A Response to Smears: Residential Schools Are Documented History

And private jets to fly Chiefs like Lane to Vegas or Hard Rock Casinos (they own), where they enjoy the perks of the Epstein class. This guy Phil Lane is a total paid-off troll for the parasites he represents.

Phil, go to a casino that you own and see how many natives are sweeping floors or working as parking attendants. Nada. See the National Post articles by Conrad Black, where your trope states aboriginal schools were the victims of the missionaries, hey Phil; forensic evidence SVP. Nicht. (Extreme misspelling and grammar corrected.)

Well now, if I owned casinos, private jets, and had secret flights to Las Vegas, someone please send me the schedule — because I must have missed the memo.

At 81 years old, after more than five decades of working in Indigenous community development, healing, youth leadership, peacebuilding, and human rights, I can assure you: if there is a hidden luxury package somewhere with my name on it, it has been very well hidden.

But humor aside, let us be clear.

These accusations are not evidence. They are personal smears. If someone claims I own casinos, fly private jets, or am a paid troll, then produce the proof. Otherwise, it is just noise.

And calling Indigenous Peoples “parasites” is not an argument. It is dehumanizing racism. It is the kind of language people use when they do not have facts, history, law, or moral ground on their side.

The residential school system is not a “trope.” It is documented Canadian history. More than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children were taken from their families and forced into institutions where many were punished for speaking their languages, separated from their cultures, and harmed in ways that continue across generations. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission called this cultural genocide.

The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement was not imaginary either. It included compensation for survivors, an Independent Assessment Process for serious harms, healing supports, commemoration, and the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. That is not a conspiracy. That is the public record.

As for “forensic evidence,” Survivors and families spoke for generations about children who never came home. The issue of missing children and unmarked burials did not begin with a headline. It began with grieving families, broken records, neglected cemeteries, and the testimony of those who lived through the system.

So yes, by all means, let us have facts. Let us have records. Let us have the law. Let us have evidence.

But casino fantasies, Epstein smears, private-jet stories, and playground insults do not become truth just because they are typed loudly.

This is not about Phil Lane. It is about children, land, language, law, history, and justice.

And no amount of name-calling changes that.

(One of many responses to my Opinion on Russia Today, RT, to an Article by Rachel Marden.)