ontario decisions issued less than two weeks apart have drawn attention to sharply different restrictions placed on two people involved in very different cases.On September 4, 2026, the Ontario Review Board ruled that Jermaine Wood, who was found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for the 2015 killing of 61-year-old Robert McCollum in Brampton, could remain under a detention order while moving into Canadian Mental Health Association–sponsored independent housing.Wood attacked McCollum with a machete as McCollum was carrying groceries in their apartment building. Wood was found not criminally responsible for first-degree murder in 2019.The Review Board stated that a “significant threat to the safety of the community” remained evident. His reporting requirement was reduced to once every two weeks, and his permitted international trips were extended from 14 days to 21 days. However, the board rejected his request for a conditional discharge and required international travel to be accompanied by an approved person.Then, on September 17, 2026, an Ontario judge rejected Tamara Lich’s request to travel internationally for employment-related activities.Lich, a key organizer of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, was convicted of mischief and received a conditional sentence involving 12 months of house arrest and 100 hours of community service. The judge acknowledged that Lich had complied with her sentence conditions, but ruled that the requested international travel would undermine the punitive and denunciatory purposes of the sentence.The court’s decision was not based on Lich’s political views, and the judge specifically stated that she remained free to speak, write, engage in journalism and criticize the court.The two cases involve fundamentally different legal circumstances: Wood was subject to Ontario’s mental-disorder review system after being found not criminally responsible, while Lich is serving a criminal sentence following a mischief conviction.Still, the contrasting travel and supervision decisions are likely to fuel public debate over proportionality, public safety, rehabilitation and how Canada’s justice system applies restrictions in different circumstances.Two rulings. Thirteen days apart. Very different circumstances—and very different restrictions.
The Ongoing Attack on White Canadians: Your Tax Dollars Pay for Jobs Which Exclude YOU!
[The report from the Aristotle Foundation highlights how key government jobs are off limits to White Canadians, especially White straight males. This is part of the Great Replacement. Back in the 1960s key elements of the Laurentian elite, chiefly, but not exclusively, the Liberal Party, decided to replace the European founding/settler people with the Third World. The immigration laws were changed in stages — 1963, 1965, 1974. The “hate law” was brought in, in part to quell opposition to massive Third World immigration. Indeed, the first prosecution under the hate law was of the Western Guard’s Don Andrews and Bob Smith for anti- Third World comments in their newsletter. And, of course, in 1965, to prepare for “the new Canada” which Prime Minister Lester Pearson proclaimed to an angry convention of the Royal Canadian Legion in Winnipeg, the Liberals changed our flag from the Red Ensign with its glorious European symbolism into the present flag. By now, all but the blind can see that the European founding/settler people are being replaced. Even in remote communities the local Tim Horton’s is staffed by East Indians, often “temporary” foreign workers. But it’s more than just an organized invasion. Our elites through their proclamations and endless apologies to one minority after an other, trash our history. They seek to demoralize the European founding/settler people with nonsense about slavery (we outlawed it in 1794!), residential schools and racism. Equally wicked they seek to damage us economically. Despite high unemployment (currently officially 8.2 per cent), they federal government admits hundreds of thousands of “temporary” foreign workers, almost all from the Third World. This makes it hard especially for our young people to get jobs. The invasion has lead to a housing crisis. Many of our youth cannot get a job or afford a house and, therefore, cannot start a family. In the government, we pay for, “equity targets” set minimum targets (they dishonestly don’t call them quotas) for non-Whites, the disabled and non-heterosexuals. Equity targets replace competence. There is a war being waged against us, mostly by people who look like us, with our own money. — Paul Fromm
The Ongoing Attack on White Canadians: Your Tax Dollars Pay for Jobs Which Exclude YOU!Key government jobs, such as safety inspectors and intelligence analysts, being prioritized by race
Tristin Hopper: Report finds 42 per cent of federal job postings practice ‘explicit or potential prioritization based on group identity’Author of the article:By Tristin Hopper Published Sep 03, 2026Last updated Sep 03, 20263 minute read 241 Comments Department of National Defence headquarters in Ottawa. A job ad posted by DND this year for a Defence Intelligence Officer said “selection may be based on qualified candidates self-declaring as belonging to one or more of the designated groups: Indigenous Peoples, members of visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and women.” Photo by Spencer Colby/PostmediaArticle content
Applicants to some of the most critical jobs in the Canadian federal government, including safety inspectors and intelligence agents, are now being explicitly told that they might be rejected if they don’t fit within an “equity-deserving” identity category.
