🇨🇦 Johnny Kiyawasew was buried alone while Ottawa filed paperwork

An 11-year-old boy dies in 1943 after being forced into a Catholic-run residential school, his family isn’t even told, and the state still wants Canadians to trust its moral lectures. Johnny Kiyawasew’s grave was only tracked down decades later by family and a private investigator, not by the benevolent machinery of government. Even the records admit St. Francis Xavier was a health hazard, with at least five children dying there in 1943 and officials noting the place was falling to ruin, as reported.

This is what centralized power looks like when real people are beneath the bureaucracy: children removed, parents ignored, deaths processed, files buried. The lesson is not that Canadians need more institutional virtue-signalling, more federal commissions, or another taxpayer-funded sermon from the same class that always botches human lives. The lesson is that distant systems, church-state collusion, and elite management of families produce cruelty with paperwork attached. A country that wants sovereignty worth having starts by telling the truth about what unaccountable institutions actually do.

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