On the 'National Day for Truth and Reconciliation' (Orange Shirt Day)...
Juno News co-founder Candice Malcolm on the legacy of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and why we cannot have TRUE reconciliation as a nation while distorting history and dividing Canadians
Today is ‘Truth and Reconciliation Day’ in Canada, a creation of the Orwellian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its sophomoric report released back in 2015.
I call it Orwellian, because so much about the Commission, its report and this corresponding holiday are NOT rooted in Truth. Because of that, true Reconciliation is impossible.
From Day One, the process was stacked against Canadians. It was run by activists with a hateful, anti-Canadian agenda. Call it what you want: critical race theory, cultural marxism, post-modernist and post-truth. The goal was always to divide Canadians by race, demoralize us about our past and our history, create a permanent divide between “oppressors” and “the oppressed” and create permanent victim status based on race.
Facts were never central, and so truth was often neglected. The Commission’s purpose became an airing of grievances – based on “my truth” and “my lived experiences.” Emotions were rewarded and these grievances became increasingly divorced from fact or history.
And the Commission was not about confronting and closing painful wounds in Canada’s history so that we can all move forward together as Canadians, but rather blowing those wounds open wider for future political gains.
It was all about a narrative – that early Canadians were settlers, colonizers, oppressors and the first nations were always peaceful, innocent and oppressed.
This is not to suggest that everything our country has done in the past was perfect. Clearly there have been wrongs committed in Canada’s history. Instead, the activists attempt to remove all historical context, even trying to cancel Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s founding prime minister (arguably, Canada would not exist today if not for Macdonald).
In 2015, the term “cultural genocide” was added to our lexicon, a crude way of saying “integration” or “cultural assimilation.”
By 2021, when the media pushed a hoax of the unmarked graves, the “cultural” qualifier was dropped. Suddenly, Canadians were literal Nazis, our education system was rebranded as concentration camps and we were all collectively accused of genocide.
It is of course no coincidence that Canada has been plagued by over 100 church burnings and vandalisms in recent years as this toxic collective guilt narrative took hold.
This deranged and unhinged narrative was then peddled militantly by our elite institutions: the government, the legacy media, K-12 education, academia, band leaders and politicians of nearly all stripes.
The goal of this exercise is brow-beating. They want Canadians to feel demoralized, humiliated and defeated, so they can assert power and control.
Just look at what happened to Lindsay Shepherd, my former colleague at True North who is now a political staffer at the provincial legislature in Victoria, B.C., who posted the following in a now-deleted tweet:
“The Orange Shirt and the Orange Flag perpetuate untruths about Canadian history, such as the grandest lie of all that 215 children’s graves were unearthed in Kamloops.
It is a disgrace that this fake flag flies in front of the provincial parliament buildings, and it is a disgrace to see the shirt of lies framed prominently and permanently beside the coast of arms so that locals and tourists cannot view our insignia without having their eye drawn and redirected to the Orange Shirt.”
Lindsay spoke the truth. So she was punished.
NDP MLAs piled on to demand that she be fired. Provincial leaders smeared her as a “denialist” - obviously trying to evoke comparisons to Holocaust denial - and the ugly, hateful threats began pouring in. Even her own party – the BC Conservatives – forced her to delete the social media post.
Lindsay’s treatment, however unreasonable, pales in comparison to what happened to Professor Frances Widdowson during her weekend appearance at the University of Winnipeg. She was confronted, attacked, assaulted and denied her basic Charter rights – all for the crime of speaking the truth.
I’ll be frank: if we don’t stand up to this insane bullying, Canada will not survive.
Let’s not forget that in response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women report in 2017 (another doozy), Justin Trudeau declared that Canada was engaged in an ‘ongoing genocide’ (RCMP statistics report that roughly 70% of indigenous missing and murdered women were the victims of indigenous men).
We cannot have a country when one ethnic group believes the majority is engaging in an ONGOING GENOCIDE against it.
We cannot have a country if nearly two in three young Canadians (58%) believe that Canada is an illegitimate country and that the country “belongs” to indigenous people.
We cannot have a country if courts rule that Indigenous land title (based on an oral retelling of “history”) supersedes current private property rights.
And we cannot have a country if we force people to wear orange, repeat these false narratives, and embrace a post-truth Canada.
So here is my message for all Canadians:
🛑 Do NOT wear orange.
🛑 Do NOT allow your children to participate in a humiliation ritual.
🛑 Do NOT allow our country to be hijacked by an anti-Canadian, post-truth narrative.
🛑 Do NOT submit to lies meant to divide us and destroy what our ancestors have built.
🇨🇦Celebrate Canada. Celebrate peace, prosperity and friendship with the First Nations. Do that with an understanding of history, facts and truth.
That’s the only way we survive as a nation.
God Bless Canada,
Candice Malcolm
Founder
Happy Lies and Propaganda Day to all those who are working so that government employees can have another paid day off to go shopping.
I am ashamed of myself.
This article is so well written and so true, but I am afraid to share it on my social media. Even though it badly needs to be shared everywhere.
If I post it, I know I will be hated. I have indigenous people in my family, so my family will disown me.
And this is the scary part — that we must feel afraid to express our opinions for fear of being hated and persecuted and disowned.
In her article, Candice Malcolm suggests it will soon be too late if we don’t act now. Tragically, I think it already is too late. I think we have lost this country because of the lies and propaganda. What is going to happen to us white folks on the right is scary to think about.
To save this country, we needed to catch this 10 years ago and we didn’t.