And in some key federal government departments, 100 per cent of new hires are being screened based on race and identity.
Report authors analyzed 301 government job openings advertised between February and July, 2026. Of those, 42 per cent were subject to “explicit or potential prioritization based on group identity.”
“These postings go beyond signalling an inclusive workplace culture or encouraging applications from particular communities,” it read. “They explicitly disclose that certain groups may or will receive priority consideration in the selection process.”
“To achieve a representative workforce, selection may be based on qualified candidates self-declaring as belonging to one or more of the designated groups: Indigenous Peoples, members of visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and women,” it read.
A similar caveat was contained in a recent Transport Canada posting for an air safety inspector. Applicants were told to declare whether they were a member of a “designated employment equity group.”
“Diversity and inclusion are foundational values at Transport Canada and are core to who we are,” it read. “We strive to become an organization where everyone feels that their voice, views, values and life experiences are heard.”
Equity was also prioritized in a posting for an emergency management position within Parks Canada.
“We promote employment equity and encourage you to self-declare if you belong to one of the designated employment equity groups when you apply,” it read.
Although equity-based screening was present across the federal government, the analysis identified three departments in which 100 per cent of all new job postings explicitly stated that candidates would be prioritized based on race, gender or ability.
Every single job posted by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the National Research Council contained what they called an “explicit or potential prioritization based on group identity.”
And the Department of National Defence was not far behind, with 92 per cent of its job postings telling candidates they would be subject to what amounts to identity discrimination.t
According to the Aristotle report, “the expansion of identity-based selection practices risks undermining both the integrity and perceived legitimacy of the federal staffing system.”
The new report is very similar to a 2025 analysis by the Aristotle Foundation that examined hiring practices at Canadian universities.
In that instance, report authors examined 489 university job postings, and found only 12 that didn’t make explicit mention of how identity would be a factor in candidate selection.
“In other words, 98 per cent of academic postings … directly or indirectly discriminated against non-minorities,” it concluded.
While the Government of Canada has tried to encourage the recruitment of women and minority candidates since at least the 1980s, it’s only been within the past 10 years that this has taken the form of mandatory hiring quotas based on race, gender and other “identity” characteristics.
In the Department of National Defence, for instance, internal “equity targets” set in 2018 now require that 25 per cent of uniformed personnel be women, 3.5 per cent be Indigenous, and 11.8 per cent “visible minority.”
Starting in 2022, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada began publishing “hiring goals” that specified the precise number of minority candidates that each branch of the department was expected to recruit.
That year, the department’s engineering and scientific support division, for instance, was given a “hiring goal” of 38 Indigenous people and 27 “persons with disabilities.”
“Equity” hiring initiatives are usually premised on the government’s official position that the racial mix of an organization must precisely match the demographics of the Canadian population generally, and that any deviation from this constitutes evidence of systemic discrimination.
Prior research by the Aristotle Foundation has questioned this premise. In a 2023 paper by researcher Matthew Lau, the think tank presented numbers showing that white Canadians lagged behind non-white cohorts in everything from income to educational attainment to representation within professions such as engineering or medicine.
The inference being that these findings were not consistent with a country “rigged to disfavour racial minorities.” Graph from 2023 paper by Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy showing income disparities among different races of Canadian women. Photo by Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy
Do the British lads on illegal migrant patrol see the full reality and extent of the spiritual battle the West is facing, and how much is riding on their commitment to the fight?
The British media got a bit excited the other day when a bunch of balaclava-ed lads descended on Dover, and then Portsmouth, to ‘greet’ the invading illegals.
A new kind of far right. Scary, huh? Obviously, The Guardian thinks so. They would, wouldn’t they?
Scary? No. Not really. What is scary is that the kings and popes of today welcome Muslim invasions, rather than commissioning temporal powers to repel them. As kings and popes did, back in the day. It is a matter of great irony that now, the appointed defenders of Christendom are barracking for the enemy. Don’t they see that the foreign invasion of killers and rapists and their own fellow travellers is an unjust war?
The resistance by the lads is a just and righteously angry response. Peaceful at that. And proportional. And necessary, given the craven non-responses of the powers-that-be. Someone has to defend the place, ffs.
