‘Terrible abuses’ — or perhaps not?

An outstanding piece of scholarship from Ian Gentles and Pim Wiebel challenging the alleged abuses said to have occurred at Canada’s Indian Residential Schools awaits your attention on the other side of the paywall.

Few of the positive accounts of life at these schools made it into the pages of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s biased 2015 report about the history, operation, and legacy of these boarding schools because that would have spoiled its pre-determined narrative, a good lesson indeed that it is unconscionable to allow those claiming victimization to take full charge of alleged harms done to them, a nasty repudiation of the elementary canons of modern criminal law if there ever was one.

Blind justice was certainly not meted out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.