Canada’s National Hysteria in the 21st Century

The piece on the other side of the paywall written by prolific and intelligent editorial writer Brian Giesbrecht, a former Province of Manitoba judge, was first published by an international news site on January 2, 2023.

Giesbrecht focuses on what he rightly claims is one of the world’s latest contemporary examples of mass hysteria: “the claim that 215 indigenous children were secretly killed at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School and then covertly buried at night, with the forced help of children ‘as young as six.’”

Like the other examples of mass hysteria he cites, untold damage is done to both those possessed by it and those directly and indirectly affected by its contagious spread. Also damaged in the process is the very nature of rational and scientific understanding as normally sentient and sensible adults plunge into an ignorant pre-Enlightenment abyss.