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A highly informative piece from two incisive minds.

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Not incisive enough, Hymie. You and Judge Giesbrecht should, by now, understand that "mass graves" were suggested by Sinclair et. alia. to abet the "Day Scholars" 2.8 billion dollar fraud on Canadian Tax payers. According to Roseanne Casimir's 2019 Summer Pow Wow so-called "Lexeyem" report to her fellow Secwepemc citizens, the TRC was recommending that their Federal Court Action proceed so they could move toward reconciliation Quote:

CASIMIR: "Day Scholar Class Action Claim is for 1000s of daytime students at residential school, who attended a federally owned and operated school by day and returned home at night. Day Scholars suffered the same losses of language, culture, like other students who resided in residential schools and they were left out of the 2006 IRSS Agreement. The class action involves 101 bands across Canada, and THE TRC HAS RECOMMENDED THAT THIS FILE BE ADDRESSED SO WE CAN MOVE TOWARDS RECONCILIATION. [My "all cap" emphasis KB]

That quote is from page 11, of the right column, of the 2019 Report.

https://tkemlups.ca/files/2019/09/2019-Summer-Lexeyem-web-1.pdf

And if you follow the Day Scholars Class Action History at:

https://www.justicefordayscholars.com/day-scholars-class-action-survivors-left-frustrated-and-betrayed-over-canadas-continued-refusal-to-provide-fair-and-equal-compensation-for-day-scholars/

you can read the history of the class action. In 2019 they were going to have to fight it out in Court, as below, quote:

DAY SCHOLARS CLASS ACTION announcement, quote

February 26, 2019

Kamloops, BC – Day Scholars are extremely disheartened to report that negotiations with Canada for fair and equal compensation for Day Scholar survivors of Residential Schools have broken down because the government refuses to deal with Day Scholars survivors on the same terms as other Residential School survivors. Day Scholar survivors now have no choice but to fight their claims out in court at great expense and further delay. [end quote]

Somewhere else I read they were still going to Court later in 2021. But about 10 days after the announcement of 215 "remains" of children [Casimir] and 215 "bodies" [Murray Sinclair on 2 occasions at the CBC June 1, 2021 and at a parliamentary committee on June 3, 2021] bogusly "discovered" at the Kamloops Residential School on May 27, 2021, an Out of Court settlement was announced on June 9, 2021. I also discovered where I read that going to Court in 2021 announcement. Its at: https://www.justicefordayscholars.com/updates-press-releases/

Kevin Annett and "disturbed psyches" is an unnecessary "red herring" and off topic. All you have to do is go to page 15 of Dr. Scott Hamilton's Report and Companion Illustrations provided to the TRC in 2015 entitled "Where are the children Buried?"

On the first paragraph of page 15 anyone may read a proverbial "litany" of where the unmarked graves' "discoveries" occurred 6 years later. And they are all on the 1st paragraph of page 15 and KNOWN TO BE CEMETERIES with UNMARKED GRAVES in those cemeteries [actual graveyards] by all 3 Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners and their Executive Director, Ms. Kimberly Murray as of 2015 --- just by "coincidence" the same year that Casimir's DAY SCHOLARS suit was certified as a Class Action by the Federal Court. The "Kamloops cemetery" is at the bottom of the paragraph. The "Cowesess (misspelled) cemetery" is at the top of the paragraph. And the 3rd "discovery", at Cranbrook is in the middle of the paragraph.

None of the 3 TRC Commissioners or Kimberly Murray are "delusional". None of them believe there was a genocide. Nor do most of the AFN Chiefs, like Cadmus Delorme of Cowessess. What they do think they know and do believe is that people like Hymie Rubenstein and Brian Giesbrecht are too stupid to catch them in their stupidly COLLUSIVE conspiracy to fabricate evidence of "mass graves" in order to defraud the Canadian Public. That is not only what they believe, but it is also their actual "knowing" [They had a list of unmarked graves in cemeteries courtesy of Scott Hamilton about which they'd known for 6 years --- 60 years on some cases --- about which they knew prior to making the announcements which encouraged the fraud.]

