‘There are no bodies,’ judge says

Judge’s comments shock KIRS survivor as land defenders given jail time

Excerpts from a February 24, 2023 new items about the trial of eight “water and land defenders” charged with criminal contempt for disrupting the development of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project on Crown lands appear below the paywall.

Because the trial judge was fearless in rejecting the assertion by a lawyer for the defendants that there was evidence indicating the presence of 215 children’s remains beside the Kamloops Indian Residential uncovered through an investigation led by Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc band in 2021, this piece is essential reading not the least because political and legal propaganda must always be challenged using disinterested scientific truth.

Pandering to indigenous extremists speciously claiming that “Canada has no jurisdiction [to Crown lands], RCMP has no jurisdiction and Canada is on Indian land,” as the Trudeau and previous Liberal Party governments have done — though the Conservative Party of Canada is not much better while the New Democratic is far worse — is a sure recipe for a violent indigenous insurrection.

When you accept the idiotic notion that Canada is composed of 634 “First Nations,” you are begging for trouble, big trouble, violent trouble.