The Templars and the Hospitallers are making a comeback, as Winston Marshall and Raymond Ibrahim recently discussed.
It is a valuable history lesson, right there. With relevance for today.
The slippery used car salesman of UK politics, Nigel Farage, called the protests down on the south coast “disgusting”. I am failing to see it. Farage, becalmed in the mid-twenties in the UK polls, personally facing a family push against his continued career and a possible exit from politics, and ever-present attacks from his opponents to the left and right, is clinging to the view that the Brit patriots can vote their way out of the worsening malaise. Not for him any direct action, especially if it is in any way linked to Tommy Robinson. Farage looks and sounds like a creature of the establishment, even as he clings to his narrative that he is agin the establishment.
The lads’ actions, given extra bite due to their arresting attire and sensible precautions against the facial recognition focused surveillance state, have drawn fresh attention to some uncomfortable truths about the British political class’s complicit role in the invasion. They pay billions to the French to ‘stop the boats’, the same French who then provide assisted passage to the people smugglers across the Channel. The Brits then escort them in to safe harbour. Followed by the buses lined up on the shorelines to escort them to their new homes, in plush hotels with all the trimmings. The NGOs chime in, with free merch upon arrival and advice on how to fleece the British taxpayer.
You couldn’t make this shit up. The Crusaders would be aghast. And they would be right.
His other great current film project is getting most of the headlines, of course. And, naturally, his Malta project will get a bad press from the usual suspects.
Muscular Christianity is not fashionable in these pro-immigration times. When we redefine invaders as harmless refugees. And see the catastrophic outcomes in real time. The feminisation of British Christianity has wrought great costs and has a lot for which to answer.
How in God’s name would Richard the Lionheart have processed the woke revolution of vapid modernity?
I am not sure that the British lads on patrol see the full reality and the extent of the spiritual battle the West is facing. They seem to be simply concerned about prosaic issues like the safety of their wives and children. A reasonable response, to be sure, given the threats abroad. Rape gangs, for example. Stabbings. Murders. Sharia law. Parallel societies. Non-integration. Attacks on Jewish communities. The takeover of small English villages, like Piddington.
Enough to be going on with.
Yet, judging by some of the Hospitaller and Templar tattoos adorning the chests of the British lads, they perhaps are getting it. And stepping up to the plate, when everyone else is either cheering the invasion on, or is sufficiently confused or disabled to be able clearly to process the disaster and react accordingly.
Via the ballot box AND the streets.
The Battle of Lepanto in 1571 was a watershed moment. When those with the will and the spine and the understanding of the threats they faced stood up and fought back. And won.
Does the twenty-first century young lad class have the hinterland and the gall to maintain the fight they seem to have started? Given the stasis and worse of the political class we have inherited, a lot is riding on their commitment to the fight.
Paul Collits is a freelance writer, independent scholar and regular contributor to Quadrant Online. He writes the PCPS Paul Collits Political Science Substack, where this post first appeared. It is being republished with kind permission.
Years ago, Howard Stern used to have a Grand Wizard of the KKK on his show as a regular guest. They loved to share his signature, “Wake up, Watt people!” This was when Howard was entertaining. I hate referencing a Grand Wizard of the KKK, but White people really do need to wake up. They’ve been turned into the Walking Dead.
If you’ve read my work, you know that I always champion the underdog. I will always be on the side of the weak and the vulnerable. Regardless of color, creed, religion, or gender. I would surely have felt differently during the time of lynching and cross burning. Today, however, the most obvious underdogs are those same Watt people the Grand Wizard tried to awaken in vain. Collectively, we are going extinct. Whites meet every qualification for an endangered species. No one is concerned about that, least of all Watt people. Young White women today are opting out of marriage and childbirth, to such an extent that for the first time in recorded history, more thirty year old females are single rather than married. Corporations are funding special baseball clinics to bring more Blacks back into Major League Baseball. No corporation is funding any program to bring more Whites back into anything. Affirmative Action, DEI, mass self-hatred- the total package. The influence of Whites is disappearing.