So far, they also "know" that even an experienced Court Judge is too apparently ignorant or confused to catch them colluding. But, as we all know --- collusion essentially means "to deceive the Court" and Brian Giesbrecht seems to still be deceived by Sinclair et alia. But Frances Widdowson now has an actual Court File Number and has been given a copy of my letter to Donald Worme K.C., along with her lawyer and Lethbridge U's lawyer, where I accuse Sinclair et alia of defrauding the public "in collusion with someone at Kamloops" and recommend that Worme disassociate himself from those "back stabbing" Iroquois and Anishinabek scoundrels and bring them to Justice. So far WORME hasn't replied.

My guess, then, is that Worme was "in on the fraud" as well. And neither is Worme "goofy" like Kevin Annett. They all happen to be lawyers who "think" they may deceive the Court as well as the average Canadian legal ignoramous. So far, they've been successful.

Kevin James "Joseph" Byrne

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Why didn't Judge Giesbrecht publish the Parts 1 and 2 that I posted below, which he wrote for the Frontier Centre For Public Policy? It's a good piece, but its wrong because the only thing that police officers can do, is to bring their information to the attention of Judges like Judge Giesbrecht. So the RCMP are not the problem. Lawyers and Judges are the problem here --- beginning with the 1 Judge (Murray Sinclair) and 3 lawyers (Wilton Littlechild, Kimberly Murray and Donald Worme Q.C.) of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Those 4 lawyers started it all with assertions of "cultural genocide". Then they moved to attempts "to prove" actual genocide by colluding with silly, legally ignorant, people, like Roseanne Casimir of Kamloops and Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess so-called "Nation", by fabricating "evidence" of unmarked graves in graveyards/cemeteries that they already KNEW to have unmarked graves in them, given Dr. Scott Hamilton's Report to them (Where are the Children Buried?) of 2015, replete with a companion set of Illustrations which proved the disappearance of grave markers from formerly well marked graves. For example, Figure 40 at the St. Mary's Residential School in Kenora Ontario.

These (genocide) LIBELS of Canada ought to have been brought before a Court Justice, almost anywhere in Canada, by lawyers and/or working-Judges, exactly 15 days after the Kamloops liars failed to demonstrate/excavate even 1 set of remains, from even one of the GPR "reflections/anomalies". It doesn't matter that the R.C.M.P. didn't do the excavations. The fact that excavations were obstructed, arguably on the "counsel" of Murray Sinclair to Parliamentarians, was enough to have Crown Prosecutors called in to determine whether it was GENOCIDE/homicides, LIBEL or OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE that they should be preparing to prosecute. But that didn't happen because lawyers were involved at all stages. And lawyers defend lawyers even more than they defend criminals. It's habit!

Fortunately, Frances Widdowson has a Court File Number and an actually ongoing law case at the Queen's Bench in Calgary, concerning the alleged violation of her Charter 2.(b) and 2.(c) rights, as well as those of her colleague (Paul Viminitz; Philosophy Professor at Lethbridge) and attempted (but foiled) erstwhile student, Jonah Pickle --- who finally heard her lecture "off campus" at a library.

She and her fellow litigants of King's Bench (Calgary) Action #2301 - 09854 are suing the University of Lethbridge and its Board of Governors for the above-mentioned "Rights" violations.. Frances is so "dull" about law cases that, at first, she asserted that the JCCF was "suing" Lethbridge U! I told her that SHE was suing the UofL, since her name was on the Style of Cause. (The JCCF ; Justice Center For Constitutional Freedom; was, arguably, paying for the suit.)

The major "reason" that Frances Widdowson was fired from Mount Royal University and was "drummed (the expletive deleted) out of the UofL" without presenting her lecture [How Woke-ism Threatens Academic Freedom] is because, like Brian Giesbrecht, she doesn't believe that there are any "remains" (Roseanne Casimir) or "bodies" [Murray Sinclair; June 1st, 2021, to the CBC and June 3rd, 2021, to the parliamentary committee (emergency meeting) on Indigenous and Northern Affairs] located on/under the ground/s of the (former) Kamloops Industrial Residential School. So that should be cleared up first by her lawyer to the Board of Governors of the University. Frances is constantly LIBELLED as a "Residential School (Genocide) Denialist" and "Racist". So I told Frances to have her lawyer go after Lethbridge U's lawyer about those Libels of herself --- which would be a "feint" because she should actually be going after Tim Jorgenson's Law Degree --- as if the guy would "sacrifice" his law degree to "defend" the ignorant (both legally and factually) libelers of Frances.

