From LifeSiteNews

By Clare Marie Merkowsky

The Liberal cabinet has confirmed that 423 police-reported incidents have occurred at places of worship since 2015, with the biggest uptick occurring when it was claimed, without physical evidence, that 215 bodies had been discovered at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

The Liberal Cabinet has confirmed that hundreds of churches have been burned, vandalized or otherwise targeted following the unproven claims that unmarked graves have been discovered at former Indian Residential School sites.

According to information released September 19 by Blacklock’s Reporter, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet confirmed that 423 police-reported incidents have occurred at places of worship since 2015, the same year the Truth and Reconciliation Commission claimed 4,100 children died at Indian Residential Schools. Prior to 2015, the average number of similar attacks per year stood at just 13. In 2021 alone, following the unproven claim that the remains of 215 bodies were discovered in Kamloops, British Columbia, police counted 90 arson attacks on places of worship.    

“This includes incidents that occurred on the surrounding property such as an attached cemetery or adjacent parking lot or inside a religious institution or building,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry of Ministry. 

The figures were in response to a question by Conservative MP Marc Dalton, who had asked, “What are the statistics related to incidents of burning places of worship?”  

While the initial uptick began in 2015 following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, things really ramped up in 2021 and 2022 when the mainstream media ran with inflammatory and dubious claims  that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the schools, particularly at the Kamloops school.

The claims were made after ground-penetrating radar technology discovered disturbances in the soil. But, as LifeSiteNews has reported, no human remains have actually been discovered.

Residential schools, while run by both the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, were mandated and set-up by the federal government and ran from the late 19th century until the last school closed in 1996.        

While some children did die at the once-mandatory boarding schools, evidence has revealed that many of the children tragically passed away as a result of unsanitary conditions due to the federal government, not the Catholic Church, failing to properly fund the system.        

Over 100 churches have been burned or vandalized across Canada in seeming retribution for the claims. Instead of apologizing, the Trudeau government and the mainstream media have seemed to sympathize with those destroying churches, as evidenced by a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report on the matter.   

In fact, in 2021, Trudeau waited weeks before acknowledging the church vandalism, and when he did speak, said it is “understandable” that churches have been burned while acknowledging it to be “unacceptable and wrong.”   

 Similarity, in February, Liberal and NDP MPs quickly shut down a Conservative motion to condemn an attack against a Catholic church in Regina, Saskatchewan. The motion was shut down even though there was surveillance footage of a man, who was later arrested, starting the fire.  

Additionally, last October, Liberal and NDP MPs voted to adjourn rather than consider a motion that would denounce the arson and vandalism against 83 Canadian churches, especially those within Indigenous communities.