If Canadians can find a single takeaway from this year’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, on Sept. 30, it’s that, rather than being a sombre day to reflect on historical injustices suffered by Indigenous-Canadians — because there were indeed many — it has instead become a war between those who are rightfully concerned with accuracy and truth, and those who have foolishly abandoned truth in favour of narrative and grievance peddling.
Sept. 30 has become a day for some of us to point out the lie about 215 children’s bodies being found in Kamloops, B.C., and for others to demand that espousing the truth should be criminalized and referred to as something it is blatantly not: residential school denialism. Sept. 30 has become a day to think about culture wars, rather than history or