The new movie The Odyssey illustrates the woeful state of the formerly White West. Director Christopher Nolan utilized every “Woke” element possible. There are Asian soldiers in this ancient Greece. A real life Black rapper, wearing the dreadlocks that all Greeks of that era were noted for, was cast, as was former cute and plucky actress Ellen Page. Who has transitioned into a very angry and sad little “man” named Elliott Page. He/she/they/them is cast as a warrior. A really small warrior. And Helen of Troy, with such a beautiful face that it could launch a thousand ships, is now a very dark African. Those of us who noticed all this (an astonishing percentage of Whites literally don’t notice it), have been counseled by “Woke” keyboard warriors, that there were Africans in ancient Greece. Yes, and I’m sure they were in leadership roles as well. Launching ships and all that. I’m surprised that they didn’t have the real life rapper rapping onscreen. It’s well known that there were rappers in ancient Greece.
We all know this cultural appropriation only works one way. The simple equation is: less Whites. Whites are being replaced, in the real world, and in the culture. There are countless Black “celebrities” I’ve never heard of. There has to be more famous Black people than White people at this point. Which is hard to happen organically when Blacks are only 12-13 percent of the population. They’ve kind of become a special underclass, disproportionately poor and prone to violent crime, but also featuring a disproportionate number of wealthy athletes, entertainers, and “influencers.” I suffer from Black Fatigue, but I’m especially fatigued with famous Black people I’ve never heard of. Black Fatigue is at the heart of the Great Replacement. I’m Fatigued with endless videos, providing clear cut evidence of the ghetto pathological behavior that is largely unknown in any other racial group. They feel “disrespected.” Well, I feel disrespected, too. Whites as a whole didn’t do anything to warrant being replaced.
Canada, as you may know, has this especially Orwellian law whereby a depressed person can simply call a hotline, and someone from the government will come to their home and suicide them. The kind of ghoulish house calls that doctors stopped making decades ago. If it can be believed, suicide is now the leading cause of death among young Canadians. Talk about a successful government program! This Medically Assisted Dying program has the support of as much as 90 percent of Canadians. This meshes nicely with those who actually use this program being 95.6 percent White. Who, you know, kill themselves. As of 2024, White males in America commit the most suicides, at 26.4 percent, with White females at 6.5 percent. There is also a category for “non-Hispanic Latinos,” which I’m guessing are Whites, at 15.9 percent. So, we seem to be pretty far ahead in the suicide sweepstakes. And judging by the poll numbers, public support for assisted suicide assures even more aborted White lives.
Considering the level of self-hatred we see in so many Whites, especially White females, it’s not surprising that many would feel suicidal. After all, if you’re part of this horrific cancer on the overall population, whether you include yourself or not (they rarely do), then I imagine it would be hard to go on. And with an assisted suicide hotline, you don’t need to think about it too much. Just do it, as Nike used to say. Is your chronic pain especially bad today? There’s a solution only a phone call away. Did you just get dumped by someone you loved? Fired from your job? I can relate to artistic types, whose work was just rejected in some particularly nasty way. Someone close to you die? The bereavement process can easily turn suicidal. The possibilities go on and on. Now, if you’re having a bad day, you can make it your last day. With ease and convenience. No messy cleanup for others, from that gunshot to the mouth. No terrifying hanging figure for loved ones to discover. It’s clean, quick, and paid for.
The cultural conditioning we each experience everyday, and have experienced all our lives, is primarily directed at White people. Especially White females. Don’t have children until you can afford them. Or until you’re “ready,” whatever that means. An unexpected pregnancy is an unwanted pregnancy. My body, my choice (except for vaccines). Unless the birth is scrupulously planned, every White pregnancy is cause for worry, not joy. Compare that to the Hispanic community, which largely considers every pregnancy a blessing, regardless of the circumstances. When you cease to value the miracle of birth, you start to dwindle as a population. Whites are dwindling. In 1900, 36 percent of the world’s population was White. Today, it is 8 percent. That would be cause for alarm if we were talking about the White rhino, or the White tiger. But not for the White human being. The dreaded Caucasion. Whites actually cheer when a Jimmy Fallon announces they’ll be a minority soon. Wake up Watt people.
