Terry Glavin: The Kamloops 'graves' and the poisoned chalice of 'reconciliation'

Terry Glavin: The Kamloops 'graves' and the poisoned chalice of 'reconciliation'

On the last weekend in May, 2021, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued an order to lower the flags on Parliament Hill, and on the Monday he ordered the flags to be lowered on all federal buildings across Canada. It was an extraordinary, unprecedented exercise arising from a shocking claim reported around the world that the bodies of 215 children had been discovered in a mass grave at a long-shuttered Roman Catholic Indian residential scho…