That strategy is too complicated for even most lawyers and judges to understand, let alone for people, like Frances, who are ignorant of legal practices. She doesn't know that lawyers only talk to lawyers and probably doesn't even know those whom she is actually suing. They are an interesting group as outlined below. And they probably don't know what is going on in Universities, of late, and should be brought into the "loop". That is something that most lawyers won't want. But it shouldn't be "the call" of lawyers. At least, Frances should know those whom she is suing. They are:-

UofL BOARD OF GOVERNORS:

1. Chair: Dean Gallimore Accountant. Did or doing Accounting for Agricultural Businesses.

2. President and Vice Chancellor: Digvir Jayas. Agricultural Engineer, teacher and Administrator (replaces Mike Mahon). Specialist in grain/oil seed preservation and/or storage.

3. Chancellor: Terry Whitehead, BA, managing partner of a Vancouver-based executive search and management consulting firm. UofL alumnus extraordinaire.

4. Alumni (a) Deirdre McKenna is a partner of Davidson & Williams LLP. and is a litigation lawyer!

(b) David Johnson [Doing a Masters in Law at Osgoode Hall] Financial Planner and President of Edmonton Construction.

5. Senate: Toby Boulet. Retired teacher.

6. Academic Staff: Anne Dymond. Associate Professor of Art History & Museum Studies in the Department of Art. Anne's recent research has focused on issues of diversity and inclusion in Canadian art museums, and her book Diversity Counts: Gender, Race, and Representation in Canadian Art Galleries. Sounds woke. But she has a nice smile and works with Syrian refugees. Can't be all bad!

7. Non-Academic Staff: Vacant.

8. Faculty Association: Professor Craig Coburn --- remote sensing specialist/scientist. Dept of Geography and Environment. He'd be good on Scott Hamilton's satellite imaging surveys of Residential Schools.

9. STUDENTS: a) Maleeka Thomas: passionate about advocacy, equity, and social justice! WOKE!

b) Rikin Patel: Business Mgmt. 3rd year. Vice President Operations and Finance!!!

10. Grad Student: Jaxon Reiter. Master of Science student; Developmental Genetics and reproduction in plants. [2 factor 2 alternative understander methinks].

11. GENERAL PUBLIC:

a) Richard Casson Queen's Privy Council --- life appointment === Lethbridge U printer for 30 years and Picture Butte Politician. Member of Parliament between 1997 -2011.

b) Sherry Davis is a banker; ATB; and offers a student scholarship since 2017

c) Darci Gonci. 1996 B.Sc. in Biochemistry. Went into financing subsequently with additional degrees. CPA. Financial Controller for a reservoir engineering and evaluation firm.

d) Karen Gunn; Commercial Insurance Broker and Risk Assessor.

e) Bev Burton; B.Sc. in Biochemistry. Family Physician at Pincher Creek. Girl Guide!

f) Kelly Phillip Chartered Accountant with at least 2 degrees. Loves liberal arts.

g) Karen Reid well credentialed business accountant. CFO for local multi Service Co.

h) Nikki Van Mulligen; CPA taxes. Juris Doctorate 2010. B. Com. 2007. MMH Lawyers LL.P Seems like tax law, wills and Estates. Another lawyer.

i) Jodie Gallais --- Board Contact.

I would bet that all those people wouldn't mind to hear her lecture [excepting the arguable "Woke" types] and to also know why neither a credentialed Judge, like Brian Giesbrecht, nor Frances herself, believes that Canada is an allegedly "Genocidal" country. My "bet" is that none of the lawyers, so far involved in her matter, want any of the above named people to know anything about the case. And that would be extraordinarily ILLEGAL.

What do you think about my (alleged "illegal") thesis Judge Giesbrecht???

Kevin James "Joseph" Byrne

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Part 2 by Brian Giesbrecht

[And it gets worse]

BRIAN (continues):

Beaulieu had claimed that a tooth from a human juvenile, and another human bone helped convince her that children were buried in what she believed were 215 separate graves. But that tooth was proven to be the tooth of an animal. As far as the other alleged human bone she relied on, it has never been produced.

Beaulieu also speculated that the soil disturbances she had detected were so shallow because of stories (that she actually believed) that children “as young as six” were unable to dig further than three feet down because the soil at Kamloops is frozen beyond that depth. But she was wrong again. The soil at Kamloops freezes only well below the three foot level.