I would feel the same way if any other racial group was on the way towards extinction. I still feel sad over the loss of the Dodo bird. All life is precious. And yet, because of nonstop propaganda doled out to the last several generations, Whites have devolved into largely weak, cucked males, and angry, aggressive females. The hardest thing for young White people to do nowadays is form a romantic relationship. Unless they’re both “transitioned” to some new imaginary gender. In which case, they can’t have biological children. And that’s the goal. The goal of the eugenicists who loom large in this story. Yes, the hand of the non-Irish is front and center, too. How many quotes do we have to read from rabbis about eliminating the White race? I’ve yet to read a quote from a Catholic priest, fantasizing about ridding the world of a particular race or religion. Our leaders are like the distasteful half non-Irish “comedian” Bill Maher, who once proudly proclaimed that he was pro-death. Pro-death of Whites, that is.
No less an establishment source than Bloomberg News reported, in a September 25, 2023 article, that of the 300,000 jobs added by the S & P 100 after the BLM protests, 94 percent went to nonwhites. Just six percent to White workers? And this was announced gleefully by the state controlled media. You know, what pretty much every Black person calls the “racist” media. Run by invisible White Supremacists. Who are so bad at Supremacing that they can’t stop themselves from hiring those they supposedly hate. I find that to be an incomprehensible, frightening statistic. DEI gone wild. But I suspect most Watt people wouldn’t agree. As long as they had jobs, I guess. If you can curtail Whites from reproducing, and don’t hire them for whatever rare employment opportunities are left in this rigged economy, you’re orchestrating a soft genocide. Yes, I know the non-Irish invented that term, and claim ownership of it. They’d undoubtedly condemn me as “anti-Semitic” for saying such a thing. So be it.
No one with a large public platform will touch this issue. Tucker Carlson has nibbled around the edges, as have some successful podcasters in our alt media world. But they never go as far as I do. Every White is afraid to grieve for the potential loss of the White race. Why? Can you imagine the Chinese being afraid to address, or even acknowledge, being an endangered species? Species has become yet another controversial word recently. Controversial as in “racist.” WNBA mediocre “influencer” Angel Reese accused a White coach, who comes from Australia, of calling her a “protected species.” Which she most assuredly is. As the hapless coach explained, this is a common term in Australia, and has nothing to do with race. Doesn’t matter. An angry Black complained about something a White said, and the White issued the obligatory apology. As they always do. Apologizing their way towards extinction. Have you ever heard a famous Black apologize to a White person?
Apologizing, like cuckoldry, is a White thing. I think of White people the way Homer Simpson thought of beer, in an early classic Simpsons episode: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. I’ve certainly spent a lot of time writing about, and talking about, the corruption and criminality of famous White people. Rich, greedy White people. But I don’t think we should be allowed to go extinct. When a species of animal is endangered, zoos forcefully couple them, in an attempt to increase the numbers. If only some zoo would couple young White people, and force them to procreate, we might be able to save the race. Those who look like us. That’s not a bad thing to want to do. I won’t apologize for advocating the preservation of a race that produced Shakespeare, and Michelangelo, and Da Vinci, and Thomas Jefferson. A race responsible for the Enlightenment. For the great inventions like the light bulb and the computer chip. But these accomplishments are scorned, not celebrated.
The 1965 Immigration Reform Act flipped our immigration policy on its ear, as we went from mandating 90 percent of immigrants to be from Europe, to mandating 90 percent come from places other than Europe. A very blatant darkening of the population, which subsequently spread to England, France, Australia, and other majority White nations. Nonwhite migrants and immigrants inserted into White societies. But never nonwhite societies. No migrants for China. Or India. Or Saudi Arabia. Not exactly subtle. It’s so obvious they might as well be hitting you over the head with it. And yet there has been little resistance to what is by any definition a Great Replacement. The protests in Ireland provide a little hope. But the hour is late. There’s a reason London has become Londonistan. Most Whites still won’t admit that this is a problem. For the very survival of their race. And too many approve of it.
How many Whites have been murdered by Black criminals in this country, and now in England and other nations undergoing the joys of diversity? To the near silence of the state controlled media. To such an extent that we are now learning that the police and justice department are rigging the numbers on race and crime. They are literally categorizing obvious Blacks and other nonwhites as “White” on official criminal reports. Look at the photo below. How overt does this agenda have to be? Again, conservatives; the police are not your friends. Despite this rigging of reality, the FBI claims Blacks- at just 12-13 percent of the population- commit some 38 percent of all murders. Some sources list a higher figure. As for interracial crimes, Blacks commit 90 percent of them. Yet in every Hollywood production, the situation is reversed, with evil White criminals, and innocent Black victims. This is the definition of indoctrination. Why do they want you to believe such lies? And the lies are working.
I shouldn’t be the one to have to defend the right of White people to exist. Don’t they have the same right to exist that Israel is always telling us they have? And yet, who is defending this right to exist? The Great Replacement extends back into history. Retroactive virtue signaling. If they did ever make that big budget film about the fight for American independence, you know Sally Hemings would be heavily featured. They’d probably have her coming up with key phrases in the Declaration, which Jefferson just culturally appropriated from her. George Washington would have some hip Black aide, who was his real second in command. To advise him and correct him, just like so many magical Black actors do in all those commercials. There would be Asians at Valley Forge. And Hispanics. Perhaps Abigail Adams would have a clandestine lesbian affair. Overall, the Founders would be depicted as racist dunces, fortunate just to have nonwhites and gender fluids there to guide them.
Our society is not now, and never has been color blind. I don’t know if that is even possible. But if you create a society where the majority race is castigated as incompetent yet “supremacist,” and those within it discouraged from even mentioning their skin color unless it is to apologize for it, you’ll eventually wind up on the road to extinction. You can’t have all other groups encouraged to be proud of their skin color, and wildly exaggerate their accomplishments, while forcing the majority race to apologize on cue for things it never did, and expect racial harmony. We are either all free to speak our mind, or no one is. The word “racist” has lost all meaning and become beyond redundant. If you value your ancestors, you’ll want descendants. If you value life, you’ll want to bring new life into the world. All men/women/they/thems are created equal. We all have the same inalienable rights that come from God, not any government. That includes Watt people.
PM’S recruitment of Barton will please China’s Xi Jinping
THE ANTIDOTE FOR TRUMPISM IS NOT LIKELY TO BE FOUND IN BARTON, WHO HAD A HAND IN SO MANY PRO-BEIJING POLICIES
National Post – (Latest Edition)
3 Sep 2026
TERRY GLAVIN
In a surprise move this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney named Dominic Barton, Canada’s former ambassador to China, as the new board chair of a reconfigured Invest in Canada initiative, which will be hosting a Davos-like summit bringing together “the world’s largest investors, including top CEOS, entrepreneurs, and prominent global business leaders” in Toronto later this month, Terry Glavin writes.
There has been no greater gift to the Liberal party’s powerful pro-beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s Uyghur slave camps, its “hostage diplomacy,” mass espionage, intellectual property theft, forced corporate co-ventures and clandestine election-interference operations, by this summer the Pew Research Centre found that Canadians had come to view China more favourably than the United States.
You could say the American president can be thanked for that.
In the crude calculus of political advantage, by the time China’s former favourite Justin Trudeau was obliged to walk the plank and resign as prime minister in January last year, a deep reservoir of favourable ratings had become available to any Canadian politician who could be convincingly prescribed as a therapeutic remedy to the pestilence of Trumpism. No matter what your own promiscuous record in Xi Jinping’s corporate circles might be, you can get away with almost anything.
If there is a better explanation for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s choice of Dominic Barton as the Liberals’ spirit guide in their “new world order” project to radically expand foreign direct investment in Canada and pull the country out of the American economic orbit, it is not immediately obvious.
In a surprise move this week, Carney named Barton as the new board chair of a reconfigured Invest in Canada initiative, which will be hosting a Davos-like summit bringing together “the world’s largest investors, including top CEOS, entrepreneurs, and prominent global business leaders” in Toronto later this month. There’s no evidence that any distinction will be drawn between foreign direct investment from democracies and dirty money from torture states.
A key element in the Invest in Canada mandate is to double Canadian exports to non-american markets over the next decade. The project itself was one of the key proposals that arose a decade ago from Barton’s time as chair of Justin Trudeau’s inaugural Advisory Council on Economic Growth, an operation within Bill Morneau’s finance ministry run by Mckinsey and Company, the multinational management consultancy Barton was serving at the time as global managing partner.
Another proposal from Barton’s council that was adopted by the Trudeau government: the catastrophic idea of doubling immigration to 500,000 people annually by 2025. It isn’t entirely clear that the Carney government has abandoned the “demographic deficit” thinking of its predecessors.
Barton came to the inner chambers of the Trudeau government after bringing Mckinsey’s heft to Trudeau’s bid for the Liberal party leadership in 2012. Trudeau’s manifesto proposed that deepening trade relationships with China would “build middle-class wealth in Canada.” As for Beijing’s convention-defying trade practices: “China, for one, sets its own rules and will continue to do so because it can. China has a game plan. There is nothing inherently sinister about that.”
There was no rationale involving Trumpist vulgarity available to the Liberals back then, and as it turned out there’s quite a lot that’s proved to be sinister about Beijing’s own rules. Its “game plan” has involved hollowing out western economies by flooding markets with its subsidized industrial overproduction, financing Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, funding the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps by the purchase of 90 per cent of Iran’s oil via the Khomeinists’ sanctions-evading “ghost fleet” and ensnaring developing countries in its Belt and Road debt traps.
As recently as four years ago, the folly of the Trudeau-barton approach to foreign trade was so obvious that Ottawa had shifted to enthusiastically following U.S. president Joe Biden’s lead by rapidly reducing Canada’s exposure to Chinese economic strong-arming. “What we want is certainly a decoupling: certainly from China,” Industry Minister François-philippe Champagne said at the time.
But by January of this year it was back to the Trudeau-barton approach and to the opposite of decoupling when Prime Minister Carney struck a multi-faceted trade, law enforcement and cultural “strategic partnership” with Beijing, declaring his embrace of China’s “new world order.” It’s not certain that the current American president can be blamed for this. Barton’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth was succeeded by the Liberals’ Leaders’ Task Force on Economic Growth, which Mark Carney took over as chair in 2024, and here we are.
A key element in the Invest in Canada mandate is to double Canadian exports to non-american markets over the next decade.
Barton is best known to most Canadians as the ambassador to China from 2019 to 2021, and for his Mckinsey and Company having unaccountably ended up with more than $200 million in rules-flouting federal contracts after Trudeau came to office in 2015. Barton had been picked as ambassador to replace John Mccallum, the hapless former Liberal cabinet minister and China enthusiast who had to be fired by Chrystia Freeland, who was foreign affairs minister at the time.
Mccallum had more or less taken the side of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou during her house detention in Vancouver while the courts deliberated on a U.S. Justice Department sanctions-evasion warrant for her arrest. Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were held hostage in China for the duration — 1,019 days.
But elsewhere, and especially in the United States, Barton is known for having doubled Mckinsey’s annual earnings to $10 billion during his decade as the firm’s global managing director by means that are an indelicate subject in Liberal circles. Mckinsey’s notoriety didn’t come just from its lucrative habit of providing business services to the legions of kleptocrats and strongmen from the United Nations’ torture-state bloc, which has been growing in number, in power and influence for the past 25 years.
That phenomenon all by itself goes a long way to explain the collapse of the “rules-based international order,” and it preceded Trumpism. The story is set out meticulously by The New York Times investigative reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsyth in their book When Mckinsey Comes To Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm.
During Barton’s years as the firm’s Global Managing Partner from 2009 to 2018, Mckinsey’s consultants had also embedded themselves at the senior levels of almost all of the world’s largest corporations, playing their part in raising the income of a typical CEO from 20 times a worker’s wages to 300 times as much. It’s another story that helps explain the rise of Trumpism, and it’s well told in the Atlantic magazine’s How Mckinsey Destroyed the Middle Class.
During Barton’s time at the top of the company, and during his term as the firm’s Asia chair from 2004 to 2009, while he was based in Shanghai, Mckinsey’s client list came to include 26 of Beijing’s 96 stateowned enterprises — weapons manufacturers, agri-food empires, telecommunications giants, oil companies and steel companies.
Meanwhile, during his years in the executive suite of Brookfield Asset Management from 2020 to 2025, Carney went out of his way to praise Xi Jinping. During his several visits to China, he congratulated the regime for its application of Artificial Intelligence technologies. Brookfield owns millions of square metres of Chinese real estate and holds sensitive investments in Chinese stateowned enterprises.
Back in 2025, during the federal election campaign, Charles Burton, the eminent China scholar and senior fellow with the China-focused think-tank Sinopsis, based in Prague, raised an interesting point. “I’m really wondering whether, if Carney becomes the prime minister, it’ll be like if Dominic Barton became the prime minister,” Burton told me. “I worry that ultimately, Carney’s plan is to out-barton Dominic Barton.”
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