One of the easiest ways to tell you’re dealing with an honest person is seeing how they react when some of their most basic, fundamental assumptions are proven to be completely wrong. A few weeks ago, for example, we talked about how some Flat-Earthers responded when they went on a trip to Antarctica that debunked their entire belief system. They sat there and watched 24 hours of sunlight, and they realized that the Earth has to be rotating in space. And to their credit, a few of these Flat-Earthers admitted their mistake, on-camera. They said that, from that moment forward, they would be whatever the opposite of a Flat-Earther is. Sphere-earthers, I guess.

On the other hand, malevolent liars will never admit that they’re wrong. Even when they’re confronted with the reality of the situation — which is that everything they’ve been saying for years was actually wrong — they’ll find some way to deny it. They’ll absolve themselves of any responsibility for their deception. And if they can, they’ll blame you for challenging them. These are people who are not interested in the truth. They have no integrity whatsoever. And therefore they have no business being in any position of power or authority. Trustworthy leaders will admit their mistakes. Corrupt and incompetent leaders will obfuscate, deny, and double down.

With that distinction in mind, recent events have made it abundantly clear that our neighbors to the north in Canada are ruled by the latter group of people. These are people who have no interest in the truth. They are driven entirely by an ideology that, it just so happens, is explicitly anti-Christian and anti-American. And as I’ll explain in a moment, that has significant implications for the United States, as Canada becomes increasingly hostile towards our country.

But before I get into those implications, I need to explain what exactly the Canadian government has just done. As you may remember, for several years, Canada’s government, along with the country’s state media, has been advancing an extraordinary claim as if it’s the truth. They’ve said, again and again, that unmarked mass graves had been found at Canada’s “residential schools” — which were boarding schools for Indian children that existed for around 100 years, peaking in the early 20th century. And the discovery of these unmarked mass graves was significant, Canadians were told, because Christian churches were running these residential schools.

In other words, for years, the dominant narrative in Canada has been that Christian schools were so horrific that Indian children died all the time, and they were just tossed in unmarked graves when they expired. Therefore, Canadians were told that Canada is a genocidal state, and Christianity is bad. So predictably, dozens of Christian churches burned. And in response, the country’s outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said the arson was “understandable.” They only made one arrest in the wake of those arson attacks on churches, by the way — some of which were within a few miles of the U.S. border. Canadians, for the most part, stopped celebrating their independence day, out of shame over this story. Canadian secondary schools put images like this one up on the wall:

As you can see, it tells students that nearly 2,000 “unmarked graves” have been found. This has been an all-out, all-encompassing narrative in Canada. But to be clear, this narrative about the residential schools was not simply pushed by Canadian state media. In fact, the narrative actually had its origins in U.S.media — including in outlets that, we now know, were taking money from the Biden administration.

The New York Times, for instance, was one of the first outlets to report back in 2021 that “unmarked graves” had been discovered in Canada. They did a whole series of reports on the topic over the summer, all of which were premised on the idea that “ground-penetrating radar” had discovered evidence of grave sites. 

Then “60 Minutes” joined in, with reports like this one. Watch:

So Anderson Cooper is very concerned about the hundreds of unmarked graves that have supposedly been discovered. He specifically mentioned the hundreds of graves that were allegedly discovered at a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. And Canada’s state media said much the same thing. The CBC for example reported: “Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said Thursday.”

When you see television segments and news articles like this, you might assume — naturally — that some amount of vetting has been done to ensure that these claims are at least potentially accurate. These are obviously incendiary claims that are being made, so presumably, you might think that someone would have looked into them before publishing. But that was never true in this case. More than three years later, not a single body has been found in an unmarked grave at any residential school in Canada. And they certainly haven’t been uncovered in Kamloops. It turns out that, in fact, the alleged “unmarked grave site” in Kamloops was, in reality, a 2,000-foot long, 3-foot deep trench that was established in 1924 as a septic field to store sewage from the school. As the Dorchester Review reported, “Ground penetrating radar cannot distinguish between a trench lined with clay tiles and a putative child’s grave.”

This is the kind of information that, if you’re dealing with honest people, would lead to mass resignations and terminations, for starters. Obviously, no one with any self-respect in the Canadian media or in the Canadian government should keep their job after spreading an anti-Christian lie that caused dozens of churches to go up in flames. But instead of admitting they were wrong, Canada’s government is of course taking the dishonorable approach. They’re slowly slinking away like the cowards they are.

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The Daily Wire reports that:

Canada is pulling funds from groups still searching for alleged bodies buried at Indigenous residential schools funded by Catholics and other Christians. An organization and a committee of experts formed to search for the elusive remains have both lost funding in the past month, following four years of searches that have found zero remains.

We’re talking about organizations that have received millions of dollars from Canada’s massive, 300 million-dollar “Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund.” These nonprofits have fancy names like “Survivors’ Secretariat” and the “National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.” And now, after collecting millions of dollars in taxpayer money, they’re finally getting cut off, because it turns out that the entire animating idea behind their “nonprofit” was in fact a scam. The Canadian government is now rolling back its financial investments in this deranged and destructive lie. For all intents and purposes, the residential schools hoax is finally dead.

But that does not mean that the Canadian government is admitting, outright, that it was wrong. That would take an ounce of integrity that they simply do not have. So instead, both political parties in Canada are now rallying around the idea that no one should be able to question the narrative that they’re now retreating from. In other words, Canada has now entered a kind of reality distortion field, where everyone knows the government was wrong for the last several years, but no one can admit it.

This is footage from just a couple of days ago. It aired on CBC. Watch:

Those were conservative politicians in that clip. That’s Canada’s conservative party — supposedly the opposition to the liberals. They’re telling this politician to retract her factually accurate statement about unmarked gravesites in Canada. No one in that clip actually refutes anything she said. Instead, they just tell her that it’s inappropriate to state the truth about these unmarked graves, because it contradicts a broader narrative they want to establish.

As tempting as it may be to think that nothing in Canada affects us here in the United States, the truth is that we can’t ignore what’s happening there. And that’s not just because of the cruelty that’s been inflicted on Christian Canadians in recent years. That’s because, at the same moment that Canada is uniting behind malicious, anti-Christian defamation, the country’s leaders are desperately seeking to expand their power globally.

In particular, some of Canada’s most prominent politicians — like Chrystia Freeland, who could be the country’s next prime minister — are openly suggesting that Canada should join a nuclear alliance to handle the “threat” that, in her view, is posed by the United States. Watch:

This is the same woman who gleefully froze truckers’ bank accounts when they committed the crime of peacefully protesting her government’s unlawful COVID mandates. She cheered as journalists were arrested and elderly women were trampled with horses in Ottawa’s downtown core, as a result of her declaration of martial law. She was one of the leading proponents of the mass-graves hoax. And she’s never apologized for any of it. Instead, now she wants Canada to join a hostile military alliance with foreign powers, while she’s contemplating the use of nuclear weapons against the United States. And at the moment, it’s not a stretch to say that she could replace Justin Trudeau as the leader of Canada’s liberal party — a party that, as we just saw, isn’t much different from the conservatives.

What this means is that, while the conclusion of the mass-graves hoax was anticlimactic at best, Canadian leaders actually see it as a springboard for more authoritarian crackdowns and more overt anti-Christian, anti-American hostility. Whatever credibility Canada had as a staunch American ally, or a legitimately Christian nation, is now completely gone. Canadian leaders would rather lie than admit the truth that everyone can clearly see. No country can survive for long when it’s committed, to such a great extent, to the denial of reality. And though they don’t seem interested in admitting it, that is the commitment Canadian politicians have now made.