The RCMP would have uncovered all of these weak points when questioning Beaulieu. They would also have asked to see her report. Because of Sinclair’s interference, none of that happened. And the report has never been released to the public, despite promises to do so. All of the above facts can be easily Googled.

The weaknesses in GPR specialist’s report would probably have been enough to discredit the always highly improbable Kamloops claim. Flags would never have been flown at half mast, there would have been no genocide motion or dark national holiday of self-flagellation based on the false claim. The country would have been spared two years of national anguish over a genocide that never happened if only the RCMP had insisted on doing their duty.

But even if Beaulieu’s failings had not concluded the matter, there are many other huge holes in the Kamloops claim that a competent investigation would have immediately uncovered.

An example is the fact that not one missing child claim had ever been made by a parent in Kamloops, or from any of the indigenous communities that sent children to KIRS. If it was true that 215 children had mysteriously disappeared after being enrolled in the school, wouldn’t one expect that at least one parent would make a complaint? Is it being suggested that indigenous parents don’t care if their children simply disappear?

But there are many more holes in the Kamloops claim so huge that an experienced investigator would immediately recognize them as fatal defects.

For instance, we are now told in Kimberly Murray’s report that Chief Casimir originally just planned to rope off the area where the soil disturbances had been detected so that the grown children who had been forced to bury their comrades could come and pay their respects.

It would probably have taken about one minute for an experienced investigator questioning one of these people to conclude that these stories were without foundation. From the claims made by “survivors” these secret burials would have had to have taken place in the 1960s. KIRS in the 1960s was a modern school. It was almost certainly the only public school in Canada with its own Olympic sized swimming pool.

Many of the teachers were indigenous, as the 1962 TV documentary special “The Eyes of Children” shows. Important indigenous leaders, like Len Marchand, Canada’s first indigenous federal cabinet minister, had attended the school, with absolutely no claims of secret burials (Marchand’s only complaint of life there was that the potatoes were watery). In short, KIRS in the 1960s was a modern, well-funded Canadian school, not the charnel house depicted by claimants with overactive imaginations.

The list of reasons why the Kamloops claim was more than highly improbable from the outset is a long one, and experienced investigators would have quickly concluded that people telling bizarre stories about dragging bodies down halls past indigenous staff and students, and being forced by murderous priests and nuns to bury comrades in plain site of the citizens of Kamloops—on 215 occasions!—would have been quickly dismissed as the kind of ghost stories children tell to frighten one another.

Or hearing “knowledge keepers” claim that they always knew their children were buried in that apple orchard, while the police knew that the community had built a tourist park on top of it! That would make no sense to an investigator—or anyone else, for that matter. If you knew that the “apple orchard” was a sacred graveyard why would you build on top of it, and then let thousands of strangers tromp on it for years? Investigators would have seen through all of those inconsistent and nonsensical claims.

And “knowledge keepers” are just people. The same “knowledge keeper” who presumably “knew” about these secret burials, Mona Jules, also “knew” that “in 1500 the Pope ordered that all Protestant children at residential schools be killed.” Of course, she “knew” no such thing. The fact is that “knowledge keepers” are as fallible as any of the rest of us. (Again, all of these improbable claims can be easily Googled.)

But none of these serious holes in the strange Kamloops claim were uncovered, because the police didn’t stay and do their job. Clearly, it was unethical for Murray Sinclair to throw his weight around, and it was clearly both foolish and wrong for unknown politicians to interfere in a police investigation.

But the fact remains that the RCMP have failed Canadians. They didn’t insist on doing their job. They allowed themselves to become pawns in someone else’s political game. The RCMP should have politely told Sinclair, and the other senior people who improperly interfered in their work, that they would continue to investigate—because it was their duty to do so. It is a national shame that they didn’t do so.

Had they done their duty, the RCMP could have nipped this entire Kamloops false claim in the bud two years ago, probably without putting one shovel in the ground. The weakness of the GPR specialist’s report, and the complete absence of any other credible evidence of sinister deaths and late-night burials, would have been quickly exposed by a competent RCMP investigation. Instead, Canadian schoolchildren are now being taught misinformation about secret burials, and Canada is in the ridiculous position of being accused by communist China of genocide. Our international reputation has been thoroughly savaged. A competent RCMP investigation would have saved us from all of this.

Following the Kamloops announcement, we have witnessed reckless claims made by indigenous activists, and the complete failure of our mainstream media in its non-response to those preposterous claims. Our political class has shown itself to be weak virtue signallers, and not leaders at all. But it is the capitulation of the RCMP for political purposes—to what experienced RCMP officers surely knew from the outset was a false claim—that is the ultimate betrayal.

The RCMP must now get back to the Kamloops “crime scene” and do their job.

By Brian Giesbrecht at the Frontier Centre For Public Policy

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Part I by Brian Giesbrecht

The RCMP has a long and honourable history, and has served Canadians well. RCMP top brass and regular officers have always insisted on doing their job in their own way. They have robustly specifically resisted all attempts by politicians to interfere in their clear mandate to enforce the law.

However, in May 2021 at Kamloops, the RCMP abandoned that honourable tradition, and abdicated their most important responsibility.

When it was announced that “remains” had been found of 215 former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) students, the local RCMP did their duty and immediately began to investigate. Indigenous leaders had claimed that the school grounds should be considered a major crime scene, and the RCMP is mandated in most parts of B.C. to investigate all major crimes. The investigation would normally have included the securing of the school grounds to prevent evidence tampering, the interviewing of all people connected to the claim, and prompt investigation of the alleged crimes.

One of the important people to be interviewed was Sarah Beaulieu. She had done the ground penetrating radar (GPR) work and written the report that gave rise to the claim. The RCMP quite properly began to interview Beaulieu. However, for reasons that remain unclear to this day, the RCMP aborted their attempts to interview her further, and shut down their entire investigation immediately after receiving orders to do so from persons unknown. This new policy—breathtaking in its recklessness—was then applied to all of the other indigenous communities that made copycat claims.

Why did the RCMP stop their investigation, and then allow the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc, formerly the Kamloops Indian Band, to conduct its own do-it-yourself murder investigation?

The reasons have never been explained to a baffled public. We do know that former Truth and Reconciliation commissioner Murray Sinclair intervened in the investigation immediately after it started. We know that because he said so. According to Sinclair, he was informed that Sarah Beaulieu was being aggressively questioned by the RCMP, and she didn’t like the experience. The truth is that we will probably never know who was involved in this intervention.

What we do know is that the RCMP investigation was called off and handed over to an elected body that had absolutely no training in, or knowledge of, the investigation of major crimes. Suddenly, a junior elected body that had experience in drafting local bylaws was delegated authority to conduct major crime investigations. This was a shockingly improper delegation—really an abdication—of authority.

And exactly what kind of investigation, if any, have these local politicians carried out? Have they had experts review Beaulieu’s shaky preliminary report presented at her only public presentation of her GPR findings? Have they interviewed any of the “six-year-olds” who claim that they were forced by murderous priests in the 1960s to dig graves for their freshly killed comrades? Have they secured the grounds to prevent mischief-makers from tampering with evidence?

Frankly, we have no idea, because Chief Casimir and her associates have virtually “gone dark” since making their baseless May 2021 announcement. The only thing we know for sure is that they have reneged on their promise to release Beaulieu’s full report, and now refuse to release it. To add insult to injury, they refuse to give reasons for refusing to release the report to the public for expert scrutiny.

We now know that the 215 “bodies” and “remains” were not bodies and remains at all. They were simply soil disturbances that had been incorrectly interpreted as graves. In fact, those soil disturbances were almost certainly from previous septic field excavations.

If only the RCMP had honourably insisted on their statutorily mandated right to do their job and investigate, what would they have found?

For one thing, it would have immediately become apparent that the GPR specalist made serious mistakes. In the first place, she neglected to research previous excavations before submitting her report. Her original claim was that her radar had detected 215 soil disturbances, which she claimed were probable graves. She was forced to lower that number to 200 when it was brought to her attention that shovel pits from a previous Simon Fraser University project likely accounted for 15 of those 215 disturbances. Checking for previous excavations should have been the first thing a professional should have done before writing any report. She had failed to do so. This was incompetence, and the RCMP would have quickly discovered that.

But it gets worse.

Because it is now clear that specialist didn’t check for other major excavations that had been completed on the area where she detected the 215 disturbances. Those disturbances, as noted above, were almost certainly from a sewage trench installed in 1924, and taken out of use a decade later. This was incompetence on a major scale.

And it gets worse yet.

Contd in part 2

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Where did my comment go?

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Oh! It took awhile but finally arrived. Good! I guess I'm not "hacked" --- YET!

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