There has been an epidemic of churches being set ablaze across Canada for years now — with attacks peaking after still unproven claims about graves of residential school children and a prime minister whose flippant response to the issue has done more to fan the flames against churches than quell them.

Journalists and others trying to assess the extent of arsons being committed all over the country have had few ways of stringing disparate local reports together. And, as far as we knew, the Liberal government hadn’t been able to either. It appears we were wrong. The government is, in fact, now, well aware of the number of church arsons that have been taking place across communities in Canada, and have simply chosen not to relay the severity of these attacks to